For builders

One extension enquiry is a year of this. It rang while you were on the mixer.

Building is the trade where a single missed call is worth more than everything else on this page. The jobs are big, the lead times are long, and somebody ringing round for a builder rings four of you.

Sound familiar?

The bits of being a builder nobody pays you for.

The phone goes while you are on the mixer, up a scaffold, or under a floor.

Half the callers want a number over the phone for a job nobody could price over the phone.

You get back to the good enquiry on Sunday night, by which time it has gone elsewhere.

The extension you finished in March is still not paid for and you still have not rung about it.

What it does for you

Built round how builders work.

  • Refuses to price an extension over the phone, and books the site visit instead.
  • Gets the drawings, the planning status and the size before you drive anywhere.
  • Handles CIS and the domestic reverse charge on the invoice, so the tax position is right without you working it out.
  • Chases the final invoice on the job you finished in March and have been meaning to ring about.
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Adminmate
Quote Mrs Hughes. New shower and two basin taps, one day, parts £320
Quote · Mrs Sarah Hughes
Labour, one day£380.00
Shower and two basin taps£320.00
Fittings and waste£56.00
Total£756.00
From your rate card. Nothing guessed.
Dean's timeForty seconds, from the van.
Add call answering

Hear it answer as a builder.

An extension enquiry, mid morning, from somebody ringing round.

Size, location, drawings and planning status all captured, a site visit booked, and Sam never came off the mixer.

An example call, written out. Not a recording.

  1. AssistantMorning, Hartley Building, this is Sam's assistant. How can I help?
  2. CallerI'm after a price for a single storey extension on the back of the house.
  3. AssistantHappy to get that moving. Whereabouts are you, and roughly what size are you thinking?
  4. CallerPenarth. About four metres by six, off the kitchen.
  5. AssistantThat's useful. Have you had drawings done, and is planning in yet?
  6. CallerWe've got drawings, planning went through last month.
  7. AssistantGood, that puts you ahead of most. I won't guess at a price on the phone, because a number invented now is one of us out of pocket later. Sam will come and look and cost it properly off the drawings.
  8. CallerThat's fair enough.
  9. AssistantHe's got Thursday morning or Monday afternoon. Which suits?
  10. CallerThursday, please.
Questions

Questions builders ask

Will it try to price a job it should not?

No, and it is the thing it is most careful about. It drafts from your rate card for work you have priced before, and for anything that needs seeing it books a visit. A number invented on the phone is either a job you lose money on or an argument in month three.

What about the ones just after a ballpark?

It gets the details and tells them honestly that you price off drawings or off a look, then books the look. You see the enquiry either way, so you are the one who decides whether it is worth your morning.

Does it handle CIS?

Yes. If your profile says you work as a subcontractor, the deduction and the domestic reverse charge are applied and shown properly on the invoice. It will not let a one line price change quietly move the tax position: those edits go back to you where the arithmetic is explicit.

Pricing

From £99 a month. Nothing to add.

Two plans, printed in full. No tier you have to call to find out the price.

Solo

You, your van and your phone.

£99a month
  • Quotes from a text, built from your own prices
  • Invoices with VAT, CIS and deposits done right
  • Chasing, politely, until they pay
  • Your diary, kept and confirmed
  • Call answering for the calls you don't pick up
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Team

Up to ten of you, ten diaries.

£169a month
  • Everything in Solo
  • A diary each, and work put on the right person
  • One view of who is where and what is owed
Book a demo
  • From £99 a month
  • The price you see is the whole price
  • We set it up with you
  • Cancel any time

Pay for the year at ten months' price. Cancel any time and the unused time is refunded.

Fifteen minutes, and you see it run your office.

A real person shows you it working on a real job, then sets it up around your trade. No pressure, no card details.

Book a demo
  • From £99 a month
  • The price you see is the whole price
  • Cancel any time