Job management for Australian trades
Know what a job is really costing you. While you can still do something about it.
Quotes, scheduling, time, materials and invoices in one place - with a live running total of what every job is costing while it is still open.
Two months free. No Upfront Pauyment.
Most tradies find out a job lost money weeks after it finished.
The hours went in a notebook. The materials went on an account. The quote was a number that felt about right. By the time anyone adds up what it actually cost, the job is long gone - and you have quoted the next three the same way.
Costwise shows you while there is still time to do something about it.
Before you send it
See the profit before you send the price.
Build the quote off your price list and it shows what you will actually make on it - labour, materials, overhead and all. Change the number while you still can. The customer only ever sees the total.
Quoting
They accept it on their phone. No login, no printer, no chasing.
Send a link. The customer taps accept and the job updates on your side - so the first you hear of a win is the job moving, not a missed voicemail.
Live job costing
Every hour and every fitting, on the job, as it happens.
Clock on and the labour lands on the job at that person's real cost rate. Add materials off your price list and they cost themselves. Open the job at smoko and see quoted against actual - not in three weeks.
Your real hourly rate
What an hour actually costs you. Rent, ute, insurance and all.
Put in what the business costs to run and it works out what a single billable hour really costs once overhead is spread across it. Then you price off that number - not the one you have always guessed at.
The diary
A month you can actually read.
Day, week and month. Book more than one person onto a job and it warns you before you double-book someone. Every booking shows what that slot costs against the quote, so a full week is not the same as a good week.
Your crew
Your apprentice sees the job. Not your margins.
Field staff get one screen: what they are on today, the address, the access notes, and clock on and off. No costs, no margins, no invoices. You can hand a worker the app without handing over the books.
Works on what you already carry
Nothing to install.
Nothing left out on Android.
Most trade software is built for iPhone first and Android second. If half your crew is on a Samsung, half your crew gets the worse app. This is one app, and it runs the same on all of them.
Android, iPhone, laptop
One app, all of them, with nothing left out on Android.
No app store
Add it to the home screen and it behaves like any other app.
Updates on their own
Everyone is on the current version. Nothing to chase.
Early access
Two months free.
Run your real jobs through it for two months and see what it tells you. No card, no lock-in. If it has not told you something about your own business by then, do not pay a cent.
Fair questions.
Do I have to move my accounting across?
No. This is about winning, running and costing jobs. Your accounting stays where it is.
Can my apprentice see what I charge?
No. Field staff see their jobs, the address, the notes and their own hours. No costs, no margins, no invoices.
What if I already quote in a spreadsheet?
Bring your supplier price list in as a CSV and quoting gets faster, not slower. The prices are frozen onto the quote the moment you use them.
Is my data mixed in with everyone else’s?
No. Every business is walled off in the database itself, not just in the app. There is an automated test that proves it before any update ships.
What happens after the two months?
You decide then. Pricing is per job volume rather than per user, so putting your crew on it does not cost you more.
See it on your own jobs.
costwise is built and running on real jobs right now. Run a trade business and want to try it on yours? Get in touch and I will set you up.
Two months free. No Upfront Pauyment.