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Booking software for excavation contractors in the US.

Price the dig after you have walked the lot, get it signed before the machine moves, and run your operators, your trucks and your rain days from one week.

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  • Site walks booked while you are still in the seat
  • Two machine sizes priced side by side on one quote
  • Signed quotes become booked machine days
  • Move a wet dig and the crew moves with it
  • Free, up to 200 bookings a month

Online booking

Site visits booked while you are in the seat

Your GCs will not call back. Give them a page that takes the lot address and the scope, and the walkthrough lands on your calendar overnight.

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A driveway cut and fill priced instantly from the job details.
New bookingAvailable
ServiceDriveway cut & fill
WhereFront block · East Austin
DateTue 19 Aug · 7:00am
Priced instantly$1,180

Smart scheduling

Machines, operators and lowboys on one week

Every excavator, every lot and every move in one view, so the morning your mini ex is booked twice is something you catch on Friday.

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A day on the schedule's calendar, with three jobs placed on a vertical time grid at the times they run.
Wednesday1 Jul
3 jobs
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
08:00 · South Congress
Footing trench dig
10:30 · East Austin
Driveway cut & fill
12:30 · Hyde Park
Retaining wall prep

Nobody picks up from the seat of an excavator.

You spend the day in ear protection with a bucket in your hands, and that is when the calls come. Anyone who leaves no message calls the next outfit.

  • The inquiry waits even when you cannot

    A page that takes the lot address and the scope means the job is still there at five, written down, instead of a missed number you cannot place.

  • A walkthrough, not the dig

    What gets booked online is the site visit. The number is still yours to write once you have seen the ground, which is the only honest way this trade prices.

A booking request inside a message thread, answered with accept or decline without leaving the conversation.
DADerek Alvarez

Need a price on the site cut and the footings. There is a fair bit of fill across the back of it.

Booking request
Site walk
Tue 12 Aug · 7:00am · Hyde Park
AcceptDecline

One lot, two machines, two numbers.

Your GC wants to know if the dig is a week or two. Put both machines on one page with the haul-off under each, and let them pick on the spot.

  • Two machines on one quote, with Pro

    Machine size, rock and whether the spoil stays on the lot are option groups, so checking haul-off moves the total on screen while your GC is reading it. Options on an estimate come with Pro.

  • Machine days do the math

    Put the days against your machine rate and the estimate adds up the same on the tailgate as it would at the desk at eight that night.

  • Haul-off gets its own line

    Loads and dump fees sit apart from the digging, so nobody reads one number and decides the excavator cost twice what it did.

  • The estimate keeps its number

    Document numbering is set once and does not move, so the estimate they signed and the invoice that follows point right at each other.

A new-build site cut quote, itemised and ready to send.
Estimate #1042
Marcus Bell
Sent
  • Machine float on & off siteMobilisation$680
  • Bulk cut · 5t excavator2 days$3,400
  • Cart away spoil · 8 loadsTip fees$1,760
Total$5,840

The quote a builder is sitting on.

A dig is priced against two or three others and nobody rings to say so. Knowing yours was opened twice on Thursday is the difference between a follow-up and a nag.

  • Sent, viewed, accepted

    Every quote says which of the three it is and when it was last opened, so the ones worth a call on Friday are obvious.

  • Accepted becomes machine days

    The moment it is signed it converts into a booking, so nobody re-types a site cut into the calendar at nine at night.

  • An expiry, because tip charges move

    Put a date on the quote and a rate you wrote before the wet season cannot be held against you after it.

A list of quotes showing whether each is sent, viewed or accepted, and when it was last opened.
Quotes5 awaiting reply
  • Marcus BellBooked just now$215Accepted
  • Ashley NguyenOpened 2h ago$480Viewed
  • The Oak CaféSent yesterday$120Sent

Every dig you take on

Built for site cuts, footings and everything trenched around them

Footing excavation

Priced in machine days after the walkthrough, with the depth on the job, and booked the day your GC signs.

Basement digs

Quoted with the haul-off broken out underneath, so the trucking is visible separately from the machine.

Clearing and grubbing

Trees, stumps and debris on one line with the loads under it, so the customer can see exactly where the money goes.

Utility trenching

Priced per run with the bedding and the backfill on their own lines, which is what keeps a change order friendly.

Rough and finish grading

Square footage and days do the math, so the number on the tailgate matches the one you would write at the desk.

Septic system excavation

Its own package with an expiry date, because a rate you wrote in the fall should not be held against you in spring.

Storm drain and detention

Booked with honest durations so the pipe crew is not standing over a half-dug run on a Tuesday morning.

Driveway grading and base

The smaller work that pays for the move, dropped between the big digs and visible to the whole crew.

Backfill and compaction

Booked as its own return trip, so the day you come back is on the calendar before you leave the first time.

Rain day reshuffles

A soaked Monday dragged to the next dry day, taking the operator and the truck along instead of blowing up the week.

One inbox holding customer messages, team messages and Bookables notices, with unread threads marked.
AllCustomersTeamSystem
  • ANAshley Nguyen2mCan you come Thursday instead?
  • BBookables1hA booking request needs your answer
  • TBTyler Brooks3hRunning 10 late on the Mueller job

Everything you need before the bucket goes in.

The utility plans, the drainage layout, the levels and the builder's programme all arrive in different places and end up on a phone. Kept in one thread against the job, they are still there on the morning of the dig.

