Customers pay more to be seen sooner

Let customers pay you extra for a high-priority stop.

When a customer wants to be seen sooner, reply with the fee that makes the stop worth it. We show them your soonest arrival, and they can pay for priority or schedule a regular visit.

See Quick Stops in the demo See how the fee works

You set the priority fee · Customer pays before you go · Service is charged separately

Let’s Get QuotedQuick Stops assistant

Intake
Job
Your fee
Homeowner

Jamie R. · Royal Oak
Kitchen tap is leaking under the sink. I’m home today and tomorrow morning.
AI Intake turned this into a Quick Stop
Leaking kitchen tap · Jamie R. · Royal Oak
- 2.1 mi off tomorrow’s route
- Available today or tomorrow morning
- Soonest opening: tomorrow, 9–11 AM
To you · text message
Quick Stop: Jamie in Royal Oak has a leaking kitchen tap, 2.1 miles off tomorrow’s route. You can be there tomorrow, 9–11 AM.
What priority fee would make the stop worth it? Reply with a dollar amount.
Reply with the priority fee you want

Fill the gaps without losing control

A small detour, paid for before you make it.

A cancellation, early finish or open window does not have to become dead time. Quick Stops lets you sell the one thing a nearby homeowner actually wants — sooner — at a fee you set, on top of whatever the work itself comes to.

Nothing enters your day uninvited

Only requests that fit the location and the time window you chose are put in front of you, and the customer pays before the visit is added to anything. Declining costs one tap and no explanation.

You price the detour, not the work

The priority fee is what the trip is worth to you — your number on your window, not a marketplace rate somebody else set. What the job comes to is a separate question you answer the way you always have.

A better answer for a nearby homeowner

Somebody two streets away gets a real arrival window today instead of an open-ended promise to call them back — and they are told plainly what the fee does and does not cover before they pay it.

Matched to the route you’re already driving

Earn more from customers willing to pay for speed

Quick Stops lets nearby customers pay a fee to be fitted in sooner than your normal schedule. You review the request, choose the arrival window, set the priority visit fee, and accept only when it suits you. The fee is on top of the work itself, which you quote and invoice as usual.

You approve every request
You set the time
You set the priority visit fee
The window is confirmed when the fee is paid

Pause or change it whenever you like.

What the homeowner pays, and for what

Paid now

The priority visit fee

Your number, anywhere in the $50–$250 band. It buys a place in today’s route and an arrival window, and it is paid before you set off.

Priced separately

The service charge

Diagnosis, labor, parts, the repair. Quoted and invoiced the way you do it on every other job — Quick Stops has no opinion about what you charge for the work.

One exception, and the product says so on the homeowner’s own screen: if you propose turning the visit into a paid diagnostic, the fee they have already paid comes off that total and they pay only the difference.

End-to-End Communication Journey

The complete 4-turn texting & dispatch loop

Contractors hate phone tag and dread manual texting while driving. Here is the exact, automated ping-pong sequence that powers every Quick Stop from inquiry to arrival.

Turn 1 · Instant Intake

Website Form → Dashboard Alert

Customer asks for priority on your booking page

Screened automatically for safety, location, and route compatibility in under a second.

From

Jane Homeowner

Customer

You (Apex Plumbing)

Contractor

A homeowner fills in your Quick Stop intake. Customers near your active route or inside a priority area you have drawn are matched — texted and emailed to you the moment it lands.

Contractor guarantee: You get the request with exact route detour miles before picking up the phone.

9:41 AM

5G 🔋

👤

Jane H. (Website Intake)Verified Business Line · SMS / Data

“Kitchen faucet leaking under sink and the shut-off valve is stuck. Can anyone come out this afternoon?”

9:38 AM

⏱ 30-min contractor response window

⚡ Route-Matched Quick Stop Request

12 min detour from your 2:30 PM job on Maple St. 1 tech, ~30 min fix.

1 Tech OKSafety Cleared2 Photos Attached

9:38 AM

✓ Delivered via 10 CFR / TCR A2P 10DLC Route

Where a request can stop

Two gates, and both of them are people.

