Tools
Service business tools for margin and API checks
Lode is a whole operations team for service businesses. These tools show the pricing and connection questions that shape an operating workflow. Each one answers a single question, runs in your browser and needs no account. Nothing you enter is stored or sent. One shows what a quote earns, as margin and as markup. The other says which of eleven systems used by trade and construction firms publish an API, with a source for every fact.
The tools
| Tool | The question it answers | What you give it |
|---|---|---|
| Margin vs markup calculator | What a quote really earns: profit, margin and markup from one cost and one price | A cost and a price |
| Does my system have an API? | Whether eleven systems used by trade and construction firms publish an API, with auth, webhooks, accounting partners and markets | A country or trade filter, if you want one |
Connect the check to the operation
The calculator lets you check one quote by hand. Lode is built to watch job margin across connected quotes, labor records and supplier bills. Use a walkthrough to explore a margin check with the relevant quote, labor and supplier records. The API check helps you explore the connection options for your tools. Choose the records and approval rules for the workflow you want Lode to prepare.
How to choose
Pricing a job, or checking a quote before it goes out? Use the calculator. Choosing a system, or asking whether an outside tool can connect to yours? Use the API check.
Book a walkthrough
Book a walkthrough to choose a time in Google Calendar.