Free Project Profit Calculator — Dovea Project Profit Check
Free Project Profit Calculator — Dovea Project Profit Check
Check a quote before you send it. This free project profit calculator is a downloadable Excel and Google Sheets template for evaluating one project using your fee, estimated hours, revision time, direct costs and payment fees.
Designed for one project at a time
Use the tool before sending a proposal or accepting a new project.
It helps answer a simple but important question:
Does this project fee still work after realistic hours, revisions, costs and payment fees are taken into account?
What the tool shows
- Planned hours including revisions and time buffer
- Payment or platform fee
- Revenue after direct costs and payment fees
- Target pay for your working time
- Profit remaining after target pay
- Profit margin after target pay
- Effective hourly rate
- Minimum quote needed to meet your target rate
- Clear Meets / Below target-rate status
Plan with more realistic figures
Include:
- Client project fee
- Estimated working hours
- Target hourly rate
- Direct project costs
- Payment or platform fee
- Extra revision hours
- Time buffer
The calculator combines these figures automatically and shows whether the planned price supports your selected hourly target.
What you receive
- Dovea Project Profit Check Excel workbook (.xlsx)
- Google Sheets access with a Make a copy link
- Quick Start Guide (.pdf)
- Example project data
- USD, EUR, GBP, CAD and AUD display options
How it works
1. Select your currency display.
2. Replace the yellow example inputs with your own project figures.
3. Review the calculated profit, margin and hourly rate.
4. Check the minimum viable quote and target-rate status before sending your proposal.
The currency selector changes the displayed symbol only. It does not convert monetary values or exchange rates.
Yellow fields are intended for user input. Formula and structural cells are protected to reduce accidental changes.
Compatibility
Designed for Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Google Sheets users receive access to a view-only master and create their own editable copy.
This tool supports project pricing decisions. It does not provide tax, accounting, financial or legal advice.
Ready to go beyond a single project?
Project Profit Check evaluates one project at a time.
Dovea’s paid tools provide broader support for business-wide pricing decisions, repeated client-project tracking and 12-month cash-flow planning.
Dovea tools support business planning and decision-making. Results depend on the information entered. This tool does not provide tax, accounting, financial or legal advice.
Purchase with confidence
- Instant digital delivery after purchase
- Works with Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets as described above
- One-time purchase — no subscription
- Questions? Contact support@doveatools.com
Dovea tools support planning and decision-making. They do not guarantee a specific income, profit, saving or business result.