Hi all, just curious how everyone handles their quoting? My builder mate was always complaining about spending his evenings typing up quotes after being on site all day — writing out line items, working out totals, trying to make it look professional before sending it off.
I'm a software developer so I ended up building him something to help. The idea is he records voice notes and takes photos/videos while he's still on the job, and it turns it into a structured, priced quote automatically. He can also snap a photo of plans or upload a PDF and get line items from that. The quote goes out as a branded PDF and his clients can accept or request changes right from the email. When they accept, he invoices in one tap and they pay online via Stripe.
It's grown into a proper app called VoxTrade (voxtrade.app) — works in over 100 languages for voice which has been really handy -
he can speak in his own language on site and the quote comes out in English for the client.
It also does receipt scanning, expense tracking and shows profit per project.
Would be great to hear what other tradespeople think — what's the biggest pain point with your quoting process at the moment?
Always looking to make it more useful based on real feedback. It's free to try if anyone's curious.
I'm a software developer so I ended up building him something to help. The idea is he records voice notes and takes photos/videos while he's still on the job, and it turns it into a structured, priced quote automatically. He can also snap a photo of plans or upload a PDF and get line items from that. The quote goes out as a branded PDF and his clients can accept or request changes right from the email. When they accept, he invoices in one tap and they pay online via Stripe.
It's grown into a proper app called VoxTrade (voxtrade.app) — works in over 100 languages for voice which has been really handy -
he can speak in his own language on site and the quote comes out in English for the client.
It also does receipt scanning, expense tracking and shows profit per project.
Would be great to hear what other tradespeople think — what's the biggest pain point with your quoting process at the moment?
Always looking to make it more useful based on real feedback. It's free to try if anyone's curious.