Electricians and service trades
- Work orders with permits and inspections
- Sales tax by county, worked out from the address
- Service plans that book their own visits
- Flat-rate or hourly, from your own price book
For electricians, repair shops, route services and contractors
Run the whole business from one program.
Quotes, the schedule, your crew's phones, invoices, payments, parts, payroll hours and the books, all in one place. Nothing to keep in sync, nothing typed twice, no add-ons to buy.
- No contracts
- Works on any phone
- Your records are yours
Most shops run on four or five programs that don't talk to each other.
One for estimates, one for the schedule, a spreadsheet for parts, a payroll site, and accounting software someone has to keep in sync. Every hand-off is typing, and every bit of typing is a chance to miss a bill.
"I built this after years running a heavy equipment service department and working civil construction sites. Everything an owner needs during the workday is in one place, so you never have to open another program."
Chad, founder
One Job, Start to Finish
Every step picks up where the last one left off. Nobody retypes anything.
- 1
The call comes in
From your website's request form or a phone call. It lands on your sales board with a follow-up date.
- 2
Estimate, approved from a link
Build it from your price book. The customer says yes or no line by line on their phone.
- 3
On the schedule
Approved lines become a work order. Drag it onto a person and a time. Reminders go out by themselves.
- 4
Done in the field
The crew clocks in, ticks the checklist, takes parts off the van, adds photos and gets a signature.
- 5
Invoiced and paid
One button turns the finished work into an invoice. Payments, credits and what's past due follow it.
- 6
Already in the books
Sales tax, parts cost, labor and profit post as you go. Your accountant gets one download.
The Schedule Board
Your crew down the side, the hours across. Drag a waiting job onto a person and a time. Late starts, jobs running over and double-bookings show in amber before they turn into a phone call.
- Day, week and map views, with each person's route for the day
- Reminders and "on my way" messages go out by themselves
- Customers confirm, cancel or ask to reschedule from a link
- Someone running late? Push back the rest of their day in one tap
Work Orders That Fill Themselves In
The approved estimate becomes the work order. The crew's clock, parts and photos land on it as they work, and the profit is worked out as you go.
- Parts come out of the right van or shop the moment they're used
- Bill the clocked hours with one button
- Customer POs, warranty work and no-charge jobs handled
- Calls it what your trade calls it: work order, repair order, job
The Books, Built In
Not a connection to someone else's accounting program: the real books, kept as you work. Bank and card files sort themselves by rules it learns from you.
- Profit and loss and balance sheet any day of the month
- Sales tax by county, and a report ready to file
- Close the Month checks off what's done by itself
- A year-end download for your accountant
Set Up for Your Trade on Day One
Pick your trade and it comes with your words, starter price book, checklists and dashboard. Same program underneath, so you never outgrow it.
Repair shops and heavy equipment
- Repair orders, field calls and shop work at their own rates
- Hour meters and service by the meter
- Parts rooms with bins, counts and barcode labels
- Warranty comebacks and supplier credits
Pressure washing, lawn and route work
- Weekly or monthly routes that schedule themselves
- Rain day? Move the whole day and tell every customer
- Bill all finished work in one go
- Built for a one-truck start
Contractors and government jobs
- Projects with phases, budgets and change orders
- Progress billing with retainage and stored materials
- Certified payroll for prevailing-wage jobs
- Lien waivers, submittals and RFIs
Also in the Box
People and time off
Hiring, reviews, time-off balances on any date, paperwork, and titles that set what each person can do.
Parts and inventory
Every van, shop and yard, bins and labels, purchase orders received in parts, and counts.
Reports and dashboards
Month, quarter or year, compared with last period or last year. Build your own dashboard.
Customer file
Every job, estimate, invoice, payment and document for a customer or a single machine.
Plans That Follow What You Use
Every plan has customers, estimates, work orders, the schedule, the crew's phones, invoices and payments, the books, sales tax, the price book and reports. No contracts; move up or down any time.
Starter
For one truck getting organized
Pricing coming soon
- Service plans and repeat work
- Appointment reminders
- Business records
Crew
For a growing crew
Pricing coming soon
- Everything in Starter
- Job map
- Parts and inventory
- Sales and leads
- People and time off
- Build your own dashboard
Business
For shops with suppliers and stock
Pricing coming soon
- Everything in Crew
- Suppliers, purchase orders and bills
- Bins and stock counts
Pro
For contractors and project work
Pricing coming soon
- Everything in Business
- Projects and progress billing
- Certified payroll and project paperwork
Questions
Do I have to switch everything at once?
No. Bring in your customer list and price list from Excel or a download from the program you use now, and start with the next job. Your old program can stay where it is until you're comfortable.
Does my crew need a computer?
No. The crew works from their phone: their day, directions, the clock, parts, photos, notes and the customer's signature.
Who owns my records?
You do. Download everything, any time, in one file: customers, invoices, payments, documents and the books. Nothing is ever erased; mistakes are voided with a reason so the history stays.
Is it safe?
Each business is walled off from every other one inside the database, sign-in can require a code from your phone, and there's an encrypted backup every night.
What does it cost?
Pricing is coming soon. Trial businesses use it free. There won't be contracts: pick the plan that fits, and move up or down any time.
Where is it available?
In the United States.
Join the Free Trial
We're picking a small group of businesses to use Bluesmith free and tell us what's missing. Any trade, any size, from one truck to a crew of fifty.
- Set up with you, using your own customers and price list
- Free for the whole trial
- Leave any time and take every record with you