Level Scaffolding · Scaffolding
A private quoting and invoicing app for a Christchurch scaffolding business, built from the owner’s real quotes and invoices, that produces paperwork on his own letterhead.
The problem
The owner produced every quote and invoice himself, and his pricing is specific to scaffolding, worked out his way over years.
Off-the-shelf software prices things the way the software thinks, not the way he does.
What we built
- A private web app, behind a login, that prices jobs from his own rate card, the way he already prices.
- Quotes, invoices and monthly statements as PDFs on his letterhead, ready to email.
- Fixed-price jobs, split invoicing that can never exceed the quote, monthly equipment rentals and safety-check invoices.
- A home screen of today’s work, where every document is at (sent, accepted, paid, overdue), and checks before anything is finalised.
- Raise again: any past job starts a new one pre-filled, and this month’s rental opens with everything already filled in.
- Measure from a plan: a photo or PDF of the building plan is read and the measurements suggested, for him to check.
- Quotes and invoices sent from his own email address, with copies where he wants them.
- A jobs page from quote to paid, with hire billed from the dates the scaffold went up and came down, and no week billed twice.
The result
To the cent
the app reproduced his real August rentals, safety checks, an invoice and a six-invoice statement, and automated tests keep checking it against his real invoices
294
automated tests (259 unit, 35 in a real browser) passing on the latest build
Handed over in September 2026.
How much time it saves per quote will be measured once his real quotes run through it.