FieldKrew Blog

Practical writing for solo contractors and small crews — pricing, follow-ups, payments, subs, and the software that runs it all.

• The 5 automations every contractor should turn on before hiring their first admin — A solo contractor can save 10-15 hours a week with the right 5 automations — and none of them require paying for a full admin. Here's exactly which ones, and why they matter.
• Free CRM alternatives to Housecall Pro: what's actually free (and what has a catch) — Six free-tier contractor CRMs compared on real limits — customer count, invoice count, payment fees, feature gates. Two are genuinely free at scale. Three have caps that force upgrade fast.
• Invoice terms that get you paid in 30 days instead of 90 — The four fields on your invoice that determine whether you get paid this month or next quarter. Real language, real due dates, and one late-fee clause that actually works.
• The 5-touch follow-up sequence that turns 40% of dead quotes into won jobs — Most contractors send one quote and stop. Here's the exact 5-touch cadence — subject lines, timing, and content — that recovers roughly 4 in 10 quotes that would have gone cold.
• How to price a shingle roof replacement (real numbers, no fluff) — The material + labor + overhead + margin math that keeps roofing jobs profitable in 2026 — with square-price benchmarks and a downloadable quote checklist.
• We built a contractor CRM you can buy once and own forever — here's why — FieldKrew Desktop is the buy-once offline contractor CRM. style="max-width:780px;margin:0 auto;padding:48px 24px;font-family:system-ui,-apple-system,sans-serif;line-height:1.55;color:#0f172a"99 during founder pricing, own your data as a SQLite file on your machine, no subscription, private by architecture. Here's why we built it and how it works.