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Built for Pressure Washing & Exterior Cleaning

Everyone else’s first stage is an appointment. Yours is a measurement nobody attended.

Most of this trade’s residential work is measured off aerial imagery and priced in minutes, with no site visit at all. The homeowner is collecting ~3–5 quotes the same afternoon — so the competitive question was never who can come out soonest. It’s who sent a number first, and whether that number survives contact with the driveway.

Generic home-services software ships an estimate-visit calendar as the default booking type, which models the wrong trade on day one. Your board’s first real stage is Measured (remote), it happens before anyone has spoken to the customer, and the number it produces ships with an assumptions block and a 7-day shelf life on purpose.

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412 Overlook RidgeResidential · quoted from the desk
Measurement MethodSatellite / aerial
Measured Square Footage2,340
Quote Expires7 days
form inmeasuredquote outexpires

Twenty-seven minutes from form to priced quote, and the assumptions it left with are what makes it defensible on arrival.

New inquiry · 412 Overlook Ridge1:12 PM
Mon 1:12 pm — web form, address first
Thanks Dana. We have 412 Overlook Ridge. We measure from aerial imagery, so you’ll have a priced, itemized quote back inside the hour — not a Thursday appointment.
sent automatically · 1:12 PM
Oh — the other two both want to come out Thursday.
1:14 PM
House wash, driveway and the north-side walkway, priced by surface, with what the number assumes and what it excludes. Good for 7 days.
sent automatically · 1:39 PM
On your board: 412 Overlook Ridge — Lead In → Measured (remote) → Quote Sent. Follow-Up is already dated for tomorrow, day three and day seven, and it stops the moment she replies or books.
The structural inversion every generic build gets backwards

A price before a person. That isn’t speed — it’s the shape of the business.

Every other trade we build for starts with a person and works toward a price. Exterior cleaning starts with a price and works toward a person. Which means the first hour of a lead’s life is the whole funnel, and the software has to be built the same way round: a measurement stage that runs before contact, a quote artifact that carries its own assumptions, and an expiry date that is on the customer’s copy, not just in your CRM.

  1. 1:12 pm Lead In

    Address first, service interest second. An auto-text goes out in seconds naming a callback window, so she knows a priced quote is coming rather than a sales call.

  2. 1:26 pm Measured (remote)

    Roof footprint, driveway, walkway and patio measured off imagery, with the method recorded on the file because it decides which assumptions print.

  3. 1:39 pm Quote Sent

    By text and email, priced surface by surface with a bundled tier, the assumptions block attached and the expiry date stamped on the artifact.

  4. day 1 · 3 · 7 Follow-Up

    Three touches, because most of this trade’s booked work comes off the second and third and most operators stop after the first. It stops on a reply.

  5. money moves Booked

    Onto the service calendar with the prep list and the stated weather conditions, so the first reschedule is not a surprise.

Day 7 The quote expires on purpose

Seven days, not thirty. The price was built on imagery that is months old, the surface is degrading, and the season is moving. What fires at expiry is a reduced scope — drop the roof, keep house and driveway — never a discount, because a price that drops without a scope change tells the customer the first one was dishonest.

~Day 30 Re-measure, or don’t honor it

Past about a month the file goes back to Measured (remote) and re-runs the pre-quote gate. A stale number sold at last season’s assumptions is a margin loss that arrives with no error message.

No response Lost, with a reason on it

Priced out, still shopping, doing it themselves, wrong season. It goes to Lost with the reason recorded rather than decaying inside an indefinite drip — which is what makes next spring’s reactivation list worth mailing.

Illustrative example. The clock times are a scenario, not a projection; the stage names are not — Lead In, Measured (remote), Quote Sent, Follow-Up, Booked and Lost are the residential board your account actually opens with, in order, spelled the way they appear in the build. The day-1 / day-3 / day-7 cadence and the 7-day validity are published operator practice; the ~30-day re-measure is our own design choice and it is a setting, not a law.

Standard residential Quoted from the desk

The volume of the trade. No visit, no calendar slot, no windshield time spent on a job you may not win.

