MARGINFORGE FAQ

Product, pricing, license and support answers.

Direct answers to the questions buyers and business owners most often need resolved.

MarginForge offers focused and comprehensive Microsoft Excel tools for contractors and home-service businesses.

Current products include the Contractor Labor Cost & Labor Burden Calculator at $11.99, Contractor Job Pricing & Profit Calculator at $19.99, and Home Service Pricing & Job Profitability Pro at $49. Each is a one-time digital purchase with no subscription.

Product & Compatibility

MarginForge is a brand of MarginForge, LLC that publishes practical pricing, profitability and operating tools for contractors and business operators. The primary website is marginforgetools.com.

Choose the Labor Cost & Burden Calculator if your main question is what your employees truly cost per productive hour.

Choose the Job Pricing & Profit Calculator if you already know your loaded labor rate and want to calculate the selling price required to achieve a target gross margin on a specific job.

Choose Home Service Pricing & Job Profitability Pro if you need the complete system, including loaded labor, direct job costs, overhead allocation, sustainable pricing, Recommended Sell Price, estimate-vs-actual analysis, and completed-job performance tracking.

The workbook calculates loaded labor inputs, direct job cost, contingency, allocated overhead, true break-even cost, target gross-margin price, sustainable contribution-margin price, Recommended Sell Price, proposed-price margin results, estimate-versus-actual performance and completed-job dashboard metrics.

Current pricing is $11.99 for the Labor Cost & Burden Calculator, $19.99 for the Job Pricing & Profit Calculator, and $49 for Home Service Pricing & Job Profitability Pro. Prices are one-time purchases; no subscription is required.

No. Current MarginForge digital products are sold as one-time purchases with no recurring subscription. A purchase does not include lifetime support, lifetime updates, future versions, or future MarginForge products unless expressly stated otherwise.

Current MarginForge workbook products are provided as Microsoft Excel (.xlsx) files.

Google Sheets compatibility is not guaranteed. MarginForge workbook products are designed and tested for Microsoft Excel, and opening or converting them in other spreadsheet applications may affect formatting, validation, charts, formulas, or other functionality.

What the Tool Does - and Doesn't Do

No. MarginForge products are decision-support tools. Results depend on user inputs, assumptions and real-world conditions. The buyer is responsible for independently verifying all outputs before relying on them.

No. MarginForge is a business planning, estimating and decision-support tool. It is not accounting, tax, payroll, legal, engineering, regulatory or financial advice.

No. It provides a calculated pricing benchmark based on the inputs and targets you enter. The final price remains a business decision and should be independently reviewed.

It is designed primarily for contractors and home-service businesses that quote individual jobs, including businesses such as painting, pressure washing, cleaning, landscaping, pool service, HVAC, plumbing and similar field-service work. Suitability depends on the business's cost structure and workflow

MarginForge products are designed to explain their key inputs and include product documentation to help users understand the intended workflow. Users are still responsible for understanding and verifying their own labor, overhead, tax, cost, margin, and pricing assumptions.

License & Sharing

Yes, when the users are authorized employees or contractors working for the same licensed legal business entity and use the product only for that entity's internal operations.

No. The Standard One-Business License does not permit sharing, redistribution, resale, sublicensing or giving the source workbook to an unrelated business.

Not under the Standard One-Business License. Multi-business, consultant, franchise or enterprise use requires an expanded license from MarginForge.

The purchaser can generally enter permitted business data and use the workbook internally as described in the license. Unauthorized redistribution, white-labeling, resale or derivative-template resale is prohibited.

Support & Refunds

Thirty calendar days of complimentary product support are included from the original purchase date, subject to the Support Policy.

Included support covers file access, opening the unmodified workbook, questions about documented product features, identifying where documented inputs belong and reporting suspected defects in the unmodified product.

Support does not include business consulting, pricing recommendations, review of customer quotes or bids, accounting or tax advice, Excel training, customization, Google Sheets conversion or troubleshooting user-modified formulas.

Digital-product sales are generally final after access or download, subject to applicable law and the published Refund Policy. Specific exceptions and reporting windows are described in that policy.

Email support@marginforgetools.com. The applicable support period and scope are described in the MarginForge Support Policy.

Home Service Pricing & Job Profitability Pro

No. MarginForge separates direct gross margin from contribution after modeled overhead. Direct gross margin uses direct job costs; contribution also considers allocated overhead.

It is the higher of the calculated Gross-Margin Price and Sustainable Price, so the recommendation does not satisfy one pricing constraint by automatically sacrificing the other.

In the MarginForge pricing model, true break-even is adjusted direct job cost plus the modeled overhead allocated to that job.

Gross-Margin Price is based on adjusted direct cost and the target direct gross margin. Sustainable Price starts with true break-even cost and calculates the price required for the target job contribution margin.

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