Makers & production
What will a machine booking cost when hire is billed in blocks?
Divide required hours by block length and round up. Multiply blocks by the block price and add the setup fee once for a nonempty booking. Unused time is the paid block hours less required hours.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Hire blocks to book 4
- Machine time needed
- 7 h
- Length of one hire block
- 2 h
- Price per complete block
- 80 €
- One-time booking setup fee
- 25 €
Other results
- Unused paid machine time
- 1 h
- Total booking cost
- €345.00
Use your own figures
Check the invoice estimate and find how much paid machine time remains. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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