I wanted another aid to help me price out my sign-jobs, so I made this spreadsheet today. It has several different sections for items and labor as well as misc. charges. It's pretty basic, but worked pretty good for me. In fact when I was done, most of my prices were pretty well in line with what I had been charging before by using my pricing guide plus a little guesswork.
As you can see there's several different sections, I use the top for stuff I actually have to purchase, and the grey section for stuff I've got now.
Anyway, my hope is that some of you will find this useful, and perhaps improve on it. If you figure out any other cool ideas to enhance this thing, by all means, let me know.
-shane
Posted by Duncan Wilkie (Member # 132) on :
Hi Shane, Thanks for sharing. We too use excel for our estimating. We have such a diverse product range, we've never found a "packaged" estimating program that fit our needs. They are always too limiting for us. Building your own worksheets is actually good fun and forces you to analyse your pricing methodology. The majority of computer users already have a spread sheet program and the later versions are very easy to learn. Whether or not you use a "packaged" program, give your spreadsheet a try, it'll cost your little or nothing. P.S. Nice web site you have Shane
[ October 23, 2001: Message edited by: Duncan Wilkie ]
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
I downloaded the spreadsheet but haven't had a chance to look it over real good. At first glance, it does look like something that I can use. Thanks.