This is the actual sequence a request moves through, with the two steps that need a human marked. A request that reaches neither gate simply ends — no visit, no charge, no entry on anyone’s calendar.

RequestedHomeowner
A nearby homeowner asks to be fitted in sooner, through your booking page.
Needs your responseWaits for: You
The request waits here for you. Reply with the priority fee that makes the stop worth it, decline it, or let it expire.
Offer sentYou set the terms
You chose the priority visit fee and the arrival window, and the offer has gone out. This is as far as anything gets on your say-so alone.
Awaiting paymentWaits for: They decide
The homeowner gets a text naming the priority visit fee, the window and a pay link, and saying that service is charged separately. It waits for them, and expires if they leave it.
ConfirmedFee clears
Only now does the visit become a real appointment on your calendar. The visit fee is the thing that books it — there is no other route to this row. What the work costs is still to be agreed on site.
En route → Arrived → CompletedThe visit
You mark yourself on the way, on site and done, and the homeowner can follow it from their end.

You stay in control

Nothing is offered to you that breaks your own limits.

It is worth being blunt, because “paid work, nearby, sooner” sounds like the sort of thing that fills your calendar while you are under a sink. It does not. These are the starting values, every one of them is yours to change, and a request that falls outside them never becomes a Quick Stop in the first place — so the requests you do see are ones you might genuinely say yes to.

It never books a job on your behalf
There is no auto-accept, no "smart" acceptance, no setting that lets a request skip you. A request sits waiting for your response until you answer it or it expires.
It never puts an unpaid visit on your calendar
Sending an offer creates a placeholder, not an appointment. The visit only becomes a live job on your schedule when the payment clears — one code path, triggered by the payment, and nothing else.
It never sets your price or your hours
The priority fee, the arrival window, how far you will divert, how long a visit can run and how many you will take in a day are all yours — and so is everything you charge for the work itself, which Quick Stops has no opinion about at all.
It never takes the choice away later
Turning it on does not commit you to anything. You can decline any single request without explanation, and switch the whole thing off for the rest of the day from your day plan.

$50 – $250Priority visit fee you can charge, before the work
10 milesFurthest you will divert from the route
60 minLongest a single visit may run
2 a dayMost you will ever be offered in one day

The switch itself sits on your day plan, next to the schedule it would affect — because whether you want another job squeezed into today is a decision about today, not a setting to go hunting for.

ExampleThe Quick Stops switch, on your day plan

Quick StopsOffNobody can ask to be added to today. Your normal booking is unaffected.

Shown before setup. Once your fee band and limits are set, this becomes a straight on/off switch you can flip for the rest of the day.

Before you switch it on

The questions contractors ask us.

What exactly is the homeowner paying for?

The priority visit: a place in today's route and an arrival window. It is not a payment toward the repair. You quote and invoice the service — diagnosis, labor, parts — exactly as you would on any other job, and that invoice is on top of the fee. The one exception is a diagnostic conversion: if you propose turning the visit into a paid diagnostic while you are there, the fee they already paid comes off that total and they pay the difference. Their own status page says so in those words.

What does a Quick Stop cost me?

Nothing to offer one. You set the priority visit fee the homeowner pays, anywhere in the $50 to $250 band. Quick Stop priority visit fees carry a 10% platform fee on collected amounts, plus Stripe's processing and payment-infrastructure costs set by Stripe — and you only pay when you actually get paid. Any subsequent service invoices you send for the repair follow your plan's standard platform fee rate.

What if the homeowner cancels, or I can’t make it?

The visit fee is paid before the stop exists, so a cancellation is a refund rather than an argument about a no-show. If you cannot make it, you cancel the stop and they are refunded in full — you are never holding a visit fee for a visit that did not happen.

Where do the requests come from?

Your own site. These are homeowners who asked you for work through your intake form and happen to be near a job already on your schedule — not a shared pool, and not somebody else’s leads resold to several contractors at once.

Does it run when I am not looking at it?

No. The switch sits on your day plan and it is off until you turn it on, it applies to that day, and it never books anything by itself — an offer you send lapses after 15 minutes if the homeowner does not pay the visit fee, and you never hear about it again.

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