How many jobs do slow estimates lose?
Four inputs from your operation. A seasonal figure for work that signed with a faster company. No email required.
What you get
4 things that decide this
- 01A seasonal estimate of jobs lost between the site visit and the estimate landing.
- 02A same-day scenario: what your close rate would be worth if quotes went out in hours.
- 03It will not write your estimates. It shows what the delay in sending them costs.
- 04Every close-rate input is yours. The 48-hour expectation is cited, not invented.
How it works
The Quote Turnaround Calculator takes four inputs: quotes per week, average job value, current turnaround in days, and your close rate now versus when a quote lands same-day. All four are yours to enter. Operator forums, LawnSite most visibly, hold a long-running consensus that an estimate should land within 48 hours or the job starts drifting.
No benchmark close rate is claimed, because crews, markets and job types differ too much. If you do not know your same-day close rate, estimate it conservatively and the result stays honest.
The output is one sentence from your numbers: roughly what a season of slow estimates gives away. For a multi-crew commercial operation, the answer usually funds the fix several times over. The calculator lets you check that claim against your own book.
- Site visitMeasured and promised
- The pileWaits behind the day's work
- PricedEvenings, eventually
- SentDays later, maybe too late
The customer called three companies. The first estimate back sets the bar.
Field-service platforms we run in production
Time your estimates with an engineer
We trace site visit to sent quote and name the slow step. The call is free and the finding is yours.
Questions, answered
01We use Jobber. Doesn't it already fix this?+
Jobber sends quotes well once they are priced. The delay usually lives in pricing: measurements in a notebook, costs in a spreadsheet, evenings as the bottleneck. Keep Jobber, fix the pipeline that feeds it.
02Does this fit solo crews?+
The math works at any size, but the fix pays back fastest for multi-crew commercial operations with steady quote volume. A solo crew's bottleneck is usually elsewhere.
03Is anything stored?+
No. No email, no saved data.
