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This calculator vs. Mobile Tech RX
Two different shapes: Mobile Tech RX is account-based business management software for running a reconditioning shop's whole marketing-to-invoicing workflow. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one mobile detail cost, given its travel, labor, and supplies, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
Mobile Tech RX is web-based business management software built for the auto reconditioning industry — used by businesses across detailing, paintless dent repair, glass repair, paint touch-up, wheel and rim repair, window tint, interior repair, and paint protection film and vinyl. It covers text-message marketing, employee scheduling, estimates, invoicing, and credit-card payment processing, with a QuickBooks integration, and a mobile app for use in the field. It was founded in 2014 by a former paintless-dent-repair technician, later took a Series A funding round led by Silverton Partners, and in 2021 was acquired by AsTech, with an independent trade publication reporting it served roughly six thousand users across the reconditioning industry at the time. It is sold as an ongoing subscription account. Mobile Tech RX's own site is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — auto-reconditioning-industry business management software, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for Mobile Tech RX appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what Mobile Tech RX does. It does not run marketing campaigns, hold a customer or job record on a server, or manage a schedule across technicians. It takes one mobile detail — hands-on labor hours, travel, setup, and cleanup time, round-trip mileage at your own vehicle rate, hourly wage and payroll burden, supplies and chemicals, job overhead, payment processing fee, and target margin — and turns that into the contribution left after costs, the break-even quote, the price that hits your target margin, the effective hourly rate on hands-on time and on the whole stop, plus a printable customer proposal with scope, deposit split, and a signature line. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a detailing or reconditioning business and need marketing, scheduling, invoicing, and payments tracked across every technician and every job. | Mobile Tech RX, or a comparable reconditioning-industry platform — running the whole workflow is not something this calculator does. |
| Does the price for this one mobile detail actually clear my cost and target margin, once travel, setup, and cleanup time are counted correctly? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much does the drive itself actually cost, once mileage and the extra time it eats are counted against the job? | This calculator's own travel-cost and whole-stop-hours figures. |
| I need one shared account so my whole crew is scheduling, invoicing, and taking payment the same way. | Mobile Tech RX — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a mobile detailing quote actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Mobile Tech RX is used through a subscription account. |
Most detailers get different value from each: Mobile Tech RX (or a comparable platform) for running the business's whole marketing, scheduling, and invoicing workflow as an ongoing account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login check on whether one job's price actually clears cost and margin before it's quoted. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled job, an invoice, or a signed proposal.
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 Mobile Tech RX?
They do different jobs. Mobile Tech RX is web-based business management software built for the auto reconditioning industry, used by businesses across detailing, paintless dent repair, glass repair, paint touch-up, wheel and rim repair, window tint, interior repair, and paint protection film and vinyl. It covers marketing, scheduling, estimates, invoicing, and payment processing, with a QuickBooks integration, sold as an ongoing subscription account for running a shop or fleet's whole workflow. This calculator does none of that. It takes one mobile detail — hands-on labor, travel, setup, and cleanup time, round-trip mileage, loaded wage, supplies, overhead, and payment fees — and turns that into the contribution after costs, the break-even quote, the price needed to hit a target margin, the effective hourly rate on hands-on time and on the whole stop, plus a printable customer proposal, instantly, in the browser, with no account and nothing uploaded. A reconditioning business running marketing, scheduling, and invoicing across every technician and every job is better served by Mobile Tech RX or a comparable platform; a detailer who wants an instant, private, correctly-sized price for one job before it's quoted is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Mobile Tech RX?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Mobile Tech RX. Mobile Tech RX is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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