Garage door company software for installs and repairs, run as jobs, shown on a fictional garage door company

Open the demo and you are inside Hollowlatch Door Co., a fictional garage door company running the real product: click anything, nothing changes.

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What works today for a garage door company, and what is not available yet

The demo's welcome card says the same. The names, people, jobs and prices in this demo are illustrative.

The garage door jobs in the demo

Each with what its estimate covers and how it is billed:

• Pruitt double door and opener — 16x7 insulated door, belt-drive opener, haul-away (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Door ordered → Remove old door, install new door and opener.
  Daily log: “Old wood door out and hauled. New door hung, springs set and balanced, opener programmed with two remotes and the keypad.”
• Castellano broken spring replacement — Torsion springs, rollers and tune-up (Time & Materials)
  Schedule: Service visit: replace springs.
  Daily log: “Right spring broken at 11 years. Replaced both springs with a high-cycle pair and all ten rollers; balanced and tested the reversal.”
• Tansywold Storage rolling doors, 4 units — Four 10x10 rolling steel doors, two with operators (Fixed Price)
  Job notes: Gate code at the office; work around tenant hours, 8 to 5.
• Ivers carriage-house doors — Two carriage-house doors with wall-mount openers (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Doors ordered, 3 week lead time → Install both doors and openers.
• Lindgren wall-mount opener — Wall-mount opener for a high-lift door (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Install the wall-mount opener.
• Sandoval broken cable repair — Replace lift cables and realign the door (Time & Materials)
  Schedule: Service visit: cable came off the drum.
• Ploverhythe Pines HOA tune-ups, 12 doors — Annual tune-up and safety inspection, 12 doors (Fixed Price)
  Schedule: Tune-ups, buildings A and B → Tune-ups, building C and report.
  Daily log: “Tuned 5 of 12 doors. Two need new bottom seals; one opener fails the reversal test and is tagged out of service.”

Walk through one garage door job: Tansywold Storage rolling doors, 4 units

Its schedule, in order:

1. Commercial permit
2. Doors delivered
3. Units 12 and 14: remove and install
4. Units 15 and 16: remove and install
5. Operator wiring for units 15 and 16
6. Walkthrough with the manager

Change orders on this job: “Add safety photo-eyes to both operators”.

Purchase orders on this job: “Four rolling doors and two operators, Tansywold Storage”; “Operator wiring, Tansywold Storage”.

To-dos on this job: “Send the photo-eye wiring diagram to the electrician”; “Collect the balance on GD-2072”.

From its daily log:

• Unit 12 old door out, new rolling door in and tensioned. Unit 14 half done; curtain hung. Weather: Cold morning, sunny.
• Unit 14 finished and adjusted. Staged units 15 and 16 for tomorrow; the electrician comes after the doors are in. Weather: Sunny.

A garage door proposal in the demo: 16x7 insulated door and belt-drive opener

Hollowlatch Door Co. sent it to a lead. The scope reads:

Remove and haul away the old door, install a 16x7 insulated steel sectional door with new track and high-cycle springs, a belt-drive opener with battery backup, two remotes and a wireless keypad, and new weather seal.

The notes on that lead:

• Dented door, wants an insulated door before winter
• Measured 16x7, 12 inches of headroom, standard lift
• Sent the proposal with two panel styles

Other garage door leads in the demo

• Noisy door, tune-up: Door grinds on the way up; booked a tune-up
• Two 12x14 bay doors with operators: Walked both apparatus bays; doors are 30 years old
• Opener replacement

What goes on a garage door estimate in the demo

From Hollowlatch Door Co.'s price list, without the prices:

• 16x7 insulated steel sectional door, R-12
• 9x7 insulated steel sectional door, R-12
• 16x7 carriage-house style door, insulated
• 10x10 rolling steel door, 22 gauge
• Commercial door operator, 1/2 HP
• Belt-drive opener with battery backup
• Wall-mount jackshaft opener
• Torsion springs, pair, high-cycle
• Lift cables, pair
• Nylon rollers, set of 10
• Bottom seal and perimeter weatherstrip
• Wireless keypad
• Install labor, sectional door
• Install labor, rolling steel door
• Install labor, opener
• Service labor, per hour
• Service call trip charge
• Haul away the old door
• Tune-up and safety inspection, per door
• Commercial door permit

Garage door cost codes in the demo

Hollowlatch Door Co.'s own cost codes:

• Doors and sections
• Springs and hardware
• Openers and controls
• Install labor
• Service and repair labor
• Trip charges
• Haul-away and disposal
• Permits
• Commercial doors and operators
• Weather seal
• Electrical

Questions about SelfConstruct for garage door work

Is there a garage door version of SelfConstruct?

Not as a separate product. Hollowlatch Door Co. opens with the business type “Garage & overhead doors (gates, dock equipment)”, so its menus are set for that trade. In a customer's company today, the menus are the same whatever the trade.

Can a garage door job be fixed price or time and materials?

Both are in the demo: Hollowlatch Door Co.'s “Pruitt double door and opener” is a fixed-price job, and “Castellano broken spring replacement” is billed time and materials.

Does SelfConstruct have “A pricebook with margin floors” for garage door companies yet?

Not yet. It is on the list the demo's welcome card shows under “Not available yet for your trade”.

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Pricing is published on the site: $299/mo per company before sales tax, unlimited users, 50 GB of storage included.

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