A garage door spring at nine, a rekey at eleven, a dishwasher after lunch — three trades in a day, at three different prices. Each one is a job you price, dispatch and bill on the same record, whatever trade it happens to be that hour.
How a job runs
A tenant’s garage door won’t lift. The property manager rings at eight, you dispatch the tech who’s closest, and the job goes out with the address and the gate code already on it. On site it’s a broken spring pair — the $285 line, out to her phone, approved while he’s still up the ladder. She asks him to look at a sticking storm door while he’s there, and that goes on the job he already has open. One bill, paid before he reaches the next address.
The map shows you where your people are; you pick. The address and whatever the office put on the job — gate code, which unit, what the last visit found — are on his phone before he pulls off.
She taps yes and the approval sits on the job with her name and the time on it. Not a quote typed up that evening and chased on Thursday.
He adds it before he packs the van, so the bill covers the whole visit and not just the part that was called in.
Door up. Storm door billed. Paid.
The $89 appliance diagnosis and the repair are two lines on one job, and you set what each one bills before the customer sees a total. So the diagnosis comes off right there, not as a credit the office has to make true on Monday.
The storm door they point at while the drill is still out is different work at a different price, and it goes on the open job as its own line. The visit bills once, and it bills for both — what got you there, and what they asked for once you were.
Half day is $320 and full day is $600, so fourteen small fixes bill as the day it took. Nobody has to put a price on a doorstop and a loose handrail one at a time.
Put a helper on the job at the day rate he works for, and only for the days he was there, so what he’s owed sits against the work he did. Each payout carries the date it was for, so the year’s total for every 1099 helper adds itself up instead of you going back through check stubs.
Day one
Say you run a handyman and repair business and QuixChex sets this up for you before you've typed anything. Every price is editable — they're a starting point, not a rule.
| Service | What it covers | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| Service Call / Diagnostic | On-site diagnosis, first hour. | $95 |
| Additional Labor (per hour) | Beyond the first hour. | $75 |
| Handyman Half Day (4 hrs) | Four-hour block of general repairs. | $320 |
| Handyman Full Day (8 hrs) | A full day on a punch list. | $600 |
| Appliance Repair — Diagnosis | Fault-find, credited against the repair. | $89 |
| Appliance Repair — Standard | Common repair, labor and parts allowance. | $245 |
| Garage Door — Spring Replacement | Torsion spring pair replaced. | $285 |
| Garage Door Opener Install | Supply, install and pair the remotes. | $425 |
| Lock Rekey (per cylinder) | Rekey an existing lock. | $35 |
| Lockout / Emergency Entry | Non-destructive entry. | $145 |
| Gutter Cleaning (single storey) | Clear, flush and bag the debris. | $175 |
| Pressure Washing — Driveway | Up to two cars wide. | $195 |
| Pressure Washing — House Exterior | Soft wash, single storey. | $385 |
| TV / Shelf Mounting | Mount supplied and fitted. | $145 |
| Emergency After-Hours Call | Priority response outside hours. | $185 |
FAQ
Yes — on the lines, not with a credit note. Both sit on the same job and you set what each one bills, so the $89 appliance diagnosis drops to zero once the repair is agreed. Turn the repair down and it stands on its own, and bills as the visit it was.
Yes. The service locations sit under the one customer, so a property manager with thirty doors is one account and thirty addresses. Each job carries the address it was worked at, so what happened at any one door is still findable next year.
Yes. Half day and full day sit on your price list like anything else. A punch list bills as a block of time, a spring pair bills as the repair it is, and the same landlord gets both on one account.
No. Payment is a link to the customer’s phone, or a card already on file for a landlord you work for every month. There’s no register in this and nothing to carry in the van.
Yes. A Sunday lockout takes two lines — the $145 entry and the $185 Emergency After-Hours Call — so the weekend rate is priced apart from the work itself. Neither one has to be worked out by hand at midnight.
Yes. Gutters twice a year, or a monthly round for a landlord, charges on a schedule you set once at that customer’s price. The one-off calls in between stay separate jobs on the same account.
A short call, on your own services and your own customers. We'll show you what the first week looks like, and talk through what it would take to get you there.