Flooring Estimating & Invoicing App
Split the material line from the labor line so the client sees why the hardwood room costs more than the LVP room. Spell out up front whether moving the furniture is included, and get a photo of the subfloor before the new floor covers it for good. Werkly is the iPhone app built for one person's business, not a crew.
Estimate
Material and labor, on their own lines
The material line is what actually swings a flooring price. LVP, laminate, hardwood, carpet: the labor to lay a square foot stays close to flat across all of them, but the material cost doesn't. Werkly's estimate is editable line items, not a fixed formula. A material rate, a separate labor rate per square foot, a furniture-move line, and a removal-and-haul-away line all sit on the same estimate instead of getting blended into one number a client can't check.
That's the part worth saying up front: whether moving the client's furniture is included, or its own charge, and whether hauling the old floor out is bundled or billed separately. Put it on its own line and there's no argument about it later.
Need a deposit before you order material? Write it on the estimate as a note, something like "50% deposit due before flooring is ordered." Werkly doesn't calculate or collect that deposit for you. It's a line you type, not a number the app works out.
Every estimate has a real lifecycle: draft, then sent, then accepted or declined. Accept it and Werkly carries the price over to the job, ready for when the work starts.
Track
One job, every room on the house
LVP in the kitchen, carpet in the bedrooms, hardwood in the living room, spread across however many days it takes. In Werkly that's still one job, not a separate one for every room. Start the timer each day you're on-site, or add a past entry by hand, and every hour lands on the same record.
Bill Hourly or Fixed, and a fixed-bid job shows your effective hourly rate after the fact, useful on a whole-house job that can quietly eat a flat bid the moment a subfloor problem adds hours you didn't price in.
Add a note the moment a room's decided: which product went where, SKU included. That note sits right on the job, ready for a callback or a client who swears they picked something else for the hallway.
Photograph the subfloor before the new floor covers it. Rot, an out-of-level spot, water staining: once the new floor goes down, none of that can be checked again. Contractors usually find these problems mid-demo, after the client already budgeted for a same-day install. Photos get tagged Before, Progress, After, or Other and stay on the job, subfloor shot included.
Doing tile work too? See how Werkly fits a wet-area tile job: same app and job record, just a different set of stakes.
Invoice
The subfloor shot, right on the bill
Build the invoice from the same job, with tax applied per line item and a document-level discount if you're knocking something off. Every invoice numbers itself.
On Pro, pick up to 10 job photos, put them in your own order, and they print right on the invoice PDF with their captions. That means the subfloor photo, the plain evidence for why a same-day install turned into a two-day job, can ride along on the same document that asks to be paid instead of sitting alone in a camera roll.
Flooring software doesn't usually put a job photo on the billing document itself. With Werkly, a client gets a bill with the proof attached instead of a bare total.
Get Paid
Bill it as rooms wrap, tracked to a real balance
A whole-house flooring job gets paid in stages more often than one lump sum. Werkly tracks every one of them.
A deposit before material's ordered, something as the kitchen's done, the rest when the last room's finished. Record each of those as a payment against the invoice, and Werkly tracks paid-to-date and a real balance instead of a simple paid-or-unpaid flag. There's no formal room-by-room or milestone billing tool built in. A contractor staging a whole-house job by room does it with partial payments, recording one as each room wraps.
It only says PAID IN FULL when the balance actually hits zero. Cash, check, Zelle, Venmo, however it comes in, you record it.
Add your own payment instructions and they print right on the invoice. The moment a job is marked paid, Werkly sends an automatic review request, worth having in a trade that leans on referrals for whole-house and remodel work.
Good to Know
Before You Download
Everything above is live today. Here's where Werkly stops, so you know before you download.
- You price the floor you've already measured. Werkly doesn't calculate square footage, box counts, or material quantities. Material and labor stay separate line items, priced the way you already quote a room.
