CraftDesk

Your own website and back office for your trade business

Customers tell you what you need to quote, accept your itemized quote online and follow their job with a tracking code. No lead platform charging you per enquiry, no per-seat job software.

For gardeners, plumbers, electricians, painters, cleaners, carpenters and handymen, from one person to a team of twenty.

Request form on a demo garden business's website: hedge trimming selected, with questions about hedge length, height and access
The request form of Greenleaf Garden Care, a made-up demo business with sample data. Each service asks its own questions.

What you get

Requests you can quote

You set the questions for each service, like hedge length, bathroom size or cable distance. Often you can quote without a site visit.

Quotes in minutes

Your price book with hourly rates, travel, parts and materials, and a quote template per service. Start from the template, adjust the quantities, send.

Customers choose and accept

Offer alternatives and optional extras. Customers pick, see the total change and accept online. You see exactly what they chose.

Fewer calls

Each customer follows their job with a tracking code: status, appointment, quote and messages. No account needed.

Schedule and team

A week view per person and a list of jobs still to schedule. Your team signs in with their own access, staff or admin.

Customers and invoices

A customer list builds itself from requests, with job history and lifetime value. Record each invoice and what's been paid, and export to a spreadsheet.

A pilot, said plainly

CraftDesk is new. No business runs it yet, and the demo business is made up. That's why the pilot is free: we set it up with you, add your services, questions and prices, and put it live under your own web address. You tell us what's missing.

Not included yet: email or text notifications, online payment and photo uploads on requests. Customers pay you the way you already work, and you record it.

Your website comes in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Customers' AI assistants can send requests, and your own assistant can answer questions about your business, with your permission.

How the pilot works

  1. Send your site

    Your web address and what you pay now for leads and software. That's all we need.

  2. Get an offer

    We reply with a written offer: what we'd set up and what hosting would cost you.

  3. It's yours

    It runs in your own account, under your name. You pay the hosting directly.

Questions

Do you charge per enquiry?

No. Requests come straight to you from your own website. There is no fee per lead, per job or per seat.

What does it cost to run?

Caffeine's Host plan, currently $4 a month, paid to Caffeine from your own account.

Who owns it?

You do. It runs in your own account, under your name and web address, and keeps running without us.

Who is behind it?

Deed Labs, a small studio that moves businesses off rented software onto apps they own. Our first one is Staydesk, a booking website without commission for B&Bs.

Your website, your customers

Try the demo as a customer, then tell us about your business.