HVAC contractor

You sell hours, so the whole business rests on one number: what an hour of your techs 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.

When you work under a general contractor, the paperwork decides when you get paid. Drawline builds each month's pay application from your schedule of values, tracks what the GC still owes, and keeps count of the retainage they hold until you get it back.

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Pay applications and retainage for subcontractors

You put in

Your contract with the GC, its schedule of values, and the work you finished this month.

You get

A pay application ready to send the GC, what every GC still owes you, the retainage they are holding, and lien waivers that match.

If you pay Google, Angi or Thumbtack for leads, Lead Math shows what a booked job really cost you from each one, and the profit left after the lead cost.

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Lead cost tracker for home service businesses

You put in

Each lead you paid for, from Google, Angi, Thumbtack or anywhere else, what it cost, and which ones you booked.

You get

What a lead and a booked job really cost from each source, the profit left after the lead cost, and a reminder to rate your Google leads.

If you pay your techs overtime, or they take tips, their 2026 W-2s need two new numbers. Box 12 Helper works out each person's qualified overtime and tips from the hours and pay you already have, and shows the math week by week.

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W-2 box 12 overtime and tips calculator

You put in

A year of your workers' hours and pay, from your time clock or our template, and the tips they reported.

You get

Each worker's qualified overtime (box 12, TT), tips (TP) and box 14b code, with the math for every week shown, ready for your payroll company or W-2 software.

Money comes in a service call 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.

No more group texts to tell your techs when they work. Lineup puts the week on everybody's phone and tells each person about their own changes the way you pick — so nobody misses a service call because a message got lost.

Staff scheduling for small businesses

You put in

Who works which shifts this week.

You get

Everyone sees their shifts on their own phone, and each person is told about their own changes the way you pick. No app to download, one price for the whole team.

People look you up before they trust you with a service call. 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.