- Payment happens your way: you send the PDF and record deposits, progress payments, and the final balance as cash, check, Zelle, or Venmo against a real running balance. Online payments and a hosted approve-online link aren't there yet. Both are planned, tell us if that would help your business.
- One login, one person, by design. A paid helper on a bigger whole-house job is completely fine, they just don't get their own access. If your business runs on crew accounts, Werkly vs. Jobber lays out that tradeoff.
- Book jobs the way you already do: calendar, text, or memory. Werkly doesn't handle scheduling, recurring jobs, QuickBooks sync, or exports yet. All four are on the roadmap.
- You can view saved jobs, notes, photos, and hours with no signal at all. Adding or editing needs a connection. It's an iPhone app; Android is planned too.
If your week is estimate, install it, invoice it, get paid: none of that gets in the way here. If your flooring business runs a crew or needs booked-ahead scheduling, Werkly isn't the right fit today.
Flooring Estimating & Invoicing FAQ
Including where Werkly doesn't fit.
Is there an estimate app made for flooring contractors?
Yes. Werkly is one job record per project, however many rooms or days it takes, with editable line-item estimates (material and labor split), tracked hours, tagged photos, and invoices that can carry those photos on the actual document. Where it falls short for a flooring business is covered further down this page, not glossed over. For a pointed contrast, see Werkly vs. Joist, whose own flooring URL redirects to a generic estimating page with no flooring content.
Does the app calculate flooring square footage, box counts, or material quantities for me?
No, and that's worth knowing before you download it. Werkly has no coverage or takeoff calculator. Estimates are line items you price yourself, material and labor separated, room by room, however you already quote.
Can I put material and labor on separate lines on a flooring estimate?
Yes. A material line at the rate the product actually costs, a separate labor line per square foot, a furniture-move line, a removal-and-haul-away line: each its own editable row on the same estimate.
Should I photograph the subfloor before I install new flooring?
Worth doing on every job. Tag it as a Before photo on the job record, and on Pro it can go straight onto the invoice or estimate the client sees instead of sitting in your camera roll. Once the new floor goes down, that photo is the only proof that spot ever looked the way it did.
Can I charge separately for moving furniture or hauling away the old floor?
Yes. Add it as its own line item on the estimate, priced however you already charge for it, flat, per room, or per item, instead of folding it into the install rate and hoping it covers the extra work.
Can I bill a whole-house flooring job room by room?
There's no built-in room-by-room billing schedule, but partial payments with a running balance on the invoice work well for billing as each room or phase wraps.
How much does a flooring estimate app cost?
Free: 5 jobs a month, 5 photos a job, 1 invoice a job, forever, no card required. Pro is $12.99/mo (or $129.99/yr): unlimited jobs and invoices, 50 photos a job, custom branded invoices, and photos on the document itself.
Can I run a flooring crew or subs through the app?
Not through their own logins. Werkly is one account holding one person's jobs, and that part is by design. A paid helper on a bigger job is completely fine, they just don't get their own access. If your business runs on a crew that needs its own access, a platform built around team accounts, like the one compared in Werkly vs. Jobber, is the better fit.
Werkly for other trades
Handyman
Price the punch list fairly, invoice before you're back in the truck, and get paid, all from one job.
Painting
Quote by room or the gallon, track the hours and the color the client picked, and invoice with the finished room right on the bill.
Drywall
Price it by the foot, the board, or the sheet, hold hang, tape, coat, and sand on one job, and invoice with the before-the-mud photo.
What's inside Werkly
Estimates & Invoices
Estimates and invoices built from the job, with tax, discounts, and a real balance tracked to paid.
Time Tracking
One-tap timer, editable entries, and hours that land on the invoice automatically.
Job Tracking
One record per job: client, notes, photos, hours, and billing, plus a badge showing where each job stands.
Photo Documentation
Every job photo tagged, captioned, and tied to the job record, so it doesn't get lost in your camera roll.
