How quote pricing works
This is the full path a homeowner’s answers take on your online estimator, from the trees they pin to the three price ranges they see at the end. Read this first — the other three articles in this group each go deeper on one piece of it.
The order of operations
Section titled “The order of operations”- Each tree gets a base price. Service type (removal or trim) and confirmed size together pick one number from your rate grid.
- Per-tree multipliers apply to that tree only. Hazard, dead/dying, and storm-damaged each raise that one tree’s price. If more than one applies to the same tree, they multiply together, not add.
- Every tree’s priced total is summed into one property-wide figure.
- The access multiplier applies once, to that whole sum — not per tree. Poor truck access raises the entire job’s price by the same factor, whether you pinned one tree or ten.
- That sum is the Essential tier.
- Add-ons are added on top for the Complete tier — whatever the homeowner ticked, and nothing they didn’t.
- Premium is Complete multiplied by a premium factor — the default is Complete + 15% — for full cleanup and minor landscape repair.
- Each of the three totals is turned into a range — a percentage below and above the number — then rounded and checked against your minimum and maximum.
The three tiers
Section titled “The three tiers”- Essential — the tree work itself, debris cut and stacked on site. Nothing else.
- Complete — Essential plus whichever add-ons the homeowner selected (stump grinding, haul-away, firewood cutting).
- Premium — Complete, multiplied by your premium factor (default: Complete + 15%), for full property cleanup and minor landscape repair.
If a homeowner ticks no add-ons at all, Complete and Essential land on the same number — Complete’s card only ever lists what was actually selected, so it never claims a service the homeowner didn’t ask for.
Your settings are versioned
Section titled “Your settings are versioned”Every time you save a change on Settings → Pricing, it’s saved as a new version — the old one isn’t overwritten, it’s retired. Every quote a homeowner receives is stamped with the exact version that priced it. That means changing your prices today never rewrites a quote or lead from last week — it only changes what the next homeowner sees.
What to watch out for
Section titled “What to watch out for”Every account starts on the same generic default prices, and nothing in setup forces you to look at them before your link goes live. If you haven’t opened Settings → Pricing yet, you’re quoting someone else’s example numbers, not yours — see Base prices by size tier before you share your link.
The access multiplier is easy to misread as “per tree.” It isn’t — it’s applied once to the whole job’s subtotal, so a ten-tree job with poor access is scaled the same proportional amount as a one-tree job with poor access.