TradesMetrics

ScopeRescue is cloud-based estimating and invoicing software for residential and light-commercial contractors, remodelers, handymen, painters, and small crews. Users create estimates from trade-based line items, apply overhead, profit, and contingency markups, and use regional labor and material cost data adjusted by ZIP code across all 50 U.S. states. Estimates can be delivered as branded PDFs for customer review and approval, then converted into invoices with standard or custom payment schedules. The platform also includes client records and a crew time clock; higher-tier plans add job costing, change orders, AI-assisted photo bidding, and 3D floor plans with takeoff. Contractors can compare projected and actual job costs, record scope changes for customer approval, and track invoices through payment. ScopeRescue supports estimating through billing in one workflow for small residential and light-commercial crews.

FinoraDesk is estimating, invoicing and bookkeeping for contractors, and it works where the job is. Install it on your phone from the browser and price a job on the spot: add the lines, apply the tax, send a branded PDF before you leave the driveway — offline, no signal needed. Won the job? The estimate becomes an invoice in a click. Sales tax applies to materials and not to labor, the way contracting work is actually taxed. Recording income and expenses takes seconds — pick a category and type the amount, and the app knows which IRS line it belongs to, so year end is a filled Schedule C worksheet instead of a shoebox. No sign-up to start, no bank connection, nothing on a server, one-time price.