Flat-Rate Pricebook & Margin Guard — $39

Build and maintain a transparent HVAC service pricebook from your own labor, overhead, material, and direct-cost inputs, with a margin guard that exposes underpriced or stale rows before they are treated as ready.

Best fit: small HVAC owner-operators and service businesses that want spreadsheet-level control over flat-rate pricing economics without committing to a full field-service pricebook platform.

What you get: editable Inputs, Pricebook, Category Map, Margin Guard, Recovery Guide, transparent calculated-sell math, stable SKUs/categories, freshness controls, and separate Calculated Sell versus Published Sell so the workbook informs pricing without making the owner's business decision.

It is not accounting or tax advice, a live supplier-price feed, estimating authority, OEM documentation, or a substitute for owner pricing judgment. Your own labor burden, overhead, supplier costs, discounts, target margin, taxes, and accounting assumptions must be verified.

Available now for $39 one-time on MethodStead. Use the button below to purchase the current digital release. Before quoting customers, replace every example economics/cost input with your current business numbers and verify supplier costs, assumptions, margins, taxes, and published prices yourself.

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MethodStead version status — September 29, 2026

Current customer fulfillment: v2.39. Current private R&D frontier: v2.57.1.

Aging/exposure visibility, version-identity hardening, and the bounded production-to-successor handoff are in private R&D. The v2.57.1 frontier is not yet the customer download. Existing purchases and fulfillment remain on v2.39 until release/fulfillment convergence is explicitly verified.

MethodStead keeps every product under continuous improvement. R&D version numbers describe the strongest current private development frontier; they are not a claim that every experimental improvement is already included in the public delivery.