Estimates vs. Quotes — What’s the difference?

Should you be sending quotes or working out estimates? Providing a fixed…

Estimates vs. Quotes

Should you be sending quotes or working out estimates? Providing a fixed quotation for the cost of work or estimating all the costs? Estimates vs. Quotes — what’s the difference and which should you use…?

How to Create a Business Plan for Service Business

So, you’ve come up with a good idea for a business, done your research and identified a gap in the market where you can be successful. That’s the hard part done right? Wrong. In fact, developing a model is just the beginning of the process…

How to Do Marketing for Service Businesses

No matter who you are or what your business does, marketing is an essential tool to help you grow. For tradespeople and those in the service industry, traditionally the best method of finding work has been through word of mouth. This is a very effective…

How To Turn Your Quotes Into Business

Sending out a quote is an investment of your time. How can you stack the odds of winning in…

Say hello to our new, faster servers

Growth is great for us — growing the number of happy customers using YourTradeBase makes the hard work worthwhile, helps us pay the bills and keeps us moving forwards.

Display unit prices for your materials and labour rates

If you’re costing work using material prices and labour rates, your customers might want to see a detailed breakdown of those costs.

Change the titles of your quotes and invoices

Do you want to send a proposal instead of a quotation? How about a sales invoice or credit note rather than an invoice?

You do? Then we’ve got some good news!

We’ve helped our customers win £50,000,000 worth of quotes

We’re proud and excited to announce that YourTradeBase has now helped our customers create, send and win more than £50,000,000 worth of quotations and estimates.