FieldEdge Flat Rate Mobile is the built-in pricing book that gives every technician the same preset price for the same task, so a job gets quoted the same whether it's the newest hire or the owner standing on site. It traces back to Coolfront, a standalone flat-rate pricing tool FieldEdge's parent company acquired and folded directly into the platform. What it doesn't do on its own is update itself when your real costs change.
A library of priced tasks, not a blank quote screen. Instead of a tech estimating labor and parts from memory, Flat Rate Mobile holds a catalog of common jobs ('replace capacitor,' 'install thermostat') each with a set price already baked in that bundles labor and materials together.
The tech picks the task on their phone or tablet. On site, the technician searches the book, selects the matching task or tasks, and the price comes up already set. No mental math, no two techs quoting the same repair differently.
One book, used company-wide. Whoever updates the price list sets it once for the whole business, so a customer gets the same quote for the same job regardless of which technician the dispatcher sent out that day.
Built on Coolfront's original approach. FieldEdge's parent company (ESC) acquired Coolfront, a standalone flat-rate pricing product, and built it into FieldEdge directly as Flat Rate Mobile. It's why you'll still see people searching for it by the old name.
A flat-rate book only stays fair to the business if the prices in it still reflect what parts and labor actually cost. When a supplier raises the price of a part, someone has to notice, open the book, and edit the task price by hand, and in practice that update often lags the real cost change by weeks or months.
It gets harder with more than one location. A multi-branch HVAC or plumbing operation running separate FieldEdge accounts, or separate price-list versions within one account, ends up with branches quoting the same repair at different prices because each one's book drifted out of sync with the others on its own schedule.
A supplier price increase shouldn't sit unnoticed in your flat-rate book for a month.
Multiple locations shouldn't mean multiple versions of the same price list drifting apart.
Tell us how often your Flat Rate prices actually get reviewed against real supplier costs, and we'll map out where a fix would actually pay off.
Tell us how your pricing book gets updated today, who does it, how often, and from what source, and we'll look at turning that into something that runs on its own. And if the manual grind in your shop lives somewhere other than the price book, that's just as fair game.
Let's talk →It's FieldEdge's built-in flat-rate pricing book: a catalog of common HVAC, plumbing, and electrical tasks, each with a preset price covering labor and materials, so every technician quotes the same job at the same price instead of estimating it on the spot.
They share the same lineage. Coolfront was a standalone flat-rate pricing tool that FieldEdge's parent company acquired, and its pricing approach became Flat Rate Mobile inside FieldEdge. If you used Coolfront separately before, this is its direct successor built into the platform.
It's part of the core FieldEdge platform rather than a bolt-on most shops pay separately for, but packaging and plan details change, so check current pricing directly with FieldEdge for your account.
Several standalone flat-rate pricing-book products exist outside FieldEdge, aimed at the same problem of pricing a repair consistently across technicians. Whichever one your shop runs, the gap is usually the same: someone has to notice a cost change and key in the new price by hand, and that's the piece we build around.