This calculator vs. Workiz
Two different shapes: Workiz is an account-based field service management platform for running a locksmith company's whole operation. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one service call cost, with the after-hours premium and minimum service charge floor built in, before you quote it.
What each tool is for
Workiz is a field service management platform, founded in 2015 by Idan Kadosh, Erez Marom, and Saar Kohanovitch and headquartered in San Diego, California. Two of its founders worked as locksmiths before building it. It serves locksmith, junk removal, carpet cleaning, garage door, appliance repair, and other on-demand service trades with scheduling, dispatch, estimates, invoicing, and communication tools (including AI call handling) across a whole business, with a mobile app for technicians in the field. It is an account-based platform: you sign up and use it as an ongoing service across a whole company, not a one-off calculator. Workiz'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 — field service management software serving the locksmith trade among others, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for Workiz appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what Workiz does. It does not schedule calls, dispatch technicians, or invoice a customer, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes labor and travel minutes, a target hourly rate, an after-hours/emergency premium applied to billed time only (never to parts, since a cylinder costs the same at 2am as at 2pm), a flat trip fee, parts cost and markup, a callback/warranty reserve, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the price for one call and the minimum service charge floor below which a short job — a five-minute car unlock, a single cut key — would lose money once drive time and overhead are counted. A second section checks whether a day's worth of calls, at that average profit, actually clears a target daily income, and how many more calls close the gap if it does not. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a locksmith business and need scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and call handling across every technician and every job. | Workiz, or a comparable field service platform — running a whole company is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this one call, given the labor, travel, and parts involved? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| Is this a 2am lockout, and does the after-hours premium land on the right part of the bill? | This calculator's emergency premium, applied to billed time only, never to parts. |
| Does a short, low-parts job still clear what the trip itself cost? | This calculator's minimum service charge floor — the higher of the calculated price or your stated minimum wins. |
| Given today's average profit per call, does the day's schedule hit my income goal? | This calculator's daily income goal check, and how many more calls close the gap if it does not. |
| I need one shared account so my whole team is scheduling, dispatching, and invoicing the same way. | Workiz, or a comparable field service platform. |
| How does the math behind a locksmith service call actually work? | This calculator's own worked example. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. Workiz is used through a subscription account. |
Most locksmiths get different value from each: Workiz (or a comparable field service platform) for scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and technician communication across a whole company as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one call should cost, with the after-hours premium and minimum charge already built in, before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a scheduled call, an invoice, or a signed proposal.
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 Workiz?
They do different jobs, and a mobile locksmith of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. Workiz is a field service management platform, founded in 2015 by three former locksmiths (Idan Kadosh, Erez Marom, and Saar Kohanovitch) and headquartered in San Diego, California, used by locksmith, junk removal, garage door, appliance repair, and other on-demand trades to run scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, and communication across a business, sold as an ongoing subscription account. This calculator does one narrower thing: it takes labor and travel minutes, an after-hours/emergency premium applied to billed time only, parts cost and markup, a callback reserve, overhead, target margin, and a minimum service charge floor, and turns that into the quote for one call — then checks whether a day's worth of calls, at that average profit, clears a daily income goal. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A locksmith who already schedules calls, dispatches technicians, and invoices across a whole business is better served by Workiz or a comparable field service platform; a locksmith who wants an instant, private answer to what one call should cost before it is quoted — with the after-hours premium and the minimum charge built in — is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with Workiz?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Workiz Inc. Workiz is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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