Red or Green

Red or Green shows small contracting businesses whether each job is making money while the job is still open, not weeks later when the bookkeeper closes the month.

Most shops with one to ten technicians run on a field service app and QuickBooks. Those tools are great at scheduling, invoicing and getting paid, but none of them answer the one question that decides whether the year is profitable: did we make money on that job? Owners find out at tax time, after the same mispriced quote has gone out fifty more times.

Red or Green fixes that. Build a budget for a new job in under a minute using templates for your trade that pre-fill the usual line items. As the job runs, snap receipts from the truck and the vendor, date and amount are pulled automatically. Log labor as it happens. The job board turns each job green when it’s on target, amber when it’s drifting, and red when it’s underwater, and puts the red ones at the top so you can fix them today, whether that means a change order, a different crew, or a quick call to the customer.

When the job closes, you get a quoted-versus-actual report that splits the variance between labor and materials, so the next quote is priced right.

It works for any trade that quotes a job and then buys materials and pays people to do it: HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, painting, flooring, remodeling, handyman, restoration, and more. It runs alongside Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and QuickBooks rather than replacing them, is built for one-handed use on a phone, keeps working without a signal, and exports everything to CSV so your data is never locked in.

One flat monthly price covers the whole shop. No per-user fees, no setup fees, no contracts.

Red or Green is for owners who want to stop guessing and start seeing, one job at a time.

Two things to carry through so the listings match: on Capterra, if you can still edit, add categories like Landscaping, Painting and Contractor Management alongside Job Costing; and on the roundup pitches, change “HVAC, plumbing or electrical shop” to “service contractor” so the writers don’t file it as HVAC-only.