Money Smart Tool
Break-even calculator
Before we talk cars, prices or profit — let's work out what your shop costs to run. The number that has to be covered every single hour you're open.
Step 1
Your operating costs
Enter what you actually spent over the last 12 months. Rough is fine to start.
Leave these out
Parts, sublet repairs, job consumables, merchant & EFTPOS fees, owner wages or drawings, and income tax. These aren't part of the cost of simply being open.
Team$0
Premises$0
Technology$0
Marketing$0
Professional services$0
Insurance$0
Finance$0
Annual cost of doing business
$0
Step 2
How you trade
This spreads your costs across the time you're actually open.
5-day week
50 wks · 5 days · 8 hrs
4-day week
50 wks · 4 days · 10 hrs
Custom
Set your own
Step 3
The cost to be open
Start entering your costs and your numbers will appear here.
Your numbers aren't static.
Each time you add or lose a team member, change wages, take on a new expense, move premises, buy equipment, or change how the business runs — come back and update this.
Once you know what it costs just to open the doors, you know the floor. From there we can work out the cars, the average repair order, and the revenue that takes you past surviving and into profit.
The Workshop Whisperer · A business without systems owns you. A business with systems sets you free.
