Joist: Estimate Invoice Maker

Name: Joist: Estimate Invoice Maker
Rating: 4.7 (12719 reviews)
Author: Joist Software Inc.

Invoicing App for Contractors

Free · In‑App Purchases

13K Ratings
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Business
Developer

Joist Software Inc.
Language

EN
English
Size

176.3
MB

Win more jobs and get paid faster with Joist — the ultimate estimate & invoice maker for contractors. Manage your business entirely from your iPhone or iPad. Create professional quotes in seconds, accept secure payments, and stay ahead of the competition with the industry's most trusted tool for builders. Whether you are estimating on-site or sending professional bills from the office, Joist is the specialized estimate & invoice maker for contractors that saves time, keeps you organized, and helps you win more jobs ASAP. Note: Payments functionality is currently available in the United States & Canada. ——— WHY CONTRACTORS LOVE JOIST • SAVES TIME – Complete administrative work at the jobsite or on-the-go. Stop spending your evenings catching up on paperwork & digital receipts. • WIN MORE JOBS – Send your client an estimate before you leave. Be the first to create an estimate & give them the opportunity to say YES on the spot. • REMOVE BOTTLENECKS – Build estimates & invoices quicker by selecting from your list of commonly used materials + labor rates. • ACCEPT PAYMENTS – Accept Credit Card & PayPal payments from clients directly through Joist. No more driving around to pick up checks. • EASILY MANAGE CLIENTS – Create, organize & store valuable info to access your clients' data anytime, on the go. • LOOK PROFESSIONAL – Show clients you are the contractor they should trust with customized, professional estimates & invoices. ——— KEY FEATURES Customize estimates & invoices with company info & logo Attach a client contract & collect a signature on the spot Accept Credit Card & PayPal payments directly through the app Build a list of commonly used items, services & materials Attach photos to your estimates & invoices Preview your estimate | invoice before you send Print or email estimates & invoices on the spot Create personal messages & digital receipts for your clients Convert estimates into invoices ASAP Keep track of customer payments & bills Export data into your accounting program to reduce costs Access all your info from any device or the web — Joist is a cloud-based invoice maker. ——— USE CASES & VERSATILITY Joist adapts to your workflow, providing a robust estimate & invoice maker for every scenario: On-Site Estimates: Walk through a job & create a quote before leaving the property. Instant Invoicing: Convert approved quotes into professional bills & send to clients instantly. Mobile Payments: Close the loop by accepting payments immediately upon completion. Project Tracking: Use the construction estimator for accurate material & labor margins. ——— WHO USES JOIST All types of contractors, builders & construction service companies use the app: General contractors, handymen, electricians, plumbers, builders, landscapers, roofers, painters, HVAC, flooring, remodeling, construction & more! ——— WHAT OTHER CONTRACTORS ARE SAYING "Now I can do quotes on the fly! I don't have to walk through the job & write everything down; it's all programmed into my iPad right from material cost to cost per square foot! This app is so awesome." ——— JOIST ESTIMATE & INVOICE SUBSCRIPTIONS You can subscribe to Joist Pro (Monthly/Annual) or Joist Elite (Monthly/Annual). Subscription payments will be charged to your iTunes Account at purchase confirmation. Subscriptions automatically renew after 30 or 365 days unless auto-renew is turned off 24 hrs prior to the end of the current period. Manage settings in App Store or iTunes. ——— Joist is FREE to Download & FREE to try! Available on iPhone, iPad & desktop. Get support FAST! Our team is here to help you run the best business possible: hello@joist.com | www.joist.com | In-app live chat (7 days a week) ———————— Terms: https://www.joist.com/terms/ Privacy: https://www.joist.com/privacy-policy/

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

13K Ratings

Joist now charges
06/06/2019

Lucius lucky
Justin nailed it right on the head. Well said my friend. How can we trust a company who out of nowhere decides to charge me for something I've been using to run my small business for years? If I was never offered these amenedies from the beginning, I would not have a problem... In my eyes it's no different than this scenario.If I saw someone walking to work every day in the snow and I offered them a free car to use for 5 years, then at the start of the 6th year I said you can still use the car but you have to start paying me a monthly fee. If you don't like it, you can still use the car but I'm taking two of the tires, the steering wheel, and the headlights. This is what I feel is happening with the joist app right now. I asked numerous times when I first signed up " there will never be a fee in the future right"?Again and again I was told nope, this is totally free. I feel my business would look unprofessional if I uprooted my estimate and invoicing software out of the blue. I hope the joist team reconsiders this move as I've loved the app since day 1.
Joist now charges
06/06/2019

