KwickPhone for Handymans · Deposits & payment by phone
You quoted the job on the phone, then never heard back
KwickPhone takes the deposit right on that first call, so the booking is locked before you hang up.
KwickPhone takes the deposit right on that first call, so the booking is locked before you hang up.
You're a one-man shop. You're up a ladder with a screw gun in one hand, mounting a TV or patching the ceiling where the old fan was, and the phone in your pocket starts buzzing. You can't take it — your hands are full and you're not coming down for a maybe. So it goes to voicemail, you call back at six, and the person who needed a door rehung this week has already hired the guy who picked up. That's the whole problem with running repairs and installs solo: every ring is a coin flip between the job in front of you and the next one, and you lose both if you stop to chase the phone.
KwickPhone answers that call the second it rings, in English, Spanish, or Chinese, and talks like someone who actually works for you. It pulls up what you do — the mounting and assembly, the drywall and paint touch-ups, the odd-job list — describes the job in plain terms, and when the caller's ready to book, it takes a deposit right there on the phone. The card is processed over a PCI-safe flow; you never hear the number, it never lands in a text or a sticky note, and the caller gets a confirmation. The booking is locked before you've come down off the ladder.
For a handyman that deposit is the whole game. You're not selling a $4 coffee — you're holding an afternoon, sometimes a whole day, for one person. A booking with no money behind it is just a name that might flake, and a flake costs you a half-day you can't get back and gas to a driveway with nobody home. A deposit changes the math: the people who pay are the people who show, and the ones who won't put $40 down were never going to be there Tuesday anyway. KwickPhone gets that money in the door at the only moment the caller is hot — when they've got you on the line and a problem they want gone.
A woman wants a 65-inch TV mounted above the fireplace this weekend and asks what it'll run. KwickPhone gives her your mounting rate, notes the over-fireplace height and the brick so you're not surprised on arrival, and locks Saturday morning with a deposit on her card — you find out about the job already paid and on the calendar.
A guy needs a closet shelving unit assembled and three pictures hung 'sometime this week.' KwickPhone bundles it as an odd-jobs visit, quotes the minimum, and takes the deposit so the loose 'sometime' becomes a real Thursday slot with money behind it instead of a maybe you'd have chased.
Someone calls about a hole in the drywall where a doorknob went through, wanting it patched and painted to match. KwickPhone explains you'll color-match on site, gives the touch-up rate, collects the deposit, and notes that the customer should have the original paint can ready — so you show up able to actually finish in one trip.
A caller wants a custom built-in bookcase shimmed and leveled into an uneven old wall and asks for a price. KwickPhone is honest that this one needs your eyes, takes photos-by-text isn't its job, so it captures the details and the address and hands it straight to you to quote — no fake number, no deposit on a job you haven't seen.
One person, one pair of hands, a phone that rings while you work. Every ring is a coin flip between this job and the next. KwickPhone answers every call for your handyman business — not just deposits & payment by phone, 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 handyman 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.