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One login, one bill, one inbox — because you already have enough tabs open
Most contractors do not need another platform. They need four specific holes plugged: the website that gives no price, the phone that goes unanswered, the hiring that never quite happens, and the finished job whose customer is never asked for a review. Tailgate Office is those four things and nothing else.
Each tool works on its own and you can buy just one; the office (customers, jobs, estimates and invoices) comes with the Bundle. Run all four and they stop being four tools — a missed call and a website quote from the same phone number land in the same thread, and the dashboard counts them once.
NapkinPrice™ — instant quotes
CallMitt™ — text-back
CrewFunnel™ — hiring
HurraBell™ — review requests
All four: $199/mo. 30-day free trial, no credit card, no setup fee, cancel from the dashboard.
One week, one truck
Nothing below requires you to open a laptop. That is the whole design brief.
NapkinPrice
A homeowner finds you on Google after the kids are down. She picks "privacy fence," answers five questions, sees $4,200–4,900, and leaves her number to lock it in. The whole job spec is in your inbox before you have finished watching the game.
CallMitt
Your phone rings in the cupholder. You are twenty feet up. At 4:30 you climb down and tap the missed call into the dashboard; the text-back for a Tuesday afternoon is composed to go out from your own texting number and queued, and the thread is open and waiting with everything you already know about her.
CrewFunnel
A guy in the supply-house line reads the corkboard flyer and opens your screening link. It asks your six questions while he waits for his order. By 6:52 you have a scored one-pager, and you claim a Thursday slot for him from his page.
All four
Lunch in the truck. One inbox: Monday night’s quote needs a site visit, Tuesday’s caller gets her callback dialled straight from the thread, Wednesday’s applicant is booked for tomorrow, and the deck you wrapped this morning gets one tap on Job done, so its owner is asked for a Google review in your words (once review requests are switched on for your account). Two replies, one call and one tap, eight minutes, engine still running.
The dashboard
What came in, what it was worth, what still needs an answer. Calls logged versus calls rescued. Quotes delivered and the dollars attached. Ninety seconds, and it decides whether you renew.
Nothing
You are at your kid’s game. The widget quotes two driveways on its own, and a roofer’s helper works through your screening from a job site. Monday you find out.
Composite illustrative week, not a customer account. The prices, timings and behaviour are how the product works today; the contractor is a stand-in.
NapkinPrice catches the visitor who will never call you
Two hundred people came to your website last month and three filled out the contact form. The rest wanted one thing you would not give them: a number. “Call for pricing” is a door with no handle.
NapkinPrice is one script tag on the site you already have. Visitors answer three to six questions that actually drive price in your trade, see a real range — never a fixed number, so you keep room to inspect — and hand over their name and number to lock it in.
See NapkinPrice
CallMitt catches the one who skipped the website and dialed
Around 62% of calls to home-service businesses go unanswered, and voicemail wins about 3% of them back. Roughly 78% of jobs go to whoever responds first — not cheapest, first.
Log the missed call and the text-back for that exact hour of the week is composed to go out from your own texting number — a local number in your area code, registered to your business — asking what the job is and where. Your business line stays exactly where it is and keeps ringing as it does now; the caller dials one number and hears back from another, which works because the text opens with your business name. Every thread sits in a shared inbox your office manager can see too. Filing the carrier registration that makes it deliverable is our job, and it is the piece we are standing up now.
See CallMitt
CrewFunnel catches the hire who is not on a job board
Indeed is pay-per-click now — call it $150 to $300 a month for a micro business to stay visible — and the person you want has never made an account. He is working. He does not build resumes.
Put your hiring keyword on your tailgate, your yard signs and the supply-house corkboard. The screening asks your six questions one at a time on the applicant’s phone, scores the answers against your rules, and lets you claim an interview slot for them in two taps. We hand you the keyword, the screening link, and a printable Now Hiring sign whose QR code opens it; the text-in number, and signs that carry it, arrive with the SMS side.
See CrewFunnel
HurraBell catches the customer who meant to write a review and never did
The next homeowner picks you off your Google reviews, and the customer who was thrilled on Tuesday has forgotten to say so by Friday. The shop with sixty reviews is not sixty times better than you; somebody there asks every customer, every time.
Mark the job done — from the inbox, from your phone, or from your job software through Zapier — and the customer gets one request in your words with your own Google link: an email once the delay is up (an hour, unless you change it), and a text where she agreed to texts, once your texting is live. One email reminder three days later, unless she has already opened the link or got back in touch.
See HurraBellWhat you get by running all four that you do not get from any one
If the four tools cost $266 separately and the bundle is $199, the $67 difference is not a discount trick. Here is what the overlap actually buys.
One thread per phone number
The 2:04 missed call and the 2:10 website quote from the same number are the same person. We stitch them into one conversation so you are not calling her twice with two different stories.
One inbox the whole office sees
Customers, callers and applicants in the same place, with the same assign-and-snooze buttons. Your spouse who does the books can answer a lead without ringing you on a roof.
One number at the bottom
Every lead is attributed to the tool that caught it, so the dashboard tells you whether you are getting $199 of value and which of the four is carrying the rest.
One account, one set of rules
Your suppression list, your opt-outs and the 9pm to 8am quiet window apply to every message the platform writes, whichever tool wrote it — and seasonal pause stops all four tools at once. Business hours and vacation mode drive the text-back templates today; extending them across quotes and hiring is on the roadmap.
