You measure the job on Tuesday. The quote gets written on Sunday night, the first free hour you had. By then someone else has sent theirs. With Income Mavericks the quote goes out the same day, and the quote follow-up runs on its own.
A slow quote doesn't show up on any report. It feels like admin you're behind on. Put your own numbers in and see what a year of it is worth.
One to go and look at it, one on the evening you finally write it up. Both are spent whether or not the work comes back, and neither is billable.
Someone getting quotes is usually getting more than one. The first price to land becomes the number the others get measured against.
A quote lost on price and one lost on a nine-day wait come back the same way: silence. So the next thing you adjust is the number, which was never the problem.
Quoting is the thing you do after hours. If "did we ever send that one?" means digging through last year's folder for one that was nearly right, this is your leak.
If your quotes go out fast and get chased, and you still lose the work, the leak is earlier. The inquiry waited too long for a first answer. That's leads go cold.
Not a template you open later. The quote itself: your prices and your wording, built from the lines you picked on the job. It goes from your phone before you're back in the van.
The work you do, at the rates you charge, written down once. Building a quote is picking lines, not remembering what you said last time.
Phone, van, kitchen table. The quote goes by text or email, and the customer accepts it on the screen they read it on. If you take a deposit, they can pay it straight after. No printing, no scanning, no posting it back.
Sent and nothing back becomes a reminder, then one more, on a schedule built around your business. It stops the moment they reply or say yes.
A Tuesday morning site visit, quoted before lunch. An illustration of the order things happen in, not a client's record.
We take your rates, your terms and the way you actually price a job, and build the quote around them. You approve what it says; we own everything behind it. Quoted before it starts.
Income Mavericks holds the price list, the quotes and who hasn't answered yet. Set it up yourself and it's the same system, without us in it.
Illustrative. Names and values are examples.
It doesn't choose the price. You pick the lines and set the numbers, the same as now. It adds them up and fills in the parts that never change. Nothing sends until you've looked at it.
Then the fast part is booking the visit. The price follows once you've stood in the room. The wait this page is about is the one after that.
Usually not. The price list, the quotes and the chasing all live in Income Mavericks, the one platform we build on. If you have a customer list, we import it for you. Anything the old tool does on its own gets rebuilt, and that is quoted separately from setup. Once it's running, you can stop paying for the old tool. Bring its name to the demo and we'll check what it does.
It depends on how much there is to set up: how long your price list is, and how many steps the chasing has. We agree the timing with you before we start.
They often come in pairs, and fixing one tends to show you the next.
We'll show you what took the time in each, and which parts never needed you.