Why QuoteMe Has No Monthly Fee

Most software for contractors works the same way: pick a plan, hand over your card, and pay the same amount every month whether you closed ten jobs or none. We built QuoteMe’s pricing differently on purpose. There’s no subscription and no monthly fee. We charge 1% when a customer signs a quote, and nothing otherwise.

Here’s why we made that choice, and why we think it’s better for the people actually using the app.

Contract work is up and down

Anyone who has run a contracting business knows the work doesn’t arrive in a steady stream. You have stretches where you’re booked solid and stretches where the phone goes quiet. Weather, seasons, a big job that wraps up with nothing lined up behind it. The income is lumpy.

A subscription doesn’t care about any of that. It charges you the same in a dead January as it does in a packed June. For a tool you might only need a handful of times in a slow month, that’s a frustrating thing to keep paying for.

We didn’t want to be another fixed cost you carry through the slow months. If work isn’t coming in, QuoteMe shouldn’t cost you anything. When you’re not signing quotes, you’re not paying us. Simple as that.

We only win when you win

This is the part we care about most. We only earn money when one of your quotes actually gets signed, which means we only succeed when you succeed.

That alignment changes everything about how we think. A subscription company gets paid whether or not their product helps you land jobs. Once they have your card, their incentive is just to keep you subscribed. Ours is different. If QuoteMe doesn’t help you close real work, we don’t get paid. So our entire focus is on making the app good enough that quotes actually get signed: clear documents, easy signing, fast turnaround.

When your business grows, ours does too. When it slows, we feel it alongside you. We think that’s the right way for a tool and the people who depend on it to be connected.

There’s no risk to try it

Because there’s no upfront cost, there’s nothing to lose by giving QuoteMe a shot. You can create quotes, manage jobs, send invoices, and run your numbers without paying anything. The 1% only kicks in when a customer signs, which is the exact moment you’ve won work and the tool has proven its worth.

Compare that to a subscription, where you pay first and find out later whether the thing fits how you work. We’d rather earn our keep on every signed quote than ask you to commit before you’ve seen the value.

It’s worth being precise about what triggers the fee, too. We charge on signed quotes specifically, not estimates and not proposals. If you’re fuzzy on the difference between those, we wrote a whole article on it. A rough estimate you hand a customer while you’re still scoping the job costs nothing. Only a quote a customer actually commits to does.

The math is always clear

One percent of a signed quote. That’s the whole pricing model. There are no tiers to compare, no per-quote charges, no annual contract, no “contact sales for enterprise pricing.” You always know exactly what you’ll pay, because it’s always the same simple number.

We think transparency is part of the deal. You shouldn’t need a spreadsheet to figure out what your software costs, and you shouldn’t get surprised by a bill in a month you barely used it.

The bottom line

We charge 1% on signed quotes instead of a subscription because it keeps our incentives pointed in the same direction as yours. You pay nothing in the slow months, nothing to try it, and a small share only when you’ve actually won the job. If the app stops helping you close work, we stop getting paid, which is exactly the pressure we want on ourselves.

If you want to make the most of that signed-quote moment, our five tips for writing quotes that get signed are a good place to start. Build a quote worth signing, and the rest takes care of itself.