Should a handyman have a price list?

Yes — a private one. Consistent task prices are what make quoting fast, margins predictable, and referrals safe ('he charged my neighbor the same'). Publishing it publicly is optional; having it isn't.

How do I build a handyman price list?

Track your times on repeat tasks for two weeks, run them through your loaded rate, and record the results. In FieldSquire the recording is automatic: every corrected rate becomes a saved private price.

Does a price list stop me from adjusting for hard jobs?

No — it's the baseline you adjust from. The tile-wall towel bar gets a stated upcharge over the drywall version; the point is that both start from a known number instead of a mood.

Field guide

A Handyman Price List App — Because Driveway Improvisation Is Expensive

Every handyman has quoted the same task three different prices in one week — not from strategy, but from mood, weather, and how the customer's driveway felt. The fix is a task catalog: your prices, learned from your corrections, applied the same way every time. FieldSquire builds it as a side effect of quoting.

The catalog builds itself

Quote normally: narrate the walkthrough, get drafted lines, correct any rate to your number. Each correction is saved as a private company price and used first on the next matching line. Two weeks of normal quoting and your common tasks — faucet swaps, door adjustments, patch-and-paint, fixture hangs, caulk lines — arrive pre-priced in every draft. No spreadsheet homework; the catalog is a byproduct of working.

Why consistency compounds

Referrals are safe: neighbors compare notes; matching prices build trust, mismatches burn it.
Speed: pre-priced drafts turn a six-task list into a three-minute quote.
Margins are legible: when the faucet swap is always $95, you can actually tell whether faucet swaps make money.
Crew-proof: on the Crew plan, a helper quotes from the same private catalog — your prices survive delegation.

Baselines, not handcuffs

The catalog is the starting number; judgment still adjusts it. Tile instead of drywall, a second-story ladder, a 40-minute drive — each is a visible adjustment on top of a known base, which customers accept far more readily than a mystery total. And your adjustments, corrected once, become catalog entries too.

Start the catalog today

It costs nothing to begin: the handyman estimating app is free for 14 days with no credit card, and every quote you send during the trial is another page of your price list written for you. Set your loaded rate first with the free margin calculator so the catalog learns the right numbers.

Try it on a real job: FieldSquire's Solo plan is free for 14 days with no credit card — unlimited manual estimates and AI-assisted drafts you review line by line. Start the free trial or see the handyman estimating app guide.