A masonry CRM that holds the quote, the match and the build week through a four-month backlog.
A masonry job is quoted at the wall, held by a deposit, waits its turn for weeks or months, depends on a brick match and a scaffold delivery, and gets built when the forecast allows. Dispatch software built for same-day service calls has no place to put any of that. We build the CRM around the way a mason's season actually runs.
A mason's job has a long wait in the middle and a weather problem at the end
Field software for plumbers and electricians assumes the job happens this week. Yours was quoted in April, signed in May with a deposit, and will be built in September if the rain holds off. Between those dates the customer needs a check-in, the brick needs ordering, the lift needs reserving, and the price may need revisiting if material costs moved. A system without a backlog board makes the office keep all of that in a notebook and a memory.
The property matters as much as the customer. The brick on a house is matched once, with effort: photos, a trip to the yard, maybe a salvage source, a mortar mix and a pigment. Five years later the same house needs the other chimney done, and the mason who kept the match on file quotes it in minutes and gets it right. A CRM organized around contacts loses that record when the homeowner sells or the estimator changes.
Then there is the week itself. Mortar cannot be laid in freezing weather without protection, and a rainy forecast can wipe out three days. When that happens, every job behind it shifts, every customer needs a message, and every rental needs a new date. That is a scheduling problem specific to trades that work outdoors with wet materials, and the CRM has to solve it in one move rather than a dozen phone calls.
What a masonry CRM has to keep track of
Each of these is a job lost or a margin lost when it lives on paper.
Quotes measured at the wall
Linear feet of joint or square feet of face, depth of grind, count of bricks to replace, scaffold or lift days, mortar type and color, entered on a phone during the visit and turned into a written quote with photos before the estimator pulls out of the driveway.
The brick and mortar match, saved with the house
Photos of the existing brick, the supplier and product that matched, the mortar mix, the pigment and the joint profile, filed under the address so the next repair at that property starts with the right materials.
A backlog board by build week
Every signed job placed in the week it will be built, with the crew assigned, so the office can tell a caller which week is open and so a deposit holds a real slot rather than a vague promise.
Deposit, draw and final, each with its date
The deposit at signing, a material draw on bigger jobs, the balance at completion, and retainage where a commercial contract requires it, with reminders that go out on time.
Rentals tied to the job dates
Scaffold, lift and dumpster deliveries and pickups attached to the build week, and moved with it, so nothing sits on a site for a week you are paying for.
Quotes that get followed up across the season
A quote sent in spring gets a scheduled check-in, a note when the fall schedule starts to close, and a re-price flag if it has been open long enough that material costs may have moved.
How we build a masonry CRM
We run our own service companies on a CRM we built, and we build yours around your crew, your yard and your season.
Stages that match how you work
Inquiry, photos received, site visit booked, quoted, deposit paid, scheduled, built, invoiced, paid. Named your way, with reports that count jobs and dollars in each stage.
An estimator app for the driveway
Measurements, photos, the match notes and the quote itself built on a phone at the site, saved offline if signal is poor, and sent to the homeowner as a clean PDF from the truck.
Weather holds that move the whole board
Mark a stretch of days as lost and every job behind it shifts, each customer gets the message you approved with the new week, and the rental dates move with the jobs.
Online approval with a deposit
The homeowner accepts the quote and pays the deposit from a link on their phone, the server recalculates the total so nothing can be altered on the way back, and the job drops into the backlog board.
Owner reporting on one screen
Quotes sent against quotes signed, weeks of backlog, margin by job type, days from visit to signature, open quotes about to go stale and rentals coming due, without exporting anything.
What you own on day one.
Every account is opened in your company's name with you as the owner. If you ever leave, you change a password, not your business.
- Domain, hosting and the site files
- Phone numbers and call recordings
- The CRM and its database
- Email and text lists, with consent records
- Google Business Profile and every listing
- Analytics and Search Console
Custom CRM for masonry, answered.
Is this better than a spreadsheet and a wall calendar for a three-person masonry company?
The spreadsheet works until a rainy week or a lost quote. The CRM does what the spreadsheet does, plus the follow-up, the customer messages and the brick match, and it belongs to you with no per-seat fee.
Can it bring in the quotes and customers we already have?
Yes. We import what you have, whether it is a spreadsheet, an old program or a box of carbon copies, and build the property records so the matches and past jobs are there from the first day.
Does the crew need to use it?
The foreman sees the week's jobs, the photos, the match notes and the materials on a phone and marks each job done with an after photo. The office sees progress without a call.
What about commercial jobs with retainage and lien paperwork?
The job carries the contract terms, the retainage amount and its release date, and the documents you send (insurance certificates, lien waivers), so the paperwork a property manager asks for is on the job and not in someone's email. Lien rules vary by state, and the CRM stores documents; it does not give legal advice.
Custom CRM for masonry. Owned by you.
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