Free tools & calculators for trades

Work out the hourly rate you actually need to charge to cover wages, overheads and still hit your target margin.

Convert between markup and margin and see the sell price and profit on any job in seconds.

See how much revenue you need every month just to cover your overheads — and how many jobs that takes.

The true hourly cost of an employee once super, leave, public holidays, workers comp and payroll tax are counted.

Enter the quoted price, labour, materials and subbies and see the actual profit and margin on the job.

Compare normal hours with time-and-a-half and double time and see what overtime really costs per week and per year.

Build a clean, GST-ready tax invoice or quote online and download it as a branded PDF — no sign-up.

Work out the deposit to ask for on a job, the balance owing, and whether you’re within your state’s deposit cap.

Calculate a progress payment from the contract value, work completed to date, previous claims and any retention.

See the interest you can charge on an overdue invoice — daily rate, total interest and the new balance owing.

Enter the invoice date and your payment terms and get the exact due date — plus how many days are left to pay.

Add or back out GST, estimate the GST owing on your BAS, and check whether you’ve hit the $75k registration threshold.

Estimate the PAYG tax to withhold from an employee’s pay and what lands in their pocket, by pay frequency.

Check whether your wages bill crosses your state’s payroll tax threshold and estimate the tax payable.

See if a new ute, tool or piece of gear qualifies for an immediate deduction — and the tax it saves you.

Find the licensing regulator for your trade in your state or territory, with a direct link to apply.

Estimate the admin hours and dollars you’d save by switching from spreadsheets and paper to traqR.

Project your cash month by month from opening balance, income and expenses — and spot the month you could run dry.

Forecast revenue from your average job value, jobs per week and growth — with a three-year projection.

Estimate what your trades business is worth using adjusted earnings, an industry multiple, assets and debt.

Work out whether your next hire pays for themselves — full cost vs the revenue their billable hours bring in.

Measure billable utilisation across your team and see what lifting it — even by one hour a week — is worth.

Estimate an apprentice’s pay from the qualified tradesperson rate, their apprenticeship year and school completion.

Work out annual leave accrued, the balance owing and its payout value including leave loading.

Estimate personal (sick & carer’s) leave accrued and the balance remaining under the NES.

Work out public holiday pay — ordinary pay for the day off, or penalty rates for working it.

Calculate the super guarantee payable on wages, the total cost of employment and your quarterly super bill.

Turn a base pay rate into a fully burdened hourly cost — super, leave, workers comp and overheads included.

Work out the fuel cost of a trip or run from distance, fuel economy and price — per trip, week and year.

Add up the true annual cost of a work vehicle — fuel, rego, insurance, servicing, tyres and finance — per km and per week.

See how many hours your crew loses to travel each week and year — and what that unbillable time really costs.

Work out cents-per-kilometre reimbursement or an ATO car deduction from your business kilometres.

Estimate the total annual cost of running your whole fleet — fuel plus fixed costs across every vehicle.

Estimate the minimum cable size to keep voltage drop within limits for a given load, length and system.

Calculate voltage drop and percentage drop over a cable run from current, length and conductor size.

Convert between power, current and power factor in a three-phase system — kW, kVA, kVAr and line current.

Solve for voltage, current, resistance or power from any two known values.

Estimate maximum demand from connected loads and diversity — an aid to the AS/NZS 3000 assessment.

Check the space factor of cables in a conduit against the recommended fill limit.

Work out earth fault loop impedance (Zs), prospective fault current and the maximum Zs for your protective device.

Turn an appliance’s wattage and run time into kWh and a dollar cost per day, week and year.

Work out primary and secondary current and the turns ratio from a transformer’s kVA and voltages.

Estimate how long a battery bank runs a load from its capacity, voltage, depth of discharge and efficiency.

Estimate how many portable fire extinguishers a floor needs based on area and travel distance.

Work out how many point smoke detectors a room needs and their grid spacing from the ceiling area.

Estimate the number of sprinkler heads for a floor area by hazard class and coverage per head.

Size the standby battery for a fire or emergency system from standby and alarm loads and durations.

Work out the hydraulic and motor power for a fire pump from its flow rate and head.

Estimate the occupant load of a space from its area and use, with required exit width.

Estimate total hydrant system flow and the water storage volume from flow per hydrant and duration.

Generate a printable fire door inspection checklist covering the key AS 1851 routine service items.

Build a maintenance plan with the next-due dates for each fire system under AS 1851 routine frequencies.

Draft an annual fire safety statement listing the building’s essential fire safety measures and standards.

Generate a reference schedule of AS 1851 routine service activities and frequencies for your fire equipment.

Produce a basic fire risk assessment by rating the key hazard areas, with an overall risk level and actions.

Estimate the cooling capacity a room needs from area, occupants, appliances and sun exposure.

Work out air changes per hour from room volume and airflow — or the airflow needed for a target ACH.

Calculate airflow through a duct from its size and air velocity, in L/s and m³/h.

Size a round or rectangular duct for a required airflow at a target air velocity.

Estimate total external static pressure from duct friction, fittings, filters, coils and diffusers.

Estimate the heating load of a space from its area, insulation level and temperature difference.

Work out the fresh-air rate a space needs by occupants and floor area, as an aid to AS 1668.2.

Work out when an HVAC filter is next due from its last change and a service interval.

Size a water pipe for a required flow rate at a target velocity, with the internal diameter you need.

Convert between head (height), pressure and common units — kPa, bar, metres and psi.

Estimate daily hot water demand, heating energy and a suggested storage size from occupancy.

Estimate how much rainwater a roof collects each year from its area, rainfall and runoff.

Work out the water volume held in a length of pipe from its internal diameter and length.

Work out the hydraulic and motor power a water pump needs from its flow rate and total head.

Work out the concrete volume for a slab or footing, with a waste allowance and 20 kg bag count.

Estimate excavation volume, the loose (bulked) volume for cartage and the number of truck loads.

Work out how much paint a room needs from wall area, coats and coverage, less doors and windows.

Estimate the number of tiles for a floor or wall from the area, tile size and a waste allowance.

Work out how many packs of flooring a room needs from its area, pack coverage and waste.

Estimate the number of bricks for a wall from its area, bricks per m² and a waste allowance.

Build a printable material take-off — quantities, units and costs across every line, totalled up.

Estimate the blocks and courses for a retaining wall from its length, height and block size.

Rate a risk by likelihood and consequence and get its risk level and the action it calls for.

Tick the hazards present on a task and get a recommended list of personal protective equipment.

Classify an incident by outcome and potential, and check whether it may be notifiable to the regulator.

Build a printable Safe Work Method Statement — high-risk work, job steps, hazards and controls.

Create a printable toolbox talk record with talking points and an attendance sign-off sheet.

Break a job into steps and build a printable Job Safety Analysis of hazards, risks and controls.

Generate a printable site hazard inspection checklist across the common WHS hazard categories.

Draft a printable emergency evacuation plan — assembly point, wardens, contacts and procedure.