Your overhead on direct cost and target net margin are the same on every job you bid. Save them once and every trade bid calculator here opens with your numbers instead of a stranger’s ballpark.
This tool prices labour as one rate per crew member that already covers burden, so your saved wage and burden are left alone here.
Kept in this browser only, on this site’s own storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data clears it. Forgetting them leaves the numbers already on this bid alone.
FOR INFLATABLE & BOUNCE HOUSE RENTAL COMPANIES
A flat per-unit-per-day rate is a starting price, not a quote. It rarely carries the truck's second round trip, the crew's setup and teardown minutes, a generator when the site has no outlet, the attendant a water slide needs on duty, or liability insurance sized to what you actually deployed. Enter a real booking below and see the walk-away price before you send the quote.
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Press “Price this booking” to see the walk-away price.
Because the truck makes the drive twice regardless of how the booking is billed: once to deliver the units and once to pick them up, even on a same-day rental. That is four times the one-way distance, not two — a quote that prices the trip once misses the return drive on both legs, which is usually the largest line item on a short-mileage local booking.
Many general-liability policies covering inflatable operators require a trained attendant on duty for the whole time a water slide or dunk tank is running, and some local ordinances do too — but this tool makes no determination about your policy or your jurisdiction. It flags a quoted wet unit with no attendant hours budgeted so the labor line is not silently missing from the quote; check your own policy and confirm the requirement before removing that cost.
Whenever the site has no outlet within safe extension-cord reach of the blower, which describes most public parks, fields, and many backyards on an exterior circuit already loaded with other equipment. A generator is a real rental or fuel cost plus a delivery weight most trucks already carry, so it belongs in the quote whenever it is needed — this tool only charges it when you check the box.
Because the risk an inflatable-rental general-liability policy prices is the equipment on site and the chance it tips, deflates, or is misused — not the price charged for the afternoon. A $150 unit and a $350 obstacle course carry very different exposure at the same rental rate, so this tool costs insurance as a percentage of the deployed fleet's total replacement value rather than as a percentage of the price, which is what your carrier is actually pricing.
No. There is no account and the page makes no network requests — it runs entirely in your browser. Your fleet, your rates, your labor cost and the price worked out from them are never sent anywhere and never appear in a usage count. The one exception is a link you ask for: pressing “Copy shareable link” does not upload the quote either, it carries them in the URL so whoever you send it to opens the same booking — send it to the customer, not to a public page. The optional counter records only which features were used and the day, stored on your own device, and it switches itself off for browsers sending Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.
No. It is arithmetic on the figures you type. It makes no determination about what insurance coverage you need, whether an attendant is legally required for a given unit or municipality, or what to charge. Verify every figure against your own policy, your rate sheet, and a qualified professional before sending a quote.