Wire Mate: On-Site Material & Cost Estimator
Work out the materials and the cost before you leave the job.
An estimating app for technicians that works out material requirements and job budgets on site — itemized, ready to share, and without a spreadsheet.
Wire Mate
Field Service
In DevelopmentOn-site estimates without the guesswork
Wire Mate is a straightforward estimating app for technicians, built to work out material requirements and job budgets on site without spreadsheets or guesswork. Enter the job and it works out what the work will need and what it should cost, with the breakdown laid out item by item rather than hidden inside a single total that nobody can check. It is designed for entry on a phone while standing in the middle of a job, so a rough figure quoted from memory becomes a number that holds up when the materials are actually bought. Estimates given from experience are fast and reliably short, and the difference usually comes out of the margin — working the materials out properly takes about as long and survives contact with the invoice.
Wire Mate features planned for the first release
Nothing here has shipped yet. This is what the first release of Wire Mate is being built to do, described plainly enough to check against what you actually need.
Material requirement estimates
Work out what a job will consume from the job itself rather than from memory. Under-ordering means a second trip and over-ordering means stock nobody paid for.
Budget calculation
Turn the material list into a cost figure while you are still standing in the job, so the number you give the customer is one you have actually worked out.
Itemized breakdowns
Every element shown as its own line, so a second person can check the estimate without reconstructing how the total was reached — and so you can find the error when the total looks wrong.
Quick on-site entry
Built for a phone held in one hand in an awkward position, which is the real condition estimating tools are used in and the reason spreadsheets lose to guesswork on site.
Reusable job types
Common jobs recur with small variations. Starting from a job type you have estimated before means the work is in the differences rather than in rebuilding the list.
Shareable estimate summary
A clean summary of the estimate to pass to a colleague, an office, or straight into the quotation that goes to the customer.
Who Wire Mate is being built for
The specific situations Wire Mate is designed around — worth checking against your own before the first release lands.
Technicians estimating on site
Built for entry on a phone in the middle of a job, rather than a spreadsheet that has to wait until you are back at a desk — by which point the details have blurred.
Small field-service teams
An itemized breakdown means a second person can check the estimate without reconstructing how the total was reached, which matters when the person quoting is not the person buying.
Anyone quoting from memory
Figures given from experience are fast and frequently short, and the shortfall lands on the margin. Working the materials out properly takes about as long and holds up afterwards.
Questions about Wire Mate
What people ask about a product that has not shipped yet — what it does, what it deliberately does not, and where it runs.
Is Wire Mate available to download yet?
Not yet. It is in active development, and the capabilities on this page describe the planned first release. Download details will be published here when there is something to install.
How is Wire Mate different from Xolro Quotation?
Wire Mate works out what a job will need — materials and budget — while you are standing in it. Xolro Quotation turns a priced job into a customer-facing itemized document with labour and customer details. They cover adjacent halves of the same visit, which is why they are separate apps rather than one tool trying to do both jobs adequately.
Should I use Wire Mate or Xolro Quotation, or both?
If your problem is working out what a job will consume and cost, that is Wire Mate. If your problem is producing a professional document the customer can accept, that is Xolro Quotation. Many field-service visits involve both steps, and the two are designed to sit next to each other in that sequence.
Do I need a network connection on site?
Site conditions are exactly where estimating tools tend to fail — basements, plant rooms and half-built structures are not known for reception — so this is being handled deliberately during development. The confirmed offline behaviour is published here before release rather than promised in advance.
Is Wire Mate only for electrical work?
The name reflects where the idea started, but the underlying problem — working out materials and cost on site, itemized, on a phone — is common across field-service trades. Which trades the first release covers well will be stated plainly on this page rather than implied.
Can I set my own material prices?
Yes. Material costs vary by supplier, region and the deal you have negotiated, so an estimating tool with fixed national prices would produce confident and wrong numbers. Your own prices are what make the estimate worth trusting.
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