QuoteIron turns 400 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, HVAC, appliance and garage-door repair, pressure washing, lawn care, and handyman — 400 real residential job templates: water heater swaps, panel work, drywall patches, spring replacements, condenser-fan-motor swaps, driveway washes, 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 — delivered as a private link your customer approves with one tap. You see the moment they open it, and the second they say yes. Need paper? Print or save a PDF right from your phone.
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 as of July 2026, taken from each vendor's public pricing pages; subject to change — the links are right there.
The next honest flat-rate book
Profit Rhino runs $39–59/tech/mo + $1,499 setup coaching — priced for fleets. Yours is $14/mo flat: no per-tech math, no required coach. See the whole table.
Text the estimate straight from your phone. The moment your customer opens it, the quote turns SEEN in your app. The moment they tap Approve, it turns WON — you never send another "did you get my quote" text.
They approve, then follow a link to send a deposit and book the job — paid however you already take money. QuoteIron never touches it, so QuoteIron can never hold it.
Carries your business name and logo. And it is all in the $14 — no add-on tier, no per-link fee.
See the send-and-win flow in the appQuoting 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).
IronTally 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 IronTally 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 400 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.
Nothing dies with us — your data was never on our servers to begin with. It lives on your device, and one tap exports the whole book: a full JSON backup plus an income CSV any accountant or bookkeeping tool can open. That file is yours — keep it wherever you keep the important stuff. One nuance: the installed app holds your book in its own storage, which rides along in your normal phone backups; the web version keeps it in the browser — so on the web especially, hit Export every now and then. Cloud backup — an encrypted copy we physically can't read — is in the works, not shipped yet; the day it's real, it'll say so right here.
You get paid the way you already do, and no — we never stand in the middle of it. Every estimate and invoice can carry a Pay (or deposit) button that points straight at your own method: your Stripe, PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, or a Zelle/card handoff you set once in Setup. Your customer taps it and pays you directly — the money lands in your account, never ours. That's the whole point. Every incumbent horror story — funds frozen, a chargeback eaten, a refund issued without your say — starts with a company holding your money between you and the job. We never hold it, so we can never do that to you.
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.
The real app — no mockups. Price a job in 90 seconds, then know the second you’ve won.
