This calculator vs. Jobber
Two different shapes: Jobber is an account-based platform for running a service company's whole operation, including scheduling the dispatch and invoicing the customer once a call is priced. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this service call cost, given labor and travel time, the after-hours premium, parts, and a minimum charge floor, before you quote it on the phone or at the door.
What each tool is for
Jobber is a field service management platform used by home and trade service businesses — locksmiths, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and general contracting among them — to run client management and online quoting, scheduling and dispatch, invoicing and online payments, and a client-facing hub, tied to one account used on an ongoing basis across every job the company runs. Jobber's own site is not reachable from this session to confirm today's specific feature list, plan names, or pricing, so only its well-documented identity and category are stated here: nothing about it is invented, and no dollar figure for it appears on this page. Public descriptions of that kind of field service software describe scheduling a job, dispatching a tech, and invoicing and collecting payment once a price already exists; none describe working out whether an after-hours premium is applied to billed time only rather than to parts, or whether a five-minute lockout still clears the trip cost once a minimum service charge floor is checked — which is what this calculator does.
This calculator does none of what Jobber does. It does not manage a customer list, dispatch a technician, or collect a payment. It takes labor minutes on-site, round-trip travel minutes, an hourly rate, an after-hours or emergency premium applied to billed time only, a trip fee, parts cost and markup, a callback reserve, overhead, target margin, and a minimum service charge floor, and turns that into the price for one call — plus a same-page check of whether today's calls, at that average profit, hit a target daily income, and a printable customer proposal with the scope, deposit, price-held date, and a signature line. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I need to manage customers, schedule dispatches, and invoice and collect payment across an ongoing business. | Jobber, or a comparable field service platform — running that ongoing operation is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this call, given labor, travel, and whether it's an emergency dispatch? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| Is a five-minute lockout or a single cut key still covering the cost of the trip? | This calculator's minimum service charge floor, which flags when the calculated price falls below it. |
| Does today's schedule actually hit my income goal? | This calculator's daily income goal check. |
| How does the math behind an after-hours premium actually work? | This calculator's own worked emergency-lockout example. |
| I need to hand the customer a signed proposal with a deposit and a price-held date. | This calculator's built-in printable proposal, from the same numbers you priced the call with. |
| I already have calls priced and need to schedule technicians, invoice customers, and collect payment across an ongoing business. | Jobber — built as an account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Jobber's tools are used through a paid account. |
Most mobile locksmiths get different value from each: Jobber (or a comparable field service platform) for managing customers, dispatching technicians and collecting payment across an ongoing business as an account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one call should cost from labor, travel and the after-hours premium before it is quoted, plus a proposal sheet to hand the customer once the number is set. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled dispatch, an invoice, or a signed contract.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or Jobber?
They do different jobs, and a locksmith of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. Jobber is a field service management platform used across home and trade service businesses — including mobile service trades like locksmithing — to run client management and online quoting, scheduling and dispatch, invoicing and online payments, and a client hub, tied to one account used on an ongoing basis across every job the company runs. This calculator does one narrower thing: it takes labor and travel minutes, an after-hours or emergency premium, parts cost and markup, a callback reserve, overhead and target margin, and a minimum service charge floor, and turns that into the price for one call, then checks whether a day's worth of calls hits an income goal. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A locksmith already scheduling dispatches, managing a customer list, and invoicing and collecting payment across an ongoing business is better served by Jobber or a comparable field service platform; a locksmith who wants an instant, private answer to what one call should cost — with the after-hours premium and the minimum charge built in — before quoting it on the phone or at the door, is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Jobber?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Jobber. Jobber is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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