Plumbing estimating software for plumbers and small plumbing companies.
Plumbing estimating software and plumbing business software in one: estimates built from your own price book with a takeoff calculator, a dispatch board for your technicians, real margin on every job and invoices that track themselves. Plumber software you buy once, with no monthly fee.
Key benefits
One-time payment
No monthly fee and no yearly renewal. The price you see is the whole price.
Your price book, on every estimate
Cost, sell price and margin for every service, part and fixture, added to an estimate in one pick.
A dispatch board
Technicians by day, one card per job, emergency and urgent calls in colour.
Real margin per job
Job price minus parts and technician hours, from the records you already entered.
What this plumbing estimating software does
Everything a small plumbing company runs on, in one place.
You get a dashboard, a dispatch board, a calendar, reports, leads, estimates, a price book, customers, service plans, jobs and field reports.
It also tracks tasks, change orders, callbacks, permits and inspections, safety, technicians, subcontractors, suppliers, tools and vehicles, and parts and stock.
Invoices, purchase orders, expenses and timesheets are included. You can export to CSV or JSON backup, and the app runs in English and Spanish.
Plumbing estimating from a price book
Set your flat-rate services, parts and fixtures once, each with a cost and a sell price. Choose “Add from price book” on a plumbing estimate and the line lands with your cost and the markup that reaches your sell price.
Tax, cost and gross margin update as you build. The estimate prints on your letterhead with a signature line.
Plumbing takeoff with a waste allowance
Enter 300 ft of PEX and 120 fittings, add a waste percentage, and the takeoff calculator shows the quantity to order, rounded up to whole units.
It then adds the lines to the estimate. It is a quantity takeoff from your own price book; it does not read plans or drawings.
Plumbing scheduling on a dispatch board
One row per technician and one column per day. Every job is a card with its arrival window, marked standard, urgent or emergency.
Click the + in an empty cell to book a job into that slot, and see what is still unassigned. You enter and move the jobs yourself.
Job costing and invoicing
Job price plus approved change orders, minus expenses and technician hours at their rate. Service, deposit, progress, final, change-order and credit-memo invoices, with Paid, Partial and Overdue worked out for you. A 0 to 100 health score flags the jobs going wrong.
Service plans and recurring revenue
Annual inspections, water heater flush plans, backflow test programs and drain care plans, each with a next visit and a renewal date. The dashboard totals your plan revenue per year and lists what renews in the next 30 days.
Permits, callbacks, technicians and stock
Permit numbers and inspection results with an alert on a failed inspection, callbacks and punch lists, technician licence and certification expiry, parts stock with low-stock alerts, and purchase orders that write the cost when they are received.
Plumbing field service and scheduling software, honestly
The business side of a plumbing company, without the monthly fee.
A plumbing company lives out of vans and phone calls. Plumbing company software should keep the jobs, the money and the paperwork straight. It should also tell you where its limits are.
From call to work order
Log the lead, raise the estimate, and turn an accepted one into a job in one click with its price and cost budget carried across. Emergency calls get their own priority so they stand out on the board.
Field reports that print
The technician’s work performed, parts used and findings on one page, printable with a customer signature line, and linked to the job for costing.
Works with no signal
The file runs offline in your browser, on a laptop or tablet, in a basement or a crawl space. Nothing needs a connection once it is downloaded.
What it does not do
No GPS tracking, no route optimisation, no customer self-booking, no automatic texts or emails, no card processing, and no two people editing at once. It is the office record of the operation, not a live dispatch platform.
How a plumbing job runs
From estimate to paid in four steps.
Estimate it
Add the customer, then build the estimate from your price book. Use the takeoff for pipe and fittings, and print it for the customer to sign.
Schedule it
Accept the estimate and it becomes a job. Put it on the dispatch board with a technician, a day and an arrival window.
Do it and cost it
File the field report, log hours and expenses against the job, and record any change orders. Margin and health score update themselves.
Invoice and follow up
Raise the invoice, record the payment and see what is still owed. Callbacks and service-plan renewals show up before they are forgotten.
Why plumbers switch
You are not really choosing between two plumbing software packages.
Most plumbing software is rented by the month, and the records live on somebody else’s server. Spreadsheets are free but cannot build an estimate from a price book or keep a dispatch board.
This plumber software is a file you own, with the plumbing-specific parts built in.
| OwnDesk Plumbing | Subscription plumbing software | Paper & spreadsheets | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $ 49.00 once | Monthly fee, for as long as you use it | Free, but it costs your evenings |
| Estimates from a price book | Built in | Usually | By hand, every quote |
| Quantity takeoff with waste | Included (not plan-based) | Varies | Your own formulas |
| Technician dispatch board | Included | Usually | No |
| Works offline | Yes | Often needs a connection | Yes |
| Your records if you stop paying | Still yours | Access ends | Still yours |
| GPS tracking, route planning, customer texts | Not included | Often included | No |
| Several people at once | Not included — one computer at a time | Usually included | Only through a cloud drive |
The subscription column is a general description of plumbing and field service software sold by the month, not a claim about any single company — features and pricing differ, so check each site.
OwnDesk Plumbing is single-computer software: it does not sync between devices, track vehicles, send messages, read plans or process card payments.
From payment to your first estimate
Three steps, about two minutes.
Pay with card
Checkout runs on Stripe. Your card details never touch this site.
Download and open
The link appears the moment payment clears. Double-click the file — it opens in your browser, no install, no internet needed after that.
Look around, then start fresh
It opens with a sample plumbing company already loaded. Clear it from Settings, which keeps your company name, logo and tax rate, and add your own price book, customers and jobs.
If OwnDesk Plumbing isn't right for how you run your plumbing business, email me and you get a refund — no questions. If something's confusing, you're writing to the person who built it, not a queue. English and Spanish, both spoken here.
Questions
Before you buy.
What is plumbing estimating software?
How does the plumbing estimating software use my price book?
Is this plumbing takeoff software?
Is it plumbing scheduling software?
Can it work as plumbing field service software?
Is it plumbing business software I can use for a small plumbing company?
Does it do job costing and invoicing?
Can I track permits, inspections and callbacks?
Can it take card payments, sync with accounting software or run payroll?
Can several technicians use it at the same time?
Where are my records stored, and is there a subscription?
Build an estimate in it before you decide.
The live demo has real screens and a sample plumbing company loaded — no sign-up, no credit card. If it fits, buying takes about a minute.
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