Fixtures, points and pipe runs. Priced before the callout.
Count the fixtures, measure the runs, and the quote comes off your own rates for each, before you leave the job.
Quoting today: you give it an area, a length or a countWhat Stringline does about each one.
- The bathroom reno was quoted off a photo and a number you picked in the van. Tap it in on site, and price every item off a rate in minutes.
- The callout, the travel and the second visit all come out of the same hour. Callout and vehicle go on every new quote as their own charges, so they stop being absorbed into the hour.
- The invoice went out a fortnight after the job because the paperwork was in the van. The invoice is built from the quote the moment the job is done, on the same phone that was in the van.
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.
- Toilet, supply and install
- 90 min each
- Mixer, replace
- 45 min each
- 20 mm pipe run
- 12 min / lm
- Callout
- 30 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 plumbers ask us.
Callout and travel on every job?
Make it a charge and it lands on every new quote automatically. You can take it off the odd one, and it is on everything else without you thinking about it.
Pipe runs in different sizes?
A rate per size, each priced by the lineal metre. Measure the run on site, pick the size, and the quote does the rest.
The customer bought their own tapware.
Price the install and leave the fixture off: a rate priced each for fitting it, with no material on that rate. The quote then shows the labour you are actually selling.
What plumbers get today.
Plumbers 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.
- Cylinders, pumps and the gear you install kept on the property, with warranty dates and when each one is next due a service
- An enquiry form that lets them pick the work by name, a mixer replaced or a cylinder swapped, and turns it into a priced draft quote
- Counts, lengths and areas measured on site, each priced off your own rate
- A plumbing 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
- Your supplier's invoice photographed onto the job, against the line it was bought for
Something missing? Every account has a wishlist board, where you can put up what you need and vote on what others have asked for.