Contractor Business Software Built for the Truck, Not the Office

Most tools sold to contractors solve exactly one thing — a scheduler, or an invoicing app, or a lead form — and leave you to be the wiring between them. So the call comes in on one app, the estimate goes out from another, the job gets written on a notepad, and the invoice happens whenever you finally get to the paperwork. Every seam is a place a job leaks out.

NextTyr is one system that carries a job the whole way through. A homeowner finds your site, the receptionist answers and grabs the details, the lead lands in your pipeline, you send a bid from your phone, follow-up chases it, the job books, and the invoice goes out the moment you pack up. No re-typing the same customer into five tools, and nothing forgotten because the day got away from you.

• Website, business line, CRM, booking, and invoicing on one platform
• Every job on one record — from first call to final payment
• Runs from your phone on the job site, not a desktop back at the office

The big field service management platforms are real software — and they’re built for shops that already have a dispatcher, an office manager, and the budget to match. For a contractor running the crew and the paperwork out of one truck, they’re overbuilt, overpriced, and a job of their own just to set up.

NextTyr gives you the part of field service software that actually moves the needle for an owner-run shop: the calls answered, the leads tracked, the jobs booked, the invoices paid — set up for you in about 48 hours, not rolled out over a quarter. You get the back office of a bigger outfit without hiring the office, and without paying enterprise rates for seats you’ll never fill.

• The essentials of field service software, sized for an owner-run shop
• Live in about 48 hours — no lengthy rollout or implementation fee
• One flat monthly price, not per-seat enterprise licensing

You can’t take a call from a ladder, and a homeowner with a leak or a busted panel isn’t leaving a voicemail — they’re dialing the next contractor on the list. That missed call is the job, gone, and you never even knew it rang. Software for contractors only earns its keep if it fixes that first, because that’s where the work is won or lost.

NextTyr’s AI receptionist answers every call around the clock in your business’s name, asks the questions you’d ask, captures the job details, and books a callback so you don’t lose the lead to a competitor while you finish the one in front of you. If a call ever slips past, an instant text fires back in seconds from your business number, so the conversation starts even when you can’t.

• Every call answered 24/7 — nights, weekends, and mid-job
• Missed-call text-back fires in seconds before they dial the next name
• Job details captured and a callback booked, not a message you’ll return late

The bids you’ve already sent are the warmest work you’ll ever have, and they’re exactly the ones that die in silence — because following up means stopping mid-job to remember who you quoted three days ago. A contractor CRM is only useful if the chasing happens without you.

NextTyr tracks every lead through a plain pipeline — new, contacted, quoted, won — and every quote through its own path: sent, viewed, accepted. When a homeowner opens your bid, you know. When one goes quiet, follow-up texts keep nudging until they book or bow out, and the hottest leads get flagged so the free minute between jobs goes to the one ready to sign. It’s the customer record and the salesperson a bigger contractor pays for, running while you’re on the tools.

• One pipeline for every job: new, contacted, quoted, won
• Quote tracking — sent, viewed, accepted — so you know which bids are live
• Follow-up that chases quiet bids until they book, no reminder to yourself needed

The job isn’t done when the work is done; it’s done when you’re paid and the next one is on the calendar. That’s the stretch where contractors bleed the most time — chasing checks in the evening, playing phone tag to schedule, forgetting to ask for the review that wins the next homeowner. NextTyr closes that stretch on the same system that opened the job.

Customers book themselves from your real availability with reminders and an “on my way” text, so the calendar fills without the back-and-forth. The moment you finish, a branded invoice goes out from your phone and the customer pays from a text link — into your own Stripe account, never through us — with overdue balances chased for you through polite reminders. Then the review request sends itself, so your reputation climbs job after job while you drive to the next one.