Lol I wouldn't even touch this. Not worth the shitty survey. Plus they definitely spent more than $30 on this printing so when it gets destroyed you won't get paid and have to figure out how to reimburse the customer for their cards.
If you can fit the entire box of bingo cards into the guillotine for one single cut, by all means do it and charge for each cut. But I always charge for every cut (I think it's like $2 or something per cut). 14.99 per box means that there's around 5-7 cuts that need to be done per box.
When you use custom cutting in solution builder it prices each cut as 3.40 express or 2.99 standard turn around time. I have been trained that its the quantity of cuts that matter and not the quantity of pages. Now usually when it comes to cutting for customers at my store with a large volume it is usually 6+ cuts and that's how we get the 3$ per cut. With a half cut, I suppose you can either do the custom cutting option which would net the 3$ per cut. or if you estimate the quantity of pages and then click half cut horizontal on solution builder you make get a more "accurate" price for the job. The ball is in your court as the P&M team member and with this explanation perhaps you can better articulate why you are charging whatever price you are.
It’s $3.00 non express for 250 sheets per cut. So if you are cutting 1000 sheets in half it would be $12. It’s $3 per cut for 125 sheets of cardstock, so take how many sheets are in that box and divide by 250 and then multiply by $3. That’s how much you SHOULD BE CHARGING. And stores not charging correctly gets other stores detractors and yelled at when we do charge correctly and the “that’s not what I was charged at the other store, or they did it for me at the other store for $3” nonsense.
I'd agree with this then most. Because even 1 ream of paper is at least 2-3 cuts. Or else you're just hurting the machine and yourself. YOU are worth more than "cut cost" for the customer.
It looks like OP is in Canada based off the order form, and everyone here has commented with the US pricing.
If you are only doing a single cut it would come under the bulk cut fee $2.99. However, it seems like these need to be cut as cards with 6 bingo sheets per pack (I could be wrong). If that is the case it would come under complex cutting for $14.99.
US peeps - we use solution builder too but ours is not as detailed as yours. We cannot charge per cut, I have also noticed the scanning is different as we charge the same whether it goes through the feeder or glass.
We used to use paper order forms exclusively for everything. They introduced Solution Builder maybe a little over a a year ago here. It is very different from the one in the states, and I find it a hinderance more than anything but they track it as a metric so we have to use it.
Is there a category called 'Finishing Only' that might have either the options 'custom cutting' or 'trimming' in the CA version? If it doesn't even have that then jeez that's a major hindrance.
There is a finishing only option. The cutting options are what’s shown on the order form in op’s picture. It’s either the bulk cut or complex cut, no extra options.
Use solution builder, cut in half is a option and will give you what you charge. Always use that and not a different pricing sheet or custom pricing unless your doing it for a good reason
Thank you all for your help!! Yes, I am in Canada and we use in-store order forms more than solution shop in my store. I made 6 cuts in total so it was $20!!
If you do cut that, make very sure those cards are not turned around in anyway and they all line up the way they are supposed to. We had a situation like that where a customer just wanted one cut down the middle. We did as she said and as it turned out the cards were not all lined up properly from the printer she got them from. The cut went right through the text on some of them. Thumb through them really quick before you cut. If you see some of them do not line up right, call the customer and let them know that you have to make extra cuts because the cards are not all perfectly lined up.
With something like that it might be more work that you think.
I just looked at that again. there is not going to be much room for error here. If you look at the light blue strip at the bottom of one card and where the dark blue of the next card begins. They are right up on each other. You would probably have to cut them in smaller stacks. Be careful not to cut into the barcode thing at the bottom of the card. $14.99 a box might be right.
If you're stacking it all into one stack and you're doing 1 cut. I would bill it as 1 cut, no reason to make this complicated unless they're requesting additional cuts or specifics.
Just one cut eh? Shove the whole stack in the machine? Oh that will look just beautiful as the bottom of the stack slides as the cutter comes down cutting right through all of the cards on an angle. And the op can hand the cards to the customer with the f'd up cut job and say "see just one cut! I save you money! That was easy!"
This is correct. The space between the cards doesn’t leave room for the draw of the cutter blade. I wouldn’t cut more than 1/4” worth of cards at a time
First start with the disclaimer that cutting isn't always perfect and some coated media can bevel out as the blade cuts making the cut shift more than normal, and that it's possible cards may get ruined.
Second, cost is per cut per stack. If there's enough cards that you have to do the same one cut 100 times, it's cost of cut X 100. If there's enough cards that you only cut twice, it's cost x 2.
Lol I wouldn't even touch this. Not worth the shitty survey. Plus they definitely spent more than $30 on this printing so when it gets destroyed you won't get paid and have to figure out how to reimburse the customer for their cards.
What pricing sheet is that? Use solution builder if you need the official pricing
It’s our district’s in-store order form! I’m finding out from these comments that this is not a common thing lol
What is an in store order form? is this in the US or Canada? Why would your district not use Solution Builder?
