Quote the run on-site. Lock in the deposit before you dig.
Per-metre pricing, gates, removal and tip runs. Sumitt builds the fence quote in minutes and texts your client a link to accept and pay.
Your rate card builds the price while you walk the job. No kitchen-table maths at 9pm.
Your client opens the quote on their phone, picks an option and e-signs.
They pay the deposit on the same link, so the money is in your account before you begin.
Built for fencers, not adapted for them
Every figure below is read from the Fencing rate card, takeoff engine and hazard library inside Sumitt when this page renders. It cannot say more than the product does, and it moves the day the card does.
The Fencing rate card
Size field: Fence run (lineal m)14 lines in 4 groups, 3 switched on before you touch anything, 3 with a grade or billing basis to pick.
- Fence
- Gates
- Site
- Labour
- Fence supply + install: Treated-pine paling, Colorbond, Hardwood paling, Slat / screen (alu), Pool (flat-top alu)
- Remove old fence: per lm, per day, per hour
- Fencer: per day, per hour
Australian guide rates factored across 10 regions, every one of them editable. Guidance, not gospel.
The takeoff engine
Say it like this. The engine reads the scope, works out the quantities, prices them off your card and tells you what it assumed. Deterministic arithmetic; no AI touches the numbers.
- “30m colorbond fence 1.8m high, 1 gate, remove old fence”
- “40m paling fence”
- “25m pool fence”
The safety pack
A SWMS drafted from the job you priced, with the fencing hazard set on top of the common site hazards.
- Post hole digging & setting
- Panel & rail installation
Priced lines add their own: Waste disposal & tip runs, Demolition / removal of existing work.
Extra PPE: Gloves for post/panel handling.
2 site questions to confirm before sign-off.
You review it against the site, edit it and sign. Sumitt prepares the paperwork; it does not assess your site or make your business compliant. Safety packs are part of Pro, and the free trial includes Pro.
Price books
Import your supplier’s or wholesaler’s price list and quote from real trade prices instead of a guide rate. Every line stays editable on the quote.
Books, exports and the rules
Paid invoices land in Xero as drafts, and quotes, invoices and payments export as CSV. Sumitt warns when a total crosses a Queensland, New South Wales or Victorian licence line, and never blocks.
The Trade Rate Index shows the benchmark cost of the jobs fencers quote most and the rates that leave a floor, healthy or premium margin, derived from the same rate cards. Not a survey, not advice.
Straight answers
Does it price per lineal metre?
Yes. The size field is the fence run in lineal metres, and the supply and install line offers paling, Colorbond, hardwood, slat and pool styles at their own rates. Gates, motors, posts, rails and plinths are separate lines, so the quote itemises what the client pays for.
Can I say the job out loud and get a price?
Type or say the run, the style, the height and the gates and the engine sets the quantities and prices them off your card. Say remove old fence and the removal and disposal lines come with it, so the tip run never gets given away.
What about pool fence compliance?
A pool fence scope comes back with a warning to price the compliance visit and meet the barrier standard, so the inspection is in the quote rather than remembered later. Sumitt flags it; the inspection and the rules in your state stay yours to handle.
Does the safety pack cover augers and services?
The fencing hazard set covers post-hole digging and setting, with locating services before augering and auger entanglement controls, and panel and rail installation with sheet-metal and wind controls. You confirm the site questions and sign; Sumitt prepares the paperwork.
Sumitt provides software and templates, not legal, financial or tax advice.
Built for AU fencers. Paling, Colorbond and gates, priced your way.