One customer, six protected sites, six plans charging at once. A hundred sites on the $45 plan is $4,500 a month of recurring revenue, and it’s charged one site at a time. The install that put each system in is a separate job, and the technician days stay on it.
How a job runs
A restaurant group already has two locations on the account, each on its own plan. The third gets a proposal — the $650 system, four cameras at $225 each and $1,200 of access control — and once it’s approved that’s a job at the new address. Two technicians spend the Tuesday there, which is two days of labour on the install. The install bills once the system is in, and the $65 premium plan starts on that location the same day. One customer, three sites, three plans, one statement.
Panel, cameras and access control priced against the site they’re going on. Approve it and that becomes a job on that site, still carrying the device list and the prices that were proposed.
The day on site, and the half day it takes to come back and finish, are both recorded against the install — a day and a half at that technician’s day rate. Nobody adds it up afterwards from memory.
From then on the plan charges on that site — $45 basic, or $65 if it went in with video. It doesn’t need re-sending, and which sites are live isn’t something anyone has to remember.
System live. Site billing. Paid.
A site is priced on what went in — $45 here, $65 where video and cellular are on it, a $10 cellular add-on on the basic plans that still need the backup. That’s six lines on one account, each at the rate that site agreed to.
The technicians who worked it go on the install with the days they put in, beside the $650 system itself. An install running a day over shows up while it’s still running, early enough to price the next one differently.
The charge retries and the site gets flagged. A site that’s still monitored on a card that stopped working is $45 a month, and it shows up in what didn’t collect.
Start the monthly plan on a site with no job attached. A customer switching from another company bills from day one, and the first service call you run there is the first job on that address.
Day one
Say you run an alarm and camera business and QuixChex sets this up for you before you've typed anything. Every price is editable — they're a starting point, not a rule.
| Service | What it covers | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring Plan (monthly) | Recurring 24/7 monitoring, per site | $45 |
| Premium Monitoring (monthly) | Monitoring with video and cellular | $65 |
| System Installation | Panel and keypad, fitted and commissioned | $650 |
| Camera Install (per camera) | One camera, supplied and installed | $225 |
| Doorbell Camera Install | Video doorbell, fitted and set up | $195 |
| Smart Lock Install | Smart lock, fitted and paired | $265 |
| Sensor Add-on (each) | Door, window or motion sensor | $55 |
| Service Call | On-site troubleshooting visit | $95 |
| Access Control Setup | Keypad or badge entry system | $1,200 |
| Fire / CO Monitoring (monthly) | Recurring life-safety monitoring | $20 |
| Cellular Backup Add-on (monthly) | Cellular communicator, monthly | $10 |
| Equipment Upgrade | Panel or equipment upgrade | $350 |
FAQ
Yes. Each site gets a plan of its own, priced on what’s installed there and whichever add-ons it carries, and all of them bill under the one customer. A property company with nine buildings can have nine different rates and still be one account.
Yes. The install is a job with labour on it and it bills when the work’s done. The monitoring is separate — a monthly charge in that site’s name that carries on after the technicians have gone.
Yes. Record the site with whatever panel is already on the wall, its account ID and how many devices are on it, then start the plan. There’s no job in the way, so the monitoring bills from the day the account moves over to you.
On the install itself. Each technician who worked it is costed onto that job by the day, so the labour inside a $650 system sits on the record with the equipment. A service call two years later is priced out the same way.
Yes. A later visit is its own job on the same site — two $55 sensors and a $195 doorbell camera billed on it — and the monthly plan doesn’t change.
No. Signals stay with your central station and your panels. This is the customer, the site, the plan and the money — what gets billed, what got installed and who was on site.
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