Lucius lucky

Justin nailed it right on the head. Well said my friend. How can we trust a company who out of nowhere decides to charge me for something I've been using to run my small business for years? If I was never offered these amenedies from the beginning, I would not have a problem... In my eyes it's no different than this scenario.If I saw someone walking to work every day in the snow and I offered them a free car to use for 5 years, then at the start of the 6th year I said you can still use the car but you have to start paying me a monthly fee. If you don't like it, you can still use the car but I'm taking two of the tires, the steering wheel, and the headlights. This is what I feel is happening with the joist app right now. I asked numerous times when I first signed up " there will never be a fee in the future right"?Again and again I was told nope, this is totally free. I feel my business would look unprofessional if I uprooted my estimate and invoicing software out of the blue. I hope the joist team reconsiders this move as I've loved the app since day 1.
Great app mostly
10/24/2023

Dynamite John
This is my favorite app for bidding and invoicing! The two reasons I gave it less than 5 stars are as follows: 1. Every time you navigate to a different app during estimate editing mode (example: to copy and paste from your notes), it closes the edit and doesn’t save any changes. The app refreshes each time you close a bid, etc. Makes for a lot of wasted time while it reloads ten times more frequently than needed. I have brought this up to the Joist team and they said they would look into it, but never fixed it. 2. The app keeps sending annoying messages to try to get me to sign up for PayPal payments, and no matter how often I decline, they keep throwing it in front of me each time I open the app. Like please stop wasting our time. We are paying for the subscription, and you’re interrupting our busy day. If we could clear up those two issues, I would change my rating to 5 stars, and recommend this app strongly! It still remains the best one out there, but I always feel disrespected by the constant bugging to set up payments (PayPal isn’t trustworthy) and always having to re-edit any time I forget to save changes before I go grab a copy to paste from another app. You should not charge money unless you give satisfaction.Looking forward to improvements and honesty on their end. Joist team, please read this and fix it! It used to be different. I know it is possible! Thank you!

Developer Response
Hey John, thanks for taking the time to share your honest feedback with us, we really appreciate it. We understand that your time is valuable and having to redo work that wasn't saved when switching apps or having to close a payment notification when you open our app takes away from that. You raise two great suggestions for us to consider as we continue to build improvements to the app. We're always trying to make the app better and we'll do our best to earn your 5-star review. We value feedback from contractors like you and if you have anything else you'd like to share, we'd love to hear it. Please email us at hello@joist.com and we can pick things up with you from there.
Great app mostly
10/24/2023

Dynamite John

This is my favorite app for bidding and invoicing! The two reasons I gave it less than 5 stars are as follows: 1. Every time you navigate to a different app during estimate editing mode (example: to copy and paste from your notes), it closes the edit and doesn’t save any changes. The app refreshes each time you close a bid, etc. Makes for a lot of wasted time while it reloads ten times more frequently than needed. I have brought this up to the Joist team and they said they would look into it, but never fixed it. 2. The app keeps sending annoying messages to try to get me to sign up for PayPal payments, and no matter how often I decline, they keep throwing it in front of me each time I open the app. Like please stop wasting our time. We are paying for the subscription, and you’re interrupting our busy day. If we could clear up those two issues, I would change my rating to 5 stars, and recommend this app strongly! It still remains the best one out there, but I always feel disrespected by the constant bugging to set up payments (PayPal isn’t trustworthy) and always having to re-edit any time I forget to save changes before I go grab a copy to paste from another app. You should not charge money unless you give satisfaction.Looking forward to improvements and honesty on their end. Joist team, please read this and fix it! It used to be different. I know it is possible! Thank you!
Developer Response 10/26/2023
Hey John, thanks for taking the time to share your honest feedback with us, we really appreciate it. We understand that your time is valuable and having to redo work that wasn't saved when switching apps or having to close a payment notification when you open our app takes away from that. You raise two great suggestions for us to consider as we continue to build improvements to the app. We're always trying to make the app better and we'll do our best to earn your 5-star review. We value feedback from contractors like you and if you have anything else you'd like to share, we'd love to hear it. Please email us at hello@joist.com and we can pick things up with you from there.
Good app, terrible service
06/20/2020

Jeeper_98_TJ
Joist has no business being in business. They can’t do ANYTHING right. You can’t actually talk to customer service, you can only chat with them. They never do anything they say they will do unless you ask several times over and over. When I wanted to set up payment receipts from joist, it took them 6 weeks to fix a problem in their end. Not only that, but I had to contact them 3 times to get it done. Every time I contacted them it was as if the previous person I “spoke” to never put in a request to have it fixed. Recently, the last straw. They advertised Joist Elite Pro as if it is available for all devices. It wasn’t until after I paid for it that I realized that it isn’t available for iOS or windows. They told me that AFTER I paid for it. I requested a refund and they said they would submit the request. More than one week later, still no refund. They have no idea what they are doing. When I requested the refund again today, I was told that the payment team only worked during business hours and that they would reach out to me on Monday. BS!! I’ll be disputing the charge with my credit card company and joist will never get another dime from me. Use the free version if you want, but DO NOT give them your money. They are dishonest and incapable of providing solutions to the problems they cause.

