Software for contractors
We build job boards, quoting tools, online booking and customer updates for trades and home service businesses, from a small software studio in central New Jersey. Start with the one job that eats the most of your week. You get a fixed written quote, a preview every week, and you own what we build.
The problem
Most trade businesses we talk to recognize a few of these. None of them needs a big system to fix. Pick the one that costs you the most and start there.
“Jobs live on a whiteboard, a group text and a spreadsheet only the office understands.”
One job board where the office schedules the week and each crew opens today's jobs on their phone.
“Customers call to ask when someone is coming.”
A message when the visit is booked and a reminder the day before, plus a page where they can check their job without calling.
“Quotes get typed up at night from notes scribbled in the truck.”
Quotes built from your own price list while you're still on site, sent from your phone and turned into a job when the customer says yes.
“Leads come in by phone, web form, email and Facebook, and a few slip through every month.”
Every enquiry lands in one list with who's handling it. An automation can sort the inbox and draft a first reply for you to approve.
“We pay for field service software and use about a third of it.”
A tool with only the screens your crews use, running on accounts in your name with hosting paid at cost.
“People in the next town over can't find us when they search for our trade.”
A Google Business Profile and site that state your service area and services plainly, so nearby searches can match you.
What people ask for
Each card leads to the full service page. The Internal tools page has a working job board for a made-up landscaping company that you can view as the office or as a crew.
How we build for the trades
Senova was founded by Rob La Gravenis, who writes the code. The tools are shaped around your crews and your office, not a template.
Phone first for crews
Today's jobs, big buttons and a status update in one tap. The office gets the full screens on a desktop.
Your steps, your words
Your job statuses, your price list and your checklists, so nobody has to learn someone else's process.
Works with what you keep
If QuickBooks or your calendar already work for you, we connect to them instead of replacing them.
A fixed written quote
One price for the agreed scope, with dated milestones. It only changes if the scope does, and only with your OK.
Running costs at cost
Hosting and the database are paid straight to the providers on your own accounts, with no markup from us.
Yours to keep
The code, your customer list and every account are in your name. If we stop working together, nothing goes with us.
Our work
There's no contractor work to show here yet. These are our own projects, each with a write-up of why it exists and how it was made.
Process
The same four steps whether it's one booking page or a full job board for the office and every crew.
Step 1: Tell us what you need
Fill in the two-minute brief or book a short call. Plain words are fine; you don't need a spec.
Step 2: Get a fixed quote
A written scope, a fixed price and a dated plan. Free, with no obligation to go ahead.
Step 3: We build, you review weekly
A private preview link that grows every week. You click through it and tell us what to change.
Step 4: Launch and look after
We go live on accounts in your name, with optional ongoing help if you want it.
Your quote
Every project gets its own written quote before any work starts. For a trade business that usually comes after one call about how a normal week runs, from the first phone call to the paid invoice.
The scope
What we'll build, page by page or screen by screen, and what's out of scope, in plain words.
A fixed price
One price for the agreed scope. It only changes if the scope does, and only with your OK.
A dated timeline
When the first preview arrives, when each part lands and when you go live.
What you'll own
The code, the design and every account, in your name from day one.
Running costs, itemised
Hosting, email and any other services listed one by one, paid to each provider at cost.
FAQ
Often, yes. If one of the big field service apps fits how you schedule, quote and invoice, use it, and we'll tell you so. Custom makes sense when your crews keep working around the app, you pay for seats and features nobody touches, or you copy the same job between three tools to get one answer.