Blue Collar Trade Manager lets a pressure washing business quote a driveway, siding, or roof-cleaning job from a price book in the time it takes to walk the property, then convert that estimate to an invoice and collect payment by card or ACH before packing up the trailer.
Create an estimate for the cleaning job from scratch or pull line items straight from your pressure washing price book, then send it for approval by text or email.
The customer reviews and approves the estimate online or by replying to a text — no printing, no in-person signature required.
Turn the approved estimate into an invoice in one step, so line items, pricing, and job details carry over without retyping anything.
The invoice goes out with a public click-to-pay link so the customer can pay by card or ACH from their phone, without creating an account.
If the invoice sits unpaid, automated payment reminders go out on a schedule you set, instead of you having to remember to chase it.
Paid, unpaid, and overdue invoices roll up into reports so you can see outstanding balances across every customer at a glance.
Pressure washing is often a same-visit sell: knock, walk the property, quote, and either start right away or lose the job to a competitor who's already quoting the neighbor. Price book rates by square footage or by surface type (driveway, siding, roof, deck) let you build the estimate on your phone in the driveway and send it for instant approval.
Unlike recurring lawn care, most pressure washing jobs are single visits — there's no next invoice to catch up a missed payment. A click-to-pay link sent the moment the job wraps lets the customer pay by card or ACH on the spot, rather than promising to "send a check."
A pressure washing crew might hit six properties in a day. Mobile invoicing and the offline PWA (for rural properties with weak signal) mean the invoice for stop three doesn't wait until you're back at the shop that evening.
A monthly storefront or HOA common-area washing contract is a different billing pattern than a one-time driveway job. Recurring invoicing covers the contract side, while one-off estimates handle residential walk-up work — both in the same app.
Build the estimate on your phone using price book rates for the surface type and square footage, then send it for the homeowner to approve online or by text on the spot.
Because pressure washing quotes are often decided same-day, the speed between walking the property and sending an approvable estimate is a competitive advantage. A price book removes the need to calculate pricing manually at every stop.
Send the invoice with a click-to-pay link right after finishing, so the customer can pay by card or ACH from their phone before you leave the property.
Since most pressure washing jobs don't repeat soon, there's no future invoice to catch a missed payment on — collecting at the point of completion, rather than billing later, materially reduces the risk of chasing payment after the fact.
Set commercial contracts up as recurring invoices on a monthly or quarterly schedule, and use one-off estimates for residential jobs — both run through the same system.
Storefronts and HOAs often want predictable monthly billing for common-area washing, which recurring invoicing automates, while walk-up residential driveway or siding jobs are better suited to a single estimate-to-invoice flow per visit.
Stripe's standard card rate is 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction; for most residential pressure washing invoices (typically under a few hundred dollars), that's usually a smaller flat cost than ACH's percentage-equivalent would be at that size.
On a $200 driveway cleaning invoice, the card fee comes to about $6.10, while ACH is capped at $5 — close enough that customer convenience (most people default to a card) is often the deciding factor for smaller jobs (Stripe Pricing).
Yes for drafting — the offline PWA lets you build an estimate or invoice with no connection, syncing and sending once you're back in range. Payment collection still needs connectivity.
Rural and large-lot properties are a common weak-signal scenario for exterior cleaning routes, so drafting offline keeps the workflow moving even when a stop has no bars.
Reports roll up every invoice's status — paid, unpaid, overdue — across all customers, so you can see at a glance which stops on your route still owe money.
This matters more on route-based businesses where you might not think about a specific customer again until their next scheduled wash, by which point an unpaid invoice can be easy to lose track of.
Yes — set up separate price book items for each service type (driveway, siding, roof soft-wash) so pricing reflects the different time, chemicals, and risk involved.
Roof cleaning typically commands a different rate than a concrete driveway due to the specialized process, and having both as distinct price book entries keeps quoting accurate regardless of which service is requested.
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