Measure the run. Your spacings turn it into posts, rails and palings.
Length and height in, posts, rails, palings and concrete out. Your spacings, your rates, and a number you can stand behind at the gate.
Quoting today: measure it on site, and it works out the quantitiesWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The customer moved the line half a metre and you re-did the whole sum on a fag packet. Change the run and the rails, palings and concrete all come out again with it.
- You know a metre of 1.8 paling takes you about forty minutes. About. Forty becomes what it really takes you. Every job compares the rate that priced the fence against the hours it took.
- The deposit was agreed on the phone and nowhere else. The deposit invoice is raised the moment they accept, at the percentage the quote asked for, and chases itself if it goes past due.
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.
- Post, dug and set
- 35 min each
- Rails, fixed
- 4.0 min / lm
- Palings, nailed
- 1.2 min each
- Capping
- 5.0 min / lm
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 fencers ask us.
My post spacing is not the default.
The spacings sit on the rate: post centres, rail rows, paling centres and bags per post. Set them on your 1.8 m paling rate and every run priced off it counts posts and palings your way; a picket at different centres is its own rate with its own numbers. Change one and the next quote is right without you editing anything.
Gates, strainers and hardware?
Counted items, each at its own rate, on the same quote as the run. A gate is a count and a price of its own, so it is on the quote with everything else.
The ground turns out to be rock.
Price it as extra work on the job: what it is, what it costs, and they accept it online the way they accepted the quote. It lands on the final invoice and its hours join the estimate, so the day it cost you does not read as an over-run.
What fencers get today.
The parts worth knowing about before you sign up, all of them in Stringline today.
- Runs measured on site, with posts, rails, palings and concrete derived from your spacings
- Rates by the post, the metre or the paling, priced from 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 ute
- 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
- Extra work priced on the job, agreed online, and added to the final invoice
Something missing? Every account has a wishlist board, where you can put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for.