Ask five IT companies what a network setup costs and you will get five requests for a call. There are reasons for that — the honest one is that the answer genuinely depends on the site, and a single number would be a lie. But the usual result is that you spend two weeks on calls before you can compare anything.
We took the other route. Every service in our catalogue is configurable on the site, and the total updates as you answer. Not a range, not a "starting at" designed to get you on the phone: the same rate card we quote from internally, applied to the answers you gave.
What you can see before you speak to us
Open a service, answer what applies — how many devices, whether we come to you, how soon you need it — and the estimate builds itself line by line. Each line names what it is for. A device setup shows the per-device rate falling as the count rises, because it genuinely does. An on-site job shows travel as its own line, by zone, so distance is visible rather than absorbed into a labour rate.
You will also see tax on the quote rather than as a surprise later: GST on everything, PST as well where the work involves goods or your hardware.
What we hold back, and why
Some configurations do not get a price automatically, and the page tells you before you submit. A repair where the parts are unknown until the machine is open. Equipment you would like us to supply. A platform you have asked us to recommend rather than chosen. Those go to a person, because a number produced without looking would be a guess wearing a decimal point.
The same applies at the top end. Large jobs are checked by a human before the quote reaches you. We would rather take an extra day than send a figure we cannot stand behind.
The part that matters more than the number
A price you can see is only useful if it is the price you pay. So the arithmetic happens on our servers, from the published rate card, every time. Your browser sends what you chose and nothing else — it cannot send an amount, and it does not compute one. Reload a quote a week later and it reprices from the current card rather than showing a stale figure we are no longer willing to honour.
If a card on our catalogue says a service starts at a given figure, that figure is the cheapest configuration the service can actually produce. We check it against the price book rather than picking a number that reads well.
What this does not replace
A configurator is good at pricing work that can be described in answers. It is not good at scoping a project nobody has thought through yet, and it does not know the thing you have not mentioned. For that, talk to us — but talk to us knowing roughly what the parts cost, which is a better conversation than the one that starts from nothing.