Deck building software
Quote it from the driveway. Bill it as it goes up.
Price the deck on site, take the deposit before you order the lumber, and bill each stage as it is framed. All from the phone in your pocket.
What is deck building software?
Deck building software is how a deck builder prices a build and keeps the lumber, the stages and the photos on one job. You bill as the work goes up, instead of working off paper and memory.
Right now the material list is on a notepad and the stage payments are in your head. The railing question is three weeks deep in your texts.
StrikeHoney does all of it in one app: quote the deck, carry the build stage by stage, and get paid without chasing anyone.
- 01Quotes with the lumber and the labour priced line by line
- 02A build that stays open from footings to railing
- 03Photos from each stage, kept with the job
- 04A deposit before the lumber order goes in
- 05Staged bills, and knowing who still owes you
The old way, and this way
Built board by board
- 01
Quote it before you are back in the truck
Price the framing, the decking and the railing as line items and send it as a link they approve on their phone. The deposit lands in the same tap. A quote you drop in the mailbox cannot take money while you are still on the driveway.
- 02
Carry one build across three weeks and four rain days
Footings, framing, decking, railing, the photos from each and how far along you are all sit on the one job. A notepad cannot tell you which stage you stopped at before it rained.
- 03
Bill each stage as it is framed
Take the deposit up front, bill the framing once it is framed, and send the last invoice when the railing is on. We work out the remaining balance for you, so a three-week build gets billed in pieces without you doing the math at 10 PM.
- 04
Keep the railing questions with the deck
Calls, texts and “can we go a foot wider?” land on the job, on your own business number, not your personal cell. A group chat will not remind you that the railing was never agreed.
A deck is three weeks of work and four rain days
The build stretches. What you use to keep track of it should not stretch with it.
- A three-week build tracked in your head, or not tracked at all
- Lumber counts and labour hours scratched on paper, or texted to yourself
- Ordering the material before the deposit has landed
- The railing question buried in a thread from two rain days ago
- One job, open from the footings to the last board
- Lumber and labour priced line by line on the same quote
- Deposit taken the moment they approve, before the order goes in
- Every message from that customer sitting on the job it is about
Sound like your Tuesday?
One crew, one build at a time. No project manager, and nobody drawing up a schedule you then have to follow.
- You build decks on your own, or with one or two others.
- You build in Canada, where the season is short and the lumber price is not a rounding error.
- You price by the build, material and labour together, not by the hour.
- You would rather bill the framing when it is framed than wait out the whole build.
Three bills on one deck, taxed right three times
Bill a deck in stages and you do not do the tax once, you do it at the deposit, at the framing and at the final. Three chances to get it wrong on the same build.
The rate comes off your province and lands on each one, and the totals stay in the tax report rather than in three separate scraps of paper.
Not signing up yet? Put a real build through the free calculator and see what the customer owes at each stage, tax in.
| Province | Tax | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Ontario | HST | 13% |
| British Columbia | GST + PST | 5% + 7% |
| Saskatchewan | GST + PST | 5% + 6% |
| Nova Scotia | HST | 14% |
A separate provincial tax is opt in, because whether it lands on labour or only on materials depends on the trade. Rates checked against the Canada Revenue Agency in August 2026.
One plan. Choose how often you pay.
- Leads, quotes, jobs and invoicing
- Your own business phone number
- GST/HST worked out by province
- Cancel any time, export any time
Before you ask
Deck building software is how a deck builder prices a build, keeps the lumber and stages on one job, and bills for it. It stands in for the measurements on a scrap of two-by-four and the price you shook on at the fence.
StrikeHoney is built for Canadian trade contractors, deck builders and carpenters included. Quoting, job tracking and invoicing are shaped around how a build actually runs: several weeks, material plus labour, billed in stages.
Yes. Take the deposit at approval, then bill each stage as it is done. The remaining balance is worked out for you, so you are not doing the math by hand at night.
Yes. The job stays open from the footings to the last board. Every stage photo, the dates and the messages hang off that one build.
Yes. Your province decides the rate and it lands on every stage you bill, so a deck billed in three pieces is taxed right three times.
Both. It is built for one person first. Bring someone on and they get a stripped-down view of the jobs they are on, with the money hidden.
$24/mo CAD, everything included. Pay six months ahead and it works out to $21/mo CAD; pay for the year up front and it is $19/mo CAD. Same product, less money. One plan, no tiers, no add-ons.
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