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Trade contractors · Plumbing, HVAC and electrical

Every quote starts as a copy of the last one.

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.

What we connect to

Nothing gets replaced.

  • Your labour rates, markups and price rules
  • Parts and materials lists from your suppliers
  • The past quotes worth keeping
  • Whoever needs to quote, at a desk or in a truck

What stops being manual

The work you get back.

  • Quotes built from one set of prices, held in one place
  • Two people quoting the same job the same way
  • Quotes going out the same day instead of the same week
  • A record of what was quoted against what it became

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.

Who it is for

Built for businesses that look like this.

Plumbing, HVAC, electrical and mechanical contractors

Roughly 5 to 50 staff

Anyone quoting from a spreadsheet copied from the last one

Owners who have become the bottleneck on every quote

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.

Common questions

What people ask first.

Our pricing is in somebody's head. Is that a problem?

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.

Can the crew use it in the field?

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.

What about supplier price changes?

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.

Do we have to stop using QuickBooks?

No. QuickBooks usually stays as the system of record and the quoting tool feeds it, rather than competing with it.

All questions

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Tell us what you’re still doing by hand.

Write to us. Two or three sentences is plenty: what the task is, who does it, and how often.

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chris@edenmillsoftware.com