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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.
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FOR NUISANCE WILDLIFE CONTROL OPERATORS
The ad prices one visit. You are making eight.
The “$395 raccoon removal” your customer is holding pays for one trip. The job you actually sold is an inspection, an install, a trap check every day the traps are out, a trip back to pull the one-way door, sixty feet of seal at a two-story eave, an attic to clean, and three years of warranty you have not reserved a dollar against. Price the visits, not the animal.
Press “Price this job” to see the walk-away price.
The bid
Site visits
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Crew hours
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Miles driven
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Price per crew hour
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Profit
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Labor
Driving (all visits)
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Inspection
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Seal & devices
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Trapping & checks
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Decontamination
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Material & other
Vehicle (miles)
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Seal material & devices
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Decon material
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Insulation
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Disposal, lift & repair
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To the price
Warranty reserve
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Overhead
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Walk-away price
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A bid link carries this whole job — species, height, trap and exclusion figures, your rates — so it reopens exactly as you left it. The numbers ride after the #, which is never sent to a server, so copying a link uploads nothing.
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.
Common questions
Why does this ask how many days the traps are out?
Because every one of those days is a return trip. Traps that are set have to be checked, and most states require it every 24 hours. A five-day raccoon removal is five more round trips with a technician in the truck, on top of the install visit and the trip back to pull the one-way door. That recurring visit is the single largest cost a flat removal fee omits, and it is why matching a competitor’s headline number loses money by day three.
Why is height a multiplier instead of a line item?
Because it changes how long the same footage takes, not what it costs in material. Sixty feet of soffit-to-roof line reachable from a step ladder is a different job from the same sixty feet at a two-story eave on a steep pitch in a harness, and different again where nothing but a lift will reach it. Per-foot pricing that ignores the tier is wrong by a factor, in the same direction, every time. The multiplier applies only to the exclusion and one-way-door work — it does not touch trap checks in the yard or decontamination in the attic, which take the same time however high the roof is.
Why does the warranty reserve only cover part of the job?
Because a callback is somebody returning to a hole that reopened, not to an attic that was already cleaned. The reserve here is taken against the work the warranty actually covers — the exclusion labor, the exclusion material and the devices — rather than against the whole invoice. Reserving against decontamination and trapping would inflate the price for exposure you do not carry; reserving against nothing at all means the first callback comes out of the profit on the next job.
Does this tell me when I am allowed to exclude bats?
No, and it must not be read that way. It flags that a job is scheduled in a month when the species you picked commonly has flightless or immobile young, because sealing the entry then can trap them inside — which is both an animal-welfare problem and, in many states, prohibited. The actual window is set by your state wildlife agency, varies by latitude and species, and changes. Treat the flag as a prompt to go and check with your agency before you schedule, never as a determination that any date is or is not permitted.
Why does a bat job show no traps?
Because bats are not trapped. They are excluded live through one-way devices that let them leave and not return, and the job is the seal plus the device removal trip, not a trapping cycle. The calculator flags a bat or bird job that has been given traps, because that is a trapping rate sheet applied to an animal nobody traps — and it usually means the visit count, which is the number that decides whether the bid is sound, was built for the wrong job.
Is any of this uploaded?
No. There is no account and the page makes no network requests — it runs entirely in your browser. The address, the species, your labor rate, your footage and the price worked out from them are never sent anywhere and never appear in a usage count. 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.
Is this legal, wildlife-regulation, or insurance advice?
No. It is arithmetic on the figures you type. It makes no determination about what your state’s wildlife code requires, how often traps must be checked, whether a species may be excluded on a given date, what licence or permit a job needs, or what to charge. Verify every figure and every requirement against your own costs, your state wildlife agency, and a qualified professional before sending a bid.
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