Configure your agency in the back end. Your consultants and sales team send branded proposals and Terms of Business all day. You see every quote, every signature, every status in one pipeline.
Accepted proposals become signed Terms of Business, all in one pipeline.
Stage 1 of 3
Set up your agency.
An evening's work for the agency owner. Logo, brand colour, on-cost stack, cost-item library, negligence tiers, default margin. Configured in the back end once, and every proposal your team builds from here on uses these defaults.
01 Branded by default
Your colour. Every page.
Pick a colour or paste a hex code. Header bar, table accents and bill-rate row all update instantly. Three template styles to choose from, with a live preview while you edit.
Logo upload (PNG / SVG)
Hex code or preset palette
Three template styles: Classic, Editorial, Modern
Live preview while you edit
LiveBrand colour
P
Pinewood Recruitment
CONFIDENTIAL
Bill Rate£23.44
02 One source of truth
Quote defaults, configured once.
Statutory on-costs, finance, default margin and payment days. Set in agency settings, applied to every new quote your team builds. Different sector? Different on-cost stack? Override per role or per client.
NI, holiday, pension, apprenticeship levy
Invoice finance rate and free period
Default margin and payment days
Override per-quote on the Rates tab
SettingsQuote Defaults
Statutory on-costs
Holiday Pay
12.07%
Employer NI
15.00%
Pension
3.00%
Apprenticeship Levy
0.50%
Invoice finance
Finance rate
5.75% p.a.
Free period
30days
Document defaults
Default margin
10.00%
Payment days
60days
Edit once, applied to every new quote.
03 Flexible billing
Cost items, hour · shift · placement.
DBS checks, PPE, out-of-hours premiums. Per-hour items roll into the bill rate; per-shift / per-placement charges show on the doc as separate lines. Build the library once for the whole agency, reuse on every quote.
Per-hour, per-shift, per-placement basis
Show on doc / hide on doc per item
Per-hour items priced into bill rate automatically
Build the library once, reuse everywhere
LivePer-shift / per-placement charges
DBS Check
Per placement
£44.00
PLACEMENT
PPE Pack
Per placement
£28.00
PLACEMENT
Out-of-hours premium
Per shift
£12.00
SHIFT
04 Editable cover tiers
Negligence tiers, your rates.
Add, rename, remove cover tiers. Set the cover amount and the per-hour rate you charge. Pick a default for new quotes. In cost or on doc only: your call.
Default tiers (none / £10k / £20k) shipped, edit any
Add custom tiers (£30k, £50k) with your rates
Default tier pre-fills new quotes
In-cost / on-doc toggles per quote
LiveSettings · Drivers Negligence
+ Add tier
Stage 2 of 3
Your team sends proposals.
Consultants and sales staff log in and just go. The defaults you set in Stage 1 are already there. They pick a role, type a pay rate, choose whether the client sees the breakdown, and send a branded link. Five minutes, end-to-end.
05 Live calculator
Type a pay rate, see your bill rate. Instantly.
Real PAYE on-costs, real invoice finance, real DNI. No estimates, no rounding. The same engine that powers your saved quotes, running off the defaults the agency owner set up in Stage 1.
Holiday Pay, NI, Pension, Levy auto-calculated
Margin slider, bill rate updates live
Negligence cover in cost or on-doc only
Override per-quote, never lose your defaults
LiveAdjust pay or margin
£
10.0%
True Employment Cost£20.82
Invoice Finance + DNI£0.28
Margin£2.34
Bill rate£23.44
06 The real number
Surface margin isn't your real margin.
Most rate calculators show you the gap between cost of employment and bill rate and call that a margin. It isn't, once invoice finance on your client's payment terms is in. RateCalc.io shows both numbers on every saved quote, consultant-side only. The client sees the clean branded view, you see the gap.
Surface vs true margin on every saved quote
Driven by your on-cost stack + invoice finance rate
Adjusts live as you change the days field
Hidden from the client. Visible only to your team.
Same quote, two numbers
Surface
21.4%
What most calcs show
True
14.2%
After 90-day terms
Gap: £4.20/hr the surface number hides.
07 Show / hide
Full breakdown, or just the bill rate.
Some clients want every line. Others just want the number. One toggle on the proposal, same calculation either way: the rate is identical, only what the client sees changes.
