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Johnstone Supply Orders. Fleet Fuel. Equipment.
All Earning 1x.

An HVAC company profile at $112,500 a month of card-able spend earns about 243,500 points a month with every bonus rate capped on published terms, and nets about $3,921 a month after our fee at our current valuation. The routing is the work. The receipt is on the calculator.

Your numbers

See What You're
Leaving Behind

This page's profile is the starting point on the calculator. Move the sliders to your own numbers. Every bonus rate is capped on published terms, rent and payroll stay off the card, and our fee comes out before you see a number.

The starting profile

Equipment and parts distributors$62,000 at 2x
Refrigerant and consumables$14,000 at 2x
Fleet fuel$13,000 at up to 4x
Vehicle leases and maintenance$11,000 at 2x
Insurance and licensing$6,500 at 1x
Everything else$6,000 at 2x
Net, this month, after our fee$3,921

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The mistakes

What HVAC Companies Get Wrong

None of this is obvious from a statement. It is what the desk sees on a HVAC company profile, line by line.

01

Putting equipment and parts distributors on a debit card, or on a card that earns one point on it

Your biggest line, $62,000 a month, codes outside every bonus category on the cards that matter. A debit card earns nothing on it. The no-fee 2x card earns two points on the first $50,000 a year and one point after that. The flat-2x card with an annual fee earns two points on all of it. Neither is a bonus. Both beat the debit card by six figures of points a year.

The math

$744,000 a year. No-fee 2x card: 794,000 points. Flat-2x card with a fee: 1,488,000 points. Debit card: 0.

02

Leaving the lines that earn 3x and 4x on the same card as the invoice

The small lines are the ones that pay: fleet fuel, $13,000 a month on this profile. On published terms, 4x holds on the first $150,000 a year of advertising, software, fuel and tolls combined, and 3x on the first $150,000 of shipping, travel, internet and phone combined, then 1x. This profile passes the pool: $6,000 a year of bonus-eligible spend runs at the next rate down. Past the pools, a second entity or a second issuer is a desk decision, not a promise.

The math

$13,000 a month on the bonus lines, routed: 624,000 points a year. On the invoice card at 2x: 312,000. On a debit card: 0.

03

Forcing rent, payroll and non-card vendors onto the card to chase points

Left off this profile: payroll. Rent and vendor bills can ride a bill-pay service at 2.9%; at this page's own defaults 2x is worth about 3.7 cents a dollar after the honest discount, so it clears by well under a cent. The desk decides those line by line.

The math

2 points × 3.0 cents × 85% redeemed × the honest discount = about 3.7 cents a dollar. Minus a 2.9% bill-pay fee = well under a cent. That is not a strategy; it is a rounding error with a fee attached.

How it works

Your vendors. Our routing.

Every vendor sends a merchant category code (MCC) when you swipe. That code determines your multiplier. The same $5,000 payment earns 5,000 points on the wrong card or up to 20,000 on the right one, inside the pool. We match every vendor to its highest-earning card.

MCC
Vendor Code Analysis

We've mapped how your vendors code with card networks. Verified, not guessed.

CAP
Spending Cap Tracking

Every bonus category has annual caps. We flag the pool before it fills, so the next dollar goes to the next rate down instead of to 1x.

CPP
Transfer Partner Math

Earning is half. We show you which redemptions clear our current valuation and which do not, and we print the call before the booking.

Your card stack, routing rules, and redemption strategy are built specifically for your vendors and spend. See what yours looks like.

Real math

What This Looks Like for a
$112,500 a Month HVAC Profile

Same spend. Different strategy. Different outcome.

One year, on the calculator's defaults

Monthly card-able spend$112,500
Annual spend$1,350,000
Points on one card at 1x1,350,000
Points routed, caps applied2,922,000
Blended earn rate2.2x
Travel value at sticker, 85% redeemed, 3.0 cents$74,511
Valued honestly, 60% you would have bought anyway$53,648
Our fee, twelve months$6,600
Net, this year$47,048

Illustrative profile, not client data. Point valuations are estimates based on common redemption benchmarks; actual value depends on how and when you redeem. Bonus rates capped on published product terms, before card annual fees. Not a guarantee of any outcome and not financial or tax advice.

How it works

Four Steps to Full Optimization

No apps to download. No spreadsheets. Just a conversation.

01

Message us

4 questions. Takes 2 minutes.

02

We map everything

Cards, balances, credits, programs.

03

Get your game plan

Card stack, routing rules, bonus calendar.

04

We watch. You save time.

Proactive alerts, weekly digests, strategy.

Trusted across industries

The same routing, applied to 20 verticals. Different vendors, different coding, one set of published terms, our fee already out.

Restaurants. HVAC. Dental. Salons. Fitness. Landscaping. Veterinary. IT. Consulting. Cleaning. Property Management. Auto Repair. And yours.
Where the money actually goes

The 4 lines that decide an HVAC year

Generic card advice sorts spending into dining, travel and office supplies. That is not what your P&L looks like. This is.

01

Equipment and parts distributors

Frequently code as wholesale, which is where most of the leak sits.

02

Refrigerant and consumables

Regular, weather-driven, and worth routing.

03

Fleet fuel

A dedicated fuel card typically pays several times a general card.

04

Van leases and vehicle maintenance

Predictable monthly spend that is rarely optimised.

The cash cycle
Equipment is bought and installed before the customer pays.
The calendar
Two hard peaks, first heat wave and first freeze, and the calendar is unforgiving.
A profile at $112,500 a month
Roughly $1,350,000 a year of card-able spend, and the routing decision on the lines above is worth more than every other optimization combined.
Coding varies by processor, location and how each vendor is registered, so we verify yours against real transactions during the free check rather than assuming.
Point valuations are estimates based on common redemption benchmarks. Actual value depends on how and when you redeem.

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