Operating system · Trades & Home Services

Turn your license into a plumbing business that prices flat-rate, banks recurring membership revenue, and stays booked through every freeze and heat wave.

The complete operating system for a residential service-and-repair plumbing shop — the owner-operator running one to four trucks on break/fix, replacement, and drain work. It answers what most licensed plumbers get wrong when they go independent: they bill hourly time-and-materials instead of quoting flat-rate off a diagnostic fee, treat a maintenance membership as a nice-to-have instead of the highest-margin revenue line they own, and buy Google leads with no idea what a booked, paying customer actually costs them.

What's inside

A banker-grade business plan covering the licensing and compliance spine — the apprentice → journeyman → master ladder and the qualifying master who pulls permits (including the states with no statewide license: KS, MO, NY, PA, WY), permit-and-inspection friction on water-heater swaps, repipes, and gas work, UPC/IPC code and backflow rules, the surety bond, the insurance stack at 5–8% of revenue, and OSHA trench/excavation exposure (29 CFR 1926 Subpart P) on sewer-lateral digs.

An editable Excel financial model — real, changeable assumptions (the ~$450 blended ticket across the service-line margin ladder, your Local Services Ads book rate and quote-to-close conversion, and your membership-club attach rate at 70–80% gross margin), not a static PDF.

Up to 17 operations playbooks — the flat-rate-vs-T&M pricing system built off a $150–$250 diagnostic fee, the maintenance/membership club run as the recurring-revenue and off-season-fill engine, Google Local Services Ads lead economics (cost-per-lead vs cost-per-paying-customer, book rate), equipment ROI on the SeeSnake camera, jetter, and ProPress, truck-stock and parts sourcing through the supply houses, and an emergency-premium plus dual-seasonality plan for the winter freeze surge and summer bump.

Who it's for

Built for the licensed journeyman or master plumber going out on their own with a van and a route. Delivered instantly at checkout; single-buyer license. Editions differ by how many playbooks are included — compare the tiers below.

Choose your edition

Edition	What's included	Price
Starter	Business plan + financial model + essential playbooks	$149	Buy Starter
StandardMost popular	Plan + model + all 12 core operations playbooks	$299	Buy Standard
Premium	Plan + model + all 17 playbooks (core + growth & scale)	$499	Buy Premium

Please read before purchasing. This product is an informational and educational operating system — a research-grounded business plan, operations playbooks, and an editable financial model. It is not legal, tax, accounting, financial, or investment advice, and using it does not create a professional-client relationship. Bytell Press does not guarantee any specific business, funding, or financial outcome. You are responsible for your own decisions and for consulting a qualified professional licensed in your jurisdiction before acting.