Why Guessing on Efficiency Ratings is Costing You Thousands.

Every efficiency number you quote carries a price tag.

When those numbers are wrong, the bill doesn’t go to the homeowner. It comes out of your pocket.

How Guessing Eats Into Your Profit

When you or your sales team “think” a system is a certain SEER2 or HSPF2 instead of verifying it with an AHRI match, you’re gambling with money.

A mismatched coil or air handler can drop a system’s rating below rebate eligibility, leaving the homeowner short on incentives and your team holding the bag.

If you promise a rebate that doesn’t qualify, you’ll either lose the sale or pay the difference yourself. Both cost you.

Example: Real-World Numbers

Let’s say your install crew installs 200 systems a year, and half are rebate-eligible. If you’re off just 8–10% of the time, at an average rebate of $900–$1,200, that’s $9,000–$12,000 in money you might end up covering to keep customers happy. Add administrative time, rework, and goodwill credits, and the real cost can climb past $25,000 a year. For one install crew.

That’s assuming you didn’t lose the sale, and that’s before you count the reputation hit when customers don’t get what they were promised.

Rebate programs and tax credits change constantly. Business owners and managers don’t have the time to go into each estimate and change them 4 times a season.

If your rebate data isn’t constantly updated, you could be quoting incentives that no longer exist or promising amounts that just dropped.

Outdated quotes become a liability.

What To Do If Your Team Isn’t Verifying AHRI Matches

If your sales team isn’t verifying AHRI matches for every bid, it’s not because they don’t care. They either don’t know how, or they don’t have time.

Building AHRI numbers, rebate programs, and verifying every matchup takes time your advisors simply don’t have in the middle of a sales cycle.

ROIgenie solves both problems. We build pre-verified, AHRI-matched packages that are structured, accurate, and always current with your local and federal rebate programs. When rebates or ratings change, your pricebook updates with them.

Your team quotes faster, more confidently, and without risking margin.

Structure matters.
When every system in your pricebook is AHRI-verified and every rebate is confirmed against the latest programs, your numbers protect you instead of working against you.

Accuracy isn’t just about compliance. It’s about profit.

At ROIgenie, we refuse to guess. Every system we build is AHRI-verified, rebate-ready, and structured for consistency.

When your team quotes with confidence, every proposal protects your profit and trust..

Because in HVAC sales, small guesses become expensive mistakes.

Refuse to guess. Refuse to lose money.Built by contractors, for contractors.
Consistency sells.