Pricing Plants by a Multiplier

Two plants off the same invoice, same pot, same hole. At 2.5× one makes you 15% and the other 37%, and nobody chose that.

Video coming

The sheets are ready now. The episode lands here the day it's up.

What this one covers

  1. 1

    What the multiplier actually does: it prices your labor off what the plant cost, and your labor comes from the hole.

  2. 2

    What each size really makes you (it's not a line, it's a U) and whether your crew is fast enough to make 2.5× work.

  3. 3

    The cross-subsidy, where the tree has been carrying the shrubs, and the habit that fixes it: read the list.

The sheets

This episode hasn't been recorded yet. The sheets go up here the same day it does.

Prices are mine. Yours are different. The math is the same.

Who made this

Ledge is software for landscape design-build. These sheets are the thinking underneath it.

Every number on these sheets is the kind Ledge carries for you on a real job: the burdened hour, the man-hours a price buys, what the crew actually did against it. The first ten shops run Ledge free; we make money only on payments. If you want to see it on your own jobs, there's one person to talk to.