A building firm lives on enquiries, yet they always arrive when there's no time to deal with them. In the morning you're sorting a materials delivery, mid-morning you're measuring up a bathroom, in the afternoon you're checking on a crew at another site, and meanwhile the phone rings with someone asking when you could start on their flat. Quote notes sit in a notebook, photos in your phone, agreements in text messages and half-finished timesheets in your head.
Homeearly gives all of these pieces one home. Enquiry, site visit, quote, job, materials, handover protocol and invoice follow on from each other, so nothing gets typed twice and the site manager and the office see the same thing.
No website? You'll have one faster than scaffolding goes up
If you don't have a website, you can create one in the admin in a few minutes from details already in the system. It runs free at homeearly.eu/firma/your-business, with a design suited to construction, your services with prices and photos, a gallery of completed projects, a map and contact details. Terms and conditions and a GDPR notice are generated automatically. The price list comes pre-filled with items such as bathroom renovation, flat renovation, masonry work and site visit with pricing.
Customers click "Enquire", describe their project, attach photos of the current state and see how busy you are on each day. You get a notification on your phone.
Already have a website? One snippet is enough
Established firms usually have a site, and there is no reason to touch it. You embed the enquiry form with one snippet of code, or put the link on your Google profile, Facebook page or email signature. The real work happens behind the website: enquiries in one list, your crew's calendar, quotes, invoices and reminders.
Plenty of enquiries still come by email. Once you connect your business mailbox, customer messages are offered as enquiries to approve, newsletters and auto-replies are filtered out, and the mailbox itself stays untouched. More under enquiries and online booking.
Tools for every day on site
- Quotes approved online. The customer accepts the quote via a link and one click turns it into a job.
- Price agreed by scope where every renovation is different, or an hourly rate for smaller tasks.
- Team and resources. Owner, office and worker roles, working hours and resources such as vans or equipment, so nothing gets double-booked.
- Materials and stock on every job, plus travel cost calculation covering kilometres, parking and tolls.
- Field mode: navigation, before and after photos, notes and the customer's signature on screen, even on a site with no signal.
- Documents attached to jobs (contracts, inspection reports, PDFs) and a signed handover protocol.
- Reports on revenue and cash flow, your most profitable jobs and alerts when a job is heading into a loss.
An illustrative week
Picture a typical week. On Monday morning you open the Today overview and see who is on which site and which site visits are waiting. On the way to one, you dictate an enquiry that came in by phone, and the system fills in the name, number, address and date. On site you photograph the current state; back at the office you build a quote and send it. As soon as the customer approves it, the quote becomes a job and you drag it into place in the calendar.
As work progresses, materials and progress photos are logged against the job. At the end the customer signs the handover protocol on screen, an invoice with QR payment goes out by email, and the payment is matched automatically when it reaches your account. Your accountant gets an export in the format they need.
In short
Fewer phone calls and less retyping, no forgotten site visits, a clear view of materials and profitability, and faster payment. From the first quote to handover, your customers see a firm that has things under control. Learn more on the Homeearly for builders and renovations page.
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