~$500 – $1,000 Drive-by with same-day photos

Fifteen minutes, clustered with the day’s route. It exists for the tickets big enough that a canopy or a condition question is worth confirming.

~$1,000+ and every commercial bid On-site walkthrough

Your account ships an On-Site Estimate calendar for exactly this, gated by ticket size, because that is the only ticket that pays for the travel.

The dispute this trade prevents in a merge field

2,300 square feet on the screen. A 12/12 pitch in the driveway.

Speed is only worth having if the number holds. Satellite shows a roof’s horizontal footprint, not its area — the trade’s rule of thumb adds ~15–30% depending on pitch. Imagery runs months to years stale, tree canopy can hide a driveway completely, and the measurement itself lands within ~5–10% of actual. None of that is a reason to go back to site visits. It is a reason to write down what the price assumed.

What the imagery showed 2,300 sq ft · walk-up ranch · footprint only

Priced in four minutes. Confident, precise-looking, and built on a photograph somebody took from orbit a while ago.

What arrived 6,500 sq ft · 12/12 pitch · not walkable

The trade’s canonical blow-up, straight off the operator forums. Different crew, different equipment, different price — discovered in front of the customer.

Every quote leaves with this attached

The standing assumptions block

It is one field on the opportunity, defaulted for the whole account and edited per job by the gate below. It is also the single most effective dispute-prevention device this trade has, and it costs nothing to ship.

  1. Measured remotely from aerial imagery
  2. Assumes a walkable pitch
  3. Assumes a working spigot on site
  4. Excludes oxidation restoration
  5. Excludes rust and stain removal unless itemized

And the gate the quote cannot get past without

Six answers, captured before a price goes out rather than discovered on arrival. This is the workflow the market’s templates have no place for, because they all assume an estimate appointment exists to catch this stuff.

  • Primary Substrate and Roof Material — chemistry, pressure, walkability and warranty exposure all key off these
  • Vinyl Oxidation, the finger test — run before the quote so restoration is priced as its own job
  • Roof Pitch, recorded as measured or assumed — either way it is written down
  • Working Water Source On Site — a well, a dead spigot or no hookup changes which rig gets dispatched
  • Sensitive Landscaping — beds, mature plantings, a koi pond; it drives a standing job step, not a tech’s memory
  • Method Required — constrained by substrate, not chosen freely; see the rails below

Why the oxidation question is worth its own field

Soft washing clears algae, mold and dirt. It does not restore chalky, oxidized vinyl — and a house that comes out clean but still looks dull is this trade’s most common “you didn’t clean my house” complaint. Answered at quote time it becomes a priced add-on and an exclusion line. Answered on arrival it becomes an argument. Answered never, it becomes a review. So the flag also suppresses the review request on that job, because the customer’s photo will not match their expectation.

The state a reskinned template never has

A job that moves twice is normal. A “still interested?” text on a job you moved is not.

Rain, wind and temperatures under the working range reschedule work here as a matter of routine. So Weather Hold is a stage on the residential board, sitting between Booked and Completed — not a loss reason, not a tag on a stalled deal, and not a job that quietly falls out of the schedule.

The hold keeps the booking, and its place in line.

A reason code (rain, wind, temperature below range, customer request), a reschedule counter, and the job’s position preserved. Your account publishes its own working conditions — it ships at 55-75F, no rain, low wind — as part of the booking confirmation, which is how the first reschedule stops being a surprise.

Everything sales-side goes quiet while it’s held.

The quote follow-up, the re-measure offer, the seasonal broadcast, the database reactivation and above all the “we haven’t heard from you” message. The suppression is scoped and it reverses itself when the job reschedules or completes — unlike the global stop tags, which are permanent by design.

One call moves the whole route, in one send.

The same-morning “we’re moving you to Thursday” message goes out batched across the day’s affected jobs, each with its own new date. This is the thing owners currently do by hand at 6 am, one text at a time, from the truck.

The weather call is still yours.

