BuildAQuote gives you a fast, professional quoting tool that works on your phone, tablet, or laptop — no app download, no learning curve, no margin guesswork.
Set up phases — Strip Out, First Fix, Decoration — and add items by type. Your sell price calculates automatically from your target margin. No spreadsheets, no back-of-envelope maths.
Labour, Material, Subcontractor, Plant, Waste, and Travel — every cost category a builder needs, all feeding a live running total.
Enter your target profit margin and the app calculates the correct sell price. No more confusing markup with margin and undercharging by mistake.
Save your standard rates — "Bricklayer @ £22/hr", "Skip hire £180" — and pull them into any quote in one tap. No re-entering the same numbers job after job.
A clean, printable layout that shows the customer their price. Your costs stay hidden. VAT breakdown included when you're VAT registered.
Company name, phone, email, and VAT number auto-fill on every quote you send. Looks professional from day one.
On site with dirty hands? Just speak: "Two days plastering at two eighty" and the app logs the line item. No typing required.
Speak line items aloud while you're walking a job. The app understands trade language and fills in the estimate for you to review back at the van.
Choose a job type and the app pre-fills a skeleton estimate. Use every item, or tick only the ones that apply to this particular job. Two modes, one tap.
Set your start date and the app maps every phase automatically. Override any duration and everything downstream shifts. Long-lead reminders tell you when to book scaffolders, structural steel, bi-fold doors, Building Control — before you've even lifted a tool.
| Phase | Start | Duration | Weeks | Reminders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strip Out | 14 Jul | 1 wk | — | |
| Structural & Frame | 21 Jul | 2 wks | Book steel now | |
| First Fix | 04 Aug | 3 wks | Electrician Plumber | |
| Plastering | 25 Aug | 2 wks | Book plasterer | |
| Second Fix | 08 Sep | 2 wks | Building Control |
No re-entering figures. Flip a completed quote to an invoice, add your VAT breakdown automatically, and mark it paid when the money arrives.
Convert any accepted job to a professional invoice. Figures carry over — nothing to retype.
Subtotal, VAT at 20%, and Total inc. VAT displayed correctly when you're VAT registered.
Track what's landed in your account and what's still outstanding — feeds straight into your P&L dashboard.
The single most painful problem builders face. Log the extra work on site, price it, send the customer a link. They approve or decline from their phone — no app needed on their end. Every change order stays attached to the original quote.
Switch to Actuals mode and record real costs alongside your estimate as the job progresses. Photograph receipts and the app reads the total. Your live margin updates with every entry.
Photograph receipts and delivery notes on site. Attach them to the job — no more lost bits of paper at month end.
Watch your real profit update in real time as costs come in. Know immediately if a job is drifting before it's too late to act.
When the job is done you can see exactly where money was made or lost — so the next similar quote is more accurate.
Filter by This Tax Year, Last Tax Year, This Quarter, Last Quarter, or a custom date range. Export to CSV for your accountant in one click.
The top-level numbers a builder needs. How much work is in the pipeline, how many quotes are converting, and what margin you're actually running at.
Everything listed here is in the product. Works on phone, tablet, and laptop from day one.