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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.
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.
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 importing 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.
Track changes in costs and rates
See how your rates and costs have changed over time and why.
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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How Outdated Cost Rates Almost Put Quality Printing Out of Business.

Inaccurate budgeted hourly rates (BHRs) can put a printing company out of business as one company found out the hard way. Quality Printing* is a sheetfed, digital, and large format printing company with 75 employees located in the Midwest United States.

The budgeted hourly cost rates they used for estimating, pricing, and job costing was indiscriminately updated over the years. When they finally updated their rates using CostRatesAdvisor.com, they found that their old rates had significantly impaired their revenue, efficiencies, profit margins, and growth.

Unknowingly, Quality Printing was selling less expensive, short-run work below their cost. This was causing the organization to drift towards smaller, less profitable work, which required more administrative costs and machine setups, and ultimately lowered the organization's profits and efficiencies.

Quality Printing also found that larger, more expensive jobs were being over-estimated, overpriced, and lost to the competition. This caused excess shop capacity, lower productivity, and reduced revenue.

For years Quality Printing had been deceived by the estimating and costing figures used for pricing and measuring job profitability. If Quality Printing had not updated their BHRs with CostRatesAdvisor, they would continue to lose profits and eventually gone out of business.

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"The BHRs we calculated with CostRatesAdvisor significantly improved our pricing decisions, revenue, and profitability. Now we're processing less orders, but at higher profit margins. We learned our lesson the hard way."
- John, President
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* Quality Printing is a fictitious name. The company did not want to be identified.
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