Slabs, driveways, paths, exposed aggregate, quote by the square metre without the maths. Agentize prices it from your rates, sends it branded, and chases the invoice when it's due.
“Quote for a 60 square metre plain slab, a 40 metre exposed-agg driveway and the excavation for it.”
The Quoter writes
an itemised quote per square metre and cubic metre, GST sorted, ready to send.
THE JOBS IT WRITES UP.
Start from a ready-made concreter rate card, the lines you quote every week, then tweak the numbers to yours. The Quoter only ever prices from what you’ve saved, so it never makes one up.
Price the concrete, the pump or barrow, the formwork, the mesh and bar, the labour to place and finish, and the excavation as separate lines, then present the total. Finish matters as much as area: plain, coloured and exposed aggregate are different rates and should never sit under one number.
How do I allow for weather I can't pour in?
Build it into your charge-out rate rather than your quote. If you can only realistically pour 44 weeks a year, your rate has to cover the year out of those 44 weeks. On the quote itself, say what happens to the timeline if it rains, so a delay is a scheduling conversation and not an argument.
What should a concreting quote include?
Area and thickness, the mix and finish, reinforcement, formwork, excavation and spoil removal, pump access, GST shown separately, and clear exclusions — services relocation, unexpected rock and site access are the three that most often turn into a variation.
One monthly price, a pot of tokens, and every job the crew does spends a few — a quote is 25, a text is 5. You can see what’s left before you ask for anything, and nothing is charged on top.