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 asks for a loaded installer rate — wage and burden together — 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.
Keep this bid so it is still here when the customer calls back. Every number on this form is saved together, under a name you choose, along with the figure it gave you, and restoring one puts the whole job back exactly as you priced it. Mark each one won or lost when you hear — the ones you have not heard back on stay listed as waiting, with how long they have been out. Once a few have come back, this panel says how long yours actually take, and how many are still out past that. Once enough of them have been decided, it also says whether the bids you save here have been landing differently lately than they used to. Once a few here are decided, this panel says what the ones you won averaged against the ones you lost, so you can see where your price tips. On a lost bid you can also note what the job went for, if you heard — then it says how far off you actually were, which is the part guessing gets wrong in both directions. On a won one, note what the job came to once it was done and this panel says what those jobs actually kept, so you can see whether the ones you are winning are worth winning — and it tells you how many of your won jobs are still missing that figure, rather than going quiet about it. Restoring a bid also pins the figure it was saved at above this panel, so when the customer asks what it costs without the tear-off, the new number is shown against the one they already have — and by how much, in money and in percent.
Kept in this browser only, on this site’s own storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data clears it — download a backup to keep a copy or open your bids on another device. Bids are kept per tool, so these are the ones you saved here.
FOR INDEPENDENT VEHICLE WRAP & GRAPHICS SHOPS
The roll decides your material cost, not the vehicle.
A wrap coverage chart tells you the vehicle's bare surface area — but vinyl gets bought and consumed by the linear foot off a 60″ roll, and cutting around mirrors, handles, pillars, and compound curves wastes a real share of every roll. This free calculator prices a wrap from that waste-inclusive material total, then shows exactly what a bare-surface-area quote loses on every job, and lets you plug in the real roll usage once the install is done.
Price one wrap
Price to quote
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Material (vinyl + laminate)
Install labor
Removal labor
Overhead
Breakeven cost
Profit
Price with rush
A bid link carries every field on this page, including the deposit and payment terms below, so it reopens exactly as you left it. Send it to yourself or a partner — the customer should get the printed proposal, not this link.
This is a planning floor from the numbers you typed, not an audited statement. It does not add sales tax, insurance, or a warranty policy unless you fold those into other cost yourself.
Hand the customer a proposal
The price above is for you. This is the page you print or save as a PDF and give to the customer — your details, their details, the scope, the deposit split, and a line for them to sign. Your business details are saved on this device so you only type them once; the customer’s details are never saved.
Everything on the printed page is text you typed or a number this calculator worked out. It contains no warranty, lien, or cancellation wording — those depend on your jurisdiction and your contract, and this tool is not the place to invent them.
Check actual roll usage
Install's done? Enter the vinyl actually consumed off the roll (and actual install hours, if different) to see the real profit this job left, instead of the waste-factor estimate.
Material cost
Install labor cost
Total cost
Profit
Margin
Below breakeven?
Private by default
Everything on this page runs in your browser. Your job details, prices, and roll usage are never uploaded, and there is no account. The quote you type saves to this browser's local storage between visits, and a copied bid link carries it in the URL — both stay on devices you choose to use or send them to. "Start a fresh quote" clears the saved copy. We count only anonymous local feature events (quote-priced, material-check-run) so we can tell whether the calculator gets used — no job details, prices, or material amounts are recorded, and Do Not Track / Global Privacy Control turn it off automatically.
Common questions
Why does the calculator price material from a waste-inclusive square footage instead of the vehicle's bare surface area?
Because that is what actually gets bought and consumed. Wrap film comes off a roll, and cutting around mirrors, door handles, pillars, and compound curves wastes a real share of every roll — typically 15-30% depending on the vehicle. Pricing material at the bare surface area quotes the vehicle, not the roll, and under-buys the job every time.
What happens if I quote material at the bare surface area and ignore the waste factor?
You still have to buy and consume the waste-inclusive material to actually cover the vehicle, so the gap between the two prices comes straight out of the job's margin — the calculator reports that gap directly as the waste-blind loss per job.
Why is there a separate complexity multiplier for install hours?
A flat panel — a box truck side, a straight fleet van — installs much faster per square foot than a sedan or SUV with mirrors, handles, and compound curves. A single flat installed rate per square foot underprices labor on the harder vehicle every time; the multiplier keeps that difference visible instead of averaging it away.
Does anything about my costs or roll usage get uploaded?
No. No account and no network requests — the vehicle, your rates, your prices, and your proposal terms stay in this browser. The quote itself saves to this browser's local storage as you type, so it is still here on your next visit, and "Start a fresh quote" clears it. "Copy bid link" puts the same numbers — including the deposit and payment terms on the proposal panel below — in a URL you can send yourself or a partner instead; treat a copied link like your rate sheet, since it carries your material and labor costs. The business details saved for the printed proposal live in this browser's local storage separately, and "Forget my business details" clears them. Usage counting only tallies anonymous feature events, and you can turn it off with the button above.
Want the margin, walk-away price and overrun headroom as well, or pricing a different trade? Price this job in the Bid Price Engine, one calculator for 121 trades.