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Quoting software for tradies, built for the ute

Quote on the phone at the job, from your own line items, and send it by text before you have left the driveway. It follows up for you, takes a deposit on the link, and tells you which quotes are still open.

Quoting software for tradies gets sold as if the hard part is making a PDF. It is not. The hard part is the quote that gets written on the back of a card, typed up three nights later, and sent after the customer has already said yes to someone faster. The second hard part is the twenty quotes a month nobody followed up.

What we build fixes both. Quote at the job from a list of your own prices, send it as a text with a link, and let the follow up happen on its own.

From the ute

Quoting at the job, in your words

Your line items, not a blank page

Call out, hourly rate, the fittings you use most, the jobs you do every week. Tap the ones that apply, change a quantity, add a line for the odd thing. The quote is done before you reach the car.

Sent as a text, with a link

The customer gets a text from your number with a link to the quote. No PDF attachment, no app to download. It opens on their phone and it looks like your business.

Accept and pay the deposit on the link

One tap to accept, and a deposit link right there if you take one. Accepted quotes become jobs in your calendar.

Photos on the quote

A photo of the problem from the site visit, on the quote, so the customer remembers which job this was and the office knows what was promised.

Follow up

The quotes you never chased

Most lost quotes were never declined, they were forgotten. A text three days after the quote, in your voice, asking if they have any questions, wins back a share of them without you doing anything. A second one a week later, then it stops. You see a list of open quotes, how old each one is, and which ones were opened but not accepted. That list is where the money is on a quiet Friday.

By trade

What a builder needs that a plumber does not

Plumber or electrician

Short quotes, fast. A call out, a few items, a photo, sent from the driveway. The win is speed and the follow up.

Builder

Estimating, not quoting. Stages, allowances, provisional sums, variations, and a quote that runs to pages. The customer needs to see what is included and what is not, in writing, before anyone signs. The tool has to handle revisions without losing the history.

Landscaper, painter, detailer

Packages. A small, medium and large option on one quote, with the customer picking one on the link. Upsells happen on their own.

Any trade with a supplier

Line items that update when your supplier's prices do, so the quote from March is not the price you pay in July.

What it costs

Quoted per job, scoped for free

Quoting is one of our business tools, so it is scoped for free and quoted per job. A quote tool with your line items, text sending and follow up is a small build. Builder estimating with stages and variations is a bigger one. The scope says which, the price on the quote is the price you pay, a 25% deposit starts the build and the rest is due when it is live and you are happy with it.

Fair questions

What tradies ask about quoting software

What is the best quoting software for tradies?
The one you will use at the job, not in the office that night. For most trades that means a phone, your own line items and a text with a link. Big estimating tools are built for builders and a plumber pays for features they never open.
Can I take a deposit on the quote?
Yes. A deposit link sits on the accepted quote and the money lands in your account through Square or the payment tool you already use. Jobs with a deposit paid do not get cancelled the night before.
Does it do invoices too?
An accepted quote can become the invoice, or send the job to the accounting tool you already use for invoicing. We check what your accounting software allows in the scope.
What do builders need in estimating software for home builders?
Stages, allowances and provisional sums, variations with a record of what changed and when, and a document the customer can read before signing. That is a different build from a plumber's quote tool, and it is quoted as one.
Does it work offline in a black spot?
The quote is written on the phone and sends when there is signal again. You are not stuck waiting at the job.
Can the office see what I quoted?
Every quote, its status and its photos are in one place, so whoever answers the phone knows what was promised.

Scoped for free

Tell us the job you do by hand

One message about what you are tracking on paper, in texts or in a spreadsheet. We scope it for free and come back with one price for the job.

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