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amirseg's avatar
amirseg
New Member
14 hours ago

Which of your recurring clients would you lose money on if you counted the drive?

I've been running profit checks by hand for a few small service businesses from their Jobber Visits exports (3 months of visits + wages + a monthly overhead number). Same pattern every time so far: 2 or 3 recurring clients out of 10–15 lose money on every visit once drive time and payroll burden are in, and they're always the ones who haven't had a price change in two years.

Two questions for people here with recurring routes:

1. Do you look at profit per client at all today, or only per job type / per month?

2. If you had a ranked list of your clients by profit per visit, what would you actually do with the bottom three: raise, drop, or re-route?

Disclosure: I'm building a tool for this (jobpayoff.com) for businesses that use Jobber. It's not an app you connect yet; right now it's me and a spreadsheet, and the profit check is free because I'm trying to learn what owners do with the answer. Happy to run one for anyone who replies.

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  • WiringByron's avatar
    WiringByron
    Verified Community Coach

    We have something similar. I like to see gross margin x client running total. Then adjust prices as needed. 

    This is just a simple vibe coded app connected to the Jobber API. 

     

  • HUGEHomePros's avatar
    HUGEHomePros
    Verified Community Coach

    Our projects are a lot easier to track this on because they aren't reoccurring but to track this you'd really need to be dialed keeping track of mileage, and people's clock ins for drive etc.