Website for builders that stops enquiries going cold
The enquiry lands at half four while you are still up a ladder, and by the time the van is unloaded it is sitting under eight other unread messages. The quote for that loft conversion gets typed on the sofa at half ten, and then the client hears nothing from anybody for four days.
The site runs on your own domain, with SSL, hosting and nightly backups in every plan. From £49 to £199 a month, excluding VAT.
A week of work that never gets invoiced
None of this is about being disorganised. It is about a trade where the person who prices the work is also the person on the tools all day.
The message you read once and never found again
It came in on the mobile, somewhere between a merchant run and a site meeting. You read it, thought about it, meant to answer that evening, and then it slid under a delivery note, two invoices and a message from your mother.
Four days later the client has had somebody else round to measure up. They were not being disloyal. You simply were not the one who answered.
Half ten at night, rebuilding the same quote
Every quote starts from the last one you can find, which is a document named after a different client on a different street. You strip out their kitchen, put this one in, get the numbers wrong once, fix them, and send it at midnight.
The job is worth a lot of money. The paperwork it arrives in looks like it was put together in a hurry, because it was.
Three quotes out and nothing to chase
One client says yes, one says no, one says nothing at all. The one who said nothing is the extension, and there is no way to tell whether they read it, showed it to a partner, or never opened the attachment because it would not open on a phone.
So you either ring and feel like a nuisance, or you leave it. Leaving it is what usually happens.
Four things a building firm actually uses
The rest is there as well. These are the parts that change how a week runs.
Quotes with the work broken out, approved on their own page
You build the quote from cost lines: labour, materials, plant hire, waste, each on its own row, so the client can see what they are paying for instead of one number at the bottom. They open it on a phone, read it, and press approve on the page itself.
A deposit can be taken there too, through your own Stripe account, so the money lands with you and not with us.
A work list that answers before you do
Half the people who ring want to know roughly what an extension costs before they will admit they are thinking about one. Put your work up with the pricing type that suits it: a fixed price for a snagging visit, an hourly rate for a day of odd jobs, a from-price for a bathroom, quoted for anything with foundations.
The ones who ring after reading that already know your ballpark.
Every client and every job in one register
The people you have quoted, the ones who became jobs, the addresses, the numbers currently kept in a handset that has been dropped off scaffolding twice. It sits with the site rather than in a separate book on the office windowsill.
When a client comes back two years later about the garage, their history is where you would think to look for it.
Who is looking, and at what
You can see how many people found the site, which pages they read, and whether the extension page or the kitchen page is doing the work. There is no cookie banner, because nothing is pinned to a named person.
It is a plain answer to a plain question: is anybody out there reading this.
What your work list could look like
You write the names and set the numbers. What matters is that each job carries the pricing type it really has, so nothing is promised that you cannot hold to.
Group the work the way you sell it: extensions, refurbishment, joinery, each with prices of its own.
What builders ask before they sign up
Yes. Cost lines, quantities, your terms and your logo, on a page with a web address rather than an attachment that will not open on a phone. The client reads it and approves it in the same place.
Yes, once your own Stripe account is connected. The payment goes straight to you, and the approval and the deposit happen together instead of a phone call and a bank transfer three days later.
No, but a from-price on the common work saves you the conversation that ends with nobody buying anything. The jobs that genuinely need measuring up sit as quoted, and nobody expects a number for an extension.
You decide how each price is written and say so in the note on that line, so a homeowner sees what they will hand over and a developer sees what they expect. Our own plan prices are quoted excluding VAT.
No. The existing site can be imported, so your wording, your work and your service names come across. The AI builder fills in what is missing, and after that you change anything by clicking the pencil beside it.
Plans run from £49 to £199 a month, excluding VAT. Hosting, SSL, nightly backups, support and the site on your own domain are in all of them. SMS reminders are a prepaid add-on.
More trades
- PlumbersThe emergency line, unburdened by prices and an FAQ.
- ElectriciansFixed prices for small jobs, quotes for the rest.
- Painters and decoratorsQuoted per room and surface, sold on photos.
- Flooring fittersPriced per floor type and square metre.
- Carpenters and joinersHourly rate and fixed price side by side.
- RoofersThe roof survey as the bookable way in.
- All trades
Get the firm's site up
Describe the work you take on in a few sentences, or point at the site you have now, and you get a first draft with your trades, your prices and a quote laid out in lines. Then you change it on the page.
The site runs on your own domain, with SSL, hosting and nightly backups in every plan. From £49 to £199 a month, excluding VAT.