THE OPERATING STANDARD · OS-003
Pricing & Profit Toolkit
Build prices that recover true cost, protect margin and support confident commercial decisions.
An editable Excel pricing workbook with calculators and a dashboard, plus a governance policy, price-increase templates, a monthly review pack, a completed worked example and print-ready PDFs.
Know what your price must recover
Build a current cost base, calculate hourly sell rates from your real productive hours, set target and minimum margins, and price services, projects and products.
Protect margin before pressure arrives
Discount approvals with set authority levels, exception records, risk allowances and below-minimum flags give you a controlled response to customer negotiation instead of ad-hoc decisions.
Use actual performance to improve the model
Customer profitability, job margin review, five built-in assumption checks and a pricing dashboard help you learn from quoted and actual results.
What is included
- 13-sheet Excel pricing workbook and dashboard, blank (50 services, 50 products and 100 rows each for projects, discounts, price increases, customers and jobs)
- The same workbook completed for a fictional WA electrical contractor
- Start Here Guide
- Method and Implementation Guide (pricing fundamentals and a 30-day rollout plan)
- Worked Example Walkthrough
- Templates and Forms Pack: pricing governance policy, pricing review agenda and decision pack, price-increase business case, customer letter, call guide and post-implementation review
- Print-ready PDFs of every guide and both workbooks
File formats: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and PDF.
Licence: One business. See terms.
This toolkit is a general business-management resource and does not constitute accounting, tax, legal, financial-product or industry-specific compliance advice. Results depend on input accuracy, commercial judgement and implementation.
For internal use within one business. Redistribution, resale and client white-labelling are not included unless expressly stated.
Built around real management work, not decorative template volume.
Adapt the working files to your business, terminology and review rhythm.
Tools are designed as a system so information flows into decisions and action.
Guidance helps you move from download to an operating management process.
WHAT THIS SYSTEM IS FOR
Move from an informal process to a repeatable operating standard.
Each Operating Standard product is designed to solve a defined management problem with a structured set of working documents, controls and guidance. Start with the included quick-start material, adapt the editable files to your business and use them in the actual management rhythm.
The exact inclusions for this system are detailed in the product description above and supplied package.
HOW TO IMPLEMENT
Understand the system, intended workflow and included tools.
Set your owners, terminology, thresholds and business-specific inputs.
Introduce the files into real meetings, decisions and operating routines.
Maintain the system and improve it as the business matures.