12 tools, priced one at a time

A missed call is a job someone else is about to win. This catches it before it walks.

• +Log a missed call in about ten seconds: number, name if you have it, what they were calling about.
• +Get back a written, professional text to send that caller, already worded for your business name and their job type.

Chase money without being the one who has to figure out how to word it.

• +Track outstanding invoices: number, customer, amount, due date, and where each one stands.
• +Get a written reminder for any invoice, worded for you.

Put a real number in front of a homeowner while you are still standing in their kitchen.

• +A built-in list of common trade line items, weighted toward windows, doors, bath and general remodel work, each with a material rate and a labor rate already in it.
• +Pick the work, enter quantities, and get an itemized breakdown: materials, labor, overhead and profit, total.

Turn a rambling walkthrough into a scope of work before you leave the driveway.

• +You dump your walkthrough notes in, exactly as they come out of your head, one thought after another.
• +It splits them into clean numbered scope items and strips the filler you say without noticing.

Your costs, your margin, saved so you can compare what you bid and what it actually took.

• +Build a job from your own line items with your own unit costs. Nothing is guessed for you.
• +Set the overhead and profit markup per bid. It starts at 20% and you change it when the job warrants it.

Two numbers off the plan and you have the order: sheets, tape, mud, screws and bead.

• +You give it the wall area and the ceiling area. It gives you the whole order, not just a price.
• +Sheet count is worked out at YOUR board size. Four by eight and four by twelve are a 1.5x difference in sheets, so the tool makes you pick rather than guessing for you.

Estimating off the footprint is how a roof comes in short. This applies the pitch first.

• +You give it the flat footprint and the pitch. It applies the real pitch multiplier before anything else, so a 6/12 roof is costed 11.8% bigger than the ground it covers and a 12/12 is 41.4% bigger.
• +It shows you that multiplier live as you type the pitch, before you even submit.

Walk the finished job once and leave with something you can actually send the client.

• +List every punch item as you walk, and check off what is already done.
• +Get a completion report with the count and the percentage complete, done items and open items listed separately.

Build a material order from the job site by typing what you need the way you would say it.

• +A real materials catalog with prices: lumber, sheet goods, drywall, insulation, fasteners, concrete, roofing and hardware.
• +Quick add that reads plain typing. Enter something like '40 2x4 studs, 20 sheets half inch drywall' and it matches the items and quantities.

One board the whole crew looks at, so nobody drives to the yard for something already in the truck.

• +A shared job board: post what needs doing, say who has it, everyone sees the same list.
• +A materials tracker with what a job needs and what you have on hand.

One customer list for the whole shop, instead of three phones and a notebook.

• +Contacts with the fields a trade business actually uses: name, phone, email, and what the job is.
• +A four-stage pipeline that matches how work really moves: lead, quoted, won, lost.

Keep the content of your trade website current without waiting on whoever built it.

• +Manage the parts of a trade site that actually go stale: business info, the services you offer, and customer testimonials.
• +Point it at your existing site and it reads what is publicly there to pre-fill the fields, so you are editing rather than starting from a blank page.