A timeline of a customer's past jobs, quotes and payments.
Ashley NguyenBuilder · 4 sites
  • MarSite cut and level3 machine days
  • JunFootings and service trenchQuote accepted
  • JunPaid in fullBank transfer

The builder you dug three sites for.

Repeat work is most of this trade, and the second job always starts with someone trying to remember what you charged for the first. Every quote, dig and payment stays on the one record.

Three crew members on one timeline, each with their jobs laid out across the working day so gaps are easy to spot.
TeamWednesday 1 Jul
3 on today
08:0010:0012:0014:0016:00
TBTyler
ValeRoweKerr
JCJasmine
BevanHartNair
DADerek
ShawOduya

One week, every operator and every machine on it.

A dig runs long, an operator is on a second site by Wednesday, and the truck is booked against both. Laid out on one timeline, the day that does not add up is visible on Friday instead of at seven on Monday morning.

A rained-out week you can move in one shot.

Clay does not care about the schedule. When the lot is soup the dig moves, and so does the truck, the operator and the concrete crew behind you.

  • Drag the dig and the crew comes with it

    Everything attached to that job moves at once. One drag saves you four phone calls made from the shoulder of a highway.

  • Your crew sees it change

    The new start hits their phones right away, so nobody drives an hour to a lot that got called off last night.

  • Free on every plan

    Moving work around the week costs you nothing. Automating what fills the gap is the part that sits on Pro.

A day on the schedule where one job is dragged from one time to a later one and snaps into place on the grid.
Wednesday1 Jul
Drag to reschedule
08:00
09:00
10:00
11:00
12:00
13:00
14:00
08:00 · Zilker
Tap & toilet repair
Mueller
Hot water repair

The lots a lowboy will actually reach.

Moving a machine costs you money before it turns a bucket, and the further out the lot the more of the week the move eats. Draw the line once.

  • Draw it instead of describing it

    Towns and shapes on a map, not a paragraph on a contact page nobody reads before they book.

  • Outside the line, they can still ask

    A job past the boundary arrives as an inquiry instead of a booking, so the big one up the interstate is still yours to say yes to.

A map with three service areas shaded over a street grid, and a list of territories beneath, each a group of counties with its crew.
  • Hyde Park8 counties · 2 crew
  • Zilker7 counties · 2 crew
  • Austin North7 counties · 2 crew
Pro

Get paid before the machine leaves the lot.

Your GC pays on their terms, not yours, and every week it sits is another week the dump fees are riding on your card.

  • Cash and transfer are free

    Record what landed against the job on any plan. Nothing about the free plan stops you getting paid for a dig.

  • Cards come with Pro

    Send the link while the lot is still being raked off and watch it clear. We never hold your money on its way to you.

  • Staged, when the work earns it

    The move and the finished dig can each carry their own payment request on Pro. They sit after the booking, never at the point someone picks a date.

A list of payments, each with the customer, reference, date, method and amount, with totals received and still outstanding.
Received$4,310
Outstanding$3,840
  • Marcus BellP-1011 · 25 Jun · Bank transfer$380
  • Ashley NguyenP-1012 · 25 Jun · Cash$240
  • Tyler BrooksP-1013 · 28 Jun · Card$380
  • Jasmine CarterP-1001 · 27 Jun · Card$190

One app for the whole job

Everything you need to run your groundworks business.

Scheduling

Machine days, the lowboy move and the follow-on trade share one week, so a rained-out dig drags across with its operator still attached.

Bookings

Every footing dig, trench run and grading job in one list, carrying the lot address, the machine it needs and the days you priced it at.

Online booking

Your own page, where a GC books the site visit overnight with the lot address and what they need dug already attached to it.

Inbox

Your 811 ticket, the utility markouts and the GC chasing a start date all live in one thread on the job instead of in your phone.

Estimates

Break out the move, the machine days and the haul-off, put two machine sizes side by side, and let your GC sign off online.

Customers

The builder you dug three lots for last year keeps every estimate, job and payment on one record, with your rates and dump fees.

Territories

Draw the areas you will haul a machine to, so a job two hours out cannot quietly book itself in before you have looked at it.

Team

Operators, laborers and the truck driver all read the same start time, so nobody hauls a machine to a lot that got called off.

Payments

Cash and transfer recorded by hand on any plan. Cards come with Pro, so the dig is paid before the machine is back on the trailer.

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Common questions.

You do not have to, and this does not pretend you should. The online page books the site visit, not the work: lot address, rough scope, a date. You walk the ground, build the estimate from machine days, haul-off and the move, and send it from the same job.

Price it before you find it. Rock, unsuitable soils and a second machine can each ride on the estimate as an option your GC checks, so the number updates right in front of them instead of turning into an awkward call from the job. Options on an estimate come with Pro.

No, and you would not want software making that call. Calling 811 is free and you place the request yourself a few days ahead, though how much notice you owe is set by your state. What Bookables does is keep the ticket, the utility markouts and the plans in one thread on that job, so the morning you dig nobody is digging through email for a PDF from three weeks back.

Drag the dig to the next workable day. The operator, the truck and the move come along with it, and your crew have the new start time on their phones before you put yours down. Moving work around the week is free on every plan.

Draw the areas you will haul a machine to and the booking page holds that line for you. Anything outside still comes in as an inquiry, so the job that is worth the lowboy stays a call you get to make.

Not at all. Cash and bank transfer are recorded by hand on any plan, at no cost. Cards come with Pro, and so do staged payment requests, which go out after the booking exists rather than at the moment someone picks a date.

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