Free calculator · the estimate that did not happen

What one missed estimate costs you.

Put in nine numbers you already know. You get what a missed visit costs, in your estimator's time and in the sale it would have made. Then what that adds up to a month, a year, and per point of no-show rate.

 

How we worked this out

The arithmetic

Out of pocket: you spend the drive whether or not the door opens, so all of it counts. You lose the slot only if nobody else takes it. So it counts by the share you do not refill. Minutes times what an hour of that estimator costs you, plus the vehicle. Opportunity: the close rate times the gross on a job, times the share of slots not refilled. One no-show is the two added. The month is that times the no-shows. A point of no-show rate is one visit in a hundred, times the cost of one.

There is no benchmark on this page

Nobody publishes no-show rates for this trade. The share of booked visits that happen is the number this whole record exists to measure. It does not have it yet. Any page that gives you a "typical" no-show rate is guessing. This one prints your arithmetic and says what it would cost to find out.

Worked examples, checked on the page

What it leaves out

One number this page cannot give you: how many of your booked estimates happened. The system behind this site counts that one.