Fence work has a specific rhythm: lead in, estimate out, signed and deposit, job scheduled, job completed, invoice paid, review requested. Most CRMs assume you're a salon or a plumber or a lawyer - so you spend Sundays gluing together workarounds. FastQuote is the fence-specific system we've built and refined for the way fence crews actually work.
The lead came in. Great. The estimate went out. Great. The homeowner didn't sign. Now what? For most fence companies, the answer is "nothing" - and that's where the leak is.
Homeowner opens it on a phone. Can't sign. Doesn't have a printer. Sets it aside "to look at later." That later never comes.
Everyone has too much to do. The unsigned estimate sits in an inbox. Two weeks later, when someone finally follows up, the homeowner has already hired someone who followed up in 48 hours.
Deposits at start of work sound simple until the job gets postponed, the homeowner ghosts, or the deposit check bounces. Deposit at signing solves all three.
Job finishes on a Friday. Invoice goes out Wednesday when the office catches up. Homeowner pays "next week." Then next month. Then never.
Every fence owner knows they should ask for reviews. Nobody does it consistently. The window closes fast - if you don't ask within 48 hours of completion, you won't ask.
Estimates in one tool, invoices in another, texting in a third, email in a fourth, reviews in a fifth. Nobody has a single view of any customer.
Form fills, calls, and missed calls all land in FastQuote. An automatic text goes out within 60 seconds of any inbound lead: "Thanks for reaching out - we'll be in touch shortly." Missed calls get an automatic "sorry we missed you, when's a good time to call back?" text. This alone recovers 15-30% of leaks in most fence businesses.
Sketch the fence on site, place the gates, and FastQuote prices every run from your price book. Offer good, better and best styles side by side, plus add-ons. Branded proposal generated instantly. Delivered by SMS and email as a link the homeowner opens on their phone. Options can be selected, add-ons chosen, terms visible.
Homeowner signs on their phone. Deposit is collected right there by card or ACH. The signed contract is emailed to the customer and saved to their file. A job is created automatically, ready to schedule.
Unsigned estimates and unpaid invoices both get automatic follow-up texts. All personalized, all editable, all quietly recovering jobs and payments that would have slipped. Nobody in the office has to remember to do this - it just happens.
Book the job into an open time on your crew calendar. For styles priced from materials, the job gets a materials list and a supplier order list, counted from the sketch. The job cost card shows what the job will really make before the crew rolls.
Job marked complete. Final invoice goes out with a payment link. Then a Google review request goes out with one click, or automatically on every completed job, while the homeowner is happiest with the work. Direct link to your Google review form. This is the flywheel that fixes your map pack ranking over the next quarter.
FastQuote is built the way fence crews actually work: measure and price the job, get it signed, take the deposit, run the schedule, know your margin, collect payment, and ask for the review. Every screen below is the real app.
Draw the runs, drop in the gates, and FastQuote prices the whole job from your price book. Every style on the estimate uses the same sketch, so good, better, best takes seconds, not a second trip.

Base scope up top. Optional upgrades below with photos and pricing. Homeowners see exactly what they're getting, what each add-on costs, and check the boxes for what they want. No confusion, no phone calls to clarify.

Once the homeowner picks their options, they sign right there. Full legal name, email, phone, signature - all captured in one flow. The signed contract, deposit amount, and consent record land in their file automatically.

Deposit at signing. Progress invoices when you need them. Final balance the day the job wraps. Every invoice comes with a payment link the customer can pay by card or ACH in under a minute.

The moment the proposal is signed, a job card appears. Add jobs by hand for work that never needed a quote. Schedule it, assign a crew, see the job value, view the linked estimate and invoice. Nothing falls between the cracks between sales and install.

Price a style from the materials and labor you actually buy. FastQuote counts posts, pickets, rails and concrete from the sketch, builds the supplier order list, and shows your margin before the crew rolls.

Search by name, email, phone, or address. Open a client and see every estimate you've sent, every job you've done, and every conversation. Repeat customers, referrals, follow-ups - all in reach.

When a job is marked complete, send a review request in one click, or have one go out automatically on every completed job, while the homeowner is happiest with the work. Direct link to your Google review form. This is the flywheel that fixes your map pack ranking.

FastQuote does what would otherwise take Jobber + DocuSign + Stripe + Podium + Mailchimp + Google Voice - for a single monthly. Templates, automations, workflows, and dashboards designed for how fence work actually flows.
Six logins. Six invoices. Zero handoff between them.
One monthly. Configured for fence. Your data, your customers, your login.
It is built around fence work: sketches with runs and gates, styles priced per foot or from your own materials, good, better, best proposals, deposits at signing, crew scheduling, and job cost. Fence Branders builds it, sets it up for you, and supports it.
Yes. We handle the export from your current tool and the import into FastQuote as part of onboarding. Customer records, job history, and open estimates all come across. There is a real transition period - budget two to three weeks of parallel run while your team gets used to it.
Yes, always. Every contact, every estimate, every invoice can be exported to CSV any time. If we ever part ways, your customer database walks with you.
No. FastQuote handles the customer-facing estimate, invoice, and payment flow. Keep your accounting software for bookkeeping, tax reporting, and payroll.
We train. Full onboarding, video walkthroughs, and a training session for your team. FastQuote is designed for people who did not grow up on computers - big buttons, simple flows, and most work still happens by text message on their phone. If a stubborn team member holds out, we've seen most come around inside a month once they realize the follow-up work is doing itself.
Yes. The FastQuote help center walks through every part of the app with short steps and screenshots, from your first estimate to the review request.
We'll show you the estimate flow, the follow-up automations, the review requests, and the dashboard - live, with your real workflow in mind. Twenty minutes, honest answers.