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Change Order Cost Calculator
Scope creep you never bill for doesn't feel like a loss in the moment - it just quietly eats the job's margin. See what informal change orders are costing you over a year. For the full picture, read Change Orders: The Paperwork That Decides Whether Your Job Makes Money.
Revenue lost / month
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Revenue lost / year
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"% you collect today" is your honest estimate of how much of that extra work actually makes it onto an invoice versus getting absorbed as goodwill or forgotten. Default is 20%, a common starting point for crews handling change orders verbally instead of in writing. These are ballpark numbers based on self-reported averages, not a substitute for tracking real change orders job by job.
Nothing slips through informally
Punchlist logs every change order against the original bid automatically, so the extra work gets priced and approved before it gets built, not remembered at invoice time.