You want a quoting tool
Start on the contractor software comparison. That guide is the quoting-tool page. This one only helps you decide.
Book or software
Plumbing price book or pricing software: which fits a service contractor
A price book is the priced task list. Software is how the tech looks tasks up and builds the bid. This page is that choice. It is not a download, and it is not another software product.
If you already know you want plumbing price book software, continue to that guide. If you want the finished plumbing files, open the Plumbing Price Book. HVAC files are on the HVAC Price Book.
Right page, right job
Use this page to choose, then open that page
The software guide is the quoting-tool comparison. The plumbing book is where you buy the files. This page only helps you tell them apart.
You want the plumbing files
The Plumbing Price Book is where you buy the finished files. Stay on that page for the price and what is included.
The trucks are HVAC
Use the HVAC Price Book for those files. The same split still applies: the book holds the tasks, and the quoting tool builds the bid.
Which problem you have
The book sets the price. The tool presents it on the call.
Shops get stuck when they buy files and still quote from memory, or when they buy an app and still have no agreed task list.
Choose the book when the shop needs one task list
Use it for repairs, installations, and excavation when every truck should present the same included work and the same number. The files are full and light pricing files, plus task and excavation calculators, import tools, and training.
One-time $299. You adjust labor, materials, and margins for your market. You do not get a quoting app with the files.
View the Plumbing Price BookChoose software when the tech needs to build the bid
Use it when the call needs a bid and an invoice from the phone: labor rates, markups, discounts, and surcharges, without a monthly CRM subscription. That comparison lives on the software guide.
The app does not replace a field-service CRM, and it does not replace the finished task list. It is not dispatching, scheduling, or a customer history system.
Compare pricing softwareThe job calculator app is the phone download once you want the quoting tool. It runs on iOS and Android and does not replace the book.
Next step
Open the page that sells the thing you chose
This page tells the files apart from the quoting tool. The links below go to the page that sells what you chose.
Continue to pricing software
The software guide is where quoting-tool questions belong. It sends you to the job calculator when you are ready to download, and back to the books when you need finished files.
Open the software guideBuy the Plumbing Price Book
Full and light files, task and excavation calculators, import tools, and training. One-time $299. Not a monthly quoting subscription.
View the Plumbing Price BookCommon questions
Questions owners ask before they buy the wrong thing
Is the price book the same thing as pricing software?
No. The book is the priced task list the shop agrees on. Software is how the tech looks those tasks up and builds the bid.
Where do I go if I want a quoting tool?
Open the software guide. It compares the job calculator with the books. This page does not sell a second software product.
Where do I buy the plumbing files?
The Plumbing Price Book is the one-time $299 package: full and light files, task and excavation calculators, import tools, and training.
Does the phone app replace the book?
No. The job calculator app builds bids and invoices from the phone. It does not replace the finished task list.
You know which one you need. Open that page.
Keep this page for the choice. Open the software guide for a quoting tool, or the Plumbing Price Book for the files.