Mobile Car Detailing Quote Calculator

Detailing quotes are given from photographs and delivered on real cars, and the gap between those two is where a day’s profit goes.

This prices what is actually in front of you. Vehicle size as a loading, because a seven-seat SUV is the same products across far more surface. Condition as a separate loading, because light, medium and heavy are three different jobs and heavy is where the money is lost. And the add-ons priced as add-ons rather than absorbed into goodwill: pet hair, which is the single most under-priced task in this trade, and paint correction or ceramic coating, which is skilled hours with expensive product and should never be folded into a wash.

There is a line for water and power too, because mobile means you either bring both or negotiate for them, and either way it is a cost that varies by site.

Then the part almost no detailing calculator does: what a customer is worth over a year. A regular monthly client at a given price is a number you can plan a business around, and it is a different conversation from a one-off.

Underneath is the costing every trade skips: burdened labour rather than the wage, travel at what the van really costs, and overhead recovered from a real monthly figure. It warns when the labour rate is a wage, when no overhead is being recovered, when markup and margin have been mixed up, and when the job leaves the business earning less per hour than the person doing the work.

One HTML file. No account, no subscription, no internet needed. The readme covers the iPhone and iPad step.