The structure is the deliverable. Every headline, paragraph and question on this page is placeholder written to brand voice at realistic length — the promise, the cost list and the two doors need Lourens's words before it goes live. No statistic on this page is ours: the annual figure in the dark band is worked out from numbers the reader types, seeded with a plausible example, and the only fixed price is the real $49 platform one.
The job is measured on Tuesday. The quote gets written on Sunday night, because that is the first hour nobody wanted. By then somebody else has already sent theirs.
A slow quote never looks like a loss. It looks like admin you are behind on. So the cost turns up somewhere else — in the job you priced carefully and never heard about again, in the month that came in under, in the belief that your prices are too high when what was too high was the wait.
And it is not the pricing that takes the time. It is everything around it. You know the number within a minute of seeing the job — the other two hours are finding the last one like it, retyping the address, and remembering what you charged.
And a quote that goes out late does not arrive late. It arrives second. By the time it lands, somebody has already been given a price, and yours is being checked against theirs instead of against the job.
Once to go and look at it, and again on the evening you finally write it up. Both hours are spent whether or not the work comes back, and neither one is billable.
BuildOps puts it plainly: the contractor who sends the estimate first usually wins the job. Someone getting quotes is getting three, and whoever sends first is the number the other two 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 the answer to "did we ever send that one" is opening a folder of last year's documents to find one that was nearly right, this is the page.
If quotes go out the same day and still nothing comes back, the leak is earlier — nobody is asking the ones who went quiet. Try leads go cold instead.
Not a template you open later. The quote itself — your prices, your wording, built from what you picked on the job and sent from your phone before you get back in the van.
The work you do, at the rates you charge, written down once. Building a quote is choosing lines, not remembering what you said last time.
Phone, van, kitchen table. The customer gets the document and can accept it on the screen they read it on — 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 answer.
A Tuesday morning site visit, quoted before lunch. The timings are the shape of a real sequence; names are illustrative.
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 is where the price list, the quotes and the list of who has not answered live. If you would rather set it up yourself, that is the same system without us in it.
It does not price anything. You decide the lines and the number, the same as now — it just stops you rewriting the parts that never change. Nothing sends until you have looked at it.
Then the fast thing is the visit, not the quote. What goes out in minutes is the booking and what happens next; the price follows when you have stood in the room. The wait this page is about is the one after that.
Yes. We build on Income Mavericks and only on Income Mavericks — it is the one platform we know well enough to be accountable for. Your contacts and history come across, and what you are paying your current CRM stops.
One quote template and your common lines can be live quickly; a full price list takes as long as it takes to agree the rates. We scope it on the call rather than quote a number here.
Most businesses have two of these at once, and fixing one usually exposes the next.
An hour. We go through what took the time in each one and which parts never needed you.