Itemised cost build per role and shift
Negligence and finance lines toggleable on doc
Margin row visible only to your team
Layout updates live in the preview pane
Live
Base Pay£16.00
Holiday Pay£1.93
Employer NI£2.33
Pension£0.48
Apprenticeship Levy£0.08
True Employment Cost£20.82
Invoice Finance£0.10
Negligence Cover£0.18
Bill rate · 10%£23.44
08 Trackable, branded link
Not a PDF in their inbox. A real proposal page.
Your client gets a branded URL they can open on any device. Watch them open, view, accept, decline or sit on it. Every state surfaces back to your dashboard the moment it happens.
Hosted at ratecalc.io/p/your-slug
Open / view / decide / accept events tracked
Decline-with-reason captured for follow-up
No separate e-signature tool: it’s built into the platform
Trackable linkBranded proposal
ratecalc.io/p/northgate-logistics-q3
P
Pinewood Recruitment
Class 1 driver · Q3 rates
Viewed 2m ago
Bill rate£23.44
Accept
Decline with reason
No PDFs. No attachments. A real branded link your client can open, view and respond to in seconds.
Stage 3 of 3
Sign & track.
Accepted proposals convert into a signable Terms of Business in one click. Client signs in their browser. You see every proposal, every signed contract, every status in one searchable pipeline.
09 E-signature, in-browser
Terms of Business, signed in seconds.
Accepted proposals convert into a Terms of Business with the rates baked in. Client signs in their browser: no print, no scan, no third-party platform charging per envelope. Signature image, IP and timestamp captured for audit.
Signature image + IP + browser + timestamp captured
Audit-ready under Electronic Communications Act 2000
E-signatureBranded Terms of Business
P
Terms of Business
Pinewood Recruitment · v1.2
Ready to sign
Charges & Payment Terms60 days from invoice
Conversion Fee25% of first-year salary
Rebate ScheduleTapered 4 → 12 weeks
James Pearsonsigned · 14:22 · 213.205.x.x
Accept and sign
Signature image, IP address, browser and timestamp captured. Audit-ready, no e-signature fees.
10 Pipeline visibility
See exactly what your team is putting out.
One dashboard. Every proposal, every status, every signed contract. Filter by recruiter, by client, by sector, by week. The numbers a business leader actually needs to coach the team.
Live pipeline: sent · viewed · decided · accepted · signed
By-recruiter activity and win rates
Margin floor alerts before send
Searchable archive of every rate ever quoted
PipelineThis week · all team
Sent
23
Viewed
17
Accepted
7
Signed
5
MonNorthgate LogisticsAccepted
MonWillowbrook Care GroupViewed
TueAshford ConstructionSent
WedBeaumont Hotels GroupDeclined
ThuMeridian EngineeringSigned ToB
Every proposal, every status. Filter by recruiter, by client, by sector. Know what's gone out and what's come back.
11 Client roster (CRM-lite)
Every client a row, every signal one glance.
The client roster that builds itself as your team works. Sector-tagged, sorted however you want, with a 7-stage funnel chevron showing where each relationship sits. Margin pill, win-rate pill, weekly pipeline value, last-contact age: the at-a-glance signals that tell you who to chase, who to nurture, who needs a rate review.
KPI strip: total clients · active 30d · roster avg margin · review-due count
7-stage funnel per client: Drafts → Sent → Accepted → Declined → ToB draft → ToB sent → ToB signed
Per-client signals: target margin, win rate, weekly pipeline £, days since last sent
DRAFT›SENT 3›ACCEPTED 1›DECLINED›TOB DRAFT›TOB SENT 1›SIGNED
Willowbrook Care GroupHealthcare10.5% AVG38% WIN£820/WKWatch
DRAFT›SENT 3›ACCEPTED 1›DECLINED›TOB DRAFT›TOB SENT 1›SIGNED
CRM-lite that builds itself as your team sends proposals. Contacts, tags, notes log, activity history per client.
12 Rate Review calculator
Annual rate reviews, on autopilot.
Every accepted proposal carries a Rate Review button. One click clones its rates into a fresh draft with the transformation you pick: annual %, NLW pass-through, flat pence, on-cost change, or a one-button 2026/27 government preset (NLW +£0.50, employer NI stays at 15%). Live preview shows every cell's current → new pay + bill + margin before you save. Content fields (why-this-rate copy, bullets, footer) clear so the renewal conversation is fresh.