For roofers

You are thirty feet up. The phone is in the van. It has rung twice.

Roofing is the trade where answering is physically impossible for most of the day, and where the work arrives in bursts that the weather decides rather than you. Adminmate picks up while you stay where you are.

Sound familiar?

The bits of being a roofer nobody pays you for.

You cannot answer a phone from where you work, and everybody rings anyway.

The night after a storm forty people ring and you can take about four of them.

Half are a slipped tile and half have water coming through a bedroom ceiling, and a voicemail does not tell you which.

The weather turns, the scaffold moves, and every one of those customers needs telling.

What it does for you

Built round how roofers work.

  • Answers while you are on the roof, which is most of the working day.
  • Takes the storm surge: forty calls at once each get a proper answer, not a voicemail box that fills up by ten.
  • Asks whether water is near electrics before anything else, and tells you straight away when it is.
  • Gets the roof type and the scale of it, so you load the van once.
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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 roofer.

The morning after a storm, with water coming in.

Electrical risk ruled out, the damage contained, roof type and scale captured, and booked into the first slot that was genuinely free.

An example call, written out. Not a recording.

  1. AssistantMorning, Pritchard Roofing, this is Alun's assistant. How can I help?
  2. CallerWe lost tiles last night and there's water coming into the back bedroom.
  3. AssistantSorry to hear it. First thing: is any of that water coming in near a light fitting or a socket?
  4. CallerNo, it's running down the wall in the corner.
  5. AssistantThat's better news. Get a bucket under it and move what you can out of that corner. Is the ceiling bulging anywhere, or just wet?
  6. CallerJust wet.
  7. AssistantGood. What sort of roof is it, and roughly how many tiles have come off?
  8. CallerPitched, concrete tiles. Looks like five or six down in the garden.
  9. AssistantThat's enough for Alun to know what to load. Today is full of storm jobs, but he can be with you first thing tomorrow. I'll put you down and text to confirm.
Questions

Questions roofers ask

Can it cope with the day after a storm?

That is the day it earns its keep. Every call is answered at once and asked the same questions, so by the time you come down you have a triaged list instead of a full voicemail box and no idea which one is urgent.

Will it know a leak from a loose tile?

It asks the questions that separate them: where the water is going, whether it is near electrics, whether the ceiling is bulging. It does not diagnose your roof. It gets the facts and flags the ones that cannot wait until Thursday.

What about insurance work?

It records that it is a claim and puts the details on the job, so the paperwork starts from something rather than from memory. It does not deal with the insurer for you, and it does not tell a customer what they are covered for.

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