Pricing intelligence for trade businesses
Stop guessing what your hour is worth.
MARGIN is job costing and pricing software for New Zealand builders and trade businesses. It works out the charge-out rate your business needs, checks a quote's margin before you send it, tracks costs on live jobs, and back costs every job once it's done.
NZ$30 per month including GST after the trial. Cancel any time.
Built for the way a trade business actually prices work
Most small building companies price from a rate that was set years ago, then find out at the end of the job whether it worked. MARGIN turns that around. Your wages, overheads and productive hours produce a break-even rate and a target rate. Every quote is measured against your real internal labour cost. Every finished job is costed back so the next quote is better informed.
Job performance and business performance are deliberately kept separate, so one busy job never flatters the whole business — and one quiet month never makes a good job look bad.
What's inside
Business Rate
Work out the hourly rate your business actually needs to cover its recoverable operating costs across your real productive hours, then add your target markup.
Quote Check
Before a price goes out, see the gross profit and margin it will produce at your own labour cost — not a guess, and not last year's rate.
Live Jobs
Record labour, materials, subcontractors, other direct costs and approved variations as they happen, and watch the job's margin move.
Back Cost
When a job is finished, compare estimate against actual line by line — hours, costs, variations, gross profit and margin.
Charge Up
Run time-and-materials work with entry-based labour and costs, and produce a client progress claim that shows no internal cost or profit figures.
Insights
See patterns across completed jobs: where labour ran over, which work types earn, and where your pricing is quietly leaking margin.
What MARGIN is not
MARGIN is not construction management software. There is no scheduling, no site diary, no client portal and no document control. It does not replace your accounting software, your payroll or your estimating takeoff. It sits beside them and answers one question those tools don't: is this work making money, and at what rate should it be priced?
Honest numbers, clearly labelled
MARGIN never tells you what to charge. It shows a costed range and the assumptions behind it, marks where data is missing, and leaves the decision with you. Historical jobs are locked to the labour rates that applied at the time, so changing today's wages never rewrites last year's results.
NZ$30 per month including GST after the trial. Cancel any time.