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

Calculates the "TRUE" out-of-pocket costs and budgeted hourly rates of your equipment and services, needed by your estimating, costing, pricing, and MIS software. Includes manufacturing, labor, SG&A overhead, and AIC costs and BHRs.

Calculates budgeted hourly rates for unlimited budgeted hourly rates for any equipment including sheetfed presses, web presses, digital, large format, flexographic,ink-jet, screen, rewinders, folder gluers, die cutters, foil stamping, hand assembly, mailing, kitting, and more...

Accounts for employee time and costs including wages, benefits, insurance, and other expenses can be allocated or split between multiple equipment.

Over 30 detail and summary reports and graphs help you reconcile and manage your cost rates. Click on screen or report data to drill-down directly to the detailed source data for quick access or changes.

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?

The Premium Edition is limited to 1 user account and login, and 1 set of budgeted hourly rates. * If you require more than 1 user or sets of rates, then you should purchase the Professional Edition.

A comprehensive online help guide with easy to understand instructions, industry best practices, examples, and tips for setting up, updating, and implementing your rates. A searchable knowledge base of information to help you to find answers about using Cost Rates Advisor and industry best practices.

Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs rates to thousands of costs rates from other companies with similar equipment. Find out if your costs are higher or lower than the competition and industry.

Contains industry studies of costs and budgeted hourly rates for prepress, sheetfed and web offset, digital, inkjet, large format, flexographic, screen, packaging, apparel & embroidery, finishing, binding, mailing, and other equipment and services.

Reconcile your budget by creating financial statements and other reports from your projected budget and sales.

The Markup Strategy Tool will help find the best markup strategy for maximizing your profit margins and revenue.

Save hours of manual entry by importing spreadsheets, statements, employees, expenses, assets, budgets, and other information using our Data Import Wizard.

You can record a history of your budgeted hourly cost rates changes and updates, and track how your rates have changed over time and why.

Speak with a real live industry expert consultant from Profectus for help on setting up your cost rates, a free review of your rates, or whatever you need to successfully implement your rates.

PC, MAC, iPad, tablet compatible Cloud, Anywhere, Anytime Access. There's no software to install and you automatically receive the latest enhancements.

Your information is protected using strict security practices including cryptographic protocols, data encryption, and complex password strength requirements.

Create multiple sets of budgeted hourly rates for companies, divisions, locations, or plants. Starts with up to 5 sets and add more as needed.

Create what-if scenarios for potential equipment purchases, shift changes, costing models, expansions, or any other reason. Each budget can have different equipment, expenses, employees, assets, and rates.

Create multiple user login accounts and access roles for other people in your organization and improved collaboration.

Password protect individual sets of rates or companies so other people in your organization cannot access or change them.

An Application Programming Interface (API) allows your estimating and costing software to access your rates, so you do not have to enter them. *If available through your software vendor.

Profectus printing industry business consultants will prepare and fine-tune your budgeted costs and rates.

Our experts have helped hundreds of printing and packaging organizations prepare budgeted hourly rates, improve costing practices, implement pricing strategies, and grow profits. We’ll get your project completed faster, requiring less of your resources and costs, while providing proven recommendations and advice.

A designated senior consultant and cost specialist will remotely work with your organization to prepare your budgeted hourly rates.

The consultant will enter all of your data into Cost Rates Advisor including your departments, cost centers, expenses, assets, and employees, and allocate your information to the appropriate classifications based on industry best practices.

You'll receive an analysis of your costs, rates, and financials provided by your designated specialist.

The Profectus consultant will provide recommendations for implementing, managing, and updating BHRs.

The Profectus consultant will analyze your costs, rates, and financials and provide recommendations for improving tracking costs, managing your rates, and financial reporting.

Profectus will provide recommendations for mark-ups and pricing strategies for your products and services.