How long jobs take you

Help · Your prices and times

This is the single biggest thing that makes a quote right or wrong, and it's the thing most quoting software ignores entirely.

Your price list says what a day costs. It doesn't say how long a bathroom takes. Without that, the app has to guess a duration and multiply — and a guessed duration is how a quote comes in at half the real price.

So it asks. When GafferMate estimates how long something takes, it marks the line and shows a panel: how many days, and who's on it. Who matters — two craftsmen and a craftsman with a labourer are different money for the same words.

Tell it once and it never asks again for that kind of work. It stores the time, not a fixed price, so when your rates go up every future quote reprices itself.

Quicker way: photograph a few old quotes. A line reading "strip out and refit bathroom — 3 days, 2 men" teaches it the time and the rate in one go.

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