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What are no-shows actually costing you?

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your numbers
What a typical booking is worth to you
$
In a typical month
Minutes, door to door, for a job you end up not doing
Per month — people who ask the price and vanish
what it costs
no-shows are costing you roughly
$11,880
a year — about $990 a month
48jobs a year you got ready for and never got paid for
36 hrson the road a year that nobody paid you for
96price-askers a year who were never going to book

A deposit at booking catches most of it

Businesses with no deposit typically run 15–25% no-shows. Taking a deposit when the booking is made pulls that down to roughly 3–5%. The deposit isn't really about the money — it's the filter. Someone who won't put $35 down was never going to be there.

about $8,316 a year

is what a $35 deposit would plausibly claw back, on a conservative 70% reduction.

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how this is worked out

Annual loss = (no-shows per month × average job value × 12) plus the value of the travel time, costed at the hourly rate implied by a two-hour job. Quote-ghosting is counted separately and deliberately kept out of the dollar figure, because a tyre-kicker was never revenue.

The 70% recovery figure is deliberately conservative — published ranges for deposit-taking businesses put the drop from 15–25% down to 3–5%, which is closer to 75–80%. This is an estimate, not a promise, and it is only ever as good as the numbers you put in.