We ship the state, the reason codes, the broadcast and the suppression. We do not ship a weather feed that cancels your day for you — that needs an integration this system does not carry, and pretending otherwise is how software loses a crew a morning.

Built from how this trade actually runs

We didn’t guess at your business.

Four things about exterior cleaning that a general-purpose CRM has nowhere to put — which is why they live in somebody’s head, and why that is where they get missed.

Close rate is the one number you shouldn’t want to climb.

Published operator pricing guidance in this trade targets roughly ~50–60%, and treats anything above ~70% as a signal to raise prices in small increments until it comes back down. That is inverted from what every CRM dashboard assumes. It is also why the automation that fires at a stalled quote here is a scope-reduction alternative rather than a coupon — a discount campaign in this trade is fighting the trade’s own sales method.

The thing with the clock on it isn’t the customer.

Organic growth comes back on a schedule that depends on the surface, its exposure and what you last treated it with. A north-facing roof and a south-facing driveway at the same address are two different due dates. One annual reminder per customer is simply the wrong shape, and it is the shape every template ships.

After hours isn’t a premium here. It’s the schedule.

Storefronts and restaurants get washed before opening; community properties get scheduled around parking and foot traffic. Early mornings, evenings and weekends are the standard commercial windows, not an emergency rate — the opposite of how a plumbing template treats them. Access window is a booking input on the commercial lane.

Drive time is the biggest line item nobody invoices.

Tickets are small and the truck is expensive to move, so clustering is the profit lever — which is why the due-date outreach goes out by area rather than by date order. It is also why the intake enforces a minimum: operators put the floor somewhere around ~$150 starting out and ~$250 once established, and a booking form capable of producing a below-minimum job costs money every time it does.

Day one, already configured

Two boards, because a driveway and an association re-bid are not the same business.

One runs in hours and days. The other runs in weeks and months, on somebody else’s meeting calendar, and it cannot start until a certificate of insurance exists. Force both through one stage set — which is what a four-stage generic pipeline does — and you lose the fast one to delay and the slow one to neglect. Here they are, by name.

Residential Exterior Cleaning

Hours to days — the volume
  • Lead In
  • Measured (remote)
  • Quote Sent
  • Follow-Up
  • Booked
  • Weather Hold
  • Completed
  • Review Requested
  • Maintenance Plan Offered
  • Lost

Commercial / HOA Contracts

Weeks to months — the stabilizer
  • Target / RFP Identified
  • Walkthrough + Scope Built (surface-by-surface)
  • COI + Additional Insured Issued
  • Bid Submitted
  • Board / Manager Review
  • Awarded
  • Contract Signed
  • Active — Scheduled
  • Renewal / Re-Bid
  • Dormant
a gate, or a date somebody outside your company owns money moves

These are the two boards your account opens with, in order, spelled exactly as they appear in the build. Nobody selling an exterior-cleaning snapshot publishes theirs — we went looking, and what is publicly listed is a generic four-stage sales pipeline with the trade noun changed.

Why the commercial lane gets its own board, not a stage

Association purchasing is a documented committee process: two board members walk the property, one standardized scope goes to every bidder, three bids minimum, insurance and references verified on the finalists, a side-by-side comparison at a formal meeting, the vote rationale in the minutes. That is multi-week and it runs on a calendar you do not control, which changes what follow-up even means.

  • The follow-up is a task dated to the board meeting, not a weekly check-in text — noise between meetings costs the bid
  • The certificate of insurance goes out with the bid, because managers screen out uninsured vendors during selection, not after
  • The scope is built surface by surface off a walkthrough, which is also what makes the renewal defensible a year later
  • Per-visit before-and-after photos are a contract deliverable retained in the manager’s compliance file — that file is your renewal argument
Three appointment types

Three calendars — and the estimate one is deliberately not the default.

The booking type this trade actually runs on is the job itself. These are the calendars your account opens with, by name and by length.

45 min · gated by ticket size On-Site Estimate

Exists, and mostly stays empty on purpose. Most work is quoted remotely and never needs it; the bigger tickets and the condition questions do.

