A price book for tradies, GST included
Put your prices in once, by the square metre, the metre or the job, and every quote is priced from them. Start from a book in Aussie words, keep GST in the price, and let the AI pick the items. Every dollar is yours.
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What goes in a tradie’s price book?
Everything you charge for: labour, materials, and other charges like a tip fee or equipment hire. Each quote and invoice takes its prices from the book, so you’re not working out the price of turf from memory on every job.
Tap New on the Price book tab to add one. Pick its Type (Labour, Material or Other) and its Unit: square metre, metre, cubic metre, tonne, hour, visit or each. The price can wait; until then the item shows No price.
Is there a starter book in Aussie words?
Yes. Tap Choose your trade and Quotebird adds 30 to 80 items written the way tradies write them. The landscaper’s book has whipper snipping, weed mat, seedlings by the punnet and shrubs in 200 mm pots; the sparky’s has power points, switchboard upgrades and safety switch (RCD) installation; the plumber’s has blocked drain clearing, hot water systems and tempering valves.
The handyman’s book leaves out tap, toilet and light fitting work, and lists appliance installation as plug-in only. The mechanic’s roadworthy item takes your state’s name for it: Safety check (eSafety) in New South Wales, Roadworthy certificate (RWC) inspection in Victoria, Safety certificate inspection in Queensland. Your hourly rate goes on the hourly labour items.
Turf, edging and mulch, at Jess’s prices
Jess Taylor is the New South Wales landscaper from this site’s screenshots, a demo business we built for them. She added the landscaper’s book with her $75 hourly rate and set her own prices. For 40 m² of turf and edged, mulched beds, each line came from her book:
Labour
- Turf laying$14.00 a square metre, 40 m²
- Edging installation$22.00 a metre, 18 m
- Mulching$85.00 a cubic metre, 1.5 m³
Materials, and one other charge
- Turf$9.50 a square metre, 40 m²
- Steel garden edging$16.00 a metre, 18 m
- Mulch$95.00 a cubic metre, 1.5 m³
- Green waste removal$120.00 a job
The quote came to $2,014.00 with GST included, $183.09 of it GST. Laying and supplying are separate items in her book, so the customer sees the work and the turf on lines of their own, each at Jess’s price.
Do my prices include GST?
Yes, by default. A new quote starts with Prices include GST switched on, so the price in your book is the price your customer sees, the way the ACCC expects prices shown, and Quotebird works out the GST inside it. Each line takes 10% as it’s added, and you can tap one to change it.
Not registered for GST? Then none is charged, and the same book works.
Does the AI set the price?
No. When you draft a quote from photos, the AI gets your item names, units and types, and none of your prices. It picks items and estimates quantities; Quotebird multiplies by your price. If it measures mulch in litres and your item is by the cubic metre, the quantity is converted for you.
Work your book doesn’t cover comes in as No price and adds nothing until you price it. Tap Save after pricing, and choose Save to price book to have it ready next time, or Only this quote.
What happens when I change a price or stop doing a job?
Change the item once. New quotes take the new price, and so do drafts you add the item to; quotes and tax invoices already sent don’t change. Changing a price on a quote asks whether to save it to the book too.
Archive takes an item off the list, out of new quotes and away from the AI. It isn’t deleted, since a sent quote may name it: the Archived tab keeps it and Restore brings it back.
Can I import my price list?
Yes, from any app or spreadsheet that saves a CSV file with a header row. Go to Settings → Import customers and items, choose Price book and check the Columns Quotebird matched. Units written as lm, m2 or sqm come in as metres and square metres, and items without a type come in as Other, or as Labour when they’re by the hour or the day. Up to 5,000 rows a file.
Questions
Can I price by the lineal metre?
Yes. Pick Metre as the unit; edging, hedges and fencing go by the metre in the landscaper’s book. An imported list with lm in its unit column comes in by the metre too.
Do I need a price on every item before I quote?
No. Unpriced items show No price and add nothing to the total. Price them as jobs come up, and before the quote goes.
Can I export my price book?
Yes. Settings → Export your data prepares a zip with every PDF you sent and price-book.csv, archived items included.
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Questions? Write to us at support@quotebird.app.