A home service quote form collects what a cleaner, plumber, electrician or landscaper needs to price a job: what needs doing, where, how big and how soon. Get it right and you can quote from the form alone, without a site visit for simple jobs. This guide is for teams in home services and the trades, from solo contractors to crews of 20. We cover the questions every trade needs, the extras for each, photos and urgency, with a contractor quote form you can build in WordPress in about 15 minutes.
The short version
- Ask for the job, the address, the size and the timing.
- Let people add a photo; it often replaces a site visit.
- Ask how urgent it is, so emergencies reach you first.
- Reply with a price or a time to call within 24 hours.
What should every service request form ask?
Every service request form should ask who is asking, where the job is, what needs doing, how big it is, how soon, and for a photo if they have one:
| Question | Why |
|---|---|
| Name, phone and email | Most trades call back, so phone comes first |
| Address | Travel time, and whether you cover the area |
| What needs doing? | Multiple choice for common jobs, plus Other |
| How big? | Home size, rooms, square feet or yard size |
| How soon? | Emergency, within 24 hours, this week, just a quote |
| A photo | Optional, but often the most useful answer |
Eight fields take about 2 minutes, and we built every template in Echo Forms around them. The photo is worth asking for, because a picture of the leak or the damaged roof can turn a visit into a quote.
What extra questions does each trade need?
Each trade needs a few questions of its own, so you can price the job without calling back to ask. Our 10 home service templates each add their own:
| Trade | Extra questions |
|---|---|
| Cleaning | Home size, how often, add-ons with prices |
| Moving | From and to addresses, move date, large items |
| Landscaping | Services, property size, how often |
| HVAC | System type, the issue |
| Plumbing and electrical | The job, how urgent |
| Pest control | Pests seen, property type, one visit or ongoing |
| Roofing | Repair or replacement, roof type, photos |
| Painting | Interior or exterior, rooms or square footage |
How to build a home service quote form, step by step
- In Echo Forms, open the template gallery and pick your trade.
- Rename the services to match what you actually offer.
- Keep the urgency question, and the address field for your service area.
- Add a File upload for photos, allowing jpg, png and heic up to 10 MB.
- Send yourself an email for every request, and with Signature a text for emergencies.
- Put the form on your services page and your Google Business Profile link.
The file upload guide covers photos, and the emails for each entry guide covers notifications.
How fast should a contractor reply?
Within 24 hours for a quote, and within 1 hour for anything marked as an emergency. People asking for a plumber often call the next business if they hear nothing quickly. With Echo Forms Signature, conditional emails can send Emergency requests straight to the person on call. The U.S. Small Business Administration’s guide to managing a business has more on customer service for small firms.
Can the form show a price?
For simple, fixed-price jobs, yes. A cleaning quote can add up home size, frequency and add-ons in a live total, as our Home Cleaning Quote template does, so people see a price before they send. For jobs that vary, ask for photos and reply with a range. Our quote calculator guide shows how.
A home service quote form takes about 15 minutes to set up from a template and works every day your phone is busy. Ask for the job, the address, a photo and the urgency, and reply within 24 hours.
Ten home service templates, free
Cleaning, moving, landscaping, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, pest, handyman, roofing and painting, ready to change.
