Pricing install

So how many hours do you think it's gonna take you ??

Take that times your hourly rate and I think you just need to make sure of what your local market will bear.

 

I would price it by the sq/ft

 

if you've never done a full wrap before, I wouldn't want to attempt it with customer supplied graphics, what happens if you mess up a panel?

 

I would charge $4 sq/ft for install of customer supplied graphics

 

My nephew will do it for $2.75 :ROFLMAO:

 

that's great we get $4sq/ft all day long and we're crazy busy

 

You can get a certitfied installer for 2.00 sq. ft.

 

Don't forget to cut the doors and fuel door out. Actually it's fun to leave the fuel door and pull into a gas station and ague with the attendant that it was there last time I came in! What did you do with it?

 

Sounds cheap. Throw in a bowl of soup.

 

lol

 

2.00 sq ft is what the market dictates here. We can wrap a van in 6 hours. . For wholesale i think thats fair. You didnt have to sell the job, purchase material, print | laminate, or design. Plus shops need to mark up your service. In this case your working directly for the customer, if your doing it at your shop, at your speed, add another 1.50 sq for overhead. Remember just because it takes you 3 days (just saying) doesnt mean you can get 3 days pay. My in house installer makes 20 hr thats 160 a day, we factor in 3.50 if we wrap under our roof so thats over 750 for a van install. So my advise is 2.00 wholesale and 3.50 retail.

 

Really good point

 

"2.00 sq ft is what the market dictates here. We can wrap a van in 6 hours. . For wholesale i think thats fair. You didnt have to sell the job, purchase material, print | laminate, or design. Plus shops need to mark up your service. In this case your working directly for the customer, if your doing it at your shop, at your speed, add another 1.50 sq for overhead. Remember just because it takes you 3 days (just saying) doesnt mean you can get 3 days pay. My in house installer makes 20 hr thats 160 a day, we factor in 3.50 if we wrap under our roof so thats over 750 for a van install. So my advise is 2.00 wholesale and 3.50 retail."

 

$2 a sft is only for flat surface installs for me. I bump it up depending on the year/make/model of the vehicle. Some pickups are easier than others of different years...contours and bumper styles etc. But Cargo Vans I pretty much have a standard price on due to simplicity and market pricing around me. I could technically do vans all day long for way less and I'd be fine with it...IF it guaranteed that's all I'd be doing...but it's not.
My wife hated working with me when I first started...I would take out all my inexperienced frustrations out on her. LOL I'm fine now.

 

DON'T DO IT, one mess up and you LOSE MONEY!!!