Trade contractors · Plumbing, HVAC and electrical
Someone opens the last job that looked similar, saves a copy and edits the numbers. It works until the price of copper moves, or the person who knows the markups is on a roof, or two estimators quote the same job three hundred dollars apart and the customer notices. Prices drift because they live in a file rather than in one place.
Nothing gets replaced.
The work you get back.
Built around your price rules and the way your crews actually work. Most builds of this kind finish in two to four weeks, at a fixed price agreed before work starts.
Before you call anyone
Move the sliders to match one job someone does by hand. If the build would take more than a year to pay back, the calculator says so.
Who it is for
Plumbing contractor · 18 staff · Essex, MD
16 hrs/week
+$21,000 a year
Quoting moved off a spreadsheet and onto a shared application. Quotes go out the same day now.
Hours and dollars are estimated from order volumes and task time.
Common questions
It is the problem, and writing it down is most of the work. Part of the build is getting those rules out of one person and into something the whole team can quote from.
Yes. Quoting from a phone or tablet on site is a common reason for the build, since a quote written at the kitchen table beats one written three days later.
Prices sit in one place so a change is made once rather than in every spreadsheet. How updates arrive depends on what your suppliers provide.
No. QuickBooks usually stays as the system of record and the quoting tool feeds it, rather than competing with it.
Worth reading first: What to fix first when quotes come off a spreadsheet
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