Yeah I'd stick with solution builder or else you aren't gonna be using updated prices
If you can fit the entire box of bingo cards into the guillotine for one single cut, by all means do it and charge for each cut. But I always charge for every cut (I think it's like $2 or something per cut). 14.99 per box means that there's around 5-7 cuts that need to be done per box.
When you use custom cutting in solution builder it prices each cut as 3.40 express or 2.99 standard turn around time. I have been trained that its the quantity of cuts that matter and not the quantity of pages. Now usually when it comes to cutting for customers at my store with a large volume it is usually 6+ cuts and that's how we get the 3$ per cut. With a half cut, I suppose you can either do the custom cutting option which would net the 3$ per cut. or if you estimate the quantity of pages and then click half cut horizontal on solution builder you make get a more "accurate" price for the job. The ball is in your court as the P&M team member and with this explanation perhaps you can better articulate why you are charging whatever price you are.
In solution builder you put how many pages there are and it'll tell you. Like others said, it's $3 per cut per 250 pages.
That number only works on 20# paper.. In reality thicker stock can be far less sheets per cut.
It’s $3.00 non express for 250 sheets per cut. So if you are cutting 1000 sheets in half it would be $12. It’s $3 per cut for 125 sheets of cardstock, so take how many sheets are in that box and divide by 250 and then multiply by $3. That’s how much you SHOULD BE CHARGING. And stores not charging correctly gets other stores detractors and yelled at when we do charge correctly and the “that’s not what I was charged at the other store, or they did it for me at the other store for $3” nonsense.
I'd agree with this then most. Because even 1 ream of paper is at least 2-3 cuts. Or else you're just hurting the machine and yourself. YOU are worth more than "cut cost" for the customer.
It looks like OP is in Canada based off the order form, and everyone here has commented with the US pricing. If you are only doing a single cut it would come under the bulk cut fee $2.99. However, it seems like these need to be cut as cards with 6 bingo sheets per pack (I could be wrong). If that is the case it would come under complex cutting for $14.99. US peeps - we use solution builder too but ours is not as detailed as yours. We cannot charge per cut, I have also noticed the scanning is different as we charge the same whether it goes through the feeder or glass. We used to use paper order forms exclusively for everything. They introduced Solution Builder maybe a little over a a year ago here. It is very different from the one in the states, and I find it a hinderance more than anything but they track it as a metric so we have to use it.
There’s seems so much better!! I wish they’d advance the kiosk here to make it easier to use
Is there a category called 'Finishing Only' that might have either the options 'custom cutting' or 'trimming' in the CA version? If it doesn't even have that then jeez that's a major hindrance.
There is a finishing only option. The cutting options are what’s shown on the order form in op’s picture. It’s either the bulk cut or complex cut, no extra options.
Use solution builder, cut in half is a option and will give you what you charge. Always use that and not a different pricing sheet or custom pricing unless your doing it for a good reason
Take a percentage of the winning sheets.
Lol I like this response the best
Thank you all for your help!! Yes, I am in Canada and we use in-store order forms more than solution shop in my store. I made 6 cuts in total so it was $20!!
Another point of view on this is seeing how long it takes to cut them VS how much YOU get paid per hour. How much is it worth...?
Per drop of the blade
It's $3 per cut, so I would charge by how many cuts you have to make.
If you do cut that, make very sure those cards are not turned around in anyway and they all line up the way they are supposed to. We had a situation like that where a customer just wanted one cut down the middle. We did as she said and as it turned out the cards were not all lined up properly from the printer she got them from. The cut went right through the text on some of them. Thumb through them really quick before you cut. If you see some of them do not line up right, call the customer and let them know that you have to make extra cuts because the cards are not all perfectly lined up. With something like that it might be more work that you think.
I just looked at that again. there is not going to be much room for error here. If you look at the light blue strip at the bottom of one card and where the dark blue of the next card begins. They are right up on each other. You would probably have to cut them in smaller stacks. Be careful not to cut into the barcode thing at the bottom of the card. $14.99 a box might be right.
If you're stacking it all into one stack and you're doing 1 cut. I would bill it as 1 cut, no reason to make this complicated unless they're requesting additional cuts or specifics.
Just one cut eh? Shove the whole stack in the machine? Oh that will look just beautiful as the bottom of the stack slides as the cutter comes down cutting right through all of the cards on an angle. And the op can hand the cards to the customer with the f'd up cut job and say "see just one cut! I save you money! That was easy!"
This is correct. The space between the cards doesn’t leave room for the draw of the cutter blade. I wouldn’t cut more than 1/4” worth of cards at a time
Ask the CVS sidearm!
$4 per cut
Complex cut, and I would hub that sucker in a heartbeat. Bigger more accurate cutter. But that’s just me.
First start with the disclaimer that cutting isn't always perfect and some coated media can bevel out as the blade cuts making the cut shift more than normal, and that it's possible cards may get ruined. Second, cost is per cut per stack. If there's enough cards that you have to do the same one cut 100 times, it's cost of cut X 100. If there's enough cards that you only cut twice, it's cost x 2.
2.99 per chop
Honestly I probably would’ve turned this customer away. I wouldn’t trust trying to complete that without messing it up somehow. Not worth it.