Quotra explained: trade quoting software that runs the whole job

What Quotra is for

Quotra exists because electricians, plumbers, paving and driveway firms, builders and landscapers keep running the same workflow — enquiry to priced quote to branded send to follow-up to accepted job — across tools that were never designed to talk to each other. Most trade businesses do not have a lead problem — they have a quote-speed and follow-up problem. Rather than adding another app beside the pile, Quotra owns the whole chain so the same record follows the job from first enquiry to paid invoice.

What it does

The platform is deliberately narrow. It does the operational core of trade quoting properly rather than doing everything badly:

• Reusable price lists so every quote is built from your real rates
• Branded, mobile-friendly quotes customers can accept in one tap
• Automatic follow-up on quotes that go quiet
• Win-rate reporting by job type, value and source
• Quote-to-job handover so accepted work does not get re-typed

Before and after

Before: quotes written at 9pm, priced from memory, sent as a Word document and never followed up. Information exists, but it exists in four places and none of them agree. After: one record per job, updated by the people doing the work, visible to the office in real time. The measurable difference is quotes out in minutes instead of evenings, a visible follow-up trail and a win rate you can measure.

What it connects to

You do not throw away the software that already works. Quotra connects to accounting software, calendars, payment links and lead sources such as your website form, so finance keeps its accounts package and the field keeps its phone. Where a connection does not exist yet, we build it — the integration layer is part of the product, not an add-on.

Is it right for your business?

Quotra suits electricians, plumbers, paving and driveway firms, builders and landscapers who are past the point where a spreadsheet copes but not big enough to run a full enterprise system. If your admin load grows in a straight line with your turnover, that is the signal. If you already have a system that works and just needs joining up, we would connect it instead — that is usually the cheaper answer.