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title: "Pricing a quote · BlastoClean docs"
description: "How BlastoClean turns rooms and tasks into a price: labour time, size and condition multipliers, fixed room prices, discounts, fees, tax, and price overrides with a paper trail."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/pricing-a-quote"
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# Pricing a quote

Quoting · Web app · 2 min read · updated August 13, 2026

**A quote is priced as ticked task minutes × size × condition × your hourly rate, plus any fixed-price rooms and fees, less discounts — and any manual override is recorded with the calculated total, the reason and who set it.**

Nobody should have to trust a number they cannot reconstruct. This is how a
BlastoClean total is arrived at, in the order it happens.

![The Pricing step of the quote editor, with discount, fees, tax and hourly rate](/images/docs/quote-editor-pricing.webp)

## The calculation

1. **Task minutes.** Every ticked task on every room contributes its time.
2. **Size and condition.** Each room's minutes are multiplied by its size
   multiplier and its condition multiplier. A large room at ×1.25 in extreme
   condition at ×1.50 takes 1.875 times the base time.
3. **Labour.** Total minutes × your hourly rate — the one from
   [Settings](/docs/setting-up-your-company), or a rate set on this quote alone.
4. **Rooms priced individually.** A room with a fixed price contributes that
   amount instead of its labour. Its time still counts towards the visit's
   length, because somebody still has to be there for it.
5. **Fees**, then **discount**, then **tax**.

Every one of those figures is shown in the running total panel, broken down by
room, while you work — and it is recalculated **on the server** every time. The
browser never does the arithmetic, which is why the phone app and the web app
can never produce different numbers for the same quote.

## Manual adjustments

Two escape hatches exist for the jobs that do not fit the model, and both leave
a visible mark rather than quietly changing a number:

- **A manual time on a room.** Know the master bathroom takes 45 minutes
  whatever the tasks add up to? Set it. The quote shows plainly that the figure
  was set by hand.
- **A fixed price on a room.** As above, but for the amount rather than the
  time.

## Overriding the total

An owner or a manager can override the final price of a quote outright. What is
stored is not just the new number: the **calculated total**, the **override**,
the **reason** and **who set it** are all kept together. Six weeks later, when
somebody asks why this property was $500 and the identical one next door was $615,
the answer is on the quote.

Whether someone may do this at all is a matter of their role — see
[Team, roles and permissions](/docs/team-roles-and-permissions).

## Revisions

Editing a quote the customer has already accepted creates a **revision**. The
version they agreed to is never lost and never quietly replaced, which matters
the first time there is a disagreement about what was included.

## Card fees and tips

A percentage fee for paying online by card, and tips, are both configurable and
both off by default. They are covered in
[Tips, fees and refunds](/docs/tips-fees-and-refunds) — including the rule that
a card fee is disclosed to the customer on the quote and again at checkout,
rather than appearing on a statement as a surprise.