The Kitchen-Table Quote

El Estimado en la Mesa

Signed at the kitchen table, deposit in before the truck rolls.

“I measure the job, tell them I'll get them a number, and it sits on my dashboard three days till I type it up at night. By the time my quote goes out, the other guy's van is in the driveway.”
A composite of real owner conversations

What it is

One quote-to-cash pipeline. You or your tech builds the estimate on a phone right at the kitchen table, tapping line items off your own price sheet and snapping two photos, and the customer signs with a finger. The finished estimate is in their inbox before the truck leaves, and after that nobody touches your calendar until the deposit clears.

What you get

A private estimate page on your phone where you tap line items instead of typing
Your own rate card built in with good, better, and best tiers, and you can bump any number
The customer signs with a finger, right at the kitchen table
A bilingual estimate PDF in their inbox before the truck leaves
Your deposit rule, 30% on jobs over $1,000 by default, with a payment link attached
No deposit means no calendar slot, and a cleared payment opens the date picker
Nudges at 24 hours and 72 hours, plus a day-5 alert with the customer's number ready to tap
Deposit terms in writing in both languages, the paper trail that wins disputes

One rate-card session, one processor hour, and you're quoting from the truck the same week.

How it lands

  1. The rate-card session

    Two to three hours turning the numbers in your head into your own good, better, and best price sheet, plus a laminated cheat sheet for the trucks.

  2. Processor connect

    One hour on your own Square, Stripe, or QuickBooks login. There are no new accounts, just the roughly 2.9% card fee you already pay, and cash-and-check shops open a free Square account the same day.

  3. First quote at the kitchen table

    Tap the line items, snap two photos, and let the customer sign with a finger and check the consent box. The finished bilingual estimate is in their inbox before your truck leaves the driveway.

  4. Deposit before dispatch

    Approval fires the deposit link with your rule in writing, in both languages. Payment confirmed means the job is cleared to schedule and the date picker opens. If day five arrives unpaid, you get the customer's number ready to tap.

Setup
$1,750
Ongoing
$495/mo

One pipeline, one fee, and the merge is the discount. Bought separately this was $2,700 setup and $620/mo. Card fees stay the roughly 2.9% you already pay.

The honest math

One tipped $9,000 install at 40% margin is $3,600, which covers ten months of the fee from a single job. The floor is one extra $800 job a month at 45% margin, which is $360 and ahead of the fee on its own. Honest year one with setup included runs roughly $12,900 against $7,700, which is 1.7x, and 2.2x every year after.

Year-one math includes the setup fee. Check any figure on this page with a calculator and it will hold.

The questions owners actually ask

The link is free. What you're buying is the rule that no deposit means no calendar slot, plus the asking, the nudging, and the awkwardness handled for you.

Runs well beside

Want this running in your shop?

One free call. We look at your setup and tell you whether this is the right first machine, and if it is not, what is. In English or in Spanish.

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