Free tool · shop owner
Window tint pricing calculator
Work a tint price the way a shop actually should: film cost for the glass you are covering, labor at your own bay rate, then the margin you want on top. It also runs the sum backwards — type the price you were about to quote and see the margin it really leaves you.
These are editable defaults, not industry prices. The square footage, film costs, hours and rate below are starting points so the page does something useful on first load. Replace every one of them with your own invoice and payroll numbers — your market, your film line and your installers are not ours.
The job
Your inputs stay on this device, in this browser, so the page is still filled in next time.
Vehicle & film
What you pay, not what you charge.
Windows on this job
Square footage is film area for that group of glass, and every box is editable. Measure a few of your own cars once and these become your numbers.
Film waste, labor & margin
Offcuts, re-shoots, the piece the dog walked on.
Margin on the selling price, not markup on cost.
Add-ons (optional)
An add-on is carried at the price you set, with its own cost — strip-out labor, a windshield brow, ceramic upgrade on one window. It is not re-marked-up.
What to charge
- Suggested price —
- Per window —
- You keep —
Where the cost comes from
- Film —
- Labor —
- Add-on cost —
- Job cost —
Type a price above to see the margin it leaves.
How the math works
Cost first
Film cost is the square footage of the glass you ticked, multiplied by your waste factor, multiplied by what the film costs you per square foot. Labor is hours × your bay rate. Add-on costs are whatever those extras cost you to deliver.
This is job cost, not total cost: rent, insurance, software, your own salary and the cars that never showed up are overhead, and margin is what pays for them.
Margin, not markup
The target here is margin on the selling price: price = cost ÷ (1 − margin). At 55% on $120 of cost that is $266.67, not $186. Markup on cost and margin on price are different numbers and mixing them up is how shops quietly work for free.
Add-ons you price yourself are added after that, at your price, so they do not inherit the target margin. The You keep tile always shows the blended result.
What to do with the answer
Treat the suggested price as a floor to compare against what you charge today. If your real price is higher, good — you have brand or speed the math cannot see. If it is lower, you are either faster than the hours you entered or you are donating film.
The what-if line also shows what the bay earns per hour at the price you type, which is the fastest way to compare a cheap fast job against an expensive slow one.
Pricing questions
Are the default film costs and square footages real prices?
They are plausible working starting points, not a price list and not a survey of the industry. Film costs vary by brand, line, roll width and how much you buy; square footage varies by model. Put your own last invoice and a tape measure against them before you quote from this page.
Should installer pay be a cost or come out of the margin?
This calculator treats labor as a job cost, which is the safer way to look at a single job: if the price does not cover film plus the hours it takes, the job loses money no matter how the pay is structured. If your installers are on commission, enter the commission per hour as the rate instead of a wage.
What margin should a tint shop target?
There is no single right answer, and we are not going to invent one. What the tool is for is consistency: pick a target, apply it to every job the same way, and watch what happens to the jobs you win. The margin you can hold is a fact about your market that only your own numbers can tell you.
Does it save my numbers?
In your browser only. The inputs are written to this device's local storage so the page comes back filled in, and nothing is uploaded. Use a private window or clear your site data to wipe it. Quotes that live with the customer, the vehicle and the job are what PeelBoard itself is for.
General business information, not financial or accounting advice. Every default in this calculator is an editable starting point rather than a market rate, and the output is only as good as the costs you put in.