The nine questions
Each question is its own screen, prefilled with what’s typical where you work. Answer it the way you’d answer a customer on the phone:
- Which services do you sell? Everything you don’t tick is skipped later and never shown to homeowners.
- A typical 1-story house wash. The anchor: every other house price is worked out from it.
- The 2-story upcharge, as a percentage of that anchor.
- Stucco, brick or Hardie. Only asked if you charge more for them; leave it alone and homeowners are never asked about siding.
- Roof soft wash, by roof size.
- Driveway, patio, deck and gutters.
- Your smallest job. No quote ever comes out below it.
- Where you work: a ZIP code and how far you drive.
- How it’s shown: how wide the range is (±10% to start), which address lead alerts go to, and your button colour.
Every step shows what a homeowner would see for three example homes, and Try the full widget opens the real calculator with your draft in it. That preview link lasts ten minutes and sends no requests to anyone.
Stopping halfway
The wizard saves after every answer. Close the tab, take a call, come back tonight on the laptop — Prices offers Resume at the question you stopped on. A draft is private: your live calculator keeps showing the old prices (or the typical local ones, if you have never published) until you finish and publish.
“That ZIP isn’t on our map”
Question 8 takes a ZIP of a street address and a radius, and saves every ZIP code inside it. PO-box-only ZIPs (a lot of downtown ones) have no location on the map we use, so they’re refused — use the ZIP of a street address nearby, usually the next ZIP along. You can also press Skip for now and price every ZIP, which is the right answer if you drive statewide.
The area only matters when a homeowner tells us a ZIP. Outside it, they’re asked to leave their details and you get the request with a note instead of a price — you never lose the lead.
Changing one price later
Prices → Change my prices is the whole published price list, exactly as homeowners see it: every size of every service, the 2- and 3-story and siding upcharges, the smallest job, the area, the display and your business details. Move one number and only that number moves. Move a service’s anchor and that whole service moves with it.
Before you publish you get a plain list of what will change — “Driveway: $205 → $300 – $360”, “2-story upcharge: +28% → +45%” — so you can see it in the same words you’d use yourself. Publishing takes effect on the next page load; you don’t have to touch your website again.
Running the wizard again later starts from your edited prices, so an edit is never quietly undone. Keep an answer the same and that price republishes unchanged.
Putting an old price list back
Prices → Price history lists every version with its date, where it came from (wizard or editor) and what changed. Restore this version publishes those prices again as a new version. Nothing is deleted: your current prices stay in the list, and leads keep the prices they were quoted.
3-story houses and other odd jobs
The wizard sets a 3-story price for you, from your 2-story answer. If you have a real 3-story number, set it directly in the price editor and it survives later wizard runs.
Everything a homeowner sees is a range, with “final price confirmed on site” under it. That is deliberate: it answers the price question without committing you to a number on a house you haven’t seen. For genuinely unusual work — a shared driveway, a roof you have to look at — the range gets you the call, and you quote properly on site.
What homeowners never see
- Square footage. They pick a size in bedrooms and stories, in plain words.
- Your cost, your margin or how the range was worked out.
- Anything from a service you didn’t tick.
The price shown is always worked out on our server from your published prices, not in the visitor’s browser, so nobody can edit their own quote. If a price ever looks wrong to you, send the link and what you picked to support@pricemywash.com and we’ll trace that exact quote.
Prices and the winter pause
While a subscription is paused for winter, the calculator keeps its questions but hides the price and says you’re back in spring; requests still reach you. Your prices are untouched and come back on their own when you resume — see the winter pause.