You don’t have to flat-rate your whole business.
Price2Book can run as much — or as little — of your service work as you want, and you decide how each of those services hands a customer a number. You do not have to put your whole catalog online, and you do not have to publish your prices online.
Start with the calls you answer every day.
“How much to replace a ceiling fan?”
“What do you charge to install an outlet?”
“When can you come? Does Tuesday work? What about Thursday?”
Put those services online and customers answer the qualifying questions themselves — then either see your approved price and book a time, or send you the details and photographs so you can price it.
- Troubleshooting and diagnostics
- Renovations and remodels
- Custom and one-off work
- Larger projects
- Anything you’d rather handle yourself
None of this has to go online for the rest to be worth doing. A service you haven’t turned on isn’t on your storefront, can’t be priced and can’t be booked.
Ten services or your whole catalog.
Both are how the product is meant to be used. Neither is the beginner setting.
A handful of repetitive, known-scope services — the ones you quote the same way every time and schedule the same way every time.
The office stops answering the same two questions. Nothing else about the week changes.
Most or all of your priceable catalog, with the work that shouldn’t be priced online routed the way you decide instead.
Customers price and book the bulk of your routine work themselves, and you keep the exceptions.
Ten services or a hundred. You decide which services go online, and whether each one shows a price or comes to you for an estimate.
Show prices. Send estimates. Or do both.
How much of your catalog goes online is one decision. How those services hand a customer a number is a separate one — and none of these three is the advanced version of another.
You approve the pricing. When the answers establish enough of the job, the customer gets that answer immediately and can carry on to booking.
How it works →The customer answers the same guided questions and supplies the details and photographs you asked for. You review the scope and set the estimate.
You can use Price2Book this way without displaying instant prices at all.
How it works →Some jobs need somebody there, and pretending otherwise is how a customer ends up with a number nobody can stand behind. Price2Book routes those to a visit instead.
You choose service by service. Instant-price a handful and review everything else, run the whole catalog on estimates and publish no prices at all, or mix the three however the work divides.
Go on estimates because the job needs you there — not because you needed more information.
If the customer can give you what you need to quote the work, Price2Book collects it. Review the answers and the photographs, set the estimate, and keep the truck parked. When a job genuinely needs to be seen, send someone.
- Customer calls
- You ask what you can over the phone
- You schedule an estimate
- You drive there
- You gather the information
- You drive back
- You work out the price
- Customer answers the guided questions
- They supply the details and photographs you asked for
- You review the scope
- You set the estimate
And when the work does have to be seen — a diagnosis, a condition nobody can photograph, a measurement that has to be right — that is what the visit is for.
Price2Book fits your business — your business doesn’t have to fit Price2Book.
Price2Book is a pricing and booking engine, not an operating model you have to adopt. You decide how much of your business goes into it, and you decide how customers get pricing once it is there. Publishing prices online is one way to use it, not the price of admission.
It sits in front of the business you already run and handles one part of it: the part where a homeowner wants a price and a time without waiting for a phone call back.
Keep the systems you already use.
Price2Book handles pricing, qualification, availability and booking. Your CRM, invoicing, dispatch, payroll and job costing stay exactly where they are — it has no ambition to become any of them.
What connects, and what’s plannedBooked work is handed to the system you already run. If you don’t run one, the Price2Book scheduler is built in — that is a choice, not a migration.
Embedding Price2Book into your own page is a V1 release item and is being built now. Every contractor also gets a hosted Price2Book page, which is what a contractor without a website uses.
Setup is a conversation, not a software project.
You don’t get handed a stack of blank services and told to configure them. The trade knowledge is already there; what’s missing is how you work.
And nothing goes live because a template happens to contain it. Every service you publish is one you decided to publish.
Start with ten services. Add more when it makes sense.
Pick the work that creates the most repeated phone calls and scheduling back-and-forth. Put those online first. The rest of the catalog is there whenever you want it.