Estimating and milestone billing for a one-to-three-person remodeler: price the bath from assemblies, take the deposit, bill each phase as it wraps.
Starts with your Google account, or an email link if you would rather. That's the whole signup.
HomeServicesIT gives a general contracting business one place to run a project from bid to closeout: the estimate, the phase schedule, the photo record, and the margin as it moves rather than after it lands. From your phone, on site. No enterprise setup, no per-seat fees.
The three things that cost general contractors the most time and money - and why the usual way of handling them doesn't cut it.
Today: Costing that happens in a spreadsheet after the fact tells you what already happened. It cannot tell you the framing package ran twelve percent over while the drywall is still going up, which is the only moment the number is still worth knowing.
Today: When the trigger for an invoice is somebody remembering, a phase finishes on a Tuesday and gets billed three weeks later. On a six-figure project that is a lot of money sitting still, and it is money you already spent.
Today: A text thread is not a record. Nobody can find the shot from the day the rough-in passed inspection, and the client asking for it in month six is asking the one person who is busiest.
Same three problems, handled by design instead of by hand.
Enter supplier invoices and real hours as they land, and the quoted cost sits next to the actual with a plain sentence saying which way it went. You find that out during framing, not at the closeout meeting.
Move the job along the board as each phase completes, then build the invoice from the same screen. The trigger becomes the work itself instead of somebody's memory at the end of the month.
Every photo attaches to the job with its date, and the customer portal shows the client the whole run without you assembling anything. Progress updates stop being a task you owe someone.
Elena has a kitchen remodel in demo and a basement build-out in framing, and both were quoted off assemblies she set up once: what a linear foot of cabinet run takes, what a framed and insulated wall costs in material and hours. The bids went out the same week they were asked for.
Three weeks into the basement, the lumber invoice comes in higher than the estimate assumed. She enters it that afternoon and the job costing shows quoted against actual with the gap called out. The remaining phases get repriced with the real number, and the client gets the conversation while there is still a decision to make instead of a surprise at the end.
The kitchen closes out in nine weeks. Every phase was invoiced the day it finished, so nothing sat unbilled, and the client had the photo record in their own portal the whole time. When they refer their neighbor, the neighbor asks to see what the work looked like, and Elena sends one link.
Field service management sized for crews of one to five. Customer records, property history, quotes and invoicing from the driveway live in one place, which covers the CRM half of the job without a second app.
Track quoted cost against what the job really spent, so you find the losing projects while you can still do something about it.
Approve a phase and its material lines come with it. Hand the page to a sub or a supplier instead of retyping the quote.
Before/after photos tied to each visit give clients a running record of progress.
Deposit at signing, then a named payment request when rough-in or tile is done. Each one counts against the contract, and the final invoice already knows what's been billed.
Set your contractor number once and it prints under your address on estimates, invoices and the pages your client opens. California wants it on everything, and now it's there.
Not draws, lien waivers and a sub roster. A bath, a kitchen, a deck, priced from assemblies you own, billed in phases, with the client watching the photos come in. If you run twenty subs on a job, this isn't the tool.
Customers see photos, invoices, and status without a group text getting buried.
Every visit, note, and photo tied to the property and the client.
See the whole calendar across every active project at once.
Assign work across your team without paying more per person added.
No credit card required. See your whole schedule, customers, and invoices in one place from day one.
Starts with your Google account. That's the whole signup.
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What markup do you need for a 30% margin? Work it out on the markup vs margin calculator before your next quote.
Yes, and that is the point of entering costs as they land. Supplier invoices and real hours go against the quote while the job is open, so a framing package running over shows up during framing rather than in the closeout meeting when nothing can be done.
Yes. Take the deposit at signing, then request a named payment when a phase wraps: rough-in complete, tile set, cabinets in. Each one counts against the contract total, so the completion invoice raises only what's left and can't bill the job twice. The client pays each one from their portal.
Every photo attaches to the job with its date and shows up in the client's own portal alongside the invoices and the phase history. They can look whenever they want, which tends to end the weekly check-in text rather than answering it one photo at a time.