One carrier registration
When A2P 10DLC filing opens it is one filing for your business, covering the text-back, the hiring keyword and the review texts together — not one per tool. One form, one wait, one approval.
One bill, and a pause button
A single $199 line, month to month, invoiced — there is no card on file because there is no payment processor connected yet. Slow season, hit pause on your Billing page and keep your settings, your templates and your history.
What setup actually looks like
Including the part most vendors bury: one stage is a carrier gate that takes weeks, and nobody can buy their way past it.
Sign up. No card.
You tell us your trade, your service area and your business phone number. That is the form. Nobody calls you to “walk through your goals,” and there is no sales gate between you and the product.
Set your quote pricing.
Add your service, then type in the rates that actually drive your price — per foot, per square, a base fee, a minimum, gates, tear-out, travel zones by ZIP, a busy-season rate — and set how wide the range comes out. Then paste one script tag into your website, or forward it to whoever built it. This is the longest part and it is a coffee.
Write your messages and your questions.
Edit the text-back copy for business hours, after hours and weekends. Edit the six hiring questions and mark your knockouts. Paste your Google review link and read the review request that goes out in your name. Grab the keyword, the screening link and a printable Now Hiring sign with its QR code, and send it to a print shop; the text-in number, and signs that carry it, arrive with the SMS side.
Carrier registration (A2P 10DLC).
Every US carrier now requires business texting to be registered — a brand filing and a campaign filing with sample copy. Preparing and submitting both on your behalf is how this will work, and it is the piece we are standing up now, which is why texting is switched on per account rather than promised on day one. There is no paid fast lane: anyone promising same-day texting is either already registered under someone else’s brand or about to get filtered.
You are not sitting blind.
Quotes go live immediately — the website widget needs no carrier approval. Missed calls, quotes and applicants all land in the shared inbox from day one, and every text-back that would have gone out is composed and held in your outbox where you can read it. Lead alerts go by email without waiting on the carriers, and HurraBell’s review requests will too once they are switched on for your account and your Google link and mailing address are saved; the Monday weekly summary email carries the week’s numbers.
Texting switches on.
We flip it and tell you. Nothing else in your setup changes: the message templates you already wrote start sending from your own texting number, and anything held in your outbox more than an hour stays there to read and is never sent.
Friday, ninety seconds.
Open the dashboard. Bump a rate when your material cost moves. Add a question to the hiring script when you get tired of asking it on the phone. That is the ongoing workload.
What Tailgate Office is not
We are a front office, not a back office. Half the value of a small tool is knowing where it stops, so here is where we stop — and who we expect to be sitting next to.
Not a CRM of record
The Bundle keeps a customer list: one record per person with their jobs, estimates and invoices, notes and tags. No pipeline stages, no deal probabilities, no opportunity forecasting, and a webhook or CSV hands every lead to the system you already run.
Not field service management
No dispatch board, no crew scheduling, no route optimization, no timesheets, no job costing, no purchase orders. Jobber and Housecall Pro are genuinely good at this and we are not going to pretend to compete.
Not a payment processor
The Bundle sends estimates and invoices, and an invoice can carry a pay link on your own Stripe account. We never touch your money: no processing fees of ours, no holding your deposits, no financing offers wedged into your quotes.
Not a website builder
We add a widget to the site you already have. If you do not have a site, one of our agency partners will build you one — that is their business, not ours.
Not review management
HurraBell asks every customer for a review, once, in your words, and stops there. We do not reply to reviews, manage your Google listing or filter who gets asked — Podium and Birdeye do that, at their price, and Google bans the filtering anyway.
Not an AI voice receptionist
We do not answer your phone with a synthetic voice. Jobber sells that as an add-on for around $29/mo if you want it. We work in text, because a text leaves a written job spec you can read at 4:30.
Not a marketing agency
We do not run your Google Ads, write your blog or manage your Facebook page. Our agency partners do — we just make their client sites produce leads.
Not a sales process
No demo gate, no contract, no setup fee, no retention specialist when you cancel. If that sounds like less service, it is: it is also why this costs $199 and not $600.
We are built to sit beside Jobber and Housecall Pro, not replace them
You already have somewhere to schedule the job, dispatch the crew and keep the books. Keep it. Tailgate Office runs in front of that: we catch the lead, qualify it and hand it over; on the Bundle we also carry it through the estimate and the invoice, so a one-truck shop can run on us alone. Leads export to CSV today and queue a signed webhook (live in beta: deliveries wait for the worker, which is being scheduled) — and through Zapier that reaches Jobber, Housecall Pro, Workiz or a Google Sheet — see the integrations page for what is live today versus what is on the roadmap, because we mark the difference.
And who this is wrong for: if you run forty trucks with a dispatcher and a full-time office manager, you want a platform with roles and reporting, and that is not us. If you already run GoHighLevel happily with your 10DLC registered, you may only need one of our four tools rather than the bundle. We would rather tell you that now than collect two months and a bad review.
See IntegrationsBuy one leak plugged, or all four
Every plan: 30-day free trial, no credit card, no setup fee, no contract. Cancel or pause on your Billing page without talking to anybody.
NapkinPrice
CallMitt
CrewFunnel
HurraBell
The Bundle
Want the arithmetic on your own numbers first? Try the recovered-job calculator, or read how we stack up against the alternatives. If you would rather just ask a person, we are on (301) 268-1943.
The office your truck never had.
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