Who it's for · Solo and duo inspectors
Set it up once.
It is still right
at fourteen inspectors.
None of this is new information to somebody who has been quoting these jobs for years. The only thing that changes is where it lives, and what it can do for you once it is somewhere other than your head.
The same three rules, later
The same three rows, with what each of them actually sets. What changes from here is not the rules. It is how much work one of them has to do.
Age older than 1970
Year Built before 1970
- On the client's quote+$65.00
- Who may take itAny provider
Square Footage 2000 to 2500
Square Footage between 2,000 and 2,500
- On the client's quote+$75.00
- On the day+60 min
- Who may take itAny provider
Foundation Type
Foundation Type = Crawlspace
- On the client's quote+$100.00
- Who may take itCrawlspace-qualified only
At one inspector
Two of them move the quote and one adds an hour to the day
The third says who may take the job, and the answer is you. It runs on every matching job and you would not notice it was there.
At 14 inspectors
Nothing above has been edited
That third clause is now one of the two conditions taking 14 providers down to 6 for this property. The other is the radon certification the same client bought.
The second column is not an upgrade and it is not a different product. It is the same row, doing a job that did not exist yet when you wrote it.
The phone stops being the booking system
At one inspector the person under the house and the person who answers the phone are the same person. A booking that arrives already scheduled is not a convenience at your size, it is how both of those jobs get done on the same afternoon.
The rules above run inside the client's own booking, so the price and the time are already right when it lands. How much of it runs without you is a setting, and the setting is yours.
What the client does
- Picks the property and the service
- Sees the price your rules produced
- Takes a time that is actually open
- Signs the agreement there and then
It arrives on your schedule, not in your inbox
One record, and the tools you keep
A one-person operation runs on a small stack that mostly works. The argument is not that you should throw any of it out. It is that the pieces holding the same fact twice are the pieces you are keeping in step by hand.
The report writer is the piece of software you actually like, and Scope asks nothing of it. That matters more at one inspector than at fourteen, because at one inspector you are the person who would have to relearn it.
Stops being a separate place
- A separate calendar that has to agree with the schedule
- A spreadsheet holding what you charge for what
- Re-typing the client's details into the invoice
- Remembering which follow-up was owed to whom
Stays exactly where it is
- The report writer your inspections are written in
- The maps app on your phone
- Your accountant's software
- Your own email address and your own phone number
Common questions
We are two people. Do we need any of this?
Need is a strong word. The test is whether either of you has ever quoted a job from memory and got it slightly wrong, or arrived at a house that took an hour longer than the calendar said. If neither has, you do not.
What happens to the rules when a third person arrives?
Nothing happens to them. That is section two, and it is the only reason this page exists rather than pointing you at the pricing page. Open it.
Do our reports have to change?
No. Scope holds the agreement, the report's state and who may open it, and asks nothing of the tool the report is written in. Open it.
Will clients notice anything different?
They book without ringing you, they sign during the booking, and they get the report from the same place. Whether that reads as different or as normal depends on what you were doing before.
What does setting up actually involve?
Your services, what you charge for them, and the conditions that change either. We have not measured how long that takes for a two-person operation, so we are not going to put a number on it here.
Is there any point starting before there is a second inspector?
That is the honest question on this page. The rules do the same work at one inspector that they do at fourteen, except for the part about who may take the job, which does nothing until somebody else is there to take it.
Run one real inspection through it
Put one real job through it end to end before you decide anything. That is what the free start is for and it is the only test that means anything.
- A property you have quoted before, and what you charged for it
- The service you sell alongside the standard inspection
- The condition that always changes your price
- The one job type you would rather not take
Home inspection software.