Estimate · Panel upgrade
Sent
- 01
- Residential service · from your book
- 02
- Commercial TI · from your book
- 03
- New construction · from your book
- Approval
- On the customer’s phone, before the truck rolls
Priced from a book you build yourself.
Electrical quotes from the book, not from memory.
Estimates for electrical contractors, priced from a book you build yourself and approved on the customer’s phone, so the number is the same on every truck and the yes is captured before you leave.
The work
The work that gets quoted.
01
Residential service
Panel and service upgrades, EV chargers, whole-home surge, quoted from the assembly book in the driveway.
02
Commercial TI
Rough-in, trim, and final on one job with progress billing today. Phases with their own labor and material budgets, billed on AIA G702/G703 draws, when Projects ships (Next).
03
New construction
Estimate to final inspection on one record: permits, inspections, and phase billing coordinated.
04
The safety record
Lockout/tagout, arc-flash assessment, PPE photo, signature. The job does not close without them.
Why it matters
The argument, in three rows.
Built from your book
Parts, labor, and accessories come from the same price book everyone quotes from, so the number the customer hears never depends on which truck showed up.
Options beat ultimatums
A tiered proposal turns take-it-or-leave-it into a choice. The customer picks a tier instead of deciding whether to trust the only number on the page.
Signed before the truck leaves
E-signature on any device, deposit collected at approval, and the accepted proposal becomes a scheduled job. Same visit.
Electrical · Estimates
The yes, captured.
Quoted from the book, approved on the phone, and turned into the job without retyping.
The old way
What the evening quote costs.
Safety lives in binders
Checklists on paper cannot stop a job from closing without them. A record can.
Costing lands after the overrun
Budget versus actual that arrives at month end is a report, not a decision.
The aging panel is flagged and forgotten
Techs see the upgrade on site; without a record it never becomes a proposal.
Up close
How it runs.
01
Show, don’t argue
Photos of the failing unit, the comparison between options, the before-and-after from a similar job. Embedded in the proposal, not described over the phone.
02
Multi-phase and commercial
Break big work into phases with alternates; each approved phase converts to its own job plan. Approval routing covers the facility-manager case.
03
Margin guardrails
The margin is visible while the proposal is built, so discounting is a decision, not an accident.
Straight answers
What electrical contractors ask.
What does Thorbis cost for electrical contractors?
$99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month. Nothing on this page is a tier.
Is estimating a separate module?
No. Estimates & quotes is in Core, on the same record as the board, the estimate, and the invoice, so the electrical job never leaves the system it started in.
Is it built for electrical contractors specifically?
The record is the same for every trade; what changes is the work on it. For electrical contractors that means residential service, commercial ti, new construction, and the safety record, which is the day this page is written around, and the sample rows on it are electrical jobs.
Can I standardize templates?
Yes. Reusable branded templates with recommended options, so every proposal starts from the shop’s standard instead of a blank page.
What about multi-phase jobs?
Break the proposal into phases and alternates; each converts to a separate job plan when approved.
More for electrical contractors
Estimates for other trades
Start
Estimates for electrical contractors, on one record.
$99 a company. Unlimited people: the whole crew. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
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