A dripping faucet doesn’t care what your hourly rate is.
Hourly pricing puts you and the homeowner on opposite sides of a stopwatch. Every extra minute under the sink reads as money leaving their pocket, even when that minute is you doing the job right — clearing old thread sealant, dry-fitting before you solder, testing for leaks instead of packing up early. A flat price takes the stopwatch out of the room. The number is set before you open the toolbox, so working carefully doesn’t cost the customer extra, and finishing fast doesn’t cost you anything either.
Plumbers who go looking for flat-rate software mostly find tools built for a company, not a person. ServiceTitan’s price book sits behind a sales demo and lands around $245+ per technician per month. Profit Rhino costs less on paper — $39–59 per tech monthly — until its Pro tier, which adds a separate $1,499 “Success Coaching & Implementation” package. Neither is built to be opened by one plumber pricing one job. QuoteIron is.
ServiceTitan price book · servicetitan.com/features/pro/pricebook · Profit Rhino pricing as of July 2026 · profitrhino.com/pricing/smartprice
QuoteIron isn’t guessing at what a water heater or a drain clear is worth in your market and printing that number as gospel. Every template holds a typical labor-hour range and a mid-grade parts cost, structure only. Your rate, your markup, and your rounding turn that structure into a price, and you can override any single row without touching the rest of the book.
The book, one row at a time.
This is what a flat-rate price book for plumbers actually looks like — a row per job, typical hours, what’s included, and a price. These nine are pulled straight from the QuoteIron plumbing catalog.
These prices are examples. Every row below is priced at a sample rate of $95/hr labor + 30% materials markup, rounded to $5 — the book-builder’s defaults, not market rates. In the builder you set your own three numbers and every row reprices in one second. Some folks call it plumbing flat rate pricing; others want a plumber price list template. Same thing — a book of firm prices, built off your own numbers, that you own outright.
| Job (what a book row looks like) | Typical hours | Parts (mid-grade) | Example price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plumbing diagnostic visit, first hourDiagnose one plumbing issue with a clear explanation and quote; repairs priced separately. | 1 h | $5 | $105 |
| Replace kitchen faucetRemove old faucet and install a mid-grade pull-down kitchen faucet with new supply lines. | 1.25 h | $190 | $370 |
| Replace garbage disposalSwap the failed disposal for a mid-grade 3/4 HP unit and check for leaks. | 1.25 h | $130 | $290 |
| Replace toilet, standard heightInstall a mid-grade toilet with new wax ring, bolts, and supply line, and haul away the old one. | 1.5 h | $230 | $445 |
| Pull and reset toilet, new wax ringPull the toilet, replace the wax ring and bolts, and reseat it to stop base leaks. | 1.25 h | $15 | $140 |
| Replace 40-gallon gas water heaterSwap in a mid-grade 40-gallon gas heater with new flex connectors, pan, and haul-away. | 3.5 h | $780 | $1,350 |
| Clear main sewer line from cleanoutRun the main-line machine up to 75 feet through the cleanout and verify flow. | 2 h | $25 | $225 |
| Replace main water shutoff valveReplace the failed main shutoff with a full-port ball valve, coordinating the street shutoff. | 2 h | $45 | $250 |
| Replace angle stop valveReplace one seized or leaking fixture shutoff with a quarter-turn angle stop. | 0.5 h | $12 | $65 |
Templates carry structure — typical hours and mid-grade parts cost. Your rate and markup do the pricing; every number is editable in the builder and the app.
Three numbers.
Your whole book prices itself.
Pick the trade
Open the builder and tap Plumbing. You get real residential plumbing jobs — water heater swaps, faucet and disposal replacements, toilet resets, main-line clears, angle stops — the work you run every week.
Set three numbers
Your labor rate, your materials markup, your rounding. The sample reprices in one second. The example rows here use $95/hr and 30% — swap in yours and watch every price change.
Print it or quote it
Print the sample as a paper book for the truck, or open the QuoteIron app to quote a live plumbing job in about 90 seconds — then turn the quote into an invoice with one tap.
Not your trade? Pick it.
Every trade below has its own flat-rate book in QuoteIron — real residential jobs, priced from your numbers. There’s also the multi-trade book builder and the main QuoteIron page.
Fair questions.
Can I edit every price?
Yes — every number. The 50 plumbing templates carry structure only: typical hours and mid-grade parts cost. Your rate and markup do the pricing, and you can override any single row. QuoteIron never ships “market prices” it can’t stand behind.
Does it work offline?
The book-builder runs right in your browser. The full QuoteIron app installs to your phone’s home screen and works with no signal at all — crawlspaces under a slab, mechanical rooms with no bars. It’s an app that lives on your phone, not a website that dies with the bars.
What does it cost after the free sample?
The sample book is free, no signup. The full app — the whole 50-job book, editing, 90-second quoting, invoices, e-signatures, and follow-ups — is $14 a month flat, or $140 a year. Fourteen-day trial, no card up front, and you cancel online in one click.
Will flat rate work for a full repipe?
No, and QuoteIron does not pretend it will. Custom lines and editable prices are right there for the repipes and the surprises behind the wall. The book is for the 80 percent you have done a hundred times — the water heater, the disposal, the angle stops — quoted in about 90 seconds so you spend your judgment on the weird ones.
Do I have to build the whole book myself before I can start quoting?
No. Choosing Plumbing during onboarding seeds your book with the full 50 plumbing templates already in it. Set your labor rate, materials markup, and rounding once, and every row prices itself — you add custom lines only for the jobs that don’t fit a template.
Does the book know plumbing code, or handle my permits?
No. Code compliance, permits, and inspections stay yours to handle, the same as always. The book prices labor and parts structure for jobs you already know how to do — QuoteIron prices the job. It doesn’t do the job.
Your book. Your prices.
Built in about a minute.
Start free — pick the trade, punch in three numbers, and watch the book price itself. No signup for the sample; the full 50-job book, editing, and 90-second quoting live in the $14/mo app.
Want the method behind these plumbing numbers? Read how to build a flat-rate price book →
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