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Price the honey-do list from a photo, set a trip minimum so the truck doesn't roll for $20 jobs, sell TV mounting and ceiling fan installs as one-tap menu items, and let Menutize text the customer a Google review link the second the last screw goes in. $0/month. Forever.

Free CRM, invoicing & payments — forever. Save $300–$1,000/yr vs the $49/mo platforms.

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What's Free, Forever

Everything you need to run a handyman business — and not a feature gated behind an upgrade. No credit card to start. No "trial expired" emails in 14 days.

Customer CRM

Every customer, job, photo of the broken thing, and note in one place. Searchable. No per-seat fees.

Photo Estimates & Quotes

Send branded estimates with photos and line items from your phone. Customer approves with one tap.

Invoicing

Auto-generate clean invoices the moment a job closes. No QuickBooks license required.

Card & ACH Payments

Customers pay online. Money lands in your account in 1-2 business days. Standard processing rate, no monthly fee.

Google Review Requests

Auto-text every happy customer a one-tap review link the moment you mark the job done.

Tip Collection

Built-in tip prompts at checkout. The handyman actually keeps the cash because tips route to the operator.

Built for the way handyman work actually happens.

Handyman work isn't billable hours on a clean clock. You're pricing a project the customer agrees to up front from a photo of the broken thing, you're a one-truck operator who's also the salesperson and the dispatcher, half your jobs turn into "while you're here, can you also..." and the other half are honey-do households who book you again every other month. The free plan accounts for all of it.

Most "free" small-business software is a generic invoice template with a Stripe button bolted on. It works fine for a freelance designer and falls apart the second a homeowner texts you a photo of a sagging gutter on Tuesday night and asks if you can swing by Friday to also hang a TV, swap the kitchen faucet, and replace two outlets. Menutize was built around the four workflows below — the ones that actually decide whether a one-truck handyman is making real money or just running a busy schedule into the ground.

Photo-Based Project Estimates

Stop driving across town for a free in-person quote on a $200 job. The homeowner texts you a photo of the broken thing — sagging gutter, hole in drywall, ceiling fan still in the box, deck board with rot — and you drop it straight into a Menutize estimate from your phone. Add line items, set the price, send the estimate back. The customer sees the photo, the scope, the price, and a tap-to-approve button. The photo lives on the estimate so when the customer says on Saturday "wait, I thought you were also doing the second fan," there's no debate — the original photo is on the line item. Photo upload is unlimited on the free plan.

Trip Minimums & Half-Day Labor Blocks

A one-truck handyman can't afford to roll for a $20 job. Set a trip minimum on your booking page (most handymen run $150 trip + first hour, then $X per additional hour, or a flat half-day block at $350 for up to 4 hours of general repairs). Sell Half-Day or Full-Day Labor Blocks as fixed-price products: the customer books the block, knocks down their honey-do list (replace the bath fan, swap two outlets, hang the gallery wall, fix the closet door), and the deposit hits before you pull out of the driveway. Tire-kickers self-select out, your truck only rolls when there's enough money on the ticket to cover gas and drive time, and you stop being the cheap option for somebody who needed a YouTube video and a screwdriver.

Estimate & Invoice Open-Tracking

A $480 deck repair quote sitting unread is a different problem than one the homeowner has opened twice but hasn't approved. Menutize logs the moment the customer opens the estimate email, the moment they view the live estimate page, and does the same on every invoice through to the moment they pay. You stop guessing whether the spouse has actually seen the quote, you stop chasing leads who already gave the job to the cheaper handyman, and your follow-up calls land on the right people at the right time. The estimate that's been viewed twice but unsigned is the one to text now — not the one that hasn't been opened in 5 days (probably went to spam, re-send by SMS). Most field-service tools gate this behind a paid tier; we ship it on the free plan because nothing else moves close rate as much.

Fixed-Price Task Menu & Multi-Task Day Bundling

List your high-margin staples on a public booking page as fixed-price clicks: Ceiling Fan Install ($150), TV Mounting ($120 standard, $180 above-fireplace), Smart Thermostat Install ($95), Standard Fixture Swap ($95), Furniture Assembly ($85/hr), Door Re-Hang ($165), Gallery Wall Hang ($110). Customers stack tasks into one booking and Menutize bundles them into a single multi-task day with one combined invoice at the end. The classic "while you're here, can you also..." add-on? Open the booking on your phone mid-job, drop in the new line item (replace the smoke detector, install the under-cabinet light), and the customer pays one bill on a tip-prompted screen when you mark the day done. No three separate Venmo requests. No forgetting the $40 add-on you knocked out before lunch. Quick clicks, quick cash.

Three Things Every Handyman Pro Wishes They Had

Most "free" software either nags you to upgrade or leaves out the features that actually move the needle. We made the three biggest ones core to the free plan.

