Free Fence Installation Software,
Forever.

Yes, free forever. CRM, photo estimates, invoicing, online card and ACH payments, deposit collection, automated Google review requests, tip collection, and two-way Google Calendar sync are all included on the free plan. The only thing you ever pay is standard payment processing on cards (~2.9% + 30¢, same as Stripe direct) and ACH (0.8%, capped at $5). No monthly fee, no per-seat fee, no credit card required to sign up.

Yes. Build the estimate with three side-by-side options — say, basic privacy cedar at $40/ft, premium cap-board at $52/ft, and top-rail with lattice at $64/ft — and the homeowner sees all three with property photos, gate hardware tier, and total price on one screen. Materials run from cedar ($35-$50/ft) to vinyl ($45-$65/ft) to aluminum ($55-$75/ft) to wrought-iron ($65-$100/ft); each tier prices itself per linear foot and the customer taps the option they want. Most fence operators report homeowners self-select up to the mid or premium tier when the options are visual instead of read out loud.

Yes — multi-angle property photos are unlimited on the free plan. Snap shots of the existing fence line, slope, gate locations, neighbor side, and any obstacles right from your phone during the walk-through, drop them into the estimate, and the homeowner sees exactly what you measured. Same photo log carries through to during-install (post placement, panel set) and post-install shots — useful for HOA approvals, neighbor property-line disputes, and warranty conversations years later. Every photo is stamped with a date and the user who uploaded it.

Most fence installers collect 50% at contract signing to lock in materials, with the balance due on completion. Menutize handles both as separate payment links the homeowner taps from their phone. Deposit clears before the cedar order goes to the supplier; balance posts the day the gate hardware goes on. Card and ACH both work; ACH is the cheaper rail at 0.8% capped at $5, so on a $7,500 balance you're paying $5 instead of $217. Most fence pros educate their homeowners on the ACH option once and never go back to checks.

Yes — and on a $5K-$15K fence quote that sits on the homeowner's phone for a week while they talk to the spouse and the HOA, this matters. The moment the customer opens the estimate email or views the live estimate page, Menutize logs the event and notifies you. You stop guessing whether they've actually seen the quote and you stop chasing leads who already moved on. Same tracking on invoices: when the customer opens the bill, when they view it, when they pay it. Most field-service tools gate this behind a paid tier; we ship it free.

The estimate stays live in the homeowner's phone, which means they can forward it straight to the HOA architectural committee for color and style approval. When the HOA comes back asking for a different cap-board profile or a darker stain, you edit the estimate in Menutize and the customer sees the updated version on the same link — no reprinting, no re-emailing a fresh PDF. Most fence operators tell us the HOA cycle drops from 2-3 weeks to one. The same flow works for shared-property-line jobs where the neighbor needs to see and sign off on the design before work starts.

Gate hardware is where the margin lives — basic latch vs. magna-latch (pool-code compliant) vs. keypad lock can swing $200-$800 per gate. Build the gate hardware tier as a line item the homeowner picks visually in the estimate. They tap the upgrade and the total updates. Most fence pros report 30-40% of homeowners self-select up to the premium hardware when they see it side-by-side instead of hearing it described over the phone. Same pattern works for post-storm repair work where the homeowner is choosing between patching the existing gate and upgrading the whole hardware tier.

Yes. Pool-code work has hard requirements — minimum 4-foot fence height, self-latching gate, latch above 54 inches, no climbable horizontal rails on the outside. Build a pool-fence service menu item with those specs baked in and store the inspection-ready photos on the customer record so when the building inspector or insurance carrier asks for documentation, it's all in one place. We don't file the permit for you, but we keep the documentation organized so the back-and-forth gets shorter. Same record holds the post-install proof a homeowner's insurance carrier will ask for at policy renewal.

We don't have a direct API to 811 — you'll still schedule the locate ticket through your state's 811 portal or phone line, the same way you do today. What Menutize does is store the locate confirmation number and locate-by date as notes on the customer's job record so the post-hole digger and the helper see it the morning of. We're not pretending to ship a 811 integration we don't have; we just make sure the locate paperwork doesn't live on a sticky note in someone's truck.

No, and we want to be straight about that. There's no native CAD tool, no 3D fence-line renderer, no drag-and-drop yard mapping inside Menutize. If you need a render to win a high-end design job, you'll still use whatever drawing tool you use today. What Menutize does well is the parts after the design is decided: photos, three-tier estimates, deposits, invoicing, calendar, reviews. We'd rather ship that piece really well than half-ship a CAD module nobody trusts.

Yes — two-way sync, included on the free plan. New estimates and scheduled installs land on your Google Calendar instantly. Block time on your phone (lumber yard run, locate-ticket window, kid's game) and Menutize won't let customers book over you. Most free CRMs in this space gate calendar sync behind a $29/mo upgrade. We don't.

The moment you mark the install complete, the homeowner gets a one-tap text link straight to your Google Business Profile review screen. No copy-paste, no searching for your business. Storm-repair surge demand and HOA neighborhood word-of-mouth both ride on Google reviews — most fence operators see their rating climb a half star and their monthly review volume 3-5x within 60 days of switching the auto-request on. You connect your Google Business Profile once during onboarding (about 2 minutes).

The free plan handles one-tap auto reminders (review request after install, deposit prompt at contract). Multi-step drip SMS sequences — like a 3-day, 7-day, 14-day follow-up cadence on stale fence quotes — are part of the optional $19/mo Automations add-on. The free open-tracking already tells you which homeowners have actually read the estimate, so most fence pros find they don't need the drip add-on until they're sending 50+ quotes a month and want the follow-up to run on autopilot.

We take 0.5% on payments processed through Menutize, on top of standard Stripe rates. On a $9,000 fence install that's $45 — about a tenth of what the $49/mo competitors would charge you in monthly fees alone over a year. We only earn when you earn, which keeps our incentives lined up: if your week is slow, we don't charge you for software you're not using. No fixed-cost software bill that hits your card whether the post-hole digger ran this week or not.

That's actually who Menutize is built for. The big field-service tools charge per seat — $49 owner + $29/helper adds up fast on a three-man crew — and bury the features a small shop needs under enterprise complexity. Menutize Free is unlimited users on the free plan, no per-seat fees, and the workflows are designed for the owner who's also the salesperson, the post-hole digger operator, and (when the helper calls in sick) the guy on the phone with the HOA. Outgrow it and we have paid tiers; most one-to-three crew shops never need to.

You own your data. Export your customer list, jobs, photos, and invoice history to CSV at any time, no upgrade required, no waiting period. We've never made our exports clunky on purpose to lock people in — that's the kind of thing we built Menutize to get away from. If you ever do leave, you walk out with the same files you'd hand to your bookkeeper at year-end.

About 10-15 minutes to be ready to send your first fence estimate: sign up (no credit card), connect Stripe for payments, connect your Google Business Profile for the auto review request, hook up your Google Calendar for the two-way sync, and add your service menu. Most fence shops start with four menu items: repair visit (post replacement, panel patch, hardware), residential install with three material tiers, pool-code install, and commercial chain-link. Optional later: import your existing customer CSV.