Invoicing Built for Solo Plumbers
Quote a water heater swap from the basement in under two minutes. Collect a deposit before you haul the new tank. Get paid the same day you turn the water back on.
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SoloBid is an invoicing and quoting app built for solo plumbers running their own shop. It handles the parts of the job that eat your evenings: writing up a water heater or repipe estimate, breaking out parts and labor so the homeowner trusts the number, collecting a deposit before you pick up a tank or order fixtures, and getting paid before you pack up the van. No dispatch board, no crew scheduling, no software bloat you'll never touch — just the quoting and invoicing tools a one-person plumbing business actually needs.
Built for one, not for crews
Every other quoting tool is built for plumbing businesses with dispatchers, schedulers, and office staff. They charge per seat for features you'll never use. SoloBid is built for solo plumbers — quote it, send it, get paid. One flat price, no per-seat fees.
Sound familiar?
It's 7am, a homeowner has no hot water, and they're calling three plumbers before they leave for work. The one who sends a clear price for a new water heater first usually gets the job — but you're already under a sink across town with your hands full. You're not going to stop and write up an estimate on a notepad, and you'll have forgotten half the details by tonight.
SoloBid lets you create and send a professional quote from your phone in under two minutes — right from the job site.
Common Plumbing Jobs You Can Quote
SoloBid comes with templates for the jobs plumbers do every day. Pull up a template and customize it in seconds.
Typical plumbing quote ranges
Rough price ranges from what plumbers charge across the US. Your real numbers depend on local labor rates, material cost, and permit requirements — SoloBid is built to help you build the quote around them.
| Job | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Water heater replacement (40–50 gal tank) | $1,200 – $2,500 |
| Tankless water heater install | $3,000 – $5,500 |
| Drain cleaning / snaking | $150 – $400 |
| Main sewer line repair | $3,000 – $8,000 |
| Whole-home repipe (PEX) | $4,000 – $12,000 |
| Toilet replacement (installed) | $200 – $500 |
| Faucet or fixture replacement | $150 – $350 |
| Sump pump installation | $400 – $1,200 |
| Garbage disposal install | $150 – $400 |
| Sewer camera inspection | $150 – $500 |
Your price book, ready to go
SoloBid ships with a starter price book of line items plumbers use every day. Save your own prices once, then drop items into a quote in seconds.
- Service calls and trip charges
- Diagnostic and leak-location fees
- Water heaters (tank and tankless)
- Shut-off and supply valves
- Wax rings, supply lines, and P-traps
- Faucets, toilets, and fixtures
- PEX, copper, and PVC by the foot
- Drain snaking and hydro-jetting
- Permit fees (pass-through or marked up)
- Material markup (configurable percentage)
- Emergency / after-hours rate
- Labor billed hourly or as flat-rate per job
Why Plumbers Choose SoloBid
Built for the way plumbing contractors actually work — not how software companies think you should.
- Itemize parts and labor on water heaters, repipes, and sewer jobs so homeowners see exactly what they're paying for
- Save a price book of common plumbing items — fittings, valves, fixtures, wax rings — and drop them into a quote in seconds
- Get a signature before you cut into a wall or pull a toilet, so approved work never gets disputed
- Bill the trip charge, the diagnostic, and the repair as separate lines on one invoice — no more eating the service call
- Collect a deposit before you haul a water heater or order specialty fixtures, so you're never fronting material costs
- Send clean PDF quotes from your phone that look professional next to the plumber still scribbling on a carbon-copy pad
How it works
Create a quote
Add line items from your phone on the job site
Send it
Text or email the quote directly to your customer
Get it signed
Customer signs on their phone — no printing needed
Get paid
Convert to invoice and collect payment instantly
Questions plumbers ask
Can I collect a deposit before I pick up a water heater or order fixtures?
Yes. You can require a percentage deposit on the quote before the job starts. The customer pays through a Stripe payment link, so the money is in your account before you load the tank or place the supply-house order.
Can I charge a trip fee, a diagnostic, and the repair on one invoice?
Yes. Every invoice is line-item based, so a trip charge, a leak-location fee, and the actual repair can each be their own line with their own amount. The customer sees exactly what they're paying for, which heads off the 'why is this so much?' call.
Can I set a separate emergency or after-hours rate?
Yes. Keep your standard labor rate and an after-hours rate in your price book and pick the right one per quote. No more guessing what you charged the last 2am call-out.
Does it handle permit fees?
Yes. Permit fees live in your price book as a line item — pass them through at cost or mark them up to cover the time spent pulling the permit. SoloBid does both.
Can I save my labor rates and material markup?
Yes. Set your hourly rate, flat-rate jobs, and a default material markup once and they apply to every quote automatically. You can still override per quote when a job needs custom pricing.
Can I send quotes by text?
Yes. Every quote has a shareable link you can drop into a text. The homeowner opens it on their phone, sees the itemized breakdown, and signs with their finger. You get a notification the moment it's signed.
What happens when a customer signs a quote?
You get a notification, then one-tap convert the signed quote into an invoice when the work is done — or send a deposit invoice first if the job needs materials ordered in advance.
Simple pricing
One plan. Everything included. No per-technician fees.
Pro
$19.99/month
or $149/year (save 37%)
- Unlimited quotes & invoices
- Unlimited customers
- E-signatures
- PDF generation
- Online payments via Stripe
- SMS & email sending
- Price book & trade templates
- Recurring invoices
- Reports & analytics
- Overdue reminders
- CSV data export
- Works on phone, tablet & desktop
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