Auto Google Reviews

The moment you mark a handyman job complete, the customer gets a one-tap review link by text. No copy-paste. No "I'll do it later." Handyman work is brutally review-driven on Google — the next homeowner who searches "handyman near me" picks the 4.8 with 80 reviews over the 4.5 with 12. Most operators see their rating climb half a star in the first 60 days. Stop renting leads and start owning your review channel.

Included free, forever.

Tip Requests at Checkout

Customers see a 15/20/25% tip prompt right at payment — same flow they're used to from Square or DoorDash. Handymen on the free plan typically see 12-18% of invoices come back tipped, $20-50 a pop, especially after a long honey-do day where the homeowner watched you knock out 7 nagging items. Money you were leaving on the table because nobody was asking.

Included free, forever.

Google Calendar Two-Way Sync

Every booking lands in your real Google Calendar. Block time on your phone — hardware-store run, kid's game, your own honey-do list at home — and Menutize won't let customers book over you. The free plans on most handyman CRMs don't include calendar sync. Ours does.

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Why Handyman Businesses Pick Menutize Over the $49/mo Platforms

The legacy field-service tools were built for 20-truck shops. You're a solo or two-person operation. You don't need a dispatch board with seven-figure routing — you need invoicing that doesn't cost $588/year, plus a way off the Angie's List / Thumbtack lead-gen tax.

Feature $49/mo platform Menutize Free
CRM, estimates, invoicing Included Included — $0
Online card & ACH payments Standard processing Standard processing — no platform markup
Google review automation Often $20+/mo add-on Included free
Estimate & invoice open-tracking Higher tier only Included free
Tip collection Rarely supported Included free
Google Calendar two-way sync Higher tier only Included free
Per-seat fees $29-49 / user / mo $0
First-year cost (1 owner, 1 helper) ~$1,176 $0

Comparison reflects published pricing from common field-service platforms as of May 2026. Card-processing fees still apply on both sides; Menutize uses standard Stripe rates with no platform markup.

“I was paying Thumbtack $25 a pop for shared leads and answering the phone at 8pm to quote the same TV mount for the eighth time that week. Switched to Menutize free, put my Half-Day Block and seven task-menu items on the booking page, and customers just… book themselves. The trip minimum killed the $40 jobs that used to eat my Saturdays. Open-tracking on estimates told me which quotes were live and which were dead, so I stopped chasing ghosts. Auto Google review request took us from 4.6 to 4.9 in 10 weeks — that's where my new work comes from now, not Thumbtack.”

JS
Jared Sandberg
Capitol City Handyman · Madison, WI

Handyman Software Questions, Answered

The ones one-truck handymen actually ask before they sign up.

