Most tradespeople hear "AI quoting app" and picture a complicated system requiring hours of setup. Zipflow is the opposite. Here's exactly what happens from the moment you hold the mic to the moment the customer receives your quote — step by step, with real examples.
You're a plumber. You've just finished a bathroom survey — new suite, remove and dispose of old one, retile the floor. It's 11am. Normally you'd drive to your next job and quote this one tonight at home. With Zipflow, you quote it in the driveway before you start the engine.
Here's exactly what happens.
Total time from holding the mic to the customer receiving the quote: under 2 minutes. The quote itself is generated in under 10 seconds. The rest is your review and the sending step.
The quote the customer receives is a professionally formatted document — not a WhatsApp message with figures, and not a PDF attachment they have to open. It's a clean, mobile-optimised quote page with your business name, the job breakdown, and a clear total.
The customer can view this on their phone, call you with questions, or accept it — all from the link you sent them. When they accept, you get notified and can generate the invoice immediately.
Every quote you send is tracked in Zipflow automatically. You can see at a glance which quotes are outstanding, which have been accepted, and which jobs are scheduled. Smart reminders alert you when a quote has been sitting unanswered for too long — so you never forget to follow up.
When a customer accepts, tap Generate Invoice. Zipflow creates a PDF invoice from the accepted quote in one tap — all the same line items, your business details, invoice number, and payment terms. Send it via email or WhatsApp the same way you sent the quote.
The competitive advantage: A customer who receives a professional, itemised quote within 30 minutes of a site visit is significantly more likely to accept it than one who waits two days. In competitive quoting situations, the first professional quote wins most often. Zipflow's on-site quoting means you're almost always first.
The most common assumption tradespeople make about switching to a new quoting tool is that setup takes hours. With Zipflow, the entire setup is:
Total setup time: under 5 minutes. You don't need to import a catalogue, configure a pricing database, or complete a training module. The AI learns from your rates and preferences as you use it.
Zipflow currently supports 10 UK trades with over 912 specific job types detected automatically: electricians, plumbers, builders, painters and decorators, tilers, carpenters and joiners, landscape gardeners, roofers, gas engineers, and handymen.
Each trade has its own specific question sets and job type library. A plumbing job gets plumbing-specific refinement questions. An electrical job gets electrical-specific ones. The AI doesn't just detect the trade — it asks the questions that trade actually needs to quote accurately.
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