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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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Say goodbye to outdated rates, estimates, price markups, and costing reports!

Your costs are constantly changing. Which means the budgeted hourly cost rates in your MIS/ERP software should also change.

If you haven't updated the rates in your MIS/ERP software in the last 6-12 months, all of your cost-based calculations, reports, and benchmarks are likely incorrect including:
  • Estimating labor, factory, SG&A, and other costs.
  • Establishing prices based on costs and markups.
  • Calculating cost based or value-added based commissions.
  • Tracking and reporting job labor, factory, spoilage, and other costs.
  • Tracking and reporting profitability of jobs, products, customers, etc.
  • Calculating the valuation work-in-process or finished goods.
  • Measuring the cost effectiveness of employees, equipment, and production.
  • Any screen, report, or data based on a budgeted hourly cost rate.
Cost Rates Advisor solves this problem. It makes it easy to keep your budgeted hourly rates updated! With just a few clicks, import or input your latest expenses and other accounting data, and watch as your rates are instantly updated !

By leveraging rates that reflect your current financials, you'll generate more accurate estimates, make informed pricing decisions, and win more "Good Sales" with optimal profit margins.
Easy to update and maintain your rates

Try it for a month risk free!

If you're not 100% happy within the first 30 days of your purchase, for any reason, we'll refund your money. What do you have to lose?
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