Agreed some sort of pricing matrix.
i am coming from yardbook. they just introduced that feature this year. Is amazing for what i do at least.
For my lawn business its really nice. I had worked out how to ensure my pricing was right from the get go based on sq ft of the entire property including the house (helped factor in trim time where lawn size didn't quite cut it through for treatments that is number you work from)
then you put in the variables
ex: 0-6k sq ft is x price
6k-9k starts at x (then you have the option to just have anything in that be x or like i do personally)
6k-9k starts at x and then for ea additional sq ft add y up to whatever you want that 9k to be.
for me its the best starting point, allowed my wife to run quotes for me without having to know anything about the property the job. plug in the numbers and go. and if nothing else it has gotten me well within the ballpark everytime. i could have a salesmes come in have them trained to run the quotes give them a few more quuestion to have answered (ditch trees gate size etc) and now they can take that price the matrix spit out add the qualifers and now we have the price. and honestly that system i was using that was the only thing it was missing a way to put in those qualifiers. ex add 30% for needing the 36 mower. That was my numbers after looking at all my properties over the years. add x amount for ditch or number of trees etc.
i apologize if im making this sound more complicated than it should be but it was my favorite feature out of everything. needed just a touch tweaking but it was almost perfect. did require setup to make the numbers work but once in basically anyone could bid just like i would as they didn't need to know anything other than how to measure a property on google earth.
and the same for my christmas lights i had a matrix x amount per linear foot add modifier for stories, a certain amount for shrubs etc. it helped streamline the quoteing process
