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I am looking at putting in grid pricing in my GM shop. In particular a "bell curve" grid. I have played around a bit with some numbers, but wold really like to see what others have utilized.

Anybody care to share?

Mark

flyboy,hope you are not with ADP.I recently inquired about using a pricing matrix only to find I had to contact CarInc. After speaking to them I was told it could be done but would cost $3500.00 up front and a monthly fee. I thought this was high but since we have 3 different shops on the same computer it wasn't going to so bad until they said it was $3500.00 per log on. If anyone else is with ADP and has a less expensive method to use a matrix I also would like to hear about it.

Flyboy-

I'm curious as to why you think you want a bell curve labor pricing grid for repair work? That statement says you me you want to curve up as the hours required for the job go up, then you want to curve back down?

At the most, I would want to curve up then flat line at the top at a maximum $/hr rate. The high-hour jobs require the highest skilled techs, tie up shop space the longest and return the least profit. They are also usually the least technician efficient jobs.

The easiest way I found to but in a grid was to use the "time" as an op code. For example say a half hour labor equals $35.87 then I use .5 as the op code with a fixed sale amount of $35.87. The draw back of course is you now have to type in the labor description for every repair you do using the grid. The plus is my ELR went up quite nicely! I have just added ADP'S service pricing program which DOES factor in my labor grid-my people are just now starting to use it but the feedback is very positive.