180 min · the default Service Visit

The job. Sized against real production times — a 2,000 sq ft house wash runs ~1.5–2 hours with setup and breakdown, a roof soft wash ~2–3 — rather than a round number. Weather Hold is a first-class state on it, not an exception.

90 min · commercial Commercial Walkthrough

The surface-by-surface scope build for an association or property-management bid, often an evening, and usually on their calendar rather than yours.

The annuity nobody in this market ships

The clock is on the surface, not on the customer.

Algae, moss and biofilm return on a schedule you can actually date — and the schedule is a function of what the surface is, which way it faces, and what you put on it when you left. Which means the recurrence lives on the surface record, per elevation, and not as one annual reminder against a contact. That distinction is the difference between a truck and a business.

What you did last time decides when you come back
  • Soft washed, untreatedroof · north elevation first ~12–18 mo
  • Post-clean biocide appliedthe add-on at completion ~2–3 yrs
  • Zinc or copper strips installedthe capital add-on ~3–5 yrs

Published trade intervals for organic regrowth after a professional soft wash, hedged as ranges — not a projection, and your climate moves them. Coastal and Gulf properties run materially shorter than northern ones; north-facing slopes regrow first because they get the least sun and dry last; tree canopy and traffic shorten a concrete interval against the same slab in full sun. Every input is on the record, so the formula is yours to tune from day one rather than a fixed rule we picked for you.

The upsell that looks backwards until you see the economics

A biocide or a set of zinc strips extends the interval — the operator is deliberately re-dating their own next job. That is a real business decision, trading frequency for ticket size, retention and a defensible result, and the system has to be able to represent it rather than quietly optimizing you toward the shortest possible interval. Present it at completion, record what was applied, and the next due date recalculates itself.

  • Due dates are per surface and per exposure — the contact’s next due date is the earliest of them, not the only one
  • Due-soon outreach goes out clustered by area, because a due-date engine that scatters single jobs across a metro is worse than no engine at all
  • A lapsed plan is re-approached against the register — the specific surface that is overdue, with its last after-photo attached — not against the calendar
  • The before-and-after set attaches to the surface, so next visit’s “before” has last visit’s “after” to sit beside

And the plan the register makes sellable

The offer moment operators describe is at completion, on site, with the clean surface in view, and the frame is prevention rather than discount. Published plans converge on a 12-month term, a walked scope naming which surfaces at which frequency, plan rates ~15–25% under the one-off equivalent and the price locked for the term. Your account ships the mechanics: the recurring product, the register, the renewal cadence at 90, 60 and 30 days before the anniversary, and the win-back.

What it does not ship is a target attach rate. Nobody in this trade publishes one — we looked, and unlike plumbing there is no platform benchmark to quote. So your own first season sets the number, and we are not going to invent one to put on a sales page.

Configured before you log in

The follow-up you keep meaning to build.

Every one of these ships switched on and named for exterior cleaning. None of them is a template you have to find, wire up and remember to turn on — and several of them exist mainly to know when not to send.

Three intakes, because the first sentence differs

Web and Google Business Profile, referral and neighborhood, and commercial or association. The first is address-first. The second names the referrer and drops the generic offer. The third sets the insurance requirement, routes to the commercial board and never enters the residential drip.

The instant acknowledgement

Fires within seconds of any residential intake, names a specific callback window, and sets the expectation that a priced quote is coming rather than a call to book a visit. Outside your hours it says so and holds the thread. It buys you the hour you need to measure.

Missed-call text-back

Standard mechanic, and it matters more here than almost anywhere, because the shopping window is a single afternoon. An unanswered call is a customer who is already reading somebody else’s quote.

The pre-quote gate

Substrate, roof material, the oxidation finger test, pitch, water source, sensitive landscaping and the method the substrate allows — collected and cleared before a number can be issued. This is the workflow the market’s templates have no place for.

Quote issue, with assumptions and an expiry stamp

Text and email, priced by surface with a bundled tier, the assumptions block merged in with whatever the gate added, and the expiry date printed on the customer’s copy rather than living in your CRM.

