QuoteIron turns 150 job templates into your flat-rate price book — your labor rate, your markup, your numbers. Then you quote any job in about 90 seconds, from your phone, with no signal, in a basement. One tap turns the quote into an invoice.
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Real complaints from real tradesmen and the people who review the incumbents. Click any source — we don't make claims we can't show you.
"Homeowners can't stand getting a per hour price when they don't know if they have a 2 hour fix or a 3 week rewire situation."Solo electrical contractor · Mike Holt Forum, Dec 2023 · source
"I'm working by myself right now and have been put on the spot at times with pricing on jobs."Newly licensed solo electrician · r/electricians, Mar 2024 · source
"You can't just cancel online someone has to call you."Housecall Pro customer · Trustpilot, Mar 2026 (2.9/5 overall) · source
Flat-rate software charges $39–59 per tech per month and requires paid "implementation coaching." QuoteIron gives one honest tool to the man who IS the company. We never ship fake market prices — the templates carry the structure, you carry the numbers.
Electrical, plumbing, handyman — 150 real residential job templates: water heater swaps, panel work, drywall patches, the jobs you quote every week.
Your labor rate, your materials markup, your service-call fee. The whole book prices itself from your numbers in one second. Change a number, the book follows.
Tap the jobs, hand over a firm price, send a branded PDF from your phone's share sheet. One more tap when you win: it's an invoice.
Basements, crawlspaces, dead zones. QuoteIron is an app that lives on your phone, not a website that dies with the signal.
Quotes, invoices, clients. No 5-document months. No "upgrade to send more."
Unanswered quotes surface after 5 days so you chase the money. Elsewhere this feature costs $99/month.
Estimates and invoices that look like a real company sent them. Print or save as PDF right from your phone, then send it however your customer talks.
One-tap backup to a file you keep. Full export, always, free. If you leave, you leave with everything.
We never touch your money, so we can never hold it. You keep taking checks, cards, cash — however you do it now.
Every number below comes from the vendor's own pricing page or a public review platform, fetched July 2026. Check us.
| Tool | Solo price | The catch | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuoteIron | $14/mo flat | No payments processing, no scheduling — quoting and invoicing, done right | — |
| Joist | $10–32/mo | Cheap tier caps you at 5 documents a month | joist.com |
| Invoice Simple | $4.99–19.99/mo | 3–10 invoices/month below the top tier; no estimating workflow | capterra.com |
| QuoteIQ | $29.99/mo | 2× the price; follow-up automations gated at $74.99; no offline mode; no build-your-own flat-rate book | myquoteiq.com |
| ServiceM8 | Free (solo) | Real free solo tier — but capped at 30 jobs/month, iOS-centric, and no flat-rate price book | servicem8.com |
| FieldEdge Flat Rate (Coolfront) | ~$1.65–1.73 per work order | Pay-per-ticket flat-rate quoting — fees scale with every job; publisher's database, not your book | fieldedge.com |
| Jobber | $29–399/mo | Quote follow-ups & QuickBooks sync gated behind $99+/mo tiers | getjobber.com |
| Housecall Pro | $59–79/mo | Billing-practice trust problem: 2.9/5 on Trustpilot (chargebacks, cancellation complaints) — though 4.7/5 on Capterra for the software itself | trustpilot.com |
| Profit Rhino | $39–59/tech/mo | Flat-rate done right — for fleets; "Success Coaching & Implementation REQUIRED" ($1,499 on Pro) | profitrhino.com |
| ServiceTitan | ~$245+/tech/mo | Demo form screens for "at least one full-time office employee" | servicetitan.com |
Prices checked 2026-07. Vendors change pricing; the links are right there.
CANCEL ONLINE, ONE CLICK · NO CONTRACTS · NO PER-DOCUMENT CAPS · NO "CALL US TO LEAVE" · EXPORT EVERYTHING, ALWAYS
Demo-build honesty: billing isn't wired up yet — checkout and the one-click cancel ship with launch, and we're putting the promise in writing now.
Quoting is half a solo shop's paperwork. The other half is the books — and the company that owns that half charges like it knows you're stuck (QuickBooks: 1.1/5 on Trustpilot, with desktop customers documenting $1,106 → $4,149/yr in six years).
QuoteIron Books is plain-language bookkeeping from the same workbench: your paid invoices flow straight in as income, your expenses come from bank files you drag in, and the whole thing lives in one file you own.
What's true today: every paid invoice in QuoteIron already exports as an income CSV — gross receipts, labeled to Schedule C line 1, income only. Your accountant can use it this quarter — and when Books ships, it imports in one click.
No fake screenshots, no waitlist theater. When it's real, it'll be on this page with a price on the tag.
From you. The 150 templates carry the structure of each job — typical labor hours and mid-grade parts cost — and every number is editable. Your rate and markup do the pricing. We will never sell you "market rates" we can't stand behind.
QuoteIron installs from the browser to your home screen and works offline from there. No app store, no forced updates. If you want a store listing someday, that's on the roadmap — the app won't change.
Your data lives on your device, and your backup file is yours. The export is plain JSON and CSV; any bookkeeping tool or accountant can read it. When cloud backup arrives, we'll store only an encrypted copy that we physically can't read — so even that copy is useless to anyone but you.
Because holding your money creates the exact horror stories you read about the incumbents — disputed charges eaten, funds frozen, refunds issued without your consent. You already have ways to get paid. We stay out of the middle.
Correct — and QuoteIron doesn't force it. Custom lines and editable prices are right there for the rewires and the surprises. The book is for the 80% of jobs you've done a hundred times; quote those in 90 seconds and spend your judgment on the weird ones.
