Printing & Packaging Business Solutions

Cost Rates Advisor
The industry's leading AI-powered budgeted hourly rates, cost analysis, and benchmarking software that helps you price with confidence, win more work, and increase profitability.

Print Business Advisor
AI-powered financial and operational analysis and benchmarking software that evaluates your business, highlights improvement opportunities, and benchmarks you against industry peers.

Consulting Services
Expert help that spans the entire organization including sales, estimating, pricing, customer service, order entry, inventory, costing, invoicing, accounting, software, and technology.

Litigation Support
We support you and your attorneys at every stage of a business dispute with expertise in best practices, business processes, MIS/IT, costing, pricing, and other key issues.

Webinars, Seminars & Speaking
Educational sessions on estimating, pricing, costing, benchmarking, processes, MIS/ERP, financial ratios, and business management.

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Calculate rates for any equipment or service
Calculate budgeted hourly rates for any printing and packaging equipment or service.

Gain insight into your true costs
Get a detailed breakdown of every cost component that composes your hourly rates.

Works with any estimating software
Provides budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) required by any estimating & costing MIS/ERP software.

Haven't updated your rates in a while?
Read this if you haven't updated your rates in the last 6-12 months.

Account for all your expenses
Accounts for and recovers all of your sales, administrative, factory, labor, and other expenses.

Account for all your employee
Accounts for and recovers all of your employee wages, benefits and taxes.

Fast and easy
No accounting knowledge needed. Update your budgeted hourly rates in just minutes!

Benchmark against other companies
Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and BHRs against other companies.

AI-driven analysis of your costs and BHRs
AI analysis of your costs and budgeted hourly rates with in clear, actionable insights.

Increase Good Sales, Eliminate Bad Sales
Win more orders with higher profit and contribution margins.

Built-in industry "Blue Book" rates study
Includes cost and rates studies for thousands of equipment and services for comparisons.

Import your data
Effortlessly import your spreadsheets, income statements, budgets, and other data.

Find the best pricing strategy
Create various cost and material markups and pricing strategies using your budget.

Project your profitability
Create income statement based on your budget with projected profit margins and ratios.

Create multiple sets of rates
Manage rates and costs for multiple companies, divisions, locations, or what-if scenerios.

Satisfaction guarantee or your money back!
If you're not happy within the first 30 days, for any reason, we'll refund all of your money.

FREE expert consulting support
You receive support from a real live Profectus industry business consultant, for any reason.

Makes Spreadsheets Obsolete
Cost Rates Advisor is considerably easier, faster, and more reliable than spreadsheets.

Secure, Protected, and Confidential
Profectus employs strict security policies to your account and data.

Works anywhere you do 24/7/365
Cost Rates Advisor runs in the cloud. Use it anywhere with a browser and internet.

Frequently Asked Questions
The answers to common questions about budgeted hourly rates and Cost Rates Advisor.

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AI-powered budgeted hourly rates, cost analysis, & benchmarking. Build for printing and packaging.

Built-in Printing & Packaging Industry "Blue Book" budgeted hourly rates and costs study

CostRatesAdvisor includes dynamic industry 'Blue Book' studies�a comprehensive database of thousands of budgeted hourly rates and cost benchmarks for equipment and services from other companies. Includes a breakdown of labor costs, factory, SG&A overhead costs, billable hours, and more.

Prepress, design, proofing, and platemaking.
Sheetfed and web offset presses.
Digital cut sheet and roll production and injet presses.
Large format printing and finishing equipment.
Flexographic presses, rewinders, and shrink sleeve equipment.
Die cutting, stripping, and folder glueing equipment.
Apparel & embroidery equipment and services.
Laminating and coating applicator equipment.
Finishing, binding, mailing equipment and services.
Handwork, assembly, kitting, and fulfillment services.
and many more.

Printing Industry Blue Book Study

Benchmark your BHRs
against other companies.

Compare your labor, factory, and overhead BHRs and costs to other companies.

Compares your labor, factory, and overhead to thousands of costs rates from other companies.
Compares individual equipment cost centers and services.
Or compare your entire plant to companies with similar equipment.
Find out if your costs and rates are higher or lower than the competition and industry!

Compare your costs and rates

Purchase CostRatesAdvisor with Blue Book study!

Profectus, Inc. · Sarasota, Florida · United States · Phone: 1-888-868-8662
Business management consultants specializing in the printing & packaging industry since 1993.

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