How to calculate cost per

[patricemougeot]

Hi,

Maybe this got answered already, but I failed to found the correct answer I am looking for.

How would you calculate the cost of buying let say compound at 30$ per use of the product. What I mean by that is that 30$ bottle cost per car to compound would equal to how much? Is it 30/amount of oz in it? So this same question applied to polish, wax, heck every product.

Thank you

[Heisenberg]

Yes, you've got it. Divide the cost by the amount of product. If a product is 16oz and it's $30, it's $1.88/oz rounded up. So if you use 5 oz on a car, it's about $9.40 per application.

[patricemougeot]

Thanks Heisenberg. How would you calculate the cost for a pad? Let's the pad is 13$. How would you calculate the cost of that? How do you know how many cars you can do with a pad or pads? See where I'm getting at?

[Heisenberg]

I've never had a pad fail on me... I'm still using pads that are a few years old, but I don't do this for a living so I don't go through them like some people do. I don't bother coming up with a per car basis for pads or any other applicator type products. Just consider them a one-time expense and be happy for whatever mileage I get out of them. I factor cost of applicators into ceramic coating jobs, for example. Everything else is just a normal expense. I suppose if you really wanted to price it out you can come up with a fixed number for how many cars you'd do before replacing the pads and then relegate them to trim applicators, hand applicators, etc.

[patricemougeot]

Did you want to insert a link?

[FlyinLow]

I found this information on the Internet. You should also look.

Dango, did you intend to put a link here? Look forward to seeing it.

[Cruzscarwash]

the most effective way is to weight your bottles after each job to know how much was spent

[buckeye24]

never thought of doing that thanks