The allowance board
What was allowed for against what was actually chosen.
Zaras for Remodeling
Selections, allowances, and a finish date the customer already told their family.
Remodeling peaks in October and stays above its own average through December, at the point in the year when outdoor trades are falling away. Nothing about the weather closes an indoor job — what closes it is a date someone has already announced at home. January is the hangover.
What carries job to job: the selection list the allowance the promised date.
A tile chosen above the allowance, a long-lead item reordered before it moves the schedule, and a punch walk against the date already promised — three different jobs, one operating record.
Long-lead vanity reordered
The one item that decides the schedule, with the finish date moved on the record instead of in someone’s head.
Punch walk
Room by room, against a promised date two weeks out.
What was allowed for against what was actually chosen, and the one date the whole job is measured against — the finish date is not chosen, it is decided by the longest lead time sitting on the allowance board. Zaras runs both from the same record.
What was allowed for against what was actually chosen.
The promise the whole job is measured against.
The record, not the clipboard — every remodel from the estimate to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Selections tracked against allowances — every choice logged against what was allowed for it.
Overruns priced at selection — the difference priced the day it is chosen, not discovered on the last invoice.
Lead times on ordered items — the one item that decides the schedule, tracked from order to delivery.
Trade sequencing — trades stacked so nobody waits on a missing fixture.
Permit and inspection dates — dates recorded on the job, findable months later.
Punch lists by room — what is left, room by room, against the promised date.
Progress billing with allowance reconciliation — billing pulls straight from the allowance board the selection opened.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — the final invoice reconciles every allowance, no separate spreadsheet to keep straight.
Estimate → selections → order → install → punch → paid — every remodel, 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, open selections, and allowance balances come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — multi-unit and property-manager renovation work with per-unit records and NET-terms billing lives on the same record as your residential book.
Remodelers 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 Remodeling — selections, allowances, lead times, sequencing, punch lists, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.
$49/ month
One office, one allowance board. Track every selection against its allowance, price the overrun the day it is chosen, and reorder the long-lead item before it moves the finish date — the record keeps the allowance board and the finish date straight.
from$149/ month
The allowance board and the finish date, run from one record. Every remodel walking in with its own selection list already straight.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.