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BusyQuote

Job-site quoting for trades

Photograph the job, send a priced quote before you leave the driveway.

BusyQuote is a quoting app for solo and small-crew trades such as landscapers, painters and cleaners. It measures the job from your photos, prices it from your own rates, and lets the customer accept and pay a deposit on their phone.

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No account. No card. No sales call.

  • A priced quote from your phone
  • Measured from photos of the job
  • Accepted and deposit paid on the spot

How much work slips away because the quote never gets written?

Put in the quote requests you get, the share you actually quote, your win rate and job value, and the time a quote takes. See the work left unquoted each month and the hours spent writing quotes. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

Your quoting last month

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12 of your 30 quote requests a month go unquoted. At your 30% win rate, that is $2,880 of work a month, or $34,560 a year.
Unquoted work at your win rate, a month
$2,880
Unquoted work at your win rate, a year
$34,560
Hours writing quotes a month
6 hours

How it adds up, each month

Quotes sent a month
18
Requests never quoted
12
Work won from the quotes you send
$4,320
Value of that time
$300

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BusyQuote — unquoted work calculator
· 30 quote requests a month, 60% quoted
· Unquoted work at a 30% win rate: $2,880 a month
· 6 hours a month spent writing quotes

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Method: requests never quoted = requests - quotes sent. Unquoted work = those requests x your win rate x your job value, which assumes they would win at the same rate as the quotes you send. Hours writing quotes = quotes sent x minutes per quote. Every figure is your own.

The problem

Trades lose work to whoever quotes first, and quotes are written in the evening after a long day, which means two days late and half of them never written at all.

The average small trade converts a fraction of what it could purely because of quoting delay.

Estimating software is built for offices and takes twenty minutes per quote on a laptop.

Who it is for

  • Solo tradespeople

    Landscapers, painters, pressure washers, mobile mechanics, cleaners, handymen and pest control, quoting from the van.

  • Small crews

    Crews of one to eight people with no office staff to write quotes in the evening.

Quote before you leave the driveway

Quoting from the job site in minutes, so the work goes to you rather than to whoever quoted first.

  • 01

    Measured from photos

    Photograph the space and it measures areas from the images and identifies the scope.

  • 02

    Your own rates

    It applies your configured pricing, including materials and labour rates.

  • 03

    A professional quote

    A branded quote with photos, line items, terms and an accept button.

  • 04

    Accepted on their phone

    The customer accepts on their phone and pays a deposit.

  • 05

    Booked straight in

    Accepted jobs go straight into your calendar before you have driven away.

  • 06

    Automatic follow-ups

    Quotes that are not accepted are followed up automatically.

How it works

BusyQuote, from the first step to the result.

  1. 1

    Photograph the job

    It measures the space and identifies the scope.

  2. 2

    Send the quote

    Priced from your rates, branded, with photos and terms.

  3. 3

    Customer accepts

    On their phone, with a deposit.

  4. 4

    Job is booked

    Straight into your calendar.

Pricing

Free for your first 10 quotes each month, then one flat price for a solo operator or a crew.

  • Free

    Freeup to 10 quotes a month

    Send real quotes from your next job.

    • Photo-measured quotes
    • Accept and deposit
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  • Solo

    Recommended

    $29per month

    Unlimited quotes for a solo operator.

    • Unlimited quotes
    • Automatic follow-ups
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  • Crew

    $79per month

    For crews.

    • Scheduling
    • Invoicing
    Get in touch →

Payment processing at standard rates. Prices in USD.

Questions people actually ask

How long does a quote take?

Under two minutes on a phone, from the job site.

How does it measure the job?

You photograph the space, and it measures areas from the images and identifies the scope.

Whose prices does it use?

Your own configured pricing, including materials and labour rates.

What does the customer receive?

A branded quote with photos, line items, terms and an accept button. They can accept, pay a deposit and be booked into your calendar on their phone.

What if they do not accept straight away?

Follow-ups on unaccepted quotes are automatic.

What does it cost?

Free for up to 10 quotes a month. 29 dollars a month is unlimited for a solo operator, and 79 dollars a month adds scheduling and invoicing for a crew. Payment processing is at standard rates.

Why should I trust the unquoted work calculator?

It is arithmetic on your own figures, worked out in your browser. It assumes unquoted jobs would win at the same rate as the ones you quote, which you can judge better than anyone. BusyQuote is free for the first 10 quotes a month.

How much work slips away because the quote never gets written?

Put in the quote requests you get, the share you actually quote, your win rate and job value, and the time a quote takes. See the work left unquoted each month and the hours spent writing quotes. Runs in your browser. No account, no card, no call.

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