Send a $385 multi-patch quote with texture match (orange peel, knockdown, smooth) on the customer's wall. Run a 6-stop Tuesday route without a clipboard. See which jobs still pay after mud, tape, and paint.
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The 5 things that decide whether you book the multi-patch repair or watch it go to the next handyman, on-site quotes with patch count and texture match and paint touch-up, route optimization that fits 6 stops a Tuesday with proper dry-time between coats, photo records of pre-existing damage and final, real margin per patch (mud and tape and paint and return-trip economics), and per-customer history (the apartment-turnover account who calls every move-out). All in one app. Built for the tech who's matched a 1985 Charlotte popcorn ceiling texture pattern by hand.
Walk the home. Photograph each patch (doorknob hole, water damage stain, nail pops, hairline crack along ceiling-wall corner). Identify texture (orange peel medium, knockdown heavy, smooth Level 5, popcorn). Build the quote in 5 minutes, 4 patches and texture match and paint touch-up = $385 with 2-visit timeline (mud Day 1, return for finish and paint Day 3). Customer signs digitally and pays a 25% deposit before you back out of the driveway.
Schedule each visit stage (tape and mud, sand and finish coat, paint touch-up) by neighborhood, and route optimization tightens the drive order within the day. For example, book 6 visit-1 jobs in Dilworth on Tuesday, the same 6 addresses for visit-2 on Thursday, and the same 6 for paint on Saturday. Same crew, same fuel, three tight days instead of crossing town for one patch at a time.
Pre-job: every patch photographed with measurement (4x6 doorknob hole, 14x22 water-damage drywall replacement, hairline crack at ceiling line). During: tape and mud applied. Post-paint: completed patch with texture match and paint touch-up. The customer signs off on the photos. The Year-2 callback about "the patch is showing" closes in your favor because the photos prove the texture matched at install.
Mud (joint compound), tape, paint quart, labor hours per visit, drive time, tracked per job. Your $385 4-patch repair shows 51% margin (3 visits, 1.5 total hours work, minimal materials). Your $185 single doorknob hole shows 71% (1.5 visits, in-and-out). Your $1,800 popcorn-ceiling removal in a 320-sqft bedroom shows 28% because the texture removal took 6 hours and the dust containment ate 2 hours of prep and cleanup.
Per-customer service history saves the recurring B2B accounts: apartment property managers (8-12 turnover patches per month per building), house-flipper LLCs (4-6 patches per pre-listing inspection), insurance restoration partners (2-4 water-damage patches per claim). Pull up the customer's job history before you quote and you already know their typical patch count, paint colors, and texture pattern, so your tech shows up knowing the building.
Starter is $19/mo. Texting, AI and dispatch start on Crew at $39. The phone line and AI receptionist are on Business at $79.
Drywall repair is a multi-visit, multi-coat business with brutal route economics. Each patch needs 3 visits (tape and mud, sand and finish, paint touch-up) with 24-48 hour cure between coats. The shops that win are the ones who batch all visit-1 jobs in one neighborhood Tuesday, all visit-2 returns Thursday, all visit-3 paints Saturday, instead of driving across town three separate times for one $185 patch.
The shops that lose are still doing the 2010 playbook: book the patch, drive 22 miles, mud, drive back 3 days later for finish, drive back another 3 days for paint. Three full visits across the city for $185, your hourly rate is $24/hour after gas.
Multi-coat route density is the engine. Texture-match documentation is what protects the warranty.
When you walk Mrs. Castillo's Dilworth bungalow on a Saturday morning, the quote builds itself in the app. Photograph each patch (4-inch doorknob hole behind the dining room door, 14x22-inch water-damage drywall replacement on the den ceiling from a Year-1 roof leak that's been fixed, 6 nail pops on the master bedroom wall, hairline crack along the ceiling-wall corner in the foyer). Identify the existing texture: orange peel medium on the walls (post-1990s build), smooth Level 5 on the ceiling (likely 2018 popcorn removal). Match the wall paint (Sherwin-Williams Sea Salt SW 6204, owner has a partial gallon in the garage we can use for touch-up). Build the quote: $385 (4 patches and texture match and paint touch-up + 3 visits. Day 1 tape and mud, Day 3 sand and finish coat, Day 5 paint touch-up). Customer signs digitally, pays a $96 deposit. Day 1 visit on Tuesday morning.
Scheduling by visit stage and neighborhood is what can turn a scattered week into a tight one. Book Tuesday's 6 visit-1 jobs in Dilworth and Plaza Midwood (tape and mud all 6 patches). Thursday, book the same 6 addresses for visit-2 (sand and finish coat). Saturday, the same 6 for visit-3 (paint touch-up and final walk-through). Route optimization calculates drive time between the day's stops and tightens the order. Same crew, same fuel cost, three full days of revenue from one neighborhood instead of crisscrossing town for each patch.
Photo documentation is what protects the warranty and the customer's trust. Claver structures every patch around timestamped photos: pre-job photos of every damage point with measurement (4x6 doorknob hole, 14x22 water-damage replacement, hairline crack at corner). During: tape applied (mesh tape on the doorknob hole, paper tape on the corner crack), first mud coat applied (60-grit sandable). Day 3 visit: sanded smooth, finish coat applied (90-grit feathered out 12 inches beyond the patch edge). Day 5 visit: paint touch-up applied with the matched paint color, final walk-through photo of the patch invisible at 3 feet. The customer signs off in her portal. Year 2 she calls about "the patch is showing". You pull up the install photos showing the texture matched at install and the final walk-through invisibility test. The patch is showing because she had a roof leak again, not because of the original repair.
Per-customer service history is what holds the recurring B2B revenue. The 240-unit apartment building turnover account: 8-12 patches per month per building (doorknob holes, nail pops, kitchen cabinet damage from the move-out, bathroom drywall water damage from the broken caulk, the standard wear-and-tear pre-leasing patches). Property manager calls Friday afternoon with 7 units to turn for next week's tenants. Pull up the customer record and you see the building's typical patch count, paint colors per unit type, and standard texture pattern from past jobs. Your tech walks in already knowing the building, which is what keeps a $5,000+/mo apartment turnover account calling you instead of shopping around.
And here's where most drywall shops fly blind: marketing spend. You're paying $20-$45 per click on Google Ads for keywords like "drywall repair [city]" and "hole in wall repair." Some clicks become $1,800 popcorn-ceiling removals. Some become nothing. Claver captures the Google Ads click ID when someone visits your site and tracks it through quote to completed repair to final payment. For example, "drywall repair Charlotte" might generate a good number of clicks and several completed jobs, while "drywall contractor near me" generates far more clicks and almost no revenue. Fund the first campaign harder. Cut the second.
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$19/mo to start. $39/mo for growing teams. $79/mo for the full toolkit. AI summaries, app phone line, on-site quoting, multi-coat route dispatch, photo and texture documentation, per-customer apartment turnover history, ad-conversion tracking. Same plans as every Claver page, no drywall upsell.
Every plan includes unlimited jobs, quotes, invoices, and Stripe payments. Texting, AI, dispatch and job costing start on Crew. The phone system and full back office are on Business.
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