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Fine-Tuning

Window times

Start-to-finish time to tint each window group — cut/plot, clean, shrink, install.

Give each window group one average time: not your biggest or smallest glass, just what a typical window or pair takes you to cut, prep, shrink, and install. Then open the drop-down below to see what ten real cars would run at your times. Each window auto-adjusts for its size, so a Miata's roll-ups will run shorter than an F-150's even though you set one number. Tune your times until those durations match what you'd expect in the bay. Even a single minute added or taken moves every car meaningfully. Times cover billable work only. If you need room for pickup and customer handoff, add a buffer between jobs on the Scheduling card.


The roll-up windows in the doors.


The small fixed glass — front or rear quarter windows.


The large fixed glass common in wagons, vans, and SUVs.


The rear windshield.


Film usage

Film used will never equal the glass area you tint — there's always waste. This tells your quoter how efficiently you cut and how much scrap is inevitable. 1.65 = plotter pre-cut, tetris-tight · 2.00 = average hand cutting · 2.20 = conservative, a fair bit of waste.


Vehicles with a surplus of smaller windows make your film usage more scrap-friendly — effectively raising your cutting efficiency above baseline. This caps how much that can affect the quote. We suggest leaving it at 3%.

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Price floors & ceilings

Hard limits for the tint jobs the engine measures (full, front, and rear), no matter the vehicle or the multipliers. Prices you set yourself skip your limits: overrides, fallbacks, and custom services. Add-ons and removal skip them too: they sit on top of a main job at their listed prices, raised only by a vehicle multiplier.