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Cranial prosthesis price builder
Work out what a full custom unit should sell for once the vendor cost, the chair hours and the follow up visits you include are all on the page.
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Calculators for wig studio owners
Two working calculators for the arithmetic that decides whether a fitting week pays: what a prosthesis job should cost and how many fittings your chair hours really hold.
Pricing in this trade gets guessed at more than it gets calculated. Vendor cost is the only number most studios can quote from memory, and the rest of the job, the consultation, the cut in, the alteration hours and the two follow up visits you never charge for, quietly disappears into the margin. The price builder puts those hours back on the page so the number you quote covers the work you actually do.
The second calculator deals with the hours themselves. Insurance work is desk work, and desk work comes out of the same day as chair work. If sixty percent of your fittings go out with a claim and each claim takes half an hour of letters, submissions and follow up calls, that is a fitting slot a week you did not know you were spending. Both tools are free, run in your browser, and nothing you type is stored.
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Fitting chair capacity planner
Find out how many full fittings your week actually holds once the letters, submissions and claim follow up calls are counted against the same hours.
Working document
The cranial prosthesis claim file checklist
Everything that belongs in one client's claim file, in the order you actually collect it, from the first phone call to the day the reimbursement lands.
Why these wig studio calculators are open
Most custom cranial prosthesis prices get built the same way: the vendor invoice sitting on the desk, a rough multiplier held in your head, and a number said out loud before the consultation ends. The ninety minute fitting, the cut in, the cap alteration and the two return visits after her scalp changes never make it onto the page. These calculators put that arithmetic where you can see it before you quote. There is no sign up, no account and no email gate, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
They are worth having open even if you never look at the rest of StrandRestore. Run the price builder before your next full custom order and you will have a defensible number for a client who starts chemotherapy in nine days and wants a straight answer today. Run the capacity planner and you will know how many full fittings your week holds once the letters, the itemized invoices and the follow up calls on open claims are charged against the same chair hours. Those are the two sums studio owners work out on the back of a vendor packing slip at nine at night.
When the claim hours surprise you
Owners who run the capacity planner honestly tend to find a full working day a week going into letters, submissions and follow up calls. If that is your number, the fix is rarely booking fewer fittings, it is generating the cranial prosthesis letter from the measurements you already took. Ask for a demo and we will run your own figures through a live studio record.