Developer Response
Hey there, very sorry to see you feel this way. I followed up with you directly through email to help with this situation and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Good app, terrible service
06/20/2020

Jeeper_98_TJ

Joist has no business being in business. They can’t do ANYTHING right. You can’t actually talk to customer service, you can only chat with them. They never do anything they say they will do unless you ask several times over and over. When I wanted to set up payment receipts from joist, it took them 6 weeks to fix a problem in their end. Not only that, but I had to contact them 3 times to get it done. Every time I contacted them it was as if the previous person I “spoke” to never put in a request to have it fixed. Recently, the last straw. They advertised Joist Elite Pro as if it is available for all devices. It wasn’t until after I paid for it that I realized that it isn’t available for iOS or windows. They told me that AFTER I paid for it. I requested a refund and they said they would submit the request. More than one week later, still no refund. They have no idea what they are doing. When I requested the refund again today, I was told that the payment team only worked during business hours and that they would reach out to me on Monday. BS!! I’ll be disputing the charge with my credit card company and joist will never get another dime from me. Use the free version if you want, but DO NOT give them your money. They are dishonest and incapable of providing solutions to the problems they cause.
Developer Response 06/22/2020
Hey there, very sorry to see you feel this way. I followed up with you directly through email to help with this situation and I look forward to hearing back from you.
Office Manager
01/31/2022

J&M Elite Contractors
Great CRM program. Could maybe have a few more features available to Elite pros. However we love the simplicity of their app and it’s user friendly. It saves us so much time with estimates and billing. We’re 100% satisfied with the product and even signed up for a year given the discount offered to us at the end of our payment process. Their customer service was tremendous and extremely helpful when we began looking into their product as we had tons of questions or concerns. Great product Great price. It’s the perfect CRM for our company. Does everything we needed and even more than what we expected. Signed up and then found out we now were able to offer our customers financing options for their projects which was HUGE to us. I would love it if Joist could add a spot so their pro elite contractors can request reviews from our customers. Maybe someday. 100% satisfied would 100% recommend.

Developer Response
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review. We're glad to hear you're happy with Joist and would recommend it to others. Homeowner Financing is a gamechanger for many of our users and the clients they serve. We'd also like to understand some of the other features you would like to see, please reach out to us at hello@joist.com with more information. We would love to hear it!
Office Manager
01/31/2022

J&M Elite Contractors

Great CRM program. Could maybe have a few more features available to Elite pros. However we love the simplicity of their app and it’s user friendly. It saves us so much time with estimates and billing. We’re 100% satisfied with the product and even signed up for a year given the discount offered to us at the end of our payment process. Their customer service was tremendous and extremely helpful when we began looking into their product as we had tons of questions or concerns. Great product Great price. It’s the perfect CRM for our company. Does everything we needed and even more than what we expected. Signed up and then found out we now were able to offer our customers financing options for their projects which was HUGE to us. I would love it if Joist could add a spot so their pro elite contractors can request reviews from our customers. Maybe someday. 100% satisfied would 100% recommend.
Developer Response 02/02/2022
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed review. We're glad to hear you're happy with Joist and would recommend it to others. Homeowner Financing is a gamechanger for many of our users and the clients they serve. We'd also like to understand some of the other features you would like to see, please reach out to us at hello@joist.com with more information. We would love to hear it!

Hey Joisters! This update contains bug fixes and performance improvements Cheers, The Joist Team

Version 3.157.0 3d ago

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Seller: Joist Software Inc.
Size: 176.3 MB
Category: Business
Compatibility: Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.

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Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.

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Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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In-App Purchases: Yes

Joist Pro Monthly $14.99

Joist Elite Monthly $31.99

Joist Basics Monthly $9.99

Joist Pro Annual $149.99

Quickbooks Sync Monthly $9.99

Joist Elite Annual $319.99

Joist Basics Annual $99.99

Quickbooks Sync Annual $90.99

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Joist now charges

Great app mostly

Good app, terrible service

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