What goes wrong today
- Speed and price fight each other. The fast quote wins by default, and you find out later whether it was the right one.
- You are scoping the same work repeatedly — paint, clean, floors, make-ready — and rewriting the description from scratch each time.
- Your trades are busy and do not always respond, so a bid process that takes them an hour is a bid process that returns one bid.
- Comparing across properties is guesswork: you have a feeling last year's turnover cost less, but nothing to check it against.
What Quotrium does about it
- A scope drafted in minutes rather than an evening, sized against the property facts already on file — units, bedrooms, covered area, occupancy — so it does not need rewriting for each unit.
- Your own trades, invited by magic link. No account, no password, no app: a contractor prices the scope from their phone between jobs, which is what makes them answer at all.
- Reuse a scope across units instead of rewriting it, so the second turnover starts from the first. Bundling several units into one project with a per-property price breakdown is on the Manager plan and up.
- Saved properties and a project allowance that refills every month on the Landlord plan, so a steady turnover cadence does not need a bigger plan than it uses.
Landlord — $24/mo
Self-managing landlords
- 1 project per month
- 5 scope edits per project
- 50 contractor invites per project
- Unlimited contractors and properties
Questions this raises
Terms worth knowing
- Mobilization — Mobilization is the cost and effort of getting a crew, equipment and materials to a site and set up to work — and, at the end, of demobilising and restoring the site.
- Unit price — A unit price is a per-unit rate — per square foot, per linear foot, per sheet, per fixture — agreed in advance so that work of unknown quantity can be priced without renegotiation.
- Scope of work — A scope of work is the written, itemised description of exactly what a contractor will do on a job — the tasks, the materials, the quantities and the conditions. It is what a price is a price for.
- Allowance — An allowance is a placeholder amount included in a bid for work or materials that have not been specified yet — a budget line to be reconciled against the actual cost once the choice is made.