A ringing mobile is a great start. What happens between the call and the quote email is where jobs get lost. Every day a quote sits unwritten is a day the customer is on the phone to someone else.
The typical week for a small trade business
- Twenty-plus phone calls, each with a scribbled sticky note.
- Three or four site visits.
- Evenings spent writing quotes from memory.
- A handful of enquiries that never got a written response.
What breaks down
Details from the call get lost. Numbers get transcribed wrong. Customers who called on Monday get a quote on Thursday. Some never get one at all. The customer takes the first quote they receive; it is often the fastest, not the best.
How QuoteMate helps
- Every call is transcribed and summarised automatically.
- Key details — job type, address, materials, urgency — pulled into a structured form.
- A draft quote is generated from your templates, ready to review.
- You edit, adjust the price, and send in minutes rather than hours.
- Follow-ups scheduled automatically for any quote that has not been answered.
The result
Quotes go out the same day. Response rate improves. Evenings come back. Most trades see win-rates lift by 20–30% simply because they are the fastest to respond.
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