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Quoting guides

7 min

How to write a trade quote customers can actually understand

A practical structure for customer details, scope, pricing, assumptions, GST, deposits, expiry, terms and acceptance.

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Scope examples

6 min

What should be included in a painting quote?

Preparation, protection, repairs, primer, coat counts, ceilings, trims, colours, exclusions and cleanup.

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Pricing and deposits

4 min

How should deposit details appear on a trade quote?

Separate the deposit request from bank-payment instructions so the customer knows both what is due and how to pay it.

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Quoting guides

5 min

Quote versus estimate: choose the document that matches what you know

How to deal honestly with scope certainty, unknown conditions, assumptions and later changes.

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Customer communication

5 min

How to follow up an unanswered quote

A short, respectful follow-up sequence that clarifies the decision without sounding desperate or disappearing.

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Job photography

5 min

Where job photos belong in the quoting workflow

Use site and scope photos as evidence inside the quote instead of leaving important job context buried in the camera roll.

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Trade websites

5 min

How completed project case studies can support trade-business SEO

Why genuine completed-work pages can become useful proof and search content when they contain unique project detail.

Quote templates

4 min

Use trade quote templates without making every quote generic

Start from reusable scope wording, then adapt the job-specific details instead of rebuilding the whole quote or sending boilerplate untouched.

Free tools

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NZ GST calculator for quotes and invoices

Add 15% GST to a net amount or work backwards from a GST-inclusive total.

Free tools

Calculator

Markup and gross-margin calculator

See the difference between markup on cost and gross margin on the final selling price.

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Free tools

Calculator

Tradie hourly-rate calculator

Sense-check a charge-out rate from annual pay targets, business overheads, billable capacity and target operating profit.

Free tools

Calculator

Quote pricing calculator

Build a rough labour, materials, markup, other-cost and GST total before writing the real customer-facing scope.

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