KwickPhone for Excavation & Gradings · Quote & estimate requests
You're in the cab moving dirt while the bid call rings out
KwickPhone answers every quote call, pulls the site details out of the caller, and texts you the lead before you climb down.
KwickPhone answers every quote call, pulls the site details out of the caller, and texts you the lead before you climb down.
It's the middle of a grading day. You're seated in the cab, tracks loaded, blade down, watching grade and feeling the machine through your hands. The phone is buzzing in your jacket on the seat, but you can't hear it over the diesel and you sure can't stop mid-pass to answer. The call is a GC who needs a number on a pad-and-trench package before he locks in his subs this week. He gets voicemail. He doesn't leave one. He's already dialing the next excavator in his contacts, and by the time you shut down and check your phone at lunch, that site-prep job has a name on it that isn't yours.
KwickPhone picks up that call on the first ring, in English, Spanish, or Chinese, and it talks like someone who actually preps sites. Instead of a dead-end voicemail, the caller gets asked the things you'd ask: where's the site, how big is the area, is this raw ground or a teardown, is there a soils report or a stake-out yet, do they need haul-off or is spoil staying on site, and when do they need it priced. It captures all of that, repeats it back so nothing's garbled, and the moment the call ends you've got a clean lead in a text — caller name, callback number, and every detail — ready for you to put a real bid against.
For excavation and grading this matters more than for most trades, because your quotes aren't off a price list — they live or die on the dirt. A bid you give blind, without knowing depth, access, soil type, and whether there's rock or a high water table, is a bid that loses money or loses the job. KwickPhone can't walk the site for you, but it can stop you from missing the call in the first place and it can collect the exact facts that decide whether you even want to drive out and look. That's the difference between a phone that just rings and a phone that hands you a qualified site-prep lead while you finish your pass.
A general contractor calls needing a budget number on a building pad and the utility trenches for a small commercial lot, and he needs it by Friday to finish his bid. KwickPhone gets the lot address, the approximate square footage, confirms it's raw ground with a survey already done, asks whether export of spoil is expected, and captures his Friday deadline — then texts you the full package so you can decide whether to drive the site that afternoon.
A homeowner calls wanting a price to demo an old detached garage and grade the area flat for a new slab. KwickPhone asks the structure's rough size, whether utilities to it are disconnected, whether they want the debris hauled off, and how the equipment gets to the back lot — then flags that demolition usually needs an on-site look before a firm number, and passes you a lead with the access concern already noted.
A builder calls about trenching for a long water and sewer run on an acreage lot and wants to know what you'd charge per foot. KwickPhone captures the approximate footage, asks about depth and whether the soil is known to be rocky or sandy, whether they have a locate and stake-out done, and the timeline — and rather than inventing a per-foot rate it tells them you'll quote once you've reviewed the run, so you're not boxed into a blind number.
Someone calls in Spanish needing a yard regraded for drainage because water is pooling against the house. KwickPhone handles the whole conversation in Spanish, gets the lot size, the problem area, whether they need fill brought in or just cut-and-shape, and access for the machine — then sends you the lead in your text translated and detailed, so a language barrier never costs you a job.
In the cab moving dirt, you can't hear the phone — and the next site-prep job goes to a competitor. KwickPhone answers every call for your excavation & grading business — not just quote & estimate requests, but the everyday requests that keep ringing in:
Every call is picked up 24/7 in English, Spanish & Chinese, with no hold music — and each order, booking or quote is written straight into the POS you already run, or KwickPhone’s own built-in POS if you don’t have one. No missed calls, no voicemail, no lost excavation & grading jobs.
No POS yet? KwickPhone can be your POS too — a built-in register, orders & menu in one place. Already on a POS? Orders write straight back into it.