Points, circuits and cable runs, each at your own rate.
Count the points, measure the runs, and every one prices off your own rate for it. The customer sees a number they can accept on their phone.
Quoting today: you give it an area, a length or a countWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The "quick job" had eleven downlights and a switchboard in it. Count them on site and each one prices itself off your own rate, so the quote says eleven because there were eleven.
- Half the day is driving and none of it is on the quote. Vehicle and callout go on every new quote as their own charges, so every job has its share of them in the price.
- You know a downlight takes you twenty minutes. The quote says fifteen because it always has. The clock settles it. When your book and your crew disagree for long enough, Stringline says so and offers to move the rate. It never moves it on its own.
What you measure, and what falls out.
Tap the dimensions in on site. Stringline works the quantities out from what you measured, so your pricing stays accurate.
Your rates. Minutes for one of a thing, times what your labour costs.
A rate is how long a piece of work takes you for one square metre, one metre or one of them, and what your labour costs. Multiply it by what you measured, add the materials and your margin, and that is the item on the quote. These examples are made up; yours won't be.
- Power point, new
- 35 min each
- Downlight, supply and fit
- 25 min each
- TPS run
- 6.0 min / lm
- Switchboard, replace
- 240 min each
Then your crew's hours check it. Every hour is against the work that priced it, so when a rate is costing you more than you charge for it, Stringline tells you and offers to put it up. You approve it, and every quote after that uses the new rate.
The ones electricians ask us.
Points and circuits in one quote?
Points are Counted items, each at its own rate. Cable runs are a length. Both sit on the same quote and both price off your own rates.
A switchboard upgrade?
A rate priced each for the labour, and the board itself as a material with your margin on it. Priced separately, so when board prices move you change one number.
Where does the certificate end up?
On the job, with its number, the date and the registration it was signed under, copied at the time. It stays with the job rather than in a folder on the van.
What electricians get today.
Electricians quote on the general measure-up: an area, a length or a count, each priced off your own rate, with the trade's usual price book categories suggested.
- Switchboards and the gear you install kept on the property, with warranty dates and when each one is next due a check
- An enquiry form that lets them pick the work by name, a downlight or an extra point, and turns it into a priced draft quote
- Counts, lengths and areas measured on site, each priced off your own rate
- An electrical price book, set up with your categories, in minutes and what your labour costs
- A proposal the customer accepts online, and follow-ups that stop once the quote is answered
- Quote to job without retyping, crew on a board, clock-on from the van
- Deposit, progress and final invoices off the quote, with overdue reminders
- Rates that tell you when the clock disagrees with the book
- Before and after photos on the job, from the phone
- Materials ordered from the quote and emailed to your supplier, closed off by their invoice
- Card payments on your invoices, and invoices into Xero with the payments coming back
- Quote templates, and a price book read out of your old quotes
- A wishlist board, where you put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for
- Produce the CoC and ESC on the job: WorkSafe's combined form, filled from the job: the site, the customer, you and your registration, who you supervised, the dates and the work quoted
- A one-page PDF with WorkSafe's Electrical Authentication Mark, signed on the screen, kept on the job with its number and date
Something missing? Every account has a wishlist board, where you can put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for.