AccuPrice vs Profit Rhino

The short version

Profit Rhino sells a prebuilt flat rate book bundled with job management tools. AccuPrice sells a maintained price book — materials, assemblies and labor — that you build your own flat rate from, and that feeds the CRM you already use.

Both price service work. The difference is whose numbers you end up quoting from, and how you're billed for it.

What Profit Rhino does

Profit Rhino is a flat rate pricing system with job management attached. It ships with a prebuilt task library, a mobile app for techs to present options in the field, and tools for tracking jobs and technician performance. It's used across several trades, not just electrical.

For a shop that wants a book already written and a presentation tool to go with it, that's a real offering. The tasks are built, the app is polished, and a new tech can be selling from it quickly.

Two things to weigh:

The book is theirs, not yours. Prebuilt flat rate libraries are priced from regional or national averages. Your supply house, your labor rate and your market are not an average. Where the book's number and your real cost diverge, the gap is invisible until you look at a year of margins.

It's billed per technician. That's normal for the category, and it means the cost of your pricing tool grows every time you hire.

What AccuPrice does

AccuPrice maintains the numbers underneath your pricing:

1,400+ electrical items, with material prices updated every month
1,400+ prebuilt assemblies — panels, conduit runs, spa and mini-split circuits, device upgrades — built from those items, so they reprice themselves when material costs move
75 prebuilt labor services, plus the ability to build your own
A flat rate book builder on the Flat Rate Pro plan: unlimited tasks built from your own material and labor, at your rates and your markup
Direct sync into QuickBooks Online and Jobber, plus CSV export into ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Workiz, ServiceM8, FieldEdge, Service Fusion or any CRM that takes an import

It does not schedule jobs, dispatch techs or manage customers. Your CRM already does that, and AccuPrice feeds the prices behind it.

Flat rate either way — the question is whose numbers

It's worth being clear about this, because the two products are often framed as flat rate versus something else. They aren't.

AccuPrice's top tier is a flat rate book builder. Flat rate is the right way to price service work: one price per task, every tech quoting the same number, no calculator on a customer's porch.

The difference is where the price comes from. Profit Rhino hands you a finished book built from averages. AccuPrice gives you the material catalog, the assemblies and the labor services, and you build the book from your own costs.

A book built from assemblies also stays current on its own. When a breaker price moves, the assembly that contains it moves, and the flat rate task built on that assembly moves too. Nobody retypes anything.

How the pricing compares

Profit Rhino is billed per technician, per month.

AccuPrice is billed per company, with unlimited users:

Price Book — $420/year or $150/quarter
Price Book Pro — $840/year or $300/quarter
Flat Rate Pro — $1,260/year or $450/quarter

At one tech the gap is modest. At eight it isn't. That's the practical difference between per-seat and per-company billing, and it's the reason to check how any pricing tool bills before you commit to it.

Update frequency

Quarterly is the standard across this category. A quarter is long enough for a supplier to raise prices twice, and every quote you write in between is built on the old number.

AccuPrice updates material pricing monthly. On a $400 material package, a five percent drift is $20 a job — small enough to miss, large enough to matter across a year of calls.

Which one fits

Profit Rhino suits you if you want a finished flat rate book on day one, you value the field presentation app, and per-tech billing works for the size you plan to be.

AccuPrice suits you if you want the pricing to be yours, you already have a CRM you like, and you don't want the cost of your price book to rise every time you hire.

Frequently asked questions

Does AccuPrice do flat rate pricing?

Yes. The Flat Rate Pro plan includes a flat rate book builder — unlimited tasks built from your own material and labor, at your own rates and markup.

Does AccuPrice replace my job management software?

No, and it isn't meant to. Scheduling, dispatch, quoting and invoicing stay in the software you already run. AccuPrice keeps the prices behind them accurate.

How often does AccuPrice update material prices?

Monthly.

Is AccuPrice billed per technician?

No. It's billed per company, with unlimited users on every plan.

Can I switch without rebuilding everything?

AccuPrice syncs directly into QuickBooks Online and Jobber, and exports by CSV to other CRMs. Your existing workflow stays where it is.

Your prices, built from your costs, billed per company.

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