Furniture assembly

You sell hours, so the whole business rests on one number: what an hour of you actually costs you once tax, insurance, the vehicle and the hours nobody pays for are in it. Chalkline works that number out and tells you what to charge above it to hold a margin.

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Hourly rate calculator for contractors

You put in

What you pay your crew, what the business costs to run each month, and the hours you actually bill.

You get

Your break-even hourly rate, the rate to charge for the profit you want, and a price book built from it.

Money comes in an assembly at a time and nobody withholds your tax. Benchmark takes off the bills due, the tax you should be holding and the cushion you never want to go under, and tells you what is actually safe to spend today — with your household budget one tap away.

Budgeting for small business owners

You put in

Your bank transactions (a file from your bank, or typed in) and the bills you pay each month.

You get

What is safe to spend today, tax set aside as money comes in, and your cash flow 13 weeks ahead, for the business and your household.

People look you up before they trust you with an assembly. Sitework builds your website while you answer plain questions — your hours, how to reach you, what you do — made for phones and ready for Google — from $29 a month, or yours outright for a one-off price.

Custom websites and apps for small businesses

You put in

Plain answers about your business, or, for a custom build, what you need it to do.

You get

A website that works on phones and is set up to be found on Google, or an app built from scratch for you.