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Quotation software for interior designers in Singapore.
Quote area by area in the units this trade actually uses, from your own contractor rates, and send a document that looks like your practice rather than a spreadsheet.
A design practice lives or dies on the gap between winning the lead and signing the job, and the quotation is what sits in that gap. It is usually the first document a client receives carrying your name, it is compared line by line against two others, and in most firms it is assembled in a spreadsheet the night before it is due.
CatchQuote is built for that document specifically, and for the way it is put together here: by area, by trade, in feet run and square feet and points, with GST at 9% and payment in stages. Not a generic estimating tool with Singapore typed into it.
Where the quotation fits in your week
Anyone can promise faster quoting. This is the sequence it has to survive.
Measure, photograph, and understand what the client wants before the mood boards start. The quotation begins here, not at the desk afterwards, and anything not captured now becomes a variation order later.
Break the unit into the spaces the client walks through. Entrance, living, dining, kitchen, each bedroom, each bathroom. An ID quotation that is not organised this way is one the client cannot check against the design.
Carpentry per foot run, tiling per square foot, electrical per point, using the rates your own contractors gave you rather than an industry average that fits nobody.
For a design practice the quotation is a design document. It is often the first thing a client receives with your name on it, and it is judged the way everything else you produce is judged.
The client removes a feature wall and adds a wardrobe. That is one afternoon in a spreadsheet and a few minutes in a structured quote, and it happens on almost every job.
Why generic estimating software does not fit
Every one of these is a thing a firm here ends up working around in a tool built for somewhere else, and working around it by hand is where the errors come from.
Carpentry here is quoted by the foot run, priced per row, with the carcass material and the finish stated. Generic estimating software offers hours and materials, so the rate gets forced into a box that does not describe it and the client cannot compare your quote against anybody else.
A Singapore quotation shows GST as its own line at the current rate, and a client checks it. Software built elsewhere assumes a tax model that is not this one, which means the number gets typed in by hand and is wrong the first time somebody forgets.
Renovation here runs on a staged schedule, commonly ten per cent on confirmation, forty on commencement, forty at the midpoint and ten on handover. A tool that models a deposit and a final invoice is modelling a different industry.
Hacking and demolition, masonry and tiling, carpentry, plumbing and sanitary, electrical, ceiling and partition, painting, waterproofing, glass and aluminium, cleaning and permit. Every quotation here is read against that list, and a homeowner who has read one guide online is checking for all ten.
An ID firm carries its own rates from its own contractors, renegotiated yearly. Software with a built-in catalogue of averages is useless at best, and at worst it quietly prices you out of a job you would have won.
What a design practice uses it for
Questions from design firms
Is this built for interior designers or for contractors?
Both, and the difference matters less than it sounds. The structure a design practice needs and the structure a renovation contractor needs are the same structure: areas, trades, units, GST, staged payment. What differs is the presentation, which is why branding is set per firm rather than assumed.
We already quote in Excel. What actually changes?
The arithmetic stops being your problem and the document stops being an evening. No formula to break when a row is inserted, no reformatting before sending, and a revision is a few minutes rather than an afternoon. The quote builder covers how it is structured.
Can the whole studio work on the same quotations?
Yes. Studio covers three people at $24.90 a month and further seats are $10 each. Quotes, supplier pricelists and branding are shared across the account rather than living on one laptop.
Do we have to use your prices?
There are none to use. CatchQuote ships no rate card on purpose, because an industry average is wrong for every firm in the industry. You import your own supplier lists and set your own markup per trade.
Can it produce the floor plan as well as the quotation?
On MAX, yes. Trace a plan to scale from a photograph taken at the site visit, fit it with doors, windows and carpentry, and walk the client through it in 3D. That is the part no other quoting tool in this market has. See what Sketch does.
How long before we are actually using it?
The first quotation takes longer than the tenth, because you are setting up branding and importing pricelists while you build it. After that the work is roughly ten minutes a quote. Nothing needs installing and there is nothing to migrate.
What happens to our existing quotations?
They stay where they are. CatchQuote is for the next quote rather than a system that has to swallow your history before it is useful, so there is no migration to schedule and nothing to go wrong during one.
Can we try it before paying?
Yes, and without an account. The demo is the working builder: add areas, price them, and export the PDF to see what a client receives. Exports carry a watermark and nothing saves. Pricing is here when you are ready.
Quote your next project in about ten minutes.
The whole tool is open. Build a real quote right now, nothing to install.