Sheets, joints and a finish level. That's the quote.
Count the sheets or measure the room, pick the finish level, and the price comes out of your own rates for that level.
Quoting today: measure it on site, and it works out the quantitiesWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The builder wants a price by lunchtime and a level 5 finish by Friday. Count the sheets or measure the room, pick the level, and the price is out before you leave the site. The level is a value on the rate you already have.
- Half your jobs are a sheet count on the back of a delivery docket. Sheets are a measure-up of their own here, a count priced each, so the docket becomes the quote instead of feeding it.
- The ceiling took two days more than the walls and the quote never knew. Now it does. The clock runs against the rate that priced the work, so walls and ceilings each get their own hours.
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.
- Walls, level 4
- 6.0 min / m²
- Ceilings, level 4
- 7.0 min / m²
- Internal angles
- 2.5 min / lm
- Level 5 skim
- +4.0 min / m²
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 gib stoppers ask us.
Level 4 on the walls, level 5 on the feature wall. Two price books?
One. A rate has a value per level, so the same rate prices a level 4 and a level 5 at different speeds, and you pick the level as you build the quote.
The builder is supplying the sheets.
Price the labour and leave the materials off that rate. Your margin sits on the work you are doing, and the quote shows the builder exactly what they are paying you for.
Patches and small repairs?
Counted items, priced each off their own rate. Enter how many and the quote adds them up; it is the same measure-up as a hatch or a run of beading.
What gib stoppers get today.
The parts worth knowing about before you sign up, all of them in Stringline today.
- Rooms, sheets or joints measured on site, with the quantities derived for you
- Rates per finish level, priced from minutes per square metre and what your labour costs
- A proposal the builder 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
- Painting on the same account, if you do both
- Stilts, scaffold and hires quoted as their own lines, beside the work you measured
- 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.