Send a $4,800 cedar privacy fence quote from the customer's backyard, measured, materialled, dated. Dispatch the install crew and post-hole truck the morning the materials land. Track which Dallas neighborhoods pay 51% margin and which ones bleed you on rocky soil.
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The five things that decide whether you book the $4,800 cedar privacy job or lose it to the next contractor. On-site linear-foot quoting with materials priced in. Crew and post-hole truck dispatch the morning materials land. Photo records of the property line and final install. Real margin per job including rocky soil and slope upcharges. A photo report and signed documents for the paperwork HOAs ask for. All in one app. Built for the tech who has augered 47 post holes through Dallas caliche in 98-degree heat.
Walk the property line with the customer. Measure with a laser or wheel and photograph each segment. Build the quote in six minutes. That is 142 linear feet of six-foot cedar privacy plus one walk gate and one drive gate for $4,850. This includes cedar pickets, treated four-by-four posts, hardware, install and dump. The customer signs digitally and pays a 30% deposit before you back out of the driveway.
Materials land Friday afternoon. Claver assigns the install crew and the post-hole auger truck and the concrete delivery to Saturday morning at the same address. Saturday at seven am, the three-person install crew and auger truck arrive with 14 bags of concrete on-site by 6:55 am. You avoid asking where the auger is at 7:14 am.
Take pre-job photos of the existing condition and property line markers and the neighbor's fence on the other side. Take post-job photos of the install and gate operation and cleanup. Claver timestamps every photo and exports a branded PDF photo report, the kind an HOA board or a picky homeowner wants to see before and after.
Track linear feet, post count, gate count, soil type like loam versus caliche versus rocky, slope grade and dump fees as custom fields on the job, then let job costing show labor, materials and margin per job. For example, a $4,850 cedar job in loam soil might clear 51% margin, while the same spec in a caliche shelf that adds 90 minutes per post might clear less. Now you know which ground costs you time.
Many HOAs want architectural review paperwork before an install. Build a custom document (a work order or completion certificate) with your materials spec and photos, add an e-signature line for a neighbor if the HOA requires one, and email the customer the photo report and the signed document to bring to the board.
Starter is $19/mo. Texting, AI and dispatch start on Crew at $39. The phone line and AI receptionist are on Business at $79.
Fence contracting is a high-ticket residential trade with a brutal seasonal swing. The April to June backyard rush is when you make 60% of your annual revenue. The contractors who win are the ones who quote on-site, dispatch the install crew and materials to the same address on the same morning, and keep photo records of the work for the HOA and the customer.
The shops that lose are still doing the 2010 playbook. They tell the homeowner to call and they will come out next Tuesday for a measure. By next Tuesday the homeowner has booked with the next contractor who showed up Saturday with a tape measure and a quote.
The on-site quote is the engine. The materials-day dispatch is what makes the install profitable.
For example, say you walk the property line with Mrs. Castillo in Plano on a Saturday morning. Walk the backyard perimeter with the laser measurer or wheel for the run along the alley. You measure 142 linear feet, 28 posts at seven-foot spacing, one four-foot walk gate and one ten-foot two-leaf drive gate. The six-foot cedar privacy features cedar one-by-six pickets and treated four-by-four posts. You build the quote in the app for $4,850, materials and labor and fees broken out with your margin built in. The customer sees photos of the existing condition alongside the spec breakdown, signs digitally and pays a deposit through Stripe on the spot. You stop losing the job to "let me think about it."
Materials-day dispatch is where most fence contractors leak the most operational money. Materials land Friday afternoon at the customer's house or your yard. Saturday morning the install crew shows up at seven am, but the post-hole auger is at the previous job site. The concrete is supposed to be delivered at eight am but the truck is running late. Marcus is still 22 minutes out because nobody told him to bring the gas-powered tamper. Claver assigns the install crew, the auger truck, the concrete delivery of 14 bags of Quikrete, and the gas tamper to Saturday at the same address by 6:55 am. Marcus opens the app at 6:30 am and sees seven am at Castillo for 142 linear feet of cedar privacy and two gates. The materials were delivered Friday. Auger truck number two is already assigned. Concrete delivery is at 7:30 am.
Photo records are what protect you with the HOA and protect you with the customer. Take pre-job photos of the existing chain-link condition, the rotted four-by-four posts at the corners, and the neighbor's privacy fence on the back side to match the height and style for the architectural review. Take during-install photos of post-hole depth, concrete pour, picket alignment, and gate hardware. Take post-job photos of the completed fence from four angles, gate operation, and cleanup. You export the whole set as a branded photo report to attach to whatever the HOA board asks for.
Job costing tells you which neighborhoods pay and which ones bleed you. For example, a $4,850 cedar job in loam soil with an easy auger might clear 51% margin, while the same spec job on a caliche shelf that adds 90 minutes per post and needs a rented stronger auger might clear far less. Track linear feet, post count, soil type and slope as custom fields on the job, and job costing does the math. Now you know which ZIPs to grow and which to bump on price next season.
The photo report is also what turns the fence-curious neighbor into your next lead. It shows the completed install and the materials spec. She forwards it to her HOA neighbor who is thinking about replacing his rotted shadow-box. He sees the documentation, the photos and the price breakdown, and books his measure with you instead of getting three competing bids.
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