
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.
Online booking
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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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.
Learn moreYou 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.
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.
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.
Need a price on the site cut and the footings. There is a fair bit of fill across the back of it.
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.
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.
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.
Loads and dump fees sit apart from the digging, so nobody reads one number and decides the excavator cost twice what it did.
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 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.
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.
The moment it is signed it converts into a booking, so nobody re-types a site cut into the calendar at nine at night.
Put a date on the quote and a rate you wrote before the wet season cannot be held against you after it.
Every dig you take on
Priced in machine days after the walkthrough, with the depth on the job, and booked the day your GC signs.
Quoted with the haul-off broken out underneath, so the trucking is visible separately from the machine.
Trees, stumps and debris on one line with the loads under it, so the customer can see exactly where the money goes.
Priced per run with the bedding and the backfill on their own lines, which is what keeps a change order friendly.
Square footage and days do the math, so the number on the tailgate matches the one you would write at the desk.
Its own package with an expiry date, because a rate you wrote in the fall should not be held against you in spring.
Booked with honest durations so the pipe crew is not standing over a half-dug run on a Tuesday morning.
The smaller work that pays for the move, dropped between the big digs and visible to the whole crew.
Booked as its own return trip, so the day you come back is on the calendar before you leave the first time.
A soaked Monday dragged to the next dry day, taking the operator and the truck along instead of blowing up the week.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Everything attached to that job moves at once. One drag saves you four phone calls made from the shoulder of a highway.
The new start hits their phones right away, so nobody drives an hour to a lot that got called off last night.
Moving work around the week costs you nothing. Automating what fills the gap is the part that sits on Pro.
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.
Towns and shapes on a map, not a paragraph on a contact page nobody reads before they book.
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.
Your GC pays on their terms, not yours, and every week it sits is another week the dump fees are riding on your card.
Record what landed against the job on any plan. Nothing about the free plan stops you getting paid for a dig.
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.
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.
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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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