Roger offers two ways to pay: ten percent of each job that closes, deducted from your payout, or a flat monthly fee for unlimited matches in your category and area. Neither is better in the abstract. Which one wins depends on volume and ticket size, and the crossover is easy to calculate.
The break-even
Take the monthly fee for your band and divide it by ten percent of your average ticket. That is how many completed jobs a month you need before the flat fee becomes the cheaper option.
Below that number, per-job is cheaper and carries no risk — a slow month costs you nothing. Above it, flat monthly is cheaper and gets cheaper with every additional job.
Which to start on
Per-job, almost always. Roger is early in most markets, and on the percentage option a market that is slow this month costs you nothing at all. There is no reason to pay a fixed fee for volume that has not been demonstrated to you yet.
Move to the flat fee when your own numbers say the crossover has been passed — not before, and not on anyone's forecast.
What neither option includes
- No charge for accepting a job
- No charge for messaging a homeowner
- No per-lead billing of any kind
- No annual contract; month-to-month, cancellable
Call and tell us your trade and where you work. Ask anything — how the routing works, what you would be charged, what a job looks like before you accept it.
Common questions
- Can I switch between them?
- Yes. The point of the crossover calculation is that it moves as your volume does, and the plan should move with it.
- What are the current monthly bands?
- They vary by trade and average ticket and are published on the contractor pricing page, which is the authoritative place for them.
- Is the ten percent taken before or after I get paid?
- It comes out of the payout, so you never invoice Roger and never write a cheque. A job that does not close is not charged, because there is nothing to take a percentage of.