Mobile Detailer True Hourly & Quote Ledger
You already pay for software that can't tell you what a job pays.
QuickBooks Online Simple Start is £16 a month (UK pricing) and a booking subscription adds more on top. They track the money — neither shows your real hourly on a single detail, after product cost, drive time, booking time, no-shows and undercharging friends. This ledger does.
You quoted $120 for a 3.5-hour detail. You cleared $20/hr. It sounds fine — until you count the products, the drive, the booking, the messages, the re-clean, and the friend discount. That's the invisible loss, and it's why so many mobile detailers work harder every year and fall further behind.
This ledger fixes it. It shows your real $/hour on every job — what you actually banked, after every cost a paper invoice never counts. Then it gives you a quote template priced off your real hourly, so the next job you quote is one that pays.
What you get
- True Hourly Calculator — punch in hours, products, drive, admin. Get the number your accountant will never show you.
- Job Ledger — one row per detail. Every job, every number, every loss, summed across the year so you see the trend.
- Quote Template — line items priced off your real hourly, not feelings. Reusable, editable, branded.
- After-Job Check — flags any job whose real hourly came in below your threshold, so you learn before the next one.
- No-Show & Cancel Tracker — what no-shows actually cost you per year, in real dollars.
- Product Cost Sheet — what each detailing job actually costs you in soap, towels, wax.
- Cheat Sheet — one page to print and keep in the van.
€29 once, not £16 a month
One payment. No subscription, no per-seat fee, no login. QuickBooks Simple Start alone is £16 a month (UK pricing) and still never shows you your real hourly.
Your data stays on your machine
Excel and Google Sheets. Five tabs. No login, no subscription, no data leaves your machine — the same offline-first design every Operator Co product ships with, because the mobile detailer who has to log into QuickBooks from a customer's driveway will not.
One-time price · no subscription · editable · unwatermarked
You own the workbook. Edit every formula, rebrand the quote template, print the cheat sheet. Nothing is paywalled, nothing is watermarked.
Who this is for
Mobile car detailers running 1–3 vehicles a day, owner-operator, who already know they should be earning more but cannot prove it on paper. Detailers in their first year pricing off intuition. Detailers in their tenth year who suspect the math isn't working.
Who it's NOT for
Shops with fixed payroll and a full book. Volume operators whose hourly is already known. Anyone looking for accounting software — this is a money-decision tool, not a bookkeeping system.
Format
Excel workbook (5 tabs), 2-page printable cheat sheet, quote template (PDF and Word).
Disclaimer
This tool shows what your job numbers say. It is not accounting, tax, or legal advice. Use a CPA for filing.