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Plumbing estimating

Plumbing estimating software

Plumbing estimating software for the work you quote every week: water heaters, repipes, fixture swaps and bathroom rough-ins, priced from your own flat-rate book and signed before you leave the driveway.

How it works

How plumbing estimating software works in ECHOPS

  1. Set your flat rates oncePut the jobs you quote most into the Price Book: a water heater swap at a set price, drain clearing with a minimum charge, copper by the linear foot, a fixture allowance the customer spends. Behind each price goes the cost: a plumber’s hours at the role’s rate, materials with waste, and fees like disposal.
  2. Look at the jobBook the visit with your own appointment type and questions (gas or electric? where’s the shutoff?). On site, photos from your phone go into the deal’s Site photos folder.
  3. Build the quoteThe quote builder pulls items from your book. For a part you don’t stock, search a home improvement store’s catalog near your ZIP and add it at cost times your markup. You see the margin on every line; the customer sees only prices.
  4. Offer repair or replacePress Duplicate as new option to quote a repair next to a replacement, or a tank heater next to a tankless one. Both go out on one link, and the customer picks one.
  5. Get it signedSign together on your tablet, or send the link and see when it’s opened. A signature moves the deal to Won, and the payment plan becomes the job’s invoices.
  6. Handle what’s behind the wallFound rotted galvanized past the shutoff? Write a change order with lines from the same book, get it signed online, and it bills itself as its own invoice.

Example

A water heater swap, line by line

Line
How it’s priced
Example
50-gallon gas water heater, installed
Set price (flat rate), with the heater and the plumber’s hours as its cost
$2,000
Tankless upgrade
Set price on a second option the customer can pick instead
$4,000
Expansion tank
Set price, each
$200
Gas line past the first 10 feet
By the linear foot
$20 a foot
Haul away the old tank
Set price, with a disposal fee as its cost
$100
Permit
Typed on the quote for each job
Varies

Made-up numbers. These round prices only show how the rules work. They aren’t price advice, so use your own costs and markups. The markup calculator turns a cost into a price at any markup or margin.

Features

Plumbing quote software built on your prices

Flat rates you set

Set prices, minimum charges, rates by quantity, cost plus markup or a target margin, by the each, linear foot, hour, set or lump sum.

Repipes by house size

Make Repipe a project type with your own sizes and price columns, so a two-bath house and a four-bath house price differently from the same book.

Rough-ins per fixture

Price a bathroom rough-in fixture by fixture: toilet, lav, tub or shower, each its own line that the quote adds up.

Store catalog at cost

Search a home improvement store’s catalog with live prices near your ZIP and add the part at its price as your cost, times your markup.

ECHO in the builder

ECHO, the AI assistant, suggests changes from a photo or a note. You apply only the edits you agree with, and it never changes your price book.

Discounts, tax and payments

Discounts and tax worked out to the cent, with tax on nothing, materials only or everything. Payments by stage, or a lender’s financing.

Choosing software

What to look for in plumbing pricing software

Your prices, not a canned book

A price book you own fits your market and your crew. Check that you can bring in your current prices and edit them in bulk. ECHOPS imports a CSV or a supplier’s own price sheet and shows every row before saving.

The cost behind every price

A flat rate only works when you know what the job costs. Look for labor hours, materials and fees behind each line, and the margin while you build.

Choices on one quote

Repair or replace, tank or tankless: the customer should see both, pick one and sign in the same place, without you writing a second estimate.

Takeoffs, if you bid from plans

If you bid new construction from blueprints, look for takeoffs. ECHOPS counts fixtures and measures runs on the plans and sends the quantities to the quote.

Straight answers

What ECHOPS doesn’t do yet

You might ask
Where ECHOPS stands
Takeoffs from plans
Yes Count fixtures and measure runs on the plans, then send the quantities to the quote.
A ready-made flat-rate book
No A plumbing workspace starts with a sample service book at example prices. You change them or import your own.
Card payments in the field or online
Yes Clients pay invoice links by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or ACH, on their phone or yours. No card reader.
Service plans and memberships
Partly Service plans repeat visits and bill per visit or monthly; no membership discounts.
GPS tracking of vans
No The route planner puts the day in order; it doesn’t track trucks.
QuickBooks, app-store apps, offline
Partly QuickBooks Online syncs on its own. No app-store apps yet: ECHOPS runs in the phone’s browser and adds to the home screen; an iPhone app is on the way. It needs a connection.

Price

What it costs a plumbing shop

What
Price
Everything on this page
In every plan: Solo, Crew and Company. Calls and texts with customers need Phone & texts.
Plans
Solo $149 a month with 3 users, Crew $299 with 8, Company $599 with 20. Each extra user is $25 a month. Pay yearly and it costs 10 months.
Special price
Your first two months are $49 (Solo), $59 (Crew) or $69 (Company) a month, then the regular price. Limited spots.
Phone & texts
$79 a month on Solo and Crew, included in Company. Extra numbers are $10 a month.

Try it on a real call. The free trial is 14 days with no credit card, and your workspace is ready in minutes. Every price is on the pricing page.

Questions

Plumbing estimating questions

How do I estimate a plumbing job in ECHOPS?

Look at the job, then build the quote from your Price Book: flat-rate tasks, parts by the each, pipe by the linear foot, and your labor hours behind each price. Add a second option when there’s a repair-or-replace choice, set the payment plan and send it to sign. Our guide to starting a plumbing business compares flat-rate and hourly pricing.

Does this flat rate plumbing software come with a price book?

Not a ready-made one. You set your own flat rates for the jobs you do most, like a toilet swap or a water heater install. A plumbing workspace starts with a sample service book (service calls, drains, toilets, faucets, water heaters) at example prices; edit them or import your own list from a CSV, and the preview shows every row before anything is saved.

Can I use ECHOPS as plumbing bid software for new construction?

Yes. Add the plans to a quote, set the scale, count fixtures and measure runs, and send the quantities to the quote, where your price book prices them. Rough-ins priced per fixture work the same way, and the quote goes out to sign.

Is there a plumbing estimating app for my phone?

ECHOPS runs in the browser on any phone or tablet, and you can add it to your home screen so it opens like an app. An iPhone app is on the way. It needs a connection, so it doesn’t work offline.

Can customers pay the deposit when they sign?

Right after. The signed quote’s payment plan becomes the job’s invoices, and the deposit invoice’s link lets them pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or ACH. Payments taken another way are recorded by hand.

How much does plumbing estimating software cost with ECHOPS?

Solo is $149 a month with 3 users, Crew $299 with 8 and Company $599 with 20; extra users are $25 a month, and yearly billing costs 10 months. With our special price, your first two months are $49, $59 or $69 a month. The free trial runs 14 days with no credit card.

Where do the leads come from before the quote?

Calls, texts, website forms and lead emails land on one lead board, and the visit books from the lead. See the plumbing CRM page.

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Special price: your first 2 months from $49/mo. Limited spots, so sign up today.