04 / QUESTIONS
Questions, answered.
The blunt answers, the way a foreman would give them. No fine print, no runaround.
Built for the trades. Priced for the truck.
If it isn’t answered here, it’s answered the first day you use it.
Which trades is Loadbare for?
Any trade that runs jobs and bills customers. Plumbers, HVAC techs, electricians, general contractors, roofers, landscapers, junk removal, demolition. If you quote work, schedule crews, and send invoices, Loadbare fits.
How long until I’m up and running?
Minutes. You can send your first quote within minutes of signing up. No setup call, no onboarding fee, no importing spreadsheets first. Add a job, describe it in plain English, send the estimate. You can be invoicing on your first day.
How much does it cost?
Start free, no card: the full workflow plus 1 AI photo-quote. Sign up free and your account includes the full workflow (quote, schedule, invoice, get paid), plus 1 AI photo-quote to try it. Jobs, clients, quotes, invoices, scheduling, and your dashboard stay free, and your account and data are never locked out, even if you cancel. Paid plans from $19/mo add more AI quotes and text notifications: $19/mo for solo operators, $49/mo for growing crews, and $99/mo for established teams. Everything runs month to month, no contracts, no setup fees, cancel anytime, unlike the big platforms that can tie you into long multi-year deals.
How does the AI quoting work?
A photo or a plain-English line in, itemized estimate out. Describe the job, “replace 40-gallon water heater, new shutoff valve, haul old unit”, or snap a photo, and Loadbare drafts the line items: labor, materials, permits, equipment. Adjust anything, then send it to your client as a clean link they can accept with one tap.
Can my crew use it in the field?
That’s the whole point. Loadbare runs in any browser on any phone, no app store download needed. Your crew updates job status, snaps photos, and you invoice on the spot. Built mobile-first for the field.
How do I get paid?
Directly from your customer. You just mark it paid. Generate a branded invoice from any job in one tap and send it. Your customer pays you however works for them: cash, check, Zelle, Venmo, or card on your own reader. Tap the invoice paid and it lands on your dashboard. You keep every dollar. Loadbare never holds or processes your customers’ money.
Why not just paste the photo into ChatGPT?
Because a price in a chat window is not a paycheck. Loadbare prices the job with your labor rate, your tax, and your own past accepted quotes, then turns it into a branded link your customer taps to accept. The acceptance creates the job, the invoice follows in one tap, and you can see the quote was opened. A chatbot hands you a guess you still have to retype. Loadbare runs the job from first photo to paid.