Quote it, wash it and bill it from the rig

Quoting by surface and square foot

Pressure washing quotes are arithmetic most customers never see. A two-story vinyl house wash priced by the square foot of siding, a driveway by its square footage, a deck by its size and whether it gets stained afterward, a fence by the linear foot. In Workeey you write those as lines, per square foot or per linear foot, and the quick estimate prices from your rates and the lines you've saved, so the driveway and the siding land as separate lines you can adjust before the customer sees a total.

Most quotes start from photos or a quick drive-by. Roll the measuring wheel down the driveway, pace off the house, look at the north side where the green always grows, and price it standing in the street. The free plan includes 23 quick estimates a month, which covers a busy spring for most one-person outfits. Our free pressure washing estimate template shows the lines laid out if you want to see a full quote.

• Siding, concrete, decks and fences as separate lines
• Lines per square foot and per linear foot
• Adjust every line before the customer sees it
• 23 quick estimates a month, free

Add-ons that turn a driveway into a full ticket

The money in pressure washing is often in the add-on. The customer called about the driveway; while you're there, the walkway, the front steps, the patio and the outside face of the gutters are right next to it and just as dirty. Add each one as its own line on the estimate with its own price, so the customer can say yes to some and no to others without you rebuilding the quote. Rust stains, oil spots and sealing the pavers are lines too.

Send the quote as a PDF from your phone and let the customer pick. Nothing on the quote lets them say yes online; they tell you yes by text or at the door, and you drop the job into the schedule. When the work's done, one tap turns that estimate into the invoice. Delete the lines they passed on, and send.

• Walkways, patios, steps and gutters as add-ons
• Stain removal and sealing priced separately
• A quote PDF the customer can read on their phone
• The estimate becomes the invoice in one tap

Weather days and the washing route

Rain doesn't stop the wash, but it ruins the drying, the photos and the customer's mood, and a cold snap shuts down anything that has to dry before sealing. Put each job on the schedule in a time slot, and when the forecast changes, slide the day's jobs to the next dry one. The customer's address, notes and photos move with the job.

On a full day of driveways and house washes, Workeey puts the day's stops in the best order so the trailer isn't crossing town twice; on a long day it orders the first 11 and leaves the rest as scheduled. One tap opens the drive to each next address. A shop that wants its dumpster pad or drive-through washed every month can be a repeating job, so each visit lands on the schedule without retyping it.

• Slide jobs to the next dry day
• The day's stops put in the best order
• One tap to drive to the next address
• Monthly commercial washes as repeating jobs

Before-and-after photos that sell the next job

Nothing sells pressure washing like a half-cleaned driveway. Take the before and after in Workeey and they're saved to the job and the customer, backed up instead of mixed into your camera roll. When a customer questions the bill for the deck, the photos are sitting on the job. When the same customer calls back next spring, you can see what you washed last year and what you charged for it.

Notes go on the customer too: the outdoor spigot that leaks, the plants that need wetting down before any cleaner touches them, the dog that gets let out at noon, where the hose bib is on the back of the house. A season later the house wash comes back around and you walk up already knowing where to set up.

• Before-and-after photos saved to the job
• Backed up, not lost in a camera roll
• Notes on spigots, plants and pets
• Last year's work and price on file

Paid before the hose is coiled

From the finished job, the invoice is one tap away, with the client, lines, tax and photos carried over. It's emailed from the app with a pay link; connect your own Stripe and the customer pays by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or US bank while you're still loading the surface cleaner. A small processing fee applies to online payments. A payment through the link marks the invoice paid and emails the receipt on its own.

Cash and check customers still get a proper receipt: mark the invoice paid and tap Send receipt. For the property manager who sits on invoices, switch on reminder texts for that one invoice and Workeey texts the pay link on a schedule until it's paid. Texts need a saved account; the free plan includes 10 a month, and Pro has 30.

A pressure washing business app for one operator

Workeey is built for the owner who quotes, washes and bills. There are no crew logins, no dispatch and no online booking page. What you get is one phone with the schedule, the clients, the quotes, the photos and the money owed in one place. The assistant can take the typing off you: tell it to quote a 2,400-square-foot driveway and a front walk, and it prepares the estimate for you to check and apply.

Workeey runs in any phone's browser, iPhone included, and as an Android app. The free plan has no end date and no card. Google Calendar sync, QuickBooks sync and 30 reminder texts are on Pro, $5 a month (pricing). Washing windows or roofs for the same customers? See window cleaning software and roofing software.

• One operator, no crew logins or dispatch
• An assistant that drafts quotes for you to check
• Runs in any phone's browser and on Android
• Free plan, or Pro at $5 a month

More for pressure washers: pages and free templates

• How much to charge for pressure washing — a guide to setting your prices
• How to start a pressure washing business — a step-by-step guide to going out on your own
• Best apps for a pressure washing business — the apps for this trade compared
• Pressure washing invoice template — free, with a filled-in sample
• Pressure washing estimate template — a free quote sample
• Pressure washing business name ideas — a free name generator for your trade
• Free invoice template — every field a trade invoice needs
• Free estimate template — copy it, price it, send it
• Free receipt template — a paid-in-full receipt to copy
• Work order template — the job written down before you bill it
• Late payment reminder templates — texts, emails and a letter to copy and send
• All free templates and tools