Budgeted Hourly Rates Software Printing Industry - Calculate BHRs for estimating and costing software

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.

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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..

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.

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Budgeted hourly rates, cost analysis, and benchmarking software for printing and packaging businesses.

Works with any printing or packaging
estimating and costing MIS/ERP software

Cost Rates Advisor calculates the budgeted hourly rates needed by your MIS/ERP software for estimating, price markups, job costing, job profitability reports, commissions, and reports. Rates are represented several ways so they can easily be implemented into any software.

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