The electrician pricing guide that updates itself

Most electrician pricing guides are printed once and used for years. The labor side of that is fine — your hourly rate does not change every month. The material side is the problem. Wire, copper, breakers, and conduit are repriced by suppliers on their own schedule, and every increase that lands between one edition of the guide and the next comes straight out of your margin. A guide printed eighteen months ago quotes a 200-amp panel at what the panel cost eighteen months ago.

The usual fix is a spreadsheet somebody in the office updates when they remember, or a blanket markup bumped up to cover the drift. Neither tracks the actual number on the supply house invoice, and neither keeps two technicians quoting the same price for the same job.

A guide that stays current has three parts, and only one of them needs to move every month.

• Material prices. AccuPrice maintains 1,400+ individual material items and updates their prices every month. This is the part that goes stale in a printed guide, and the part AccuPrice does for you.
• Your labor rates and markup. You set these once — one labor rate or several, a markup by category, sales tax — and every line in the guide carries them. Every price is editable.
• Prebuilt assemblies. 1,400+ prebuilt assemblies cover the jobs you quote constantly: panel changes, conduit runs, circuit installs, spa and HVAC circuits, switch and receptacle upgrades. Each one is built from the items in the catalog, so when material prices move, the assembly reprices itself.

The result is one guide the whole shop quotes from. It syncs directly into QuickBooks Online and Jobber, exports by CSV into any other CRM, and every plan includes a printable field reference guide for the truck. See where it connects and what each plan includes.