Your prices, the way you actually quote them
Per-foot rates by height, material, style and colour, each with a low and a high. Flat prices for gates. Waste, teardown, permits and a minimum job. The estimator prices the homeowner’s drawing from these numbers and shows them a range. Your rates never reach the browser.
- Unlimited products and heights
- Low and high on every line
- Server-side pricing
What you set
Six kinds of number, and that is the whole catalog
If you can price a fence job on paper, you already have everything this asks for.
A rate for every height, material, style and colour
Each combination you sell is one line: 6 ft, wood, privacy, natural. Each line has a base per-foot rate and a low and a high, so the range the homeowner sees reflects how much that product really varies from one yard to the next.
Products, not spreadsheets
Lines are grouped into products — wood privacy, vinyl picket white, black aluminum — each with its heights and prices together and a picture. That picture is what the homeowner sees when they choose, so make it a good one or use ours.
Gates, priced flat
A single walk gate and a double drive gate each have a flat price with a low and a high. The homeowner drops gates on the drawing; the estimator counts them and adds them to the range.
Waste factor
A percentage added to the fence footage before pricing, for cuts and offcuts. It defaults to 5% and applies to the fence lines only, never to gates or teardown.
Teardown and haul-away
A per-foot rate, with a low and a high, for removing an old fence. If you set it, the homeowner is asked whether there is a fence to remove and how much of it, and that footage is priced on top.
Permit fee and minimum job
A flat permit fee that is added to every range, and a minimum job value below which the range is lifted to your floor. A 40-foot side-yard job never quotes at a number you would not get out of the truck for.
How the range is built
Exactly what happens when a homeowner presses “Get my estimate”
No hidden multipliers. The range is your numbers applied to their drawing, in this order.
- 1
For each fence run, find your rule for its height, material, style and colour, and multiply the run’s footage by the rule’s low and high per-foot figures.
- 2
Add the waste factor to the fence totals.
- 3
Add each single and double gate at its low and high flat price.
- 4
If the homeowner said an old fence is coming out, add the teardown footage at your low and high teardown rate.
- 5
Add the permit fee.
- 6
If the result is below your minimum job value, raise it to the minimum.
- 7
Show the homeowner the low and the high. Show you, on the lead, the same two numbers.
The PDF the homeowner keeps shows the same breakdown — fence, gates, teardown, permit — as ranges. Never as a rate per foot.
Staying in control
Sell what you want to sell
The catalog is also how you steer the homeowner. What is on, what is first, and what they never see.
Turn products on and off
Only enabled lines appear in the estimator. Stop selling a colour for the season and it disappears from the homeowner’s choices without deleting your pricing.
Put your best margin first
Mark a product as featured and it sorts to the top of the list the homeowner sees. What you want to sell is what they see first.
Start from a starter catalog
Import a starter set of common products — wood privacy and picket, vinyl privacy and picket in several colours, aluminum, chain link, farm fence — with placeholder prices and pictures, then change the numbers to yours. Or start empty and add materials one by one.
Your prices stay on the server
The homeowner’s browser receives the list of options and their pictures, never the rates. The range is calculated on our server from your catalog and only the two totals are sent back. A competitor filling in the form learns nothing.
FAQ
Questions about pricing your catalog
How do I set fence prices in MapMyFence?
Per linear foot, for every height, material, style and colour you install, each with a base rate and a low and a high. Add flat prices for single and double gates, a waste percentage, a per-foot teardown rate, a permit fee and a minimum job value. The estimator turns the homeowner’s drawing into a range from those numbers.
Why a low and a high instead of one price?
Because you do not know about the slope, the roots, the rock or the neighbour’s fence until you are standing there. A range built from your own low and high per-foot figures tells the homeowner the truth — roughly this much — without committing you to a number you have not verified on site.
Does the homeowner ever see my per-foot rates?
No. The browser receives the options and pictures so the homeowner can choose; the prices never leave the server. It calculates the range and returns two totals. The PDF shows the range and a breakdown by fence, gates, teardown and permit, still as ranges, never as a rate per foot.
Can I price different heights differently?
Yes, that is the whole structure. A 4-foot picket and a 6-foot privacy fence in the same wood are separate lines with separate rates. Each product lists its heights with a price for each.
How long does setting up the catalog take?
Importing the starter catalog and adjusting the rates to yours takes about an hour if you know your numbers. Building from scratch takes longer only because you are typing more. On the annual plan we do it with you on a setup call.
Can I charge for removing an old fence?
Yes. Set a per-foot teardown rate with a low and a high. When it is set, the homeowner is asked whether there is an existing fence to remove and roughly how much, and that footage is priced and shown as its own line on the PDF.
What if a homeowner picks a combination I have not priced?
They cannot. The estimator only offers heights, materials, styles and colours that exist as enabled lines in your catalog, so every choice they make has a price behind it.
Is this a fence material takeoff or a bill of materials?
No. It prices per foot from your rates, plus gates and extras. It does not count posts, rails, pickets or concrete. It produces a budget range good enough to decide whether the job is worth a visit; your takeoff tool produces the order once it is.
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The catalog prices what the homeowner draws with the satellite drawing tool. For how this fits with takeoff tools, see fence estimating software.
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