Zaras for Handyman Services
Short jobs, repeat customers, and a record that has to be cheap to keep.
There is no federal series that isolates this trade — it is scattered across construction codes that are mostly other people’s work — and nothing about the month governs it. What governs it is arithmetic: when the job is an hour, the estimate, the drive, and the invoice are not overhead around the work, they are competing with it, and any system that costs ten minutes a job is unusable at this size.
What carries job to job: the fast estimate the route the invoice sent from the driveway.
Four stops in an afternoon, somebody else’s project finished off a punch list, and a property manager’s monthly list that was already priced — all on the same record.
Four stops, one afternoon
Routed in an order that actually works, each one invoiced before pulling off the driveway.
Standing account
A property manager’s monthly list, the same list every month, already priced.
Handyman money comes from two engines: the board where the arithmetic is worst, and the list where it gets survivable. A customer you already have costs nothing to win — that is what makes the short-job board’s arithmetic work at all.
Where the arithmetic is worst.
Where the arithmetic gets better.
The record, not the clipboard: every short job and every standing account, on the same book.
Fast estimates — priced on short jobs, not worth a second visit to write up.
Route sequencing — by address, so an afternoon of stops actually fits.
Materials charged to the job — not the truck, not a guess at month end.
Invoicing sent on site — before pulling off the driveway, not after the next stop.
Punch lists against the right project — somebody else's job, finished and billed correctly.
Standing account lists — the buildings that call every month, already priced.
Deposits and scheduling — confirmed on the phone, so the stop is locked in before the truck rolls.
Invoicing + QuickBooks — every short job's invoice ties back to the estimate it started from, no re-keying at month end.
Call → estimate → route → do → paid — every short job, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, standing lists, and jobs still open come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — property-manager and standing-account work with per-building lists and NET-terms billing live on the same record as your residential book.
Handyman businesses running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for handyman services — fast estimates, routing, punch lists, standing accounts, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.
$49/ month
One tech, one truck. Estimate the short job fast, route the day so it actually works, and invoice from the driveway before the next stop.
from$149/ month
The short-job board and the repeat list on one screen — every tech logging what changed, the office watching the standing accounts.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.
