[New Project]

I'm currently working in setting up a reach and wash system. I need to devise a standard quotation spreadsheet that can be used by our sales force to quote for window cleaning jobs. This is particularly challenging as I know experience is crucial to quote jobs right, specially when there are extenuating factors such as inaccessible areas etc.

I am also trying to standardise the quotation process by number of windows, in & out, and/or calculating the time the job would entail.

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated as I'm starting from scratch and I've got a deadline for this particular task.

Thanks,

[Alex Allen]

thats dead easy, if you know what you are doing 

[steven ainger]

Its hard to standardise price per window as frequency makes a big diference with wfp.
A one off or yearly clean could be double the price a monthly regular clean would be

[lee09]

Good luck.

[Sean Dyer]

I'm currently working in setting up a reach and wash system. I need to devise a standard quotation spreadsheet that can be used by our sales force to quote for window cleaning jobs. This is particularly challenging as I know experience is crucial to quote jobs right, specially when there are extenuating factors such as inaccessible areas etc.

I am also trying to standardise the quotation process by number of windows, in & out, and/or calculating the time the job would entail.

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated as I'm starting from scratch and I've got a deadline for this particular task.

Thanks,

You need experience of your own business, time, access, frequency height , competition, distance , material needed , insurances , equipment hire and loads more affect pricing no job is the same, also depends what part of the country your in

However for domestic a spreadsheet would be quite easy based on say £1 a unit for ground/ 1 st floor then a bit more for higher, and £1 for doors , £2 for french doors etc etc and just x by 1 for 4 weekly, 1.5 for 8 , 1.75 for 12 or whatever you want for frequency
But you would have to just do it from estimation to start with and just perfect it with experience

good luck

[steve123]

I'm currently working in setting up a reach and wash system. I need to devise a standard quotation spreadsheet that can be used by our sales force to quote for window cleaning jobs. This is particularly challenging as I know experience is crucial to quote jobs right, specially when there are extenuating factors such as inaccessible areas etc.

I am also trying to standardise the quotation process by number of windows, in & out, and/or calculating the time the job would entail.

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated as I'm starting from scratch and I've got a deadline for this particular task.

Thanks,

Would you like a list of all my customers too? along with prices, frequency and if they make me a cuppa? 

If your setting up "reach and wash" you obviously have Ionics gear. They charge a fortune for a set up, the least they can do is tell you how to price the thousands of customers they tell you your going to have in the first six months  

Oh one quick point, if you walk into a room full of people and ask them to tell you all their trade secrets its polite to say who you are.

[Perfect Windows]

I'm currently working in setting up a reach and wash system. I need to devise a standard quotation spreadsheet that can be used by our sales force to quote for window cleaning jobs. This is particularly challenging as I know experience is crucial to quote jobs right, specially when there are extenuating factors such as inaccessible areas etc.

I am also trying to standardise the quotation process by number of windows, in & out, and/or calculating the time the job would entail.

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated as I'm starting from scratch and I've got a deadline for this particular task.

Thanks,

Don't waste too much time on it.  You only need to get it 90% right.  Work out a simple way of calculating a price for your "sales force" and implement it.  Try x pence per upstairs window, y pence downstairs z pence per window inside plus a basic setup charge.  It'll work for 90% of your work.  The other 10% will be roughly evenly over or underpriced and will balance itself out.  Better good enough today than perfect tomorrow and all that.

Vin

[Llaaww]

I have found that flexibility is essential, If you try to standardise pricing and time performance etc, then you may be disapointed.

Simply identify your product

Identify your market

run like billio

simples

How was your deadlin set. Has alan sugar taken up window cleaning with his aprentices???

[SunShineCleaning]

Go and do a weeks work for free for a window cleaner in another area and I'm sure they will help.

There is no such thing as standard.

It's a bit much asking in your first post how to charge.