Practical, numerate, from the trade — pricing, costing, waste and installation. No fluff, worked examples in AUD.
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What a chargeable hour costs your sign shop, from staff, leave, payroll tax, overheads and machines, with your state's 2026-27 figures loaded. Free, in AUD.
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What an overseas order costs a sign shop landed: customs value, duty, FTA, dumping, import GST, ABF charges and local bills, worked line by line. Free, in AUD.
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Job sheet, sign-off sheet, install checklist, and blank risk assessment and SWMS forms. Editable Word and Excel, plus an A4 PDF to print.
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43 router-cut 300 mm letters: 2 sheets of ACM as laid out, 1 nested. With nesting and sorting time counted, when nesting pays, when it costs you, and the grain.
Read the guide →A working method for pricing signage: materials with real waste, machine time, labour, overhead and markup — with worked examples in AUD. From the Sign OS team.
Read the guide →Quoted margin isn't real margin. A practical job-costing setup for sign shops: track actual materials, time and purchases per job, and close the loop monthly.
Read the guide →Practical ways sign shops cut substrate waste: nesting and layout, offcut rules that actually work, roll planning, and pricing waste honestly, not hiding it.
Read the guide →How to quote sign installs without losing your margin on site: surveys, access equipment, crew time, travel, SWMS paperwork and the variations that eat profit.
Read the guide →A working method for choosing sign shop software in Australia: quoting engines, production, Xero and MYOB, pricing models, and an honest look at the field.
Read the guide →How to run proofs so approvals stick: versions, page-by-page sign-off, what “approved with changes” should mean, and the trail that settles a dispute.
Read the guide →How to price urgent signage work: what a rush actually costs you, when to say no, and how to set a rush loading you can hold to. Worked examples in AUD.
Read the guide →What happens to twenty years of quotes and jobs when a sign shop changes systems: what to bring, what to leave, and the GST trap that corrupts an import.
Read the guide →How to cost built-up signage: sheet yield on acrylic, extrusion by the lineal metre, LED and power, and the fabrication labour that print-based pricing misses.
Read the guide →How sign shops lose money on purchasing: minimum order quantities, price breaks that are not worth taking, freight, and quoting off stale supplier costs.
Read the guide →How to plan a sign shop week: real capacity, the bottleneck department, protecting the schedule from the loudest customer, and promising dates you can hit.
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