Quote follow-up on day one, three and seven

Day one asks whether anything needs explaining. Day three is the bundle nudge, because the marginal surface is nearly all margin on a truck that is already parked. Day seven is the expiry notice with one-click rebooking. It stops on a reply, a booking or a decline.

Expiry, then a smaller scope — never a discount

Drop the roof, keep house and driveway. The price holds, the scope moves. On no response it goes to Lost with the reason recorded rather than into an indefinite nurture.

The board-meeting-dated commercial follow-up

Not a drip. A task dated to the meeting where the decision actually happens, with the bid held in review until it does, and the walkthrough scope attached.

Booking confirmation with the prep list

Close windows, move vehicles, secure pets, note screens and exterior fixtures, confirm the spigot, flag the plantings. Plus your stated working conditions, so a weather move reads as a policy rather than an excuse.

The weather reschedule broadcast, and the silence behind it

One call moves the day, batched to every affected job with a new date each — and it applies the scoped suppression that shuts off every sales-side sequence until the job reschedules or completes.

Completion gated on the photo set

The chain does not advance until the before-and-after set is filed. Those photos are four assets at once: the review asset, the commercial contract deliverable, the proof on the next quote, and the damage-claim defense.

The review request, gated hard

Two hours after the photo set, with your direct link, because the reaction peaks the first time they pull into the driveway. Suppressed for a flagged oxidation job, a weather-held or twice-moved job, an open damage claim, an unpaid balance, and every commercial route visit — the person who sees the clean is not the person who pays.

The maintenance plan offer

Presented at completion with the surface in view and the frame that operators actually use: prevention, not a discount. It moves the file to its own stage so you can see the whole conversion lane rather than guessing at it.

The due-date engine and the treatment upsell

Recomputes the next due date from what the surface is, which way it faces and what you treated it with, tags it when the window opens, and sends the outreach clustered by area. The treatment upsell writes back to the same clock.

Seasonal pushes and the commercial off-season

Late spring and early fall are the two natural windows. Pre-summer goes to pool decks, patios, decks and fences; post-leaf-drop to gutters, roofs and driveways. And the cold months are when the commercial book gets built, because association and management budgets are set in the off-season.

Rails, not nurture

Four things the system is built to be careful about.

These ship switched on, they market nothing, and they exist because the cost of getting them wrong in this trade is a damage claim, a voided warranty or a crew turned away at a gate.

The method Substrate decides it, not preference

The roofing manufacturers’ association is unambiguous that a pressure washer should never be used on an asphalt shingle roof, because it causes granule loss and likely premature failure — and most shingle manufacturers treat high-pressure cleaning as voiding the warranty. So on this build, asphalt shingle plus high pressure is not a dropdown a tech can pick. To be straight with you about what that is: it is our own conservative design decision, taken on published trade-body guidance, manufacturer warranty exposure and the fact that a soft wash lasts ~2–5 years where a pressure-washed roof re-soils in ~3–6 months. It is not a statute and we do not present it as one.

The landscaping A standing job step, not a habit

Pre-wet every plant with clean water before any chemical touches the structure, divert the runoff, and apply a neutralizer during and after the rinse. It is the trade’s primary damage-claim countermeasure and the fastest route to a bad review when it is skipped, so it ships as a step on the job rather than something a good tech remembers. The sensitive-plantings flag from intake is what turns it on by name.

The warranty Yours to configure. No default.

Respected operators in this trade openly disagree — multi-year spot-free warranties at one end, a flat refusal on the grounds that nobody controls the environment at the other. So the account ships with no warranty number at all, and it holds warranty language out of outbound copy until you have set the length, whether it prorates, and the exclusions. A snapshot that ships a default warranty is shipping you a liability you never agreed to.

The paperwork Insurance is a stage, and stop means stop

The certificate and the additional-insured naming are a stage on the commercial board before the bid goes out, because a lapsed certificate stops the crew at the gate. Common association vendor guidance asks for $1M general liability and $2M for larger communities with the association named — those are contract requirements published by property managers, not legal minimums, and they ship as a default you can raise. On commercial work the washwater handling and disposal record are per-job fields, because bids increasingly ask for the documentation. Opt-outs and do-not-contact outrank every sequence in the account.