Is Menutize really free for handyman businesses? What's the catch?
Yes, free forever. CRM, photo-based estimates, invoicing, online card and ACH payments, automated Google review requests, tip collection, estimate and invoice open-tracking, 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.
Can I price a handyman job from a photo the customer texts me?
Yes. The homeowner texts you a photo of the broken thing — sagging gutter, hole in drywall, ceiling fan still in the box, rotted deck board — and you drop the photo into a Menutize estimate, add line items, and text the estimate back. The customer sees the photo, the scope, the price, and a tap-to-approve button. You're not driving across town for a free in-person quote on a $200 job. We don't ship auto-quote-from-photo AI; you still write the line items, but the photo lives on the estimate so there's no scope confusion later.
Can I set a trip minimum so I don't show up for $20 jobs?
Yes. Set a minimum cart value on your booking page (most handymen use $150 trip + $X per hour after the first hour, or a flat half-day block) and Menutize won't let a customer book under that floor. Tire-kickers self-select out, your truck only rolls when there's enough money on the ticket to cover gas, drive time, and the job, and you stop being the cheap option for someone who could've grabbed a YouTube video and a screwdriver.
Can I sell half-day or full-day labor blocks for honey-do lists?
Yes — this is how a lot of handymen on Menutize structure their booking page. Sell a Half-Day Labor Block ($350 for up to 4 hours of general repairs) or a Full-Day Block ($650 for 8 hours), with optional add-ons like materials haul-away. The homeowner books the block, you knock down their honey-do list (replace the bath fan, swap two outlets, hang the gallery wall, fix the closet door), and the deposit hits before you pull out of the driveway. No more hourly haggling on every screw.
Can I sell common tasks as fixed-price menu items?
Yes. Build a task menu with your high-margin staples — Ceiling Fan Install ($150), TV Mounting ($120 standard, $180 above-fireplace), Smart Thermostat Install ($95), Standard Fixture Swap ($95), Gallery Wall Hang ($110), Furniture Assembly ($85/hr), Door Re-Hang ($165). The homeowner clicks the tasks they want, sees a real cart total, and pays the deposit. No quote phone tag, no arguing about whether a fan install includes the box. Menu items also stack: a customer can book a TV mount plus a ceiling fan plus furniture assembly on the same booking and Menutize bundles the day for you.
Can I see when a customer opens an estimate or invoice?
Yes — Menutize logs every estimate email open, estimate page view, invoice email open, and invoice view, and notifies you the moment it happens. You stop guessing whether the homeowner has actually seen the $480 deck repair quote before you call to follow up. The estimate that's been viewed twice but unsigned is the one to call now. The estimate that hasn't been opened in 5 days probably went to spam — re-send by text. Most field-service tools either don't ship this or gate it behind a paid tier; we ship it free.
How do customer-supplied parts vs handyman-supplied parts work on the invoice?
On every line item you flag whether the part came from the homeowner or from your truck. Customer-supplied (the new ceiling fan they ordered from Amazon, the closet door they bought at Home Depot) shows up on the estimate and invoice as labor-only. Handyman-supplied (drywall, fasteners, the smart thermostat you picked up on the way) shows up with parts cost plus markup, plus tax handled per your state's rules. The tax line is right on every invoice and the year-end roll-up is one CSV export your bookkeeper takes straight to the accountant.
What about multi-task days when the customer keeps adding things while I'm there?
The classic "while you're here, can you also..." move. Open the existing booking on your phone, add the new line item (replace the smoke detector, adjust the bedroom door, install the under-cabinet light) right onto the same job, and the customer gets a single combined invoice when you mark the job done. You stop running three separate Venmo requests, you stop forgetting the $40 add-on you knocked out before lunch, and the homeowner pays once on a tip-prompted payment screen at the end.
How does the auto Google review request work for handyman jobs?
The moment you mark a handyman job complete in Menutize, the customer gets an SMS with a one-tap link straight to your Google Business Profile review screen — no copy-paste, no searching for your business name. Handyman work is brutally review-driven on Google: the next homeowner who searches "handyman near me" picks the 4.8 with 80 reviews over the 4.5 with 12. Most operators see their Google rating climb a half star and their monthly review volume 3-5x within 60 days. Stop renting leads from Angie's List and Thumbtack and start owning your review channel.
Can my recurring "honey-do list" households go on auto-billing?
Yes. The repeat household — the retired couple two blocks over who has you out every other month for a half-day block, the young family on Maple who calls every quarter — can sit on a recurring agreement. Menutize charges the card on file on the renewal date, drops the visit on your Google Calendar, and texts the homeowner the week of. You stop chasing 30 of your best customers and you turn one-off honey-do work into a steady monthly base that pays the truck note.
Do handyman customers really tip?
More than you'd think — especially after a long honey-do day where the homeowner watched you knock down 7 nagging items their spouse has been bugging them about for two years. When the 15/20/25% prompt is on the payment screen, about 12-18% of handyman invoices come back tipped, usually $20-50 a pop. The tip routes to whichever account the operator chooses, so you actually keep what the customer left. Most handymen are surprised how often the tip shows up once you give them the prompt — it just wasn't happening before because nobody was asking.
Does Menutize sync with my Google Calendar?
Yes — two-way sync, included in the free plan. New bookings on your Menutize page show up on your Google Calendar instantly. Block time on your phone (kid's game, dentist, hardware store run, your own honey-do list at home) and Menutize won't let customers book over you. Move a job on the Google Calendar app and Menutize updates the customer's confirmation. Most free CRMs in this space lock calendar sync behind a $29/mo upgrade. We don't.
How does a one-truck operator stop being the dispatcher and the salesperson at the same time?
That's the pitch. A solo handyman is the technician, the salesperson, the dispatcher, the bookkeeper, and the guy answering the phone at 7pm. Menutize puts the booking, the estimate approval, the deposit, the calendar slot, the invoice, the payment, and the review request on autopilot — so the only thing left for you to do is the actual handyman work. The customer self-serves on your booking page; the system handles the paper. You stop losing two evenings a week to admin and stop quoting the same TV mount for the fifteenth time.
Does Menutize replace the Angie's List or Thumbtack leads I pay for?
Not directly — Menutize isn't a lead marketplace. But the auto Google review request and your own Google Business Profile, fed by Menutize, is the long game that gets you off the lead-gen tax. Most handymen on the marketplaces are paying $15-$30 per shared lead and converting maybe one in four. A 4.8-star Google profile with 80 fresh reviews ranks you in the local map pack and brings you direct calls — no per-lead fee, no shared "I sent the same job to three handymen" nonsense. We help you build the channel that replaces the lead tax.
What happens to my customer data if I leave Menutize?
You own your data. Export your customer list, jobs, photos, recurring agreement history, and invoice records 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. Cancel any time and walk out with everything.
How long does setup take for a handyman business?
About 10-15 minutes to be ready to send your first 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, and add a service menu. Most handyman shops start with seven menu items: Half-Day Labor Block, Full-Day Labor Block, TV Mounting, Ceiling Fan Install, Standard Fixture Swap, Smart Thermostat Install, and Furniture Assembly. You can import your existing customer CSV later, or just let your customer list build naturally as new jobs come in.

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