Per-Job Profitability Tracking
Know your exact margins. Opsler tracks every penny of labor and material costs to reveal the true profitability of every single job.
The Problem: A $5,000 installation invoice looks great on paper, but if the technician took twice as long as expected and used $3,500 in parts, you actually lost money after overhead. Without granular, per-job tracking, you have no idea which jobs are subsidizing the losers.
How It Works
Opsler acts as a forensic accountant, silently tabulating the true costs of a job while your team works normally.
- Step 1: Material Cost Calculation — As the technician adds parts to the draft invoice, Opsler quietly pulls the 'Cost Price' of those items from the central pricebook.
- Step 2: Labor Cost Calculation — When the technician finishes the job, Opsler takes their total tracked time (including drive time) and multiplies it by their 'burdened' hourly rate.
- Step 3: Instant Margin Display — The moment the job is marked 'Complete', the office sees a private dashboard showing the Gross Revenue minus Materials and Labor, revealing the exact Gross Profit Percentage.
- Step 4: Post-Mortem Analysis — If a job falls below your target margin (e.g., < 40%), it is flagged in red so the manager can review the timesheets and parts list to see what went wrong.
Who Uses It & Business Impact
Stop subsidizing bad jobs and start scaling what works.
- For Office Managers — It provides an instant quality control check on pricing. If they review a pending invoice and see a 15% margin, they can correct the billing before sending it to the customer.
- For Business Owners — It transforms how you price your services. You will quickly discover which specific services and which specific technicians are actually making you money, allowing you to aggressively adjust your pricing strategy to guarantee profitability.
Frequently Asked Questions
This feature relies heavily on the Pricebook module. When you configure your pricebook, you input both the 'Retail Price' and the 'Cost Price' of every item. When a tech adds an item to an invoice, Opsler quietly calculates the cost on the backend.
Yes. Opsler pulls data directly from the Automated Time Tracking module. If a technician spent 30 minutes driving to the job (unbillable) and 2 hours working on the job (billable), the burdened cost for all 2.5 hours is subtracted from the job's gross profit.
Absolutely. The reporting dashboard allows you to aggregate profitability by 'Job Type' (e.g., HVAC Installs vs. Plumbing Repairs). If you see that your AC tune-ups are consistently running at a 10% margin, you know you need to raise your prices or improve efficiency.
Never. All cost and margin data is strictly hidden on the admin backend. The customer only ever sees the final retail price on their quote and invoice.
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