Quoting
Send a priced quote before you leave the driveway
Build a quote line by line on your phone while you are still standing in the customer's laundry. GST is calculated as you type. The customer gets a link they can accept with one tap. An accepted quote becomes a job without you re-typing a thing.
The problem
Most quotes are lost to time, not price. The job gets measured up on Tuesday. The quote gets typed on Sunday night. By then the customer has already booked someone else.
What it does
How quoting works in GoSmoko
Line items with GST handled
Add labour and materials as separate lines with quantities and unit prices. GST is applied at your registered rate and shown separately, so the quote is compliant from the first draft.
Accept or decline with one tap
The customer opens a clean web page. No PDF to download. No account to create. Their answer lands in your pipeline immediately.
Expiry dates that stick
Set a valid-until date and the quote shows as expired once it passes, so material price rises are never your problem to absorb.
Straight through to a job
Every quote sits on its job. When the customer accepts, the job moves to Approved and a draft invoice with the same lines is waiting. Nothing is copied by hand, so nothing is copied wrong.
Step by step
What you actually do
- 1
Pick the customer
Search existing customers or add a new one with just a name and a phone number. Details can be filled in later.
- 2
Add your lines
Description, quantity, unit price. The subtotal, GST, and total update as you go.
- 3
Send it
GoSmoko emails the customer a link and records who it went to and when.
- 4
Get the answer
Accepted quotes mark the job approved and draft the invoice. Declined ones stay on file so you can see what you are losing and why.
The details that matter
- Sequential quote numbers per year and per business, allocated atomically so two devices can never take the same number.
- Line order is preserved exactly as you typed it, on screen, in the email, and on the printed copy.
- Every amount is rounded to cents at each step, so the line totals always add up to the quote total.
- Quote links use an unguessable token and are excluded from search engines.
Questions
Before you switch
Can I quote without an email address for the customer?
Yes. Save the quote, then download the PDF or print it for them. When they say yes, tap Accept quote and the job and the draft invoice are ready. Add an email later if you want them to accept from a link.
What happens if I need to change a quote after sending it?
Sent quotes are locked so the version the customer holds cannot silently change. Create a revised quote and send that instead. Both stay on file.
Does the customer see my costs or margins?
No. They see only the line descriptions, quantities, and prices you enter, plus GST and the total.
Try quoting on a real job.
7-day free trial, then Solo $49/mo. Bring one job across and see how it feels.