Creating your first estimator with PriceGuide.ai is like piecing together a puzzle of your business’s unique services and pricing.

It’s as simple and straightforward as we could possibly make it – with a lot of help from AI to make it as easy as possible.

Follow these steps, and you’ll have an engaging, informative estimator ready for your clients in no time!

To get started…

To begin, navigate to your dashboard and click on “Create New Estimator”. This is where the magic starts!

Step 1: Choose Your Industry
 

• What You Do: Start typing your industry in the search box. If it appears, click on it and then click on the button at the bottom right labelled “Next: Select market”.
• If the industry doesn’t exist in the pre-determined industries yet, you’ll be presented with the option to add it as a new industry. Click onto the “Add” box in the top right hand side, then click on the button at the bottom right labelled “Next: Select market”

Step 2: Choose Your Target Market

Step 3: Select Your Services

• What You Offer: Here’s where you pick the services you want to include in your estimator. Think about the main services you provide that you’d like potential clients to get estimates for. You can search and select from the list or type in to add any not already mentioned. We recommend starting with 3 to 4 core services to keep your estimator concise and focused.

Step 4: Configure Your Pricing

• How You Charge: This step is all about setting up the base prices for each service and adding any questions that affect those prices. Some questions will be pre-generated by our AI based on your industry, but feel free to edit, remove, or add new ones to match your business perfectly. Remember, not every question needs a price change; some are just for gathering useful info.

1. Service name
2. Base cost – Utilize the base cost as the cornerstone of your pricing strategy. It serves as the foundational element, delineating the inherent value of your product or service before factoring in additional expenses or discounts.
3. Question –  Helps determine pricing (ps this can also be a question that you really need to know – it doesn’t always need to have a price associated with it).
4. Options/Answers
5. Range – You can select different options to add a range which is the default, or it can be a fixed amount or a percentage.
6. Min / Max – These are the minimum and maximum amounts if someone selects these options, which adds on top of the base price.
7. Add Option – Adds in a new option/answer for you to type in.
8. X – Used to delete an option/answer.
9. Move around – You can move the ordering of the questions around by dragging the left-hand bar.

• Adding a New Question: This feature lets you add additional questions to your pricing estimator.
• Adding a New Service: You can add more services if you prefer as well.

Step 5: Results Page Content

• Your Message to Clients: The results page is where your clients will see their estimated price. In this part, you can also personalize the text that will appear when they view their results.

• Pricing Explanation: We also provide default content that is aimed at building trust through transparency. This text is designed to be good to go, but you’re encouraged to personalize it to reflect your business’s voice and values.

Advanced Question Settings

• Multiple Selection Option: Allow users to select more than one answer on a question. Read more via https://priceguide.ai/multiple-selection-option/
  
• Multiply Options: Allow users to type in a number, and then multiply it by another question. Read more via https://priceguide.ai/multiply-options/