About & methodology
Quoturf shows the math—and the assumptions behind it.
The goal is not to publish another national price list. It is to help a lawn-care owner-operator turn their own operating assumptions into a number they can inspect, challenge, and update.
Who publishes the method
Quoturf independently develops and maintains this calculator, the offline software, and the accompanying guides. Public examples show their inputs and arithmetic so readers can reproduce the calculation. Illustrative values are labeled as examples rather than market averages.
The core model
A recurring stop consumes on-site time, setup time, and route drive time. Quoturf converts that time into owner field pay or crew labor, then adds the entered direct costs, allocated overhead, and fixed payment fee per visit. The target price allows for percentage payment fees and the selected profit margin as shares of pre-tax revenue.
The formula is simple on purpose. The hard part is entering costs without omitting them or counting them twice. Quoturf keeps those categories visible so the user can trace the result. Percentage fees are excluded from the cost base in this formula. Minimum prices round upward to the next cent; underlying costs and profit use unrounded values.
Owner pay comes before modeled profit
For an owner-operator, cash left after fuel and materials is not automatically profit. The owner’s field work has an economic cost. Quoturf therefore lets the user enter a field-pay target and treats the amount remaining after that target and the other modeled costs as the modeled result.
Route context matters
Drive time is not assigned by lot size. It depends on where the stop sits in the route. Quoturf lets operators test both current allocated drive time and a denser-route scenario without presenting the latter as a recommended discount.
Privacy and data handling
The free calculator performs its arithmetic in the browser and does not submit the entered figures to Quoturf. The paid download works locally after extraction, uses local browser storage, and supports user-controlled JSON backups. Operators should use property nicknames—not customer names or sensitive information.
What the result cannot establish
Quoturf does not establish a local market rate, guarantee profit, forecast customer acceptance, or replace tax, legal, accounting, payroll, insurance, licensing, or financial advice. A result can be wrong when an input is wrong, stale, incomplete, or counted twice.
The best use is a documented pricing conversation: enter the real assumptions, inspect the breakdown, compare the model with completed work, and revise the inputs when the evidence changes.