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Run your whole business from Punchlist.

Everything you need to get set up and get paid — from your first lead to your year-end taxes. Search below, or pick a topic.

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One app, your words. Punchlist adapts to your trade. Where these guides say “jobs” and “bids,” photographers see “sessions” and “packages,” and landscapers see “jobs” and “quotes.” The steps are the same.
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Getting started

1. Sign up. Start your 30-day free trial — no credit card. Pick your trade and Punchlist pre-loads sensible services and settings you can edit.

2. Install it on your phone. Open your Punchlist link in your phone’s browser, then Share → Add to Home Screen (on iPhone, use Safari). It opens full-screen like a native app and keeps working on a job with no signal — everything syncs when you’re back online.

3. The 5-minute setup. Brand it (logo & colors), confirm your services or packages, set your default terms, and enter how you take payment. Then share your link and you’re live.

Settings

Set up your brand & business

Everything is self-serve under Settings, and changes apply instantly everywhere — the app, your client portal, your public link, and every PDF.

  • Logo & colors — upload your logo and pick your colors, with a live preview.
  • Services / packages — the work you offer and your pricing.
  • Estimator rates — per-square-foot, per-unit, or flat rates so quotes take seconds.
  • Default terms — deposit %, tax, and the fine print that pre-fills every bid.
  • Payment handles — your Venmo, Cash App, and check payable-to name.
Tip: your customers only ever see your brand on the portal and PDFs — your logo, colors and name.
Day to day

Leads & the pipeline

Every job lives on one board and moves through clear stages, so you always know the single next step to take.

  • Contractors / landscapers: Lead → Bid Sent → Won → In Progress → Complete (plus Lost, with a reason).
  • Photographers: Inquiry → Proposal → Hold → Booked → Editing → Delivered → Complete.

Filter chips show live counts. Tap + to add a job yourself in a few steps: pick the client, choose a service or package, set the date, and where it stands.

Winning work

Bids, proposals & packages

Estimate on the spot. The estimator turns a measurement into a labor + materials number in seconds, using your own rates.

Build the bid. Add line items, markup (shown or hidden), and tax; totals compute live. One tap sends a clean, branded proposal link — no login needed for the client.

Photographers: build packages with a price, retainer, what’s included, and add-ons. Need something off-menu? Set a one-off custom price on the fly.

Nudges: a bid or proposal that sits quiet for two weeks surfaces on your dashboard so you can follow up before you lose it.
Winning work

Contracts & e-signature

Generate a service agreement straight from the bid or package (scope, price, deposit schedule, your terms), or upload an existing PDF.

Send it to the client portal, where the client signs by typing their name — legally binding under the federal ESIGN Act, time-stamped, and stored on the job. Status runs Draft → Sent → Signed.

Photographers: the retainer locks the date. Contract signed and retainer paid both check off automatically — no follow-up texts.
Your customer’s view

The client portal

You share one link. Your client enters their email (no password) and sees their project in your branding, with everything they can act on:

  • Approve a proposal in one tap
  • Sign the agreement
  • Pay the deposit, retainer, or balance
  • Answer your questionnaire and (for photographers) view their gallery
  • Request more work — pre-filled with their details

Every signature and payment that happens here is one less trip and one less phone call.

Photography

Photo galleries

Upload your selects and deliver a private online gallery through the client’s portal — no separate Pixieset or Pic-Time subscription, and no second link to manage.

  • Optional watermark on previews and a gallery expiration you control.
  • Your delivery message and branding throughout — clients view and download from the same place they signed and paid.
Running the business

Calendar & calendar sync

A month view shows your scheduled work, color-coded by status. From Settings → Calendar Sync you can subscribe it into Google, Apple, or Outlook — your booked jobs land on the calendar you already live in and refresh on their own.

Running the business

Your team

Invite crew from Settings with a link, assign jobs to a person, and each teammate gets a “My Jobs” view of just their work. Adding people never raises your bill — flat price, whole crew.

Running the business

Reports

See revenue and trend, your win (or booking) rate, average bid or session value, pipeline value, your busiest services, and which referral sources actually bring work — always current, no spreadsheet needed.

Running the business

Tax center

Track expenses with categories and receipt photos, keep a mileage log with per-trip purpose, and get year-end summaries by category — built to hand straight to your accountant.

Account

Plans & billing

  • Founding Member — $39/month, locked for life (limited spots).
  • Pro — $50/month flat. No per-user fees, no feature tiers, no contracts.
  • Optional $299 white-glove setup — we load your services, rates, terms and brand for you.

Manage your plan under Billing. If your trial ends, your data stays put — only creating new work pauses until you upgrade. Nobody’s business is ever held hostage.

Support

Need a hand?

You get a direct line to a real human — no ticket queue.

  • Text Dorian at 814-413-5266 or Cole at 814-881-9715
  • Email DorianConnors@gmail.com

We’ll happily set your business up with you on a quick call.

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