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

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Cost Rates Advisor
Basic Edition
$398 /year
or
$45 /month
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The basics features for small shops that only need to calculate 15 budgeted hourly rates.
Calculates 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...
The Basic & Premium Editions limited to 1 user account and login. * If you require more than 1 user, then you should purchase the Professional Edition.
The Basic & Premium Editions are limited to 1 set of budgeted hourly rates. * If you require more than 1 sets of rates, then you should purchase the Professional Edition.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Your information is protected using strict security practices including cryptographic protocols, data encryption, and complex password strength requirements.
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Cost Rates Advisor
Premium Edition
$698 /year
or
$75 /month
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Designed for small to midsize companies. All the features of the Basic Edition plus:
Calculates budgeted hourly rates for unlimited 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...
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.
Detailed comparison of features...
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Cost Rates Advisor
Professional Edition
$898 /year
or
$95 /month
Cancel anytime. Money Back Guarantee.
Buy now
Designed for midsize to large companies, especially with multiple locations, plants, divisions, companies, or users. All the features of the Premium Edition plus:
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.
Detailed comparison of features...


5 Stars
Much greater confidence in our estimates and price markups!
"Gave our managers, salespeople, and estimators more confidence in estimates, price markups, and costing reports."
- D. Meyers, Owner
5 Stars
The only software that can benchmark.
"It's the only software that can benchmark our costs and BHRs against other companies, and tell us where we are effective, and where we need to sharpen prices."
- Scott, Accountant
4 Stars
much easier and faster then spreadsheets.
"Very flexible and comprehensive. We used to use spreadsheets which were very time consuming. This much easier and faster."
- Robert W., Director of Finance

Features Comparisons
best value
Basic Edition
$398/year
or $45/month
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
Premium Edition
$698/year
or $75/month
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
Professional Edition
$898/year
or $95/month
No contracts. Cancel anytime.
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Product summary
The basics with minimal features for small shops that only need to calculate 15 budgeted hourly rates.
All the features of the Basic Edition plus calculate rates for unlimited cost centers, benchmark your costs and rates against others, create financial projections from your budget, develop markup and pricing strategies, and other capabilities.
Designed for midsize to large companies, especially with multiple locations, plants, divisions, companies, or users. All the features of the Premium Edition plus create multiple sets of budgeted hourly rates, what-if scenarios, multiple user accounts, and other advanced capabilities.
Create multiple sets of budgeted hourly rates for what-if scenarios, cost budget models, companies, divisions, accounting periods, expansions, locations, potential equipment, or for any reason. Each sets of rates can have different equipment, expenses, employees, assets, and rates.
1 1 * Unlimited
Multi-User. Create individual user login accounts and access roles for improved collaboration with your coworkers.
1 1 Unlimited
Calculates 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...
15 Unlimited Unlimited
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 including the manufacturing rate, labor rate, SG&A overhead rate, and AIC rates.
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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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Engineered by industry experts based on industry best practices and formulas. Expenses can be allocated numerous ways including to SG&A overhead, factory overhead, departments, cost centers, and other methods.
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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.
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Over 30 detail and summary reports and graphs with drill-down directly to the detailed source data help you reconcile and manage your cost rates.
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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.
Included Included Included
Your information is protected using strict security practices including cryptographic protocols, data encryption, and complex password strength requirements.
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No contracts. If you are not satisfied for any reason, you may cancel anytime. Easily upgrade anytime as your business grows without losing your information.
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PC, MAC, iPad, tablet compatible Cloud, Anywhere, Anytime Access. There's no software to install and you automatically receive the latest enhancements.
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Compare 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.
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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.
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Create income statements, profit projections, and graphs from your budget.
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Create financial and operational ratios reports and graphs from your budget.
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The Markup Strategy Tool will help find the best markup strategy for maximizing your profit margins and revenue.
Included Included
Save hours of manual entry by importing spreadsheets, statements, employees, expenses, assets, budgets, and other information using our Data Import Wizard.
Included Included
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.
Included Included
Create multiple sets of budgeted hourly rates for companies, divisions, locations, or plants. Starts with up to 5 sets and add more as needed.
Included
Create copies of your BHRs and 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.
Included
Create individual password protected user login accounts with access roles for improved collaboration with your coworkers.
Included
Password protect individual sets of rates or companies so other people in your organization cannot access or change them.
Included
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.
Included

* The Professional Edition includes 5 sets of budgeted hourly rates and may be upgraded as needed.

Want a Profectus consultant to prepare your budgeted hourly rates for you? With our optional Quick Start Service, our consultants will enter your data, build out your equipment budgeted hourly rates, and provide a comprehensive analysis of your budget, costs, rates, and financials. Learn more about our Quick Start Service


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