ClearBid: Contractor Quotes

ClearBid prices a job and produces a quote on your phone, at the job site, with no signal. Basements, new builds and rural driveways are where estimates actually get written, and nothing in ClearBid needs a network to do its work. No account, no sign-in, no server. Your clients, your prices and your quotes stay on your device, and in your own iCloud if you want them on more than one. PAY ONCE Three estimates free. After that, $14.99 one time unlocks unlimited estimates, clients and price-book items — forever. Not a subscription. Nothing expires, and nothing you have already written stops working because you stopped paying. MARKUP THAT TELLS THE TRUTH A 20% markup is a 16.67% margin. They are not the same number, and a contractor who wants to clear twenty and types twenty is short five dollars on every hundred of cost. ClearBid asks which one you mean and prints the other one right under the field, before you send the quote. YOUR OWN PRICE BOOK Materials and labor rates entered once, with their markup attached, carried into any estimate. The second quote is faster than the first, and the tenth is faster than the second. It is your book — it lives on your phone, not inside a subscription you have to keep paying to open. TAX THAT FOLLOWS THE CATEGORY Most states tax materials and not labor; some tax repair work but not new construction. ClearBid holds your rate and exactly which categories it applies to. There is no built-in rate table, on purpose — rates change by state, county and city, and a stale built-in number ends up on a document somebody signs. A QUOTE YOU CAN HAND OVER Your business name, license number and contact details on every document. Itemized, grouped by category, or a single lump sum — your call, per quote. Materials-and-labor breakdown, deposit and balance, and a signature block. Generated on the device and sent from the share sheet. WHAT ELSE • Client records, entered once and stamped onto every quote for that job • Overhead and profit on the whole job, on top of per-line pricing • Job discounts, applied before tax and allocated across taxable categories • Status tracking: draft, sent, accepted, declined, invoiced • Invoice numbers on their own series, the way a bookkeeper expects • Duplicate last spring's job as the starting point for this one • Site photos attached to the job • Every figure computed in exact decimal — the printed column adds up PRIVACY ClearBid collects nothing. No analytics, no crash reporter, no trackers, no advertising, no account. There is no Vibesoft server for your data to sit on.