Templates for Service Trades.
Pricing and job tools for plumbers, electricians, HVAC and appliance pros — built so you quote one fixed price at the door. Turn your billable rate, parts, and book hours into a clean flat-rate menu, estimate the custom-bid jobs, and track the labor hours behind every ticket.
Quote one fixed price at the door
Quoting hourly off the cuff punishes your fastest tech, scares the customer with an open-ended meter, and turns every job into a fresh negotiation. Flat-rate pricing fixes all three — but only if the price behind each task is built right: your billable rate, your parts and markup, your book hours. The tools here build that pricing once, so the number you quote actually covers the work.
New to building a flat-rate menu? Start free with the flat-rate task calculator — no signup — then read what flat-rate pricing is and how the price is built.
Weighing your options? Compare a spreadsheet vs a flat-rate pricing app for the stage your shop is at.
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The service-trade pricing and job toolkit
4 templates
A flat-rate pricing workbook that builds your whole menu, an estimating workbook for the custom-bid jobs, and the time trackers for the labor hours behind every ticket — in Excel and Google Sheets.
- $29.95 Spreadsheet
Flat-Rate Pricing Book for Service Trades — Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC & Appliance Price Book, Billable Rate & Markup Calculator (Excel + Google Sheets)
Flat-rate price book for service trades — set your billable rate, cost each task, and build a clean menu for plumbing, electrical, HVAC & appliance work.
Operator OSView details - $14.95 Spreadsheet
Contractor & Trades Estimating Workbook — Construction Job Costing, Bid Markup & Margin, Overhead & Change Orders (Excel + Google Sheets)
A contractor estimating workbook for Excel & Google Sheets — line-item job costing, bid markup vs margin, overhead, and change orders in one file.
Operator OSView details - $4.95 Excel
Time Tracker - Excel
It's Friday afternoon and you owe three clients an invoice. This excel time tracker logs hours by project, team member, and priority, then totals them for you.
Project ManagementView details - $4.95 Sheets
Time Tracker - Google Sheets
When was the last time your invoice matched what you actually worked? This google sheets time tracker logs daily hours and totals them for you.
Project ManagementView details
Where we fit
Between a blank page and rented software
Most tools force a choice between a blank spreadsheet you build from scratch and a monthly app that's overkill. Ardent Workshop is the rung in between — structure you own.
- № 01
Blank spreadsheet
Free, but you build and maintain every formula, tab and layout yourself.
- Free
- Infinite setup
- No structure
- № 02 You are here
Ardent Workshop
Owned, structured, connected workbooks — a one-time price, yours to keep.
- One-time price
- Structured & connected
- Yours to own
- № 03
Generic SaaS app
Powerful, but overkill, rented and locked-in — built for someone bigger than you.
- Monthly rent
- Overkill
- Lock-in
Running an operation that's genuinely outgrown the file? Ardent Seller isn't the generic SaaS app this ladder warns about — it's maker-first software built by the same workshop: your data stays yours, you can start free or pay as you go with no subscription required, and it's sized for your operation, not someone bigger. The platform to graduate to when a spreadsheet honestly can't keep up.