15 minutes. 5 numbers. Total clarity on whether your business is growing, stalling, or bleeding money.
You're out there cleaning houses, cutting lawns, hauling junk - doing the work. But do you actually know if you made money this week? Not invoiced. Collected. After expenses. After your own time.
Most home service owners have no idea. They feel busy, assume it means profitable, and only learn the truth when their accountant calls in March. By then, six months of bad habits are baked in.
Franchise systems solve this the same way: weekly financial check-ins from every operator. It's one of the main reasons franchise businesses outperform independents - not better marketing, not better training. Visibility. Every. Single. Week.
The Friday 15 takes that same discipline and gives it to you. In 15 minutes, every Friday, you know exactly where you stand.
The Friday 15 separates your job costs (what you spend TO DO the work) from your monthly overhead (what you pay whether you work or not). This distinction is how franchise operators think - and it's how you spot whether your pricing is wrong vs. your overhead is too high.
"If you can't tell me your profit margin right now, you don't have a business - you have a job."
- The first thing every franchise field consultant checksWhat the Friday 15 gives you that QuickBooks can't:
Five inputs. Three instant insights. One Friday afternoon ritual that separates growing businesses from ones that are dying slowly.
What came in this week. Not invoiced - collected. What actually hit your account. Cleaning crews: total jobs paid. Landscapers: all completed service calls received. Junk removal: every haul collected.
What you paid workers this week. Employees, subcontractors, crew members - anyone you paid to do the work. Solo operator? Enter $0. This is a variable cost: it goes up when you work more.
Supplies, materials, and gas spent on jobs this week. Cleaning products, landscaping materials, disposal fees, fuel. What you had to spend to complete the work you collected on.
How many jobs you finished and got paid for this week. Not scheduled - done and collected. This is your throughput number. Dropping week over week? You have a problem to find.
Total hours - not just on-site time. Driving, estimates, admin, phone calls, scheduling, equipment maintenance. Every hour you and your crew spent working the business. This is the number that reveals whether you're actually making money.
Then the Calculator Shows You These
Revenue minus job costs (labor + materials). Are your jobs actually profitable? This is the first filter. If gross profit is thin, your pricing is wrong - not your overhead.
What percentage of revenue is profit from the work itself, before overhead. Franchise operators target 40%+. Under 25% means your job pricing needs attention - not your cable bill.
Gross profit minus your weekly share of monthly overhead. The real bottom line. A cleaning company with great gross margins can still lose money if the fixed costs are too high. Now you'll know which problem you actually have.
The number that tells you if the whole business works. Under 10%? You're running a treadmill. Franchise operators target 20%+. Now you know where you stand - not next April.
Net profit divided by total hours worked. This is what you're actually earning per hour after all costs. Most home service owners who calculate this for the first time are stunned - often under $10/hr before they optimize.
Are your jobs getting bigger or are you chasing small work? Trending down over weeks means you're discounting without realizing it. Trending up means your pricing power is growing.
This isn't a complex system. That's the point. Simple enough that you'll actually do it every week for the rest of your career.
Every Friday afternoon, pull up the calculator. Enter your revenue, expenses, jobs, hours, and the week ending date. Takes 5 minutes max if you know your numbers.
The calculator shows your net profit, profit margin percentage, effective hourly rate, and revenue per job - live as you type. No spreadsheets. No formulas. Just clarity.
Over weeks and months, patterns emerge. Margin slipping? Hourly rate dropping? Jobs shrinking? You catch it early - when you can still do something about it.
🤖 HomePro members get more: Automatic trend tracking, historical charts going back to your first check-in, and AI coaching from Sage that analyzes your weekly numbers and tells you exactly what to focus on next week - pricing, volume, expenses, or all three.
Enter your 5 numbers and see your results instantly. Free, no account required, no data saved.
Friday 15TM Check-In
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The Friday 15TM is a weekly business check-in ritual used by franchise systems and now available to independent home service operators. Every Friday, you enter 5 key numbers - revenue, expenses, jobs completed, hours worked, and the week ending date - and instantly see your profit margin, effective hourly rate, and revenue per job. It takes 15 minutes or less and gives you total clarity on whether your business is growing, stalling, or bleeding money.
15 minutes or less. That's the whole point. If you can't do your financial check-in in 15 minutes, your systems aren't working for you - you're working for your systems. The Friday 15 is designed to be fast, repeatable, and actionable every single week.
Estimate. An approximate Friday 15 is infinitely better than no Friday 15. The goal isn't accounting-level precision - it's awareness. Over time, tracking weekly forces you to get more precise because you start caring about the numbers. Most owners who start estimating are doing exact numbers within 4 weeks.
The calculator above is 100% free, forever. No account required. HomePro members get additional benefits: weekly tracking history, trend analysis across months and quarters, and personalized coaching from Sage AI that analyzes your numbers and tells you exactly what to focus on next week.
QuickBooks tells you what happened last quarter. The Friday 15 tells you what's happening this week - and what to do about it. QuickBooks is a record-keeping tool. The Friday 15 is a decision-making tool. You need both, but only one will tell you on Friday afternoon whether you had a good week.
Because they're fundamentally different. Job costs (labor, materials) are variable - they go up when you work more. Overhead (rent, insurance, software) is fixed - you pay it whether you work or not. Mixing them in one number makes it impossible to tell if your pricing is wrong or your overhead is too high. Franchise systems always separate these. Now you can too.