CostRatesAdvisor.com cloud-based cost analysis and budgeting software designed to help printing and packaging businesses maximize sales and profits.

- Analyzes your organization's financials, labor, factory, overhead, and other costs.
- Calculates the budgeted hourly rates for unlimited cost centers, equipment, and services.
- Costs and rates are itemized to support your estimating, costing, and MIS software.
- Shows what you must charge to break even and if your budget is on target to make a profit.
- Identifies your "TRUE" break-even, out-of-pocket costs.
- Includes a real live industry expert consultant for help with set up and implementation.
- Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and rates against other organizations.
- Create 5 budgets, sets of rates, or what-if scenarios. Add more as needed.
- Unlimited permissioned users and individual logins
- Interfaces with other applications using an Application Programming Interface (API)
- Join hundreds of other printing and packaging organizations.
- You can cancel at anytime, for any reason.

CostRatesAdvisor.com cloud-based cost analysis and budgeting software designed to help printing and packaging businesses maximize sales and profits.

- Analyzes your organization's financials, labor, factory, overhead, and other costs.
- Calculates the budgeted hourly rates for unlimited cost centers, equipment, and services.
- Costs and rates are itemized to support your estimating, costing, and MIS software.
- Shows what you must charge to break even and if your budget is on target to make a profit.
- Identifies your "TRUE" break-even, out-of-pocket costs.
- Includes a real live industry expert consultant for help with set up and implementation.
- Benchmark your labor, factory, and overhead costs and rates against other organizations.
- Join hundreds of other printing and packaging organizations.
- You can cancel at anytime, for any reason.

Let Profectus' specialists do all the work for you.

We'll analyze and input all your data, prepare budgeted hourly rates for your equipment and services using the Cost Rates Advisor Professional Edition, and provide a comprehensive analysis of your budget, costs, rates, and financials. Afterwards, you'll be able to update your rates anytime, without the assistance of Profectus.

A designated printing industry senior consultant and cost specialist will work with you to ensure your rates accurately recover your out-of-pocket costs by:

- Work with your organization remotely to prepare your cost rates.
- Input all your cost centers, assets, employees, and expenses.
- Allocating your expenses based on industry best practices.
- Analysis of your budget, costs, rates, and financials.
- Training on maintaining your rates using Cost Rates Advisor.
- Recommendations for implementing your updated BHRs.
- Recommendations for managing your costs, rates, and reporting.
- Recommendations for mark-ups and pricing strategies.

The complete set of 2022-2023 printing and packaging industry financial ratios reports. Plus a comprehensive online analysis of your company's financials, ratios, and health, and how you compare to other firms and profit leaders.

Benchmark your company's financials against hundreds of other firms and the profit leaders. Select, filter, or narrow down the list of companies you want to compare against including:

- Geographic region (i.e., Northeast, Northwest, Canada)
- Sales range (i.e., $1-5 million, $5-10 million, $60-80 million)
- Market segments (i.e., commercial, labels, POP, signs, apparel)
- Equipment (i.e., sheetfed, web, wideformat, inkjet, flexo, screen)
- And many other criterias

The complete set of 2022-2023 printing and packaging industry financial ratios reports with the ability to customized reports using multiple criteria's including:

- By Sales Volume: Select any range from $1 million to $99 million

- By Geographic Area: United States; Northeast, Mideast, Southeast, Northeast Central, Northwest Central, Southwest Central, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Southwest, Canada

- By Products Produced: Commercial, Direct Mail, Books, Financial, Magazines, Packaging Business Forms, POP, Signs, Labels, Folding Cartons, Mailing, Apparel, Fulfillment, and more.

- By Production Equipment and Services: Sheetfed, Web Offset, Digital, Large/Superwide Format, Flexographic, Screen, Embroidery, Database Management, Mailing Services, and more.