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What do estimate no-shows cost you each month?

Your estimator drives out, knocks, and nobody answers. Add up how often that happens and what it puts at risk.

By the BlueSmith team · Updated

At a glance

You enter
  • Booked estimates per month
  • Estimates where nobody shows
  • Estimates you close
  • Average project value
  • Cost of a wasted visit (time, fuel)
You get
  • Revenue at risk per month
  • Wasted visits per month
  • Cost of those wasted visits
How the math works
  • Wasted visits
  • Direct cost
  • Revenue at risk
  • Example (not a benchmark)
What it costs
Free. No signup, no email. Arithmetic on your own numbers, not a promise of results.
15%
30%

Revenue at risk per month: $22,500

Revenue at risk per month$22,500
Wasted visits per month
3.0
Cost of those wasted visits
$450

20 booked estimates, 15% no-shows, 30% close at $25,000, $150 per wasted visit.

See what we’d build for these numbers

Starts with example numbers. Change them to yours. Arithmetic only, not a promise of results.

HOW IT WORKS

Three steps. Your numbers.

  1. 01

    Enter your numbers

    Enter booked estimates per month and the share where nobody shows.

  2. 02

    Watch it recalculate

    Add your close rate and average project value.

  3. 03

    Use the answer

    Add what one wasted visit costs you in time and fuel.

How the math works

Wasted visits

Booked estimates × no-show rate. These are trips that ended at a locked door or a homeowner who forgot.

Direct cost

Wasted visits × cost per visit. Price your estimator’s hours plus the drive, not just the gas.

Revenue at risk

Wasted visits × close rate × average project value. It assumes those homeowners would have closed at your usual rate if they’d been home.

Example (not a benchmark)

25 booked estimates, 20% no-shows: 5 wasted visits. At $120 a visit, $600 in direct cost. At a 30% close rate and $12,000 average job, $18,000 in revenue at risk.

KEEP GOING

Use it with these.

STRAIGHT ANSWERS

Questions we hear.

Is the revenue at risk money I’d definitely get back?

No. It’s arithmetic on your inputs. Some no-shows had already gone with someone else, and a reminder won’t change that.

What counts as a no-show?

Any booked estimate where your estimator showed up or dialed in and the homeowner didn’t. Count same-day cancellations too, since the slot is already gone.

What cuts no-shows?

A confirmation right after booking, reminders the day before and the morning of, an easy way to reschedule, and asking a couple of qualifying questions before the slot is held.

Why price the wasted visit at all?

Because the empty slot also blocked a homeowner who wanted it. Seeing the direct cost makes it easier to justify reminders and confirmation steps.

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