When we were first implementing flat-rate pricing in our plumbing company, I was complaining to another contractor about the painful transition.
With my usual exuberant outrage, I fussed, “We have to make SO MANY edits, there is hardly any training, and my guys are so confused!”As someone who had been down this road, he shrugged his shoulders and asked, “Did you expect this to be easy?”Yes. Yes, I had expected the experts would have it all figured out. Wasn’t that why we paid for an expensive price book? Wasn’t this flat-rate pricing nonsense their entire job?While everyone acts like flat rate
Questions to Consider When Converting to Flat-Rate Pricing
Deciding to get away from a time and materials pricing structure doesn't automatically mean that aspect of the job will get easy. Implementing a flat-rate system has its own challenges.
Nov 11, 2021 | by Anja Smith |
