This calculator vs. RFMS
Two different shapes: RFMS is business-management ERP and takeoff software for running a flooring dealership. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this install cost, given its waste, tear-out, and stairs, before you open a dealership system.
What each tool is for
RFMS (Resource & Financial Management Systems, now operating as part of Cyncly) is business-management software built specifically for the flooring industry, in continuous use since 1984 and reported to run over 3,000 dealers across 7,000-plus locations. Its Core product unifies sales, inventory, purchasing, installation scheduling, and accounting into one dealership-wide system. A separate Measure product handles takeoff — drawing room diagrams, assigning products, optimizing seams and pattern layout to cut waste, allocating rolls, and calculating grout — and is built to hand a completed takeoff straight into Core as an order. It is sold as an ongoing dealer account. RFMS's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — flooring-specific dealer ERP plus a separate takeoff product, sold as a dealer account — are stated, and no dollar amount for RFMS appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what RFMS does. It does not manage inventory, purchasing, roll allocation, or installation scheduling across a dealership, and it stores no customer or job record. It takes one job's room list — material, waste percent, tear-out, and stair treads — plus crew wage, payroll burden, and target margin, and turns that into the purchased material after waste, the crew hours the job actually consumes, the price per installed square foot, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money — plus, if you already have a number on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a single printable customer proposal for that one job. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a flooring dealership and need inventory, purchasing, installation scheduling, and accounting in one system across every job and every showroom. | RFMS Core, or a comparable flooring-dealer ERP — running a whole dealership is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this one flooring install, given its waste, tear-out, and stairs, before I quote it? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much extra material does a diagonal or herringbone pattern actually need next to a straight-lay room? | This calculator's waste-adjusted purchased material, not a blended per-square-foot guess. |
| Is the price I'm about to send still above my walk-away cost? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need room-diagram takeoff with seam, pattern, and roll-allocation optimization feeding straight into dealership orders. | RFMS Measure, or a comparable flooring takeoff tool. |
| How does the math behind a per-job flooring price actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. RFMS is used through a dealer account. |
Most flooring businesses get different value from each: RFMS (or a comparable dealer ERP) for running inventory, purchasing, scheduling, and accounting across a whole dealership as an ongoing account, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login gut-check on what one install should cost from its waste and tear-out before a dealership system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a signed proposal, an invoice, or a site inspection.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or RFMS?
They do different jobs, and a flooring dealer of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. RFMS (Resource & Financial Management Systems, now part of Cyncly) is business-management ERP software built specifically for flooring dealers, in continuous use since 1984 and reported to run over 3,000 dealers across 7,000-plus locations. Its Core product unifies sales, inventory, purchasing, installation scheduling, and accounting for a whole dealership; its separate Measure product handles takeoff — room diagrams, seam and pattern layout, roll allocation, and grout calculation — typically feeding orders straight into Core. It is sold as an ongoing dealer account. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from a room list with material, waste percent, tear-out, and stair treads, plus crew wage, payroll burden, and target margin, it turns that into the purchased material after waste, the crew hours the job actually consumes, the price per installed square foot, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money, before any of it touches a dealership system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A dealership that already manages inventory, purchasing, and installation scheduling across every job and every showroom is better served by RFMS or a comparable flooring ERP; an installer or small shop who wants an instant, private gut-check on what one job should cost from its waste and tear-out before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with RFMS?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by RFMS or Cyncly. RFMS is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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