KwickPhone for General Contractors · Quote & estimate requests
You're on a job site, and the remodel lead just called your competitor
KwickPhone answers every estimate call, captures the full scope, and hands you a lead worth calling back.
KwickPhone answers every estimate call, captures the full scope, and hands you a lead worth calling back.
It's 1:40 on a Tuesday. You're standing in a half-gutted kitchen walking your framer through a load-bearing wall, the plumber needs an answer about the rough-in, and your phone is buzzing in your pocket for the third time. You can't take it. The woman calling found you on a referral, she's been thinking about a master-suite addition for two years, and she's calling three contractors this afternoon. She gets your voicemail. She doesn't leave one. By the time you climb out of the dust at 5:30 and see the missed call, she's already standing in someone else's office looking at someone else's portfolio. That's not a small loss. A single addition is the kind of job that can carry your crew for a season, and it walked because nobody picked up.
KwickPhone is the thing that picks up when your hands are full. It answers in English, Spanish, or Chinese, on the first ring, and instead of taking a message it actually has the conversation an estimator would have. It asks what kind of work she's thinking about, whether it's a remodel, an addition, new construction, or a repair. It asks where the property is, roughly what the scope is, whether she has drawings or just an idea, what her timeline looks like, and whether she's already pulled permits or needs you to handle that. Then it writes all of it down, cleanly, and gets it to you the moment you have a free minute, so you're calling her back with the details already in hand instead of starting from zero.
For a general contractor, the difference between winning and losing a job is almost never price first, it's who showed up and listened first. The lead who reaches a real, attentive conversation at 1:40 feels like she already has a contractor. By the time you call her at 5:45 she's expecting you, she's warm, and you're not the third name on a list, you're the one who answered. KwickPhone doesn't quote prices and it doesn't pretend to be you, because a square-foot number sight-unseen is how contractors get burned. What it does is capture a real, qualified estimate request so the high-value calls that used to die in voicemail turn into the callbacks that fill your calendar.
A homeowner calls wanting to add a second story over an attached garage and isn't sure if it's even structurally possible. KwickPhone doesn't guess at feasibility, it captures the address, the existing footprint, her timeline, and notes that she needs a structural assessment, then tells her you'll call to schedule a look. You arrive at the site visit already knowing it's an engineering conversation, not a paint-and-trim job.
A general contractor in another city calls because he's overbooked and wants to sub out a basement finish to you. KwickPhone recognizes this is a trade-to-trade lead, takes his company name, the project address, the scope, and the timeline, and flags that it's a referral from another GC so you know to prioritize the callback and the relationship.
Someone calls at 7:15 in the evening, long after you've left the site, about a kitchen remodel they want started before the holidays. Instead of a dead voicemail, KwickPhone has the whole conversation, captures that the holiday timeline is the deal-maker, and gets it to you that night, so you can call first thing in the morning while you're still the only contractor who responded.
A caller speaks mostly Spanish and has been putting off a bathroom remodel because the last contractor never returned calls. KwickPhone handles the entire intake in Spanish, captures the scope and the unit address, and the trust is built before you've said a word, because someone finally listened in her own language.
On-site managing subs, you can't answer — and a remodel lead calls the next contractor on the list. KwickPhone answers every call for your general contractor 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 general contractor 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.