If you have no catalog, Handoff still prices your estimates. Labor uses local data for the job location. Materials use Home Depot or Lowe's prices when a retail supplier is turned on, and everything else uses Handoff's default rates.
Available on all plans, including the free trial. Needs an active subscription or trial. Works on desktop and in the mobile app.
The fastest way to get your own numbers in is to import a price list or tell Handy (Handoff's AI assistant) your rates in chat.
What Handoff uses when you have no catalog
An estimate without catalogs is priced from these sources.
Labor: Handoff uses a local labor rate based on the zip code of your price location.
Materials: if retail supplier pricing is enabled, Handoff matches material lines to Home Depot or Lowe's products and uses their prices. Accounts start with Lowe's selected.
Everything else: Handoff's built-in knowledge base and default rates.
Your direct requests in chat still win; see How Handoff prices an estimate. If you type "use $100/hr for labor", Handoff uses that rate for the estimate.
What you can set up first
Presets and markups work without a catalog. Markups and tax start at 0% unless you answered the markup step when you signed up. Set defaults under Settings > AI Settings > Presets.
Build your first catalog
You have three quick routes, from fastest to slowest.
Tell Handy a rate in chat. When you state a rate you want Handoff to keep, Handy saves it as a catalog rate in a catalog called Ungrouped.
Import a price list. Go to Settings > AI Settings > Catalogs, select New catalog (New in the mobile app), and choose Import from file. See How to import a supplier price list into a catalog.
Create manually. Select New catalog (New in the mobile app) > Create manually, and add rates one at a time.
Catalog limits depend on your plan; see How catalogs work.
Why a catalog changes your numbers
Once a catalog is active, Handy checks it before supplier prices and market defaults. A catalog rate sets the price, and material lines priced from your catalog are not repriced by supplier matching. See How catalogs work.