The numbers this build is designed around

One afternoon, then one clock that keeps running.

Not close rate. What decides an exterior-cleaning year is whether the quote went out while she was still shopping, and whether the surfaces you already cleaned come back to you on a date you set.

20

Stage names your two boards open with — ten residential, ten commercial, in order. These are build values, not estimates, and you can read all twenty above.

7 days

The shelf life your quotes ship with, against thirty in most trades. The price was built on stale imagery on a degrading surface in a season that moves — and it is a setting, not a rule.

~7×

More likely to qualify a lead when first contact happens inside the first hour, across ~1.25 million leads studied by Harvard Business Review — which is the whole argument for measuring from the desk.

~12–18 mo
→ ~3–5 yrs

What a post-clean treatment does to the regrowth interval. Published trade ranges, hedged — and the reason the treatment upsell is a scheduling decision as much as a pricing one.

Figures are published industry research, this build’s own configured values, or illustrative examples — they are not a projection of your results. Regrowth intervals and production times are national ranges that vary widely by climate, exposure, canopy and season. Pricing calibration figures are published operator guidance about how to price, not a target we set for you. The response-time study is cross-industry and directionally relevant to home services rather than native to it.

What actually happens after you sign up

Your first thirty days.

Configuration is ours, not yours. Here’s the sequence — and the one point where we need something only you can give us.

  1. Days 1–3

    Your boards are built, not handed to you blank

    Both pipelines, three calendars, and the fields this trade actually needs: service type, substrate, roof material and pitch, the oxidation finger test, water source, sensitive landscaping, exposure and last-cleaned date on the property side; measured square footage, measurement method, the assumptions block, method required, quoted amount, quote expiry, deposit percentage and schedule, weather-hold reason and the photo-set gate on the job side; the insurance requirement and the additional-insured naming on the commercial side.

  2. Days 3–7

    Intake goes live, address first

    An instant-quote form built the way this trade needs it — the address at the top because the address is what gets measured, then service interest, substrate and roof material, story count, and customer-supplied photos, which are the documented fallback when tree canopy hides the flatwork. Plus the commercial bid form that books a walkthrough instead of a service visit, the chat widget, your Google Business Profile, and missed-call text-back on with every source tagged.

  3. Week 2

    The things we need from you

    Text-message registration and your sending domain both need a real human with your business details — regulation, not paperwork we invented. We prepare the submissions; you approve and sign, and that sets your go-live date. Alongside it, the values your account runs on: your service area and office hours, your review link, your working temperature range, your minimum ticket, your deposit percentage, your referral reward, and your warranty terms if you offer any.

  4. Week 3

    Payments connected

    Your Square account and dual-priced invoicing go live: itemized quotes by surface, deposit invoicing computed from your own percentage rather than a hard-coded number, text-to-pay from the driveway at completion, and recurring billing for the maintenance plans.

  5. Week 4

    The long clock is armed

    The register is populated from your history — what was cleaned, when, which elevation, what you treated it with — so the due dates start computing against work you already did. The seasonal pushes are scheduled, the plan renewals are dated, and the winter commercial build is on the calendar before the budgets get set.

Where the money actually moves

Every automation ends at a payment. So we own that part too.

Follow-up that ends in “I’ll send an invoice” is half a system. Your account runs on Square for processing, with dual-priced invoicing on top: the cash price is the price, and a customer paying by card sees the card price beside it and chooses.

Square payment processing — next-day deposits, card-present hardware

The quote is itemized, so the bundle is expressible

Customers trust line items and distrust round totals — and pricing by surface is also exactly what makes the add-on, the bundled tier and the plan something you can put in front of them instead of describing.

The deposit ships at zero, deliberately

Published sources are silent on residential deposit practice in this trade, so we decline to invent one. The mechanic is there and computes from your percentage of the quoted amount the moment you set it — and the placeholder is priced at zero on purpose, so no invoice can quietly be “correct” at a number nobody chose.

