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From first call to final invoice — RevoField covers every step of the job lifecycle in one unified platform built for trade professionals.
Explore all featuresBuild a clean, itemized estimate in seconds. Enter your labor, mark up your materials, add fees and tax, and watch the line-by-line breakdown and grand total update live. No signup, no math errors — just a quote you can hand to the customer.
1 · Labor
2 · Materials
3 · Fees & Tax
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Five inputs, one clean total. Here is exactly how each line is built — the same math a good hourly rate and a sensible material markup feed into.
labor_total = hours × rate
materials_total = material_cost × (1 + markup / 100)
subtotal = labor_total + materials_total + fees
tax_amount = subtotal × tax / 100
grand_total = subtotal + tax_amount
Hours times your hourly rate. Use a fully loaded rate that already covers wages, taxes, insurance, and overhead — not just what you pay the tech. If you are unsure of your number, work it out with the hourly rate calculator first.
Your material cost multiplied by (1 + markup / 100). A 20% markup turns $400 of parts into $480. This isn't padding — it pays for the trips to the supplier, handling, waste, and returns you carry so the customer doesn't have to. See the materials markup calculator for a dedicated breakdown.
Add flat fees — trip charge, permits, disposal — to the labor and materials to get your subtotal. Tax is then applied to that whole subtotal, so it lands on both your marked-up materials and your labor where required in your area.
A half-day repair: 10 labor hours, $400 in parts marked up 20%, a $50 trip charge, and 8% tax.
| Line item | Calculation | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Labor | 10 hrs × $85 | $850.00 |
| Materials | $400 × 1.20 | $480.00 |
| Fees / travel | Flat | $50.00 |
| Subtotal | $850 + $480 + $50 | $1,380.00 |
| Tax | 8% × $1,380 | $110.40 |
| Grand total | $1,380 + $110.40 | $1,490.40 |
A number scribbled on the back of a business card gets negotiated down. An itemized estimate gets signed. When the customer can see labor, materials, and fees as separate lines, the price stops looking like a guess and starts looking like a professional's math. A complete estimate should show: a clear scope of the work, labor broken out from materials, any fees or travel called out plainly, the tax, and one unmistakable grand total.
Itemizing also protects your margin. Bundle everything into a single lump sum and every conversation becomes "can you knock off a hundred bucks?" Break it out and the customer sees that the materials line reflects real parts and the labor line reflects real hours — there's nothing arbitrary to haggle away. It's the same discipline behind a healthy markup and margin: know your numbers before you name a price.
The one thing owners under-charge for most is materials handling. You front the cash, drive to the supplier, store the parts, and eat the cost of returns — and none of that is free. Marking materials up 15–25% covers that work and keeps a job profitable even when labor alone barely clears. Once your estimate looks right, learn how RevoField turns it into a signed quote and a paid invoice on the quoting & estimates and invoicing & payments pages, or start from a ready-made handyman estimate template.
This calculator gets the math right. RevoField gets the rest done: build the quote on-site, send it for e-signature, and convert the approved quote straight into an invoice you can collect on the spot — all from your phone, even offline.
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