Client Rate Card Manager.
An app idea for recruitment agencies.
A simple tool where a small agency stores every client rate card in one place and recruiters instantly see the maximum bill rate for a role.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Small recruitment agency owner
- The problem
- Recruiters do not know the ceiling on a role until they ask the account manager or dig through an old email. They quote a rate, the client pushes back, and the margin is gone before anyone notices.
- The gap
- Rate cards are buried inside large agency management suites or generic ATS and CRM products. Nothing cheap and standalone lets a small agency compare client rate cards side by side and check a max bill rate in seconds.
- Already out there
- Productive productive.io
Manages rate cards inside a full agency management and budgeting platform, which is more than a small agency wants to buy or set up.
- Tracker RMS tracker-rms.com
Staffing agency ATS and CRM. Rate cards are one part of a much larger system, not a quick lookup tool.
- Recruit CRM getapp.com
Recruitment agency software for small to midsize firms covering candidates, clients and contacts, not a focused rate card comparison tool.
- Productive productive.io
- People asking for it
- Recruitment tracker spreadsheet pain giighire.com
Solo recruiters and small agencies still run their desk on spreadsheets, which is where rate cards usually live.
- Spreadsheets nobody trusts happlicant.com
Describes work split across a half-used platform and a parallel Excel file nobody trusts to be current.
- Recruitment tracker spreadsheet pain giighire.com
- The big assumption
- That small agency owners will pay for a standalone rate card tool instead of keeping it in a spreadsheet or inside the ATS they already pay for.
- Test it this week
- Ask ten small agency owners to send you their current rate cards and see whether they can produce them in under five minutes. If they cannot, offer to build the lookup for free for three of them.
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