Contractor Estimate & Invoice

Joist Software Inc.

In-app purchases

About this app

Create quick, professional estimates and invoices, accept payments, and manage projects from anywhere!

Joist is a FREE tool for contractors that helps you SAVE TIME, WIN MORE JOBS, and STAY ORGANIZED.

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► CONTRACTORS LOVE JOIST BECAUSE:

• WIN MORE JOBS - Send your client an estimate before you leave. Be the first to get an estimate in their hands, and give them the opportunity to say YES on the spot.
• REMOVE THE BOTTLENECK OF ESTIMATING & INVOICING - Build estimates and invoices quicker by creating and selecting from your list of commonly used materials and labor rates.
• ACCEPT PAYMENTS FROM CLIENTS - accept Credit Card and E-Check payments from your clients directly through Joist, so you can stop wasting hours driving around to pick up checks and deposit them at the bank.
• EASILY MANAGE CLIENTS - Create, organize, and store valuable client info, so you can access their info anytime, on the go.
• SAVES TIME - Complete work at the jobsite or in the truck, rather than spending your evenings and weekends catching up on paperwork after a long day
• LOOK PROFESSIONAL - Show your clients that you’re the contractor they should trust for the job; with customized, professional looking estimates and invoices.

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► FEATURES:

- Easily calculate material & labor costs when estimating & invoicing
- Build a list of commonly used items
- Customize your estimates & invoices with your company info, logo, etc.
- Attach a client contract and collect a signature directly on the spot
- Accept Credit Card and E-Check Payments directly through the app
- Attach photos to your estimates and invoices
- Preview estimates & invoices before you send
- Print or email estimates & invoices on the spot
- Create a personal message for your clients
- Convert estimates into invoices
- Keep track of customer payments and how much you're owed
- Manage and save your clients information
- Set your tax rates
- Export everything into your accounting program (reduce bookkeeping costs)

*Access all your info from any device and the web - Joist is a cloud application

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► WHO USES JOIST:

All types of general and specialty trade contractors, estimators, and service companies use the app, such as: general contractors, handymen, electricians, plumbers, builders, landscapers, roofers, painters, carpenters, heating and air conditioning, flooring, siding, tile, concrete, paving, bathroom and kitchen remodeling, renovators, deck builders, drywallers, pest control, and more!

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Joist is FREE to Download and FREE to use - available on Android, iPhone, iPad, & desktop computer.

Get support FAST! Our support staff are based in North America. They are responsive (answer the phone / emails immediately), and care about helping you run the best business possible:

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www.joist.com/app
In-app live chat

Customer Support is available 8AM-10PM EST M-F

Ratings and reviews

I like the app when it works. With that being said, I am starting to see some improvements to performance, but I still experience issues that I hope will be addressed: When uploading photos to an estimate, it's very common to see that all or some of them fail to upload, and you have to tap RETRY on the photo itself. It happens very often, where I do this, and it deletes the photo instead of trying to upload again. Please make an option to retry automatically, and a user prompt for deleting!

Overall great, huge time saver, couple complaints. One major complaint is not sure how but I've accidentally switched several estimates over to invoices without even realizing it. The first couple times of doing this I retyped the entire estimate without realizing it was in the invoice folder. Please make doing this more difficult or make it reversible.

The app keeps saying it can't connect to the servers lately, beyond frustrating. I'm in and out all day and it glitches between estimates and invoices. Can't look up customers by phone number. Also, you can't add negative line items, You have to deduct them under discounts. While this app is useful and has got us very far, we pay for the yearly subscription which is over $100, and it cant do more than basic math. I am griping at these annoyances that are very easy to fix. Please do so!

What's new

Hey Joisters!
This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements

Cheers,
The Joist Team