Handyman estimate software
Business Genie is handyman estimate software for pricing the bigger job before you start it. A deck repair or a bathroom refresh starts with an estimate: send it from the app as a proposal with a deposit, so the materials are paid for before you buy them.
Plans from $50 a monthOne month freeNo credit card
The deposit is the lumber
The deposit is the lumber
Small fixes are priced on the spot. A bigger job, like replacing boards and joists on a deck, is priced from a walk-through, and the lumber and hardware are bought before the work starts. Send the proposal from the yard with a deposit that covers those materials, and the customer’s yes pays for the lumber run.
Priced in the yard
Fourteen weathered boards and two soft joists, measured at the walk-through. Each line of the proposal is keyed to what it buys, and it goes out from the app at 6:15, before you leave the yard.
A yes, and the lumber
The customer accepts at 6:48 and the $368 deposit comes with the yes: the boards, the joists and the hardware, to the dollar. Sam picks them up that evening.
Thursday morning
The deck goes into the open stretch of Sam’s week: Thursday from 7:30 to 1:15, five hours of work with the set-up and the clean-up.
What the deck made
The $495 balance is paid by card when the deck is done. Job costing sets each line’s cost under its price: the materials made $110, the hours $264 and the haul-away $25, $399 on the job, and the next deck is priced on that.
What else it does, in every trade: estimates and proposals in Business Genie.
Questions about handyman estimate software
Can I take a deposit before buying materials?
Yes. Estimates and proposals in Business Genie can carry a deposit, so the customer pays part of the job before you buy materials. The rest is invoiced when the work is done.
Can I send a handyman estimate from the customer’s yard?
Yes. Business Genie runs on the web and in the iOS and Android app, so the estimate is written and sent from your phone at the walk-through, with its deposit request.
How should a handyman set an hourly rate?
Start from what an hour of work costs you: your pay or your helper’s wage, the van, insurance and tools, then add your margin. The free hourly rate calculator works it through. Once jobs are running, job costing shows whether the rate covered each one.
Are there free handyman estimate templates?
Yes. Business Genie has free handyman estimate templates for pricing a job by hand. In the app, the estimate is sent from the job with its deposit request.
A handyman job, from the quote to the follow-up
Business Genie runs the whole job, on the web and in the iOS and Android app. Each stage has its own page: the numbered stops are written for handyman; the grey rings are the same stage for every trade.
The trade
Handyman software- 1
- 2
Scheduled
Handyman scheduling software Dispatched
Dispatch in Business Genie- 3
Invoiced
Handyman invoicing software Followed up
The CRM in Business Genie
Next · your own jobs
Your handyman jobs, free for a month
No credit card to start. The team sets up your account and moves your customer data over at no charge. Plans start at $50 a month after the trial.
Start today, free until