What it does
Materials, labour, margin.
Worked out for you.
The old way is a spreadsheet. You price each material from the merchant's catalogue, work out the quantity from a takeoff, add your labour days, apply your markup, and total it up. Takes hours. While you're doing it, someone else has already sent a quote to your customer.
QuickPrice replaces the spreadsheet. You describe the job in your own words (“replace a 4m² tiled bathroom floor with underfloor heating and porcelain tiles”). The app picks out the scope, calculates quantities with sensible wastage, prices materials at UK trade rates, applies your regional labour rate, adds VAT. You review and tidy line items before it goes out.
Materials takeoff with real prices
The app reads materials from your job description (tiles, aggregate, timber, plasterboard, fittings) and prices them on UK supplier data.
Regional labour rates
12 UK regions, day rates calibrated per trade. London plumbing isn't Leeds plumbing. The app picks the right one from your postcode.
Multi-trade jobs split by section
Extensions, kitchen refits, and loft conversions broken into groundworks, first fix, second fix, finishes. Each section costed on its own.
VAT, CIS, markup sorted
20% standard VAT by default, 5% reduced-rate on qualifying lines. CIS flagging for contractor work. Markup at whatever percentage you set.
For builders
For builders pricing
multi-trade jobs.
Extensions and loft conversions touch several trades each. Pricing them on a spreadsheet takes the whole evening and you still get one trade wrong. QuickPrice splits the project by trade section and estimates each one with the right materials and labour.
Extensions
Single-storey or two-storey. Groundworks (concrete, rebar, DPM), superstructure (block, brick, lintel), roof, first and second fix. A standard UK domestic extension estimated in minutes.
Loft conversions
Dormer or Velux. Timber, steelwork allowance, insulation to current building regs, Velux units, dormer framing, plasterboard, finishes. Each trade priced at your regional rates.
Renovations
Whole-house refurbs costed room by room. Shared services (electrical, plumbing, heating) sit in their own sections. Itemised in a way customers can read.
The pricing engine
Real UK material costs.
Real UK labour rates.
Supplier pricing
Travis Perkins, Screwfix, Wickes, Toolstation, Howdens, and other UK merchants. Refreshed regularly so timber price movements and aggregate changes show up in your quote without you ringing the trade desk.
Regional labour
Twelve UK regions, day rates pulled from Checkatrade, MyBuilder, and the FMB. So your quote reflects what tradespeople in your area actually charge, not a national average that under-prices London jobs and over-prices Newcastle ones.
Your margin, your rules
Set your default markup once and it's applied to every estimate. Adjust per line in the review step if a job needs a different margin. You see your cost and sell price; the customer's PDF only shows their total.
Compared to
How it stacks up.
Spreadsheets (Excel, Numbers)
Free, but you price every job by hand. No UK supplier prices. No regional labour. Slow, easy to get wrong, and useless on-site.
Buildertrend / Jobber / ServiceTitan
Full US-built job management platforms aimed at mid-to-large firms. Expensive, complex, and the pricing logic is built around dollars and US trade conventions.
QuickPrice
Focused AI estimating and quoting, built UK-first. Phone-native, works on-site, priced for sole traders and small crews. Pair it with whatever accounting software you already use.
FAQ
Estimating software FAQ
What is estimating software for tradesmen?
Software that works out what a job will cost before you start it. Materials plus labour plus any markup, totalled up. The old way is spreadsheets and supplier catalogues. QuickPrice uses AI to do it from a job description with UK supplier prices and regional labour rates already plugged in.
How is estimating different from quoting?
Estimating is working out what the job costs. Quoting is presenting that cost to the customer as a proposal. QuickPrice does both: the AI builds the estimate, then the quoting side formats it as a branded PDF you can send.
Which trades does this cover?
All 13 main UK trades (plumbing, electrical, building, painting and decorating, roofing, carpentry, landscaping, kitchen fitting, bathroom fitting, tiling, plastering, heating, general handyman) plus 15 specialist trades. Each one has its own materials database and labour data.
Does it use real UK material prices?
Yes. Travis Perkins, Screwfix, Wickes, Toolstation, Howdens, and other major UK merchants. Trade prices, not retail. Refreshed regularly so timber and aggregate price movements show up in your quote without you ringing round.
How accurate is it for complex jobs like extensions?
For standard domestic work (boiler swaps, bathroom refits, small extensions, re-roofs) most tradespeople send the estimate out as the quote with minimal edits. For unusual commercial work or one-off builds, treat the estimate as a starting point and tidy it up in the review step. More detail in, better result out.
Can builders use it?
Yes, and it's especially useful for builders because extensions and loft conversions cross multiple trades. The app breaks a project into groundworks, structural, first fix, second fix, and finishes, and estimates each section with the right materials and labour rates.
Does it use regional labour rates?
Yes, 12 UK regions: London, South East, South West, East of England, West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire, North East, North West, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland. London rates aren't Newcastle rates. The app uses your trade and your region to pick the base, and you can override with your own day rate.
How does it compare to Buildertrend, Jobber, or ServiceTitan?
Those are full US job-management platforms aimed at larger firms. QuickPrice is a focused UK estimating and quoting tool for sole traders and small crews. Cheaper, faster to use, UK-specific pricing. Pair it with whatever accounting software you already use.
Estimate on-site. Win more work.
Live on iOS and Android. Plans from £0/mo (Free), paid from £8.99/mo (incl. VAT). Try Pro free for 14 days.
Free UK quote templates if you're not ready to try the app yet.