Quoting and estimating software
for Australian tradies.
Price the job on-site in about a minute. Describe it and the app builds an itemised, GST-ready quote on real Australian supplier costs and labour rates tuned by state, city, and postcode. This isn't plan-takeoff software for tender season; it's fast quoting and estimating for the work that starts with a site visit. Works for every trade.
What it does
Materials, labour, margin.
Worked out for you.
The old way is a spreadsheet. You price each material from the supplier's catalogue, work out the quantity from a takeoff, add your labour days, apply your markup, and total it up. Takes hours. While you're doing it, someone else has already sent a quote to your customer.
QuickPrice replaces the spreadsheet. You describe the job in your own words (“replace a 4m² tiled bathroom floor with waterproofing and porcelain tiles”). The app picks out the scope, calculates quantities with sensible wastage, prices materials at Australian trade rates, applies your local labour rate, adds GST. You review and tidy line items before it goes out.
Materials takeoff with real prices
The app reads materials from your job description (tiles, timber, plasterboard, copper, fittings) and prices them on Australian supplier data.
Local labour rates
Rates tuned by state, city, and postcode. Sydney plumbing isn't Ballarat plumbing. The app calibrates to where you work.
Multi-trade jobs split by section
Extensions, kitchen renos, and whole-house refurbs broken into groundworks, first fix, second fix, finishes. Each section costed on its own.
GST, ABN, markup sorted
10% GST itemised on the PDF by default, your ABN printed on every document, compliant non-GST invoices if you're not registered. Markup at whatever percentage you set.
For builders
For builders pricing
multi-trade jobs.
Extensions and whole-house renos touch several trades each. Pricing them on a spreadsheet takes the whole evening and you still get one trade wrong. QuickPrice splits the project by trade section and estimates each one with the right materials and labour.
Extensions
Single-storey or two-storey. Groundworks (slab, rebar, membrane), framing, roofing, first and second fix. A standard Australian domestic extension estimated in minutes.
Renovations
Whole-house refurbs costed room by room. Shared services (electrical, plumbing, air conditioning) sit in their own sections. Itemised in a way customers can read.
Decks and outdoor
Decks, pergolas, and outdoor living jobs. Framing timber, decking boards, footings, fixings, and finishes, each quantified with wastage and priced at your local rates.
The pricing engine
Real Australian material costs.
Real Australian labour rates.
Supplier pricing
Bunnings Trade, Reece, Tradelink, and other major Australian suppliers. Trade prices, not retail, refreshed regularly, so timber price movements and copper changes show up in your quote without you ringing the trade desk.
Local labour
Labour rates tuned by state, city, and postcode, so your quote reflects what tradies in your area actually charge, not a national average that under-prices Sydney jobs and over-prices regional ones.
Your margin, your rules
Set your default markup once and it's applied to every estimate. Adjust per line in the review step if a job needs a different margin. You see your cost and sell price; the customer's PDF only shows their total.
Compared to
How it stacks up.
Spreadsheets (Excel, Numbers)
Free, but you price every job by hand. No Australian supplier prices. No local labour rates. Slow, easy to get wrong, and useless on-site.
Plan-takeoff tools (Groundplan, Buildxact)
Built for measuring quantities off scaled drawings: tenders, new builds, commercial estimating. Powerful for that, but overkill for quoting a hot water changeover from the driveway. If your estimating starts with a site visit, not a drawing set, it's the wrong aisle.
QuickPrice
Focused AI quoting and estimating, localised for Australia. Phone-native, works on-site, flat pricing for sole tradies and small crews. Pair it with whatever accounting software you already use.
Want the AI side in detail? AI quoting software covers voice, photo, and video input, and quoting software that learns your pricing covers Quote DNA.
FAQ
Estimating software FAQ
What is estimating software for tradies?
Software that works out what a job will cost before you start it. Materials plus labour plus any markup, totalled up. The old way is spreadsheets and supplier catalogues. QuickPrice uses AI to do it from a job description, with Australian supplier prices and local labour rates already plugged in.
How is estimating different from quoting?
Estimating is working out what the job costs. Quoting is presenting that cost to the customer as a proposal. QuickPrice does both: the AI builds the estimate, then the quoting side formats it as a branded, GST-ready PDF you can send.
Is this a plan-takeoff tool like Groundplan or Buildxact?
No, and it's worth being clear about that. In Australia, “estimating software” often means takeoff tools built for measuring quantities off scaled drawings for tenders and new builds. QuickPrice is the other end: fast on-site quoting and estimating. You describe the job (or photograph it, or film it) and get a priced, itemised quote in about a minute. If your work starts with a site visit rather than a set of construction drawings, this is the tool. If you price commercial tenders off plans all day, a dedicated takeoff tool is the better fit.
Which trades does this cover?
All the main Australian trades: plumbing, electrical, building, painting, roofing, carpentry, landscaping, kitchen installs, bathroom renos, tiling, plastering, air conditioning, and general handyman work, plus specialist trades. Each one has its own materials database and labour data.
Does it use real Australian material prices?
Yes. Current prices from major Australian suppliers like Bunnings Trade, Reece, and Tradelink. Trade prices, not retail. Refreshed regularly, so timber and copper price movements show up in your quote without you ringing round the trade desk.
How accurate is it for complex jobs like extensions?
For standard domestic work (hot water changeovers, switchboard upgrades, bathroom renos, re-roofs, small extensions) most tradies send the estimate out as the quote with minimal edits. For unusual commercial work or one-off builds, treat the estimate as a starting point and tidy it up in the review step. More detail in, better result out.
Can builders use it?
Yes, and it's especially useful for builders because extensions and whole-house renos cross multiple trades. The app breaks a project into groundworks, structural, first fix, second fix, and finishes, and estimates each section with the right materials and labour rates.
Does it use local labour rates?
Yes. Labour rates are tuned by state, city, and postcode, so a plumber in Penrith isn't priced on a Sydney CBD day rate, and a sparkie in Geelong isn't priced like one in Perth. The app uses your trade and where you work to pick the base, and you can override with your own day rate.
How does it handle GST?
10% GST is added by default and itemised on the PDF, with your ABN printed on every quote. Convert an accepted quote to an invoice and the GST breakdown carries across, so the tax invoice lines up with what the ATO expects. If you're not GST-registered, the app generates compliant non-GST documents automatically.
Estimate on-site. Win more work.
Live on iOS and Android. Plans from A$0/mo (Free), paid from A$14.99/mo (inc. GST). Try Pro free for 14 days.
Free Australian quote templates if you're not ready to try the app yet.