Keep this bid so it is still here when the customer calls back. Every number on this form is saved together, under a name you choose, along with the figure it gave you, and restoring one puts the whole job back exactly as you priced it. Mark each one won or lost when you hear — the ones you have not heard back on stay listed as waiting, with how long they have been out. Once a few have come back, this panel says how long yours actually take, and how many are still out past that. Once enough of them have been decided, it also says whether the bids you save here have been landing differently lately than they used to. Once a few here are decided, this panel says what the ones you won averaged against the ones you lost, so you can see where your price tips. On a lost bid you can also note what the job went for, if you heard — then it says how far off you actually were, which is the part guessing gets wrong in both directions. On a won one, note what the job came to once it was done and this panel says what those jobs actually kept, so you can see whether the ones you are winning are worth winning — and it tells you how many of your won jobs are still missing that figure, rather than going quiet about it. Restoring a bid also pins the figure it was saved at above this panel, so when the customer asks what it costs without the tear-off, the new number is shown against the one they already have — and by how much, in money and in percent.
Kept in this browser only, on this site’s own storage. Nothing is uploaded, and clearing your browser data clears it — download a backup to keep a copy or open your bids on another device. Bids are kept per tool, so these are the ones you saved here.
FOR CONTRACTORS AND SERVICE CREWS
Add up your labor, materials and overhead, pick the margin you want to keep, and see the price, the walk-away number below which the job loses money, and what a competitor's lower quote really leaves you. Works for any trade. Start from your trade and the hours and materials are worked out from a takeoff of the job, with starting rates taken from that trade's own calculator, every one of them yours to change.
Pick a trade to get a line-item takeoff with starting rates from that trade's calculator. The totals fill in step 1.
| Work | Qty | Unit | Crew h / unit | $ / unit | Crew h | Materials | Remove |
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Labor hours and materials come from the takeoff above. Choose "No trade" to type your own.
The numbers above are for you. This prints (or saves as a PDF) the page you give the customer: your details, theirs, the scope, the price, the deposit split and a line to sign. Your costs, wages and margin are not on it. Your business details are saved on this device so you type them once; the customer's details are never saved.
Run the free estimate hub on your own server (one click on Render, Fly or Docker). Type its address here and this button opens its "new proposal" form with the fields above filled in. The details travel in the part of the address after the #, which browsers never send to any server. Your costs, wages and margin are not part of it.
Everything on the printed page is text you typed or a number worked out above. It contains no warranty, lien or cancellation wording: those depend on your jurisdiction and your contract, and this tool is not the place to invent them.
No match. Use the studio above: it works for any trade.
Markup is profit as a percentage of your cost; margin is profit as a percentage of the price. A 25% markup is only a 20% margin, so a contractor who adds 25% to cost and believes they earn a 25% margin is under-pricing every job.
It is your full cost: labor, payroll burden, materials, subcontractors, other costs and a share of overhead. Any price below it loses money before you earn a dollar of profit.
Divide the full cost by one minus the margin. A job costing $2,750 at a 20% margin is $2,750 / 0.8 = $3,437.50, not $2,750 x 1.20.
Each trade's takeoff is taken from that trade's own calculator in this collection: its production rates, coverage and default prices, with the source of every figure recorded in the open-source preset file. They are examples so the form is not blank, not industry standards and not a statement of what your crew does. Replace them with your own hours and supplier prices.
No. The page runs in your browser with no account and no network requests.