Explore a scenario, one assumption at a time.
Start with a simple what-if, then build a laundromat plan with detailed expenses, projections, and scenarios you can compare and share.
A small change. An easy what-if.
What if your store averaged one more turn per machine each day? What if it took longer to reach the volume you expect?
The interactive illustration on our homepage makes the first question easy to explore. Choose Conservative, Base case, or Busy store and see the assumptions and gross revenue change together. You can try the same illustration on the LaundroCalc overview.
Each setting uses 20 washers, $6.50 per cycle, and 30 days in a month. Only the assumed daily turns change:
- Conservative: 3 turns per machine, per day → $11,700 in monthly gross self-serve revenue.
- Base case: 4 turns per machine, per day → $15,600.
- Busy store: 5 turns per machine, per day → $19,500.
One click gives you another possibility to consider. These sample figures show gross revenue before expenses and financing; the chart is a hypothetical illustration. LaundroCalc takes that simple what-if idea into the details of a laundromat business.
Bring the expenses into the plan
The fuller picture starts with what it costs to open and operate your store. LaundroCalc lets you account for utilities, staffing and payroll load, supplies, insurance, property taxes, card processing, repairs, maintenance, and reserves. Custom expense items and other operating costs give you room for the details specific to your business.
Add the relevant equipment, build-out, startup, property, lease, and financing costs. Then use your own assumptions for pricing, customer volume, wash-dry-fold demand, and growth to create projections of revenue, expenses, and cash flow over time.
Lease, buy, build—or model the store you run
A leased space, an existing building you plan to buy and fit out, and land where you want to build a new store each raise different questions. LaundroCalc has scenarios for those paths, with the property, startup, and financing inputs that apply to each one. Existing-store scenarios let you explore operations and active debt for a laundromat already running.
You bring the assumptions. The model helps you see how they fit together and build a 10-year outlook you can keep refining as you learn more.
Keep a starting point. Compare the alternatives.
In the full Store Calculator, you can turn a question into another scenario:
- Build and save a starting model with the inputs you want to evaluate.
- Change an assumption—perhaps rent, daily turns, staffing, equipment, or financing—and calculate again.
- Use Save as New to keep that alternative alongside your starting point.
- Select two saved scenarios and choose Compare to see them side by side.
If you want to explore a different property scenario, choose that scenario type, enter its relevant assumptions, and save it as another model. Your saved starting point gives you something concrete to compare against.
The small illustration shows how easy it is to ask a what-if. Saved scenarios let you carry that question through the costs, financing, and longer-term projections of your own plan.
Share the thinking behind the numbers
A plan gets more useful when you can discuss its assumptions with an investor, mentor, or business partner. Share a saved scenario so another person can explore an independent copy, or export the assumptions and projections to Excel for a conversation or lender review.
The results remain projections built from your inputs. Keep updating the model as you gather quotes and test your assumptions. Explore LaundroCalc to build a starting scenario, then ask what happens if something changes.
Keep the conversation going.
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