Paid in the driveway, not chased from the office

The photo set files, the invoice lands in the same thread the confirmation ran in with a pay link on it, and the review request waits its two hours behind the suppression rules. Plans bill recurring on the same rails.

Dual pricing on volume you already run

Residential one-offs, add-ons, plan billing and commercial invoices add up to steady card volume at ~3% in processing. Dual pricing hands that cost back. The customer who hands you a check notices nothing — the cash price is already their price.

Plans

Two plans. Month to month.

Everything above is included in both — both boards, the pre-quote gate, the register, the compliance rails, the payment rails. The difference is how much marketing and reporting surface you want on top.

Starter $99 per month, plus usage · ~$10 usage credit included
  • CRM and both pipelines
  • Unified inbox — text, email, chat
  • Three calendars and online booking
  • Website and funnels
  • Forms and surveys — the instant-quote and commercial bid forms
  • AI lead follow-up
  • Payments and invoicing
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Scale MOST POPULAR $199 per month, plus usage · ~25% lower usage rates
  • Everything in Starter
  • Full marketing suite
  • Reputation management — the review request with its suppression rules
  • Social planner
  • Memberships and recurring billing — the maintenance plans
  • Documents and contracts — e-signed commercial agreements
  • Advanced reporting
  • Priority support
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Fair questions.

Half my customers hand me a check. Dual pricing will scare them off.

It will not touch them. The cash price is their price — a check or cash payer’s experience does not change at all. The card price is derived and shown beside it, and the customer picks every time; nobody is surcharged in the dark. What it works on is the card volume you already run: the one-off residential jobs, the add-ons, the plan billing and the commercial invoices.

I already quote and schedule in software built for washing. I’m not ripping it out.

Don’t. Your measuring tool, your bid calculator and your job scheduling stay exactly where they are. What moves is the layer above them: the two boards and their stages, the intake and the missed-call recovery, the follow-up that runs on day one, three and seven, the register that decides when a surface is due again, and the money. This board tells your operations tools which jobs are real. It does not try to price a driveway for you.

My season is six months long. I’m not paying twelve months for it.

The other six are when the two things that compound actually happen. The register runs all winter and produces the spring list, dated per surface rather than mailed at everyone at once. And the commercial book is built in the off-season, because that is when association and management budgets get set — walk the properties in February, and the bid is already in the room when the money is allocated.

It’s me and one truck. This is built for companies with an office.

The opposite, actually. A company with an office can answer the phone while you are forty feet up a ladder wearing ear protection. The instant acknowledgement, the missed-call text-back and the quote follow-up are the office — they are what let a one-truck operation answer inside the same afternoon as the outfit with a receptionist. The whole point of quoting from the desk is that it takes minutes, not a Thursday.

Why not stay on the processor I’ve got?

Two concrete reasons and one honest caveat. Dual pricing exists on the Square path, which is the mechanism that hands the ~3% back rather than watching it leave; and Square brings card-present hardware for the truck plus next-day deposits, which matter when your cash flow is compressed into two peak windows a year. The caveat: stored cards do not transfer between processors, so any recurring plan customer re-authorizes once. We fold that into a renewal notice rather than running it as a migration.

Is this a generic CRM with a pressure-washing sticker on it?

The stage names above are the first test — those are the boards your account opens with, and no vendor selling an exterior-cleaning snapshot publishes theirs. The second test is what you cannot buy anywhere: we went looking for a build that ships a pre-quote substrate and oxidation gate, a standing assumptions block on the quote, a real Weather Hold state with its own suppression, and a per-surface regrowth register. What is publicly sold is the same niche paragraph with the trade noun swapped — one page selling this vertical still carries image metadata from a postpartum-fitness template, another closes by promising to elevate your tourism business, and a third ships with its testimonials still reading lorem ipsum. That gap is why this build exists.

Late spring and early fall arrive whether or not your follow-up is built.

Board now and the boards are built, the intake is live and the register is already computing against the work you did last season — instead of during the first week the phone doesn’t stop.

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