The job pricing app built around your price book
Pricing off the top of your head under time pressure is how margins leak. Trusso keeps your labor rates, material costs and markups in one price book — and every estimate, whether you build it or AI drafts it, pulls from those numbers.
From $29/month flat. No per-user fees. No credit card to start.
What's in the book
Everything your pricing depends on, in one place
Labor rates by trade
Framing at $85/hour, finish carpentry at $95, demo at $55 — whatever your rates are, they're stored once and used everywhere. Different trades, different rates, no mental math on the driveway.
Material costs
Drywall sheets, breakers, gallons of paint, dumpster rentals — with per-unit prices you set from what your supplier actually charges, not a national database that's wrong for your market.
Markups you control
Set markup on labor and materials once and it's applied consistently. When your costs move, change the number in one place — every future estimate follows.
Reusable services
Package the work you quote every week — "interior door install," "water heater swap," "2-car garage repaint" — as reusable items. Repeat jobs price themselves in seconds.
AI + your numbers
AI scopes the job. Your book prices it.
Describe the work, snap photos, or capture a 3D room scan — AI works out the quantities and drafts the line items. But the rates come from your price book, so the number at the bottom is one you'd actually send. Generic AI pricing tools guess from national averages; this one references numbers you've already entered.
See the full estimating workflow on the contractor estimate app page, or read our honest take on whether AI can price contractor jobs.
Price book · Electrical
Your rates, referenced by every estimate
- Licensed electrician labor$110 / hour
- 20A breaker, installed$68 each
- Recessed light, new circuit$185 each
- 200A panel upgrade (service)$2,900 flat
- Materials markup22%
Sample price book entries — you set every number.
Why consistency pays
The same job should get the same price
Inconsistent pricing loses jobs and eats margin — the customer who got the "tired" quote compares notes with the one who got the "careful" quote, and the discount you improvised in March becomes the rate they expect in June. A price book fixes both.
- The Tuesday-night quote and the Saturday-morning quote come out the same
- Two neighbors with the same scope get the same number — no awkward comparisons
- Your margin survives, because the markup is in the book instead of your head
- A new crew member can produce a quote you'd actually stand behind
Deeper reading: how to price contractor jobs without losing money · why margin beats volume
Where improvised pricing leaks
- The forgotten line item.Quoting from memory, it's the dumpster, the permit, or the second coat that doesn't make the estimate — and comes out of your margin.
- The stale rate. Materials went up in April; your quotes catch up in August. A price book updates once and applies everywhere.
- The pressure discount. With a book, the number has a reason behind it — which makes it easier to explain and harder to talk down.
FAQ
Job pricing, answered
- What is a job pricing app?
- An app that stores how you price work — labor rates, material costs, markups, reusable services — and applies those numbers to every estimate. Instead of rebuilding the math for each job in your head or a spreadsheet, you set the rates once and every quote draws from the same book.
- How is this different from an estimate template?
- A template formats the document; a price book prices it. Templates still leave you looking up your framing rate and your supplier's drywall price for every job. In Trusso, those numbers live in the price book, and the AI assembles them into line items from your description, photos or a 3D room scan.
- Can AI really price a contractor job accurately?
- AI is good at the part that eats your evenings — measuring from photos, counting quantities, turning scope into line items. It's bad at knowing what you charge. Trusso splits it exactly that way: AI figures out the scope and quantities, your price book supplies the rates and markups. The estimate is your pricing, assembled faster.
- What if my costs change mid-season?
- Update the item in your price book and every estimate from then on uses the new number. When lumber or paint jumps, that's a one-line change instead of a mental note you have to remember on every quote for the rest of the season.
- How much does a job pricing app cost?
- Trusso is $29/month flat for an owner plus 2 crew, $59/month for an owner plus 10, and $99/month unlimited — the price book, AI estimates, scheduling, CRM and invoicing are all included, with a 14-day free trial. There are no per-user fees, so adding a helper doesn't change the bill.
- Does the price book work on the mobile app?
- Yes — the price book, AI estimating and 3D room scanning all work in the Trusso mobile app for iOS and Android, so you can price a job during the walkthrough and send it before you leave.
Build your price book once. Quote from it forever.
Start with the ten items you quote most — that covers most of your estimates on day one. Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial.
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