Does it work for my trade?
If your work is trade or field-service work done at a customer's place, yes. There is no list of trades to be on. You describe your work in your own words, and TailGateBid quotes it, schedules it and invoices it.
How it behaves
No list to find yourself in
TailGateBid does not start by asking you to find your trade in a list. You say what you do, the way you would to a customer.
Your own rates, your own units
You set what you charge for an hour, and what each service is charged by: an acre, a yard, a foot, a load. How rates work.
Bid Partner is built for any of them
It drafts a quote from your photos and your description of the job, whatever the trade. What Bid Partner does.
A missing price is never hidden
A line without a price says so, and the total says it is short. A quote is never shown as finished with a price missing.
Two jobs, as examples
Sample Plumbing Co.
Water heater replacement
- 50 gallon gas water heater, installedQty 1$1,850.00
- Expansion tank and fittingsQty 1$185.00
- Old water heater hauled awayQty 1$75.00
- Subtotal
- $2,110.00
- Sales tax (7.25%)
- $147.54
- Total
- $2,257.54
Deposit due on approval: $225.75
Before you ask for a deposit on work at a home, check what your state or province allows.
Sample Lawn Care Co.
Mulch for the front beds
- Labor to spread the mulchQty 6 hours$450.00
- MulchQty 4 cubic yards$260.00
- Green waste hauled awayQty 1 load$90.00
- Subtotal
- $800.00
- Sales tax (7.25%)
- $18.85
- Total
- $818.85
Deposit due on approval: $81.89
Before you ask for a deposit on work at a home, check what your state or province allows.
What it is not for
TailGateBid is built for work done where the customer is: their home, their yard, their building. Work that is not that, such as legal, medical or financial services, food service, software or design, is turned away when you describe it.
Not sure what to charge?
The free calculators work the price of a job out from your own costs, whatever the trade.
By the size of your business
By trade
- ConcreteSquare feet and cubic yards on a quote your customer signs on their phone.
- FencingFootage, posts and gates on a quote, and a website to show the finished line.
- Tree serviceCrew hours, loads and stump inches on one quote, and the crew on the schedule.
- Lawn care and landscapingQuotes by the 1,000 square feet and the cubic yard, and jobs that repeat by themselves.
- PaintingSquare feet, coats and gallons on a quote with options your customer picks from.
- Pressure washingEvery surface by the square foot on one quote, and a before and after for your website.
- DrywallSquare feet to hang and finish, sheets to buy, and the level of finish named on the quote.
- Flooring and tileSquare feet to lay and boxes to buy on one quote, with the choices of floor side by side.
- House cleaningA quote for the first clean, then visits that repeat and can send their own invoices.
- HandymanA list of small jobs on one quote by the hour, and extra work approved before you do it.
Your trade is not on this list? It works the same way. TailGateBid is not built around a list of trades: you describe your work in your own words.
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