See how fencing contractors are using Bolster to win 20% more jobs annually, 15% more often. Create detailed estimates, present to customers, give them selections, and then automate your project management.
Fencing contractors using Bolster are, on average, winning 15% bigger jobs, 20% more often.
"The software is a huge upgrade to the customer experience. Bolster allows me to book more jobs with accurate costs while providing excellent customer experience for ongoing projects."
Save time, win more jobs, increase profit, and get paid faster with Bolster.
Fence estimating software exists to turn a measured fence line into a priced, professional quote quickly and without math errors. With Bolster you draw the run on a satellite image, choose the fence style, and the posts, rails, panels or pickets, concrete, gates, hardware and labor are calculated and priced for you. The homeowner can review options and sign while you are still on site.
Fencing is a speed game. The first contractor to put a clear, itemized price in front of the homeowner usually wins, and fence companies that quote from a notebook and a spreadsheet lose jobs to slower-quality competitors who simply answer first.
A fence estimate that holds up follows the same steps every time, whether you do it by hand or in software.
Illustrative example: 150 linear feet of 6 ft privacy fence with one 4 ft walk gate, 8 ft post spacing. That is 19 line sections, about 21 posts once corners, ends and gate posts are added, two or three rails per section, pickets for 146 feet, around two bags of concrete per post, the gate assembly, and labor for install plus removal of the old fence. Built as an assembly, all of that recalculates the moment the client asks "what if we go 200 feet?" These figures are an example only; use your own spacing, materials and rates.
In Bolster, Takeoff measures fence lines on satellite imagery or plans and links the lengths straight into your fence assemblies. Estimating runs the formulas for posts, sections, concrete and labor, and AutoCost keeps material and labor prices current for your region. You build each fence style once and reuse it on every job.
The estimate becomes an interactive quote automatically. Show cedar, vinyl and aluminum side by side, let the homeowner add a gate or upgrade the height, and take a digital signature and deposit on the spot. When the job is booked, Bolster creates the install schedule, the material list for your yard or supplier, and the budget to track actual costs.
Che Whitaker of Patriot Fencing and Construction grew monthly revenue from $14K to $82K in two months after moving to interactive Bolster estimates. Mike Cappo of Nola Fence Solutions sent a $770,000 multi-property fence proposal in 20 minutes, a job that used to take hours to price.
Repairs and partial replacements are small, frequent and easy to underprice. Set a minimum job charge that covers travel and setup, price repairs per section or per post, and save the most common repairs as templates so they take seconds to quote. New installs should always be built from measured runs and assemblies, so the price scales correctly with length, height and material.
Homeowners often get three fence quotes. The Bolster CRM pipeline tracks every lead and alerts you when a homeowner opens or changes their quote, so you know who is actively deciding and can follow up at the right time.
Plenty of fence companies run on a spreadsheet that one person built and only that person understands. It works until the owner wants someone else to quote, prices change, or a homeowner asks for three material options. Fence estimating software keeps the formulas, materials and labor rates in one shared catalog, so every estimator prices the same fence the same way, prices update without editing cells, and options are a click instead of a second spreadsheet tab. The quote the homeowner sees is also far more professional than a PDF export of a sheet.
Builder and property management work brings repeat scopes across many addresses. Assemblies make those jobs fast: build the standard fence once, then quote each lot or property from its measured length. Nola Fence Solutions used this approach to price a $770,000 multi-property proposal in about 20 minutes.
Clear quotes reduce back and forth and set expectations before the first post goes in. Book a demo to see a fence quote built from a satellite measurement in a few minutes.
The best fence estimating software measures fence lines on a map or plan, calculates posts, sections, concrete and gates automatically, keeps material prices current and produces a quote the homeowner can sign online. Bolster does all of that and also handles scheduling, material lists and payments.
Divide each straight run by your post spacing, round up, then add posts for every corner, end and gate. In Bolster this is a formula inside the fence assembly, so the count updates whenever the length changes.
Yes. Bolster Takeoff lets you draw fence runs on satellite imagery or uploaded plans and links those lengths to your estimate items.
Price labor per linear foot for the infill and per post for setting posts, then add separate labor for gates, old fence removal, difficult digging and slopes. Assemblies keep those rates consistent across estimators.
Yes. Bolster presentations can show wood, vinyl, aluminum or chain link as options with their own prices, and the total updates as the homeowner chooses.
Yes. Nola Fence Solutions used Bolster to price a $770,000 multi-property fence proposal in about 20 minutes.
