Price the jobs that are clear. Route the ones that aren’t.
Price2Book asks homeowners observable questions about the work — not technical questions they shouldn’t be expected to answer. Their answers decide whether the job can receive an approved price, belongs to a different service, needs troubleshooting, or should come to you to price.
This page is about the first of those. When you would rather review the work yourself before anyone sees a number, Guided Estimates is the same guided flow ending in your review instead of a published price — a sibling of this, not a fallback from it.
Nobody is asked to diagnose their own house.
The questions establish scope — what is already there, how far it is, what it is going to power. Things a homeowner can look at and answer. They never ask what is wrong electrically, because that is the job you are being paid to determine.
And when a homeowner doesn’t know, saying so is an answer. Every tree carries the escape hatch, and it is never a shortcut to a price.
answers in the electrical template read “I’m not sure”.
of them resolve to a price. Not one.
Counted from the canonical electrical template, and re-counted on every build.
One question can change the outcome.
This is a real question from the electrical template, and the three things its answers do are the whole idea. The same service prices instantly for one customer, becomes a different job for the second, and waits for a photograph for the third.
None of those outcomes is a guess, and none of them asks the homeowner to know anything they can’t see from where they are standing.
Not every path ends in a price.
You decide what happens next. These are the things an answer is allowed to do, with the number of answers in the electrical template that do each. It is worth reading the first two numbers together: more answers ask to look at the job than release a price.
Not enough is established yet. The answer narrows the job and the conversation continues.
The homeowner sends photos of what they can see. Nobody prices it sight-unseen.
The answers established known work. The price is released and the job can be booked.
Something is wrong rather than missing. That is a diagnostic visit, not a fixed-price installation.
The answers describe other work. The customer is moved to the right service, carrying what they have already answered.
Known work with a defined surcharge — a longer run, a second story — priced by a rule the contractor set.
75 answers release a price. 193 ask for a look first. That ratio is not a policy anyone wrote on this page — it is what the trade template does, counted.
Your pricing. Your rules.
The template brings the trade structure. What any of it costs, and whether a customer ever sees it, is yours. Your labor. Your materials. Your rules.
Price2Book can suggest. You approve.
Price2Book calculates from your rates, materials and policies. Nothing reaches a homeowner until you approve it, and changing an input does not silently republish what is already live.
A service you have not turned on isn’t on your storefront, can’t be priced and can’t be booked. Start with ten; the rest of the catalog waits.
Service by service, an answer can release a price, ask for photos, hold the price until you have looked, or go to a quote you write yourself.
Edit the prompt, the answers, and what each answer does. The trade template is a starting point, not a rule about how you run your business.
See it in a real trade.
This page explains the mechanism. The trade pages show how much of a trade it has actually been used to model — every category, every service, and which of them Price2Book refuses to price automatically.