Forget spending hours costing a single project. NextMinute helps you get professional looking estimates and quotes out fast so you can get more work rolling in.
Regularly quoting for similar projects? Save a template to speed up your quoting process.
Easily import price books from your suppliers & drop items into quotes.
Win clients with clear and professional looking quotes. Estimate labour, materials, disbursements, add mark-ups and only show the info you want to the client.
With our awesome mobile app, you can fire out quotes without having to head back to the office.
See how the NextMinute quoting app helps Aussie builders and tradies build accurate, professional quotes fast, then win the job and get straight to work.
Pick from ready-built quote templates or your own saved ones, so you're never starting from scratch at 9pm. Common jobs, line items and wording are already there, so you just tweak what's different and move on.
Import your supplier price books and bring in takeoffs from your QS or takeoff software in a few clicks. Your labour, materials and rates land straight in the quote, so the numbers are right the first time and you're not keying them in twice.
Add your markup on labour and materials and watch your margin update as you build. You know the job's making money before you send it, not after, so you can price with confidence instead of guessing.
Send a clean, professional quote with your logo, branding and clear line items. It shows the client you run a tight ship, which helps you stand out from the bloke who fired over a number on a text.
Fire the quote out from your phone or the office. Clients can approve it online with one click, so you're not chasing quotes or wondering if it landed.
Once it's approved, roll the quote straight into a job with the schedule, tasks and budget already set. Nothing gets re-entered, so you go from winning the work to getting started without the double handling.
Plus, you can track actuals vs estimates in real-time as the job progresses, so you know you're in the black on every stage.
NextMinute keeps your jobs and your accounts talking to each other. Contacts, invoices, timesheets & payments stay in sync, so you’re not re-entering info or cleaning up mistakes later.
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We’ve answered the ones we hear most from builders and tradies.
The biggest time-saver is templates plus supplier price books. NextMinute lets you save your common job types as templates — a kitchen reno, a pool surround, a roof replacement — then load them and tweak the line items. Drop in materials from your imported supplier price book, add labour from your saved rates, and you've got a costed quote in minutes rather than hours. Start with a free trial and the AU support team will help you set up your first templates.
For most teams it pays for itself inside the first month. If templates and price books save you two hours per quote and you're firing out four quotes a week, you've clawed back nine hours — enough to get another job costed and won. NextMinute also tightens your margin by linking quotes to actual job costs so under-quoting gets caught early rather than at the final invoice. Check pricing in AUD and run the numbers against your hourly rate.
Yes. NextMinute is built for residential construction across the board — renovators, carpenters, landscapers, roofers, pool builders, and earthworks crews all use it. You can set up trade-specific quote templates and price books, so a landscape install quote looks and costs different from a roof replacement quote but both run through the same system. Multi-trade builders running a mix of jobs keep templates and rates organised by job type rather than maintaining separate tools.
Yes. NextMinute lets you break a quote into stages — foundations, framing, lock-up, fit-out, for example — and invoice against each stage as it completes. The original quote stays intact so you can track what's been claimed, what's outstanding, and what variations have been added along the way. Progress invoicing syncs across to your accounting software so the client gets a clean stage invoice and your books stay in order. Cashflow stays healthier on long jobs.
Update your supplier price book regularly so quotes go out at today's costs, not last quarter's. NextMinute lets you import updated supplier price lists in bulk, and any changes flow into your quote templates automatically — no chasing down line items one at a time. For longer jobs, build in a materials escalation clause so you can pass on price rises rather than wearing them. Back-costing then shows exactly where margin's holding or slipping as the job runs.
Add your logo to your quote PDFs and they'll go out looking polished, with your T&Cs included as standard. You can show clients clear line items for labour and materials, or hide the mark-up detail and just show the totals — your call. A tidy, professional quote stacks the odds in your favour when you're up against three other tradies bidding on the same job. Book a quick demo and the AU support team will walk you through what a finished branded quote looks like.
Yes. NextMinute syncs two-ways with Xero, MYOB, and QuickBooks — so invoices, contacts, and payments flow between job management and your accounts without you copying anything across. GST tracks at 10% on every line, and invoices land in your accounting software ready for BAS — no double-entry at the end of the quarter. Have a browse through the integrations overview or jump straight to Xero or MYOB for the detail.
NextMinute tracks every quote you send. When the client opens the email, you'll see it in the dashboard, and the moment they tap to accept you'll get a notification — on desktop or in the mobile app. No more chasing to find out if they got it, and no jobs starting late because the acceptance email got buried. You can also see which quotes are sitting unanswered and need a follow-up call, so nothing slips.
Most teams are up and running inside a week. The AU support team helps import your existing supplier price books, customer list, and any open quotes — so you're not retyping everything from scratch. A short onboarding call walks you through quotes, scheduling, and timesheets, and your crew picks up the mobile app on day one. Start with a free trial and the team will set up a customised account for your business.
Xero handles your accounts; NextMinute handles the actual job. Xero won't help you build a quote off a supplier price book, schedule the crew, log timesheets against a job, or see whether you're tracking to estimate. NextMinute does all that, then syncs invoice and payment data back to Xero so your books stay tidy. Most teams running both say the combination saves more time than either tool alone. See the Xero Projects comparison for context.
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