Sharp work · Sharp bids
Your craft is sharp. Your paperwork should match.
Create professional estimates right from the jobsite, get customer approval and signatures, manage change orders, and send invoices from the same place. DeftBid keeps the paperwork moving so you can spend more time doing the work.
The method
No spreadsheets, no clunky PDFs — just a clean path from the jobsite to a signed bid.
Add labor and materials as you walk the job — by voice on your phone or tablet, or straight from your price book. Markup, tax, and totals land as you go, so your estimate is ready before you leave the jobsite.
Finalize and send before you're back in the truck. Your customer opens a clean proposal on their phone in seconds, not days, where they can review the work, request changes, approve, and sign.
They approve and sign, and the notification hits your phone on the spot — no chasing, no waiting. Once the job is underway, keep approved change orders with the original agreement and send the invoice when the work is complete.
The toolkit
Every tool aimed at the whole job: a sharper estimate, a signed contract, the changes that come after, and the invoice at the end.
Your rates and go-to line items, saved. Reuse them on every bid and start from job templates.
“Add 32 hours of demo at 72 an hour.” Speak the job on your phone or tablet and DeftBid lists it — priced and totaled.
Markup, discount and tax calculated live. Every figure set in clean, tabular type.
Draft → Sent → Viewed → Changes requested → Accepted or Declined. Know the second a client opens your bid.
Mobile-first for the truck, the jobsite and the kitchen table — wherever the work takes you.
Your logo and license number on every proposal. It looks like your company — because it is.
Your customer accepts and signs from the link, identity confirmed by a code to their email. The proposal locks the moment they do.
Extra work goes on the same bid and gets its own signature. The original agreement stands, and approved, signed change orders are automatically included in invoices issued afterward.
The deposit invoice goes out with the signed contract, and the final bill starts from what was signed. Contractor invoicing software that starts from the job you already sold.
Read more about DeftBid as contractor estimating software and contractor invoicing software, or see how it compares in DeftBid vs. Joist.
For your clients
Your customer gets a clean, professional proposal in one simple link where they can review the estimate, request changes, approve the work, and sign.
One plan · One price
14-day free trial — no card required. One subscription covers iPhone, iPad, Android & web, and the price is the same whichever way you pay.
$29.99/mo
Cancel anytime.
$299.99/yr
Billed once a year.
Free for 14 days, then $29.99/mo or $299.99/yr. Cancel anytime.
Ready when you are
Build your first estimate in about five minutes, then keep the job moving from approval through invoice in the same place. No card required.