This calculator vs. ServiceTitan
Two different shapes: ServiceTitan is an account-based field service management platform for running a plumbing company's whole operation. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one sump-pump install cost, given its pit, its discharge, and its backup, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
ServiceTitan is a field service management platform, founded in 2007 by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan, headquartered in Glendale, California. It serves HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other trades with scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, reporting, and job costing across a whole business, with a mobile app for crews in the field. It is an account-based platform: you sign up and use it as an ongoing service across a whole company, not a one-off calculator. ServiceTitan's own pricing page 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 — field service management software serving plumbing among other trades, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for ServiceTitan appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what ServiceTitan does. It does not schedule techs, dispatch crews, or invoice a customer, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes one sump-pump job's pump size (1/3, 1/2, or 3/4 HP), pit type (existing-pit swap, new dirt pit, or a new pit cut through a concrete slab), discharge footage past the included first fifteen feet, battery or water-powered backup, a high-water alarm, a check valve, and freeze protection, plus your crew wage, payroll burden, travel and equipment, overhead, and target margin. It turns that into the price, the crew-hour split between the swap and the pit/discharge/backup package, the price per discharge foot, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that floor. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a plumbing or basement-waterproofing company and need scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, and job costing across every crew and every job. | ServiceTitan, or a comparable field service platform — running a whole company is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this sump-pump install, given its pit, its discharge, and its backup? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much more does a new pit cut through a slab cost than an existing-pit swap on the same pump? | This calculator's pit-type line items, not a flat per-pump price. |
| Does the discharge footage past the included first fifteen feet still cover the extra pipe, and does the backup kit still cover its own labor? | This calculator's extra-discharge and backup line items. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this job? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need one shared account so my whole crew is scheduling, dispatching, and invoicing the same way. | ServiceTitan, or a comparable field service platform. |
| How does the math behind a sump-pump bid 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. ServiceTitan is used through a subscription account. |
Most plumbing and basement-waterproofing shops get different value from each: ServiceTitan (or a comparable field service platform) for scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and job costing across a whole company as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one sump-pump install should cost from its pit, its discharge, and its backup before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a drainage design, a horsepower sizing calculation, 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 ServiceTitan?
They do different jobs, and a plumbing or basement-waterproofing shop of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. ServiceTitan is a field service management platform, founded in 2007 by Ara Mahdessian and Vahe Kuzoyan and headquartered in Glendale, California, used by HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other trades to run scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, marketing, and reporting across a business, sold as an ongoing subscription account. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from pump size, pit type (existing swap, new dirt pit, or a new pit cut through a concrete slab), discharge footage past the included first fifteen feet, battery or water-powered backup, a high-water alarm, a check valve, and freeze protection, plus crew wage, payroll burden, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the price, the crew-hour split between the swap and the pit/discharge/backup package, the price per discharge foot, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money, before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A shop that already schedules techs, dispatches crews, and invoices across every job is better served by ServiceTitan or a comparable field service platform; a plumber who wants an instant, private answer to what one sump-pump install should cost from its pit and its backup is in the right place here.
Does this calculator design the drainage or size the pump for me?
No. Hours and material rates are ballpark shop figures you can edit, not a drainage design, a horsepower sizing calculation, or a code determination. Whether a pit needs a check valve, whether local code requires a backup, and what horsepower a given basin actually needs are still a judgment call for the licensed plumber on site. Verify every figure against your own takeoff and a licensed professional before you submit a bid or pull a permit.
Is this page affiliated with ServiceTitan?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ServiceTitan, Inc. ServiceTitan is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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