Working prototype · v0.5

Estimate the subscription and setup costs in a software quote.

Built for HVAC, plumbing, electrical and other home-service businesses comparing field-service software. Enter the commercial terms you were quoted; this prototype estimates costs from the amounts you enter and suggests questions to ask vendors. The calculator does not transmit your quote entries.

Free calculator · no signup
Who provides the software? The third-party vendor does—not BuyerSide. We offer a free, independent calculation tool. We do not sell subscriptions, accept payments, enter contracts, negotiate on your behalf, or promise any vendor's pricing. Every price and term on this page is an illustrative example until you replace it with your own quote.

Enter the quote

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Private by default. This prototype does not transmit your entries. “Save private record” stores only inside this browser on this device.

Numbers shown when you first open this page are an illustrative example—not a quote, published rate, or pricing estimate from any vendor. Replace every number with your own proposal.

Your modeled quote costs

Subscription + entered setup costs only. Totals exclude payment-processing fees, taxes, future price changes, unentered office seats, usage fees, and other charges unless you include them in the fields above. A 36-month projection is not a 36-month contractual price guarantee.

BuyerSide · Illustrative estimate based on entered values. Confirm against the vendor’s written proposal. This is not a software contract or price guarantee.

Generated—
Vendor—
Trade—
Field users—
Base monthly—
Add-ons monthly—
Other recurring monthly—
Setup / implementation—
Quoted term—
Current software—
Current monthly cost—
Recurring / month
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Cost / tech / month
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First 12 months*
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36-month projection*
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Estimated total over quoted term*—
Setup as % of year-one cost—
Difference vs current software—
36-month projected difference vs current—

*Illustrative math using the amounts you enter: first 12 months and 36 months assume the same monthly rate throughout, even if the contract is shorter. The estimated term total adds setup and the monthly amounts across the quoted vendor term. It is not a contractual determination and excludes charges not entered, taxes, discounts, financing, and future price changes. “Per tech” divides total recurring cost by your field-user count; it is not the vendor's billing rate.

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Before you sign

Replacing software you already use?

Use our free switching-cost calculator to account for migration, training, parallel subscriptions and early-exit fees—not just the new monthly price.

Need the vendor to put terms in writing?

Use our free 24-question, printable software contract checklist to ask about required add-ons, price changes, implementation, renewal and exporting your data before signing.

Try it and tell us what’s missing

Are you a contractor or office manager? Give one of these tools a two-minute test, then share optional feedback by copying your answers or opening a draft email to BuyerSide. No account or automatic submission.

What this does not tell you yet

There is no proprietary benchmark database yet, so this tool does not claim your quote is “high” or “low.” That feature should only exist after we have enough permissioned, comparable observations to support it responsibly.