Built for small contractor crews

Sharpen the way your shop runs.

Estimates, signatures, the crew calendar, payroll, invoices and the real job numbers — one system, from the first bid to the money in your account. Built for painting, flooring, drywall, electrical, and other small contractor crews, with a focused app for the field.

14 days free. No card. $49.99/mo after — every feature, every teammate.
trywhetstone.com/estimates/1042
Hollis Interior
EST-1042 · 1,860 sq ft
Signed Sep 19
Ceilings · low volume, 9ft
$2,140.00
Walls · two coats
$4,320.00
Trim & doors
$2,180.00
Materials
$0.00
Total · 60 hrs · 2.5 days
$8,640.00
Convert to invoice
01

One job, start to finish

Then every job after it.
01

Estimate it in minutes

Pick the project type, surface and condition, enter the square footage. Whetstone works out labor and materials from your own production rates — the same way, every time.

Interior Repaint
Ceilings
Low volume, nine foot ceiling repaint
1,860 sq ft
Add item
Auto-calculated
2.5 days · 60 hrs · $4,320
02

Get it signed

Email the homeowner a link. They read the scope, type their name and accept. You keep a PDF of exactly what they signed — no second e-sign vendor.

Client estimate
Hollis Interior
$8,640
Ceilings, walls, trim · 1,860 sq ft
I agree to the terms and electronic records.
Jordan Hale
Accept & sign
03

Put it on the calendar

Drag the job onto the crew calendar, color it by crew, set the headcount. Your foremen see it live on their phones, with full change history and undo.

Mon
Hollis · 4
Deck · 2
Tue
Hollis · 4
Deck · 2
Wed
Hollis · 3
Mesa · 3
Thu
Cabs · 2
Mesa · 4
Fri
Cabs · 2
Mesa · 4
Week note — order SW 7008 · rig stays at Hollis through Wed
Synced live across every phone on the crew
04

Pay the crew

Approve hours against the calendar, then download a Gusto Smart Import CSV. Gusto still runs payroll — Whetstone just ends the spreadsheet scramble.

Pay period
Sep 8 – Sep 21
M. Chen
Approved
Hollis Interior
72.0 hrs
A. Ruiz
Approved
Mesa Exterior
80.0 hrs
Download Gusto CSV
05

Invoice and collect

Send a branded invoice. The homeowner pays over Stripe and the money lands in your company account — not ours. Paid invoices sync to QuickBooks if you want them to.

INV-1042
Opened by client
Hollis Interior
$8,640
Due on receipt · pays Precise Painting LLC
Pay in full
Stripe to your account · QuickBooks sync optional
06

Know how it really went

Review every job against its estimate, then roll the finished work into a monthly P&L and an annual plan. No more guessing at the end of the month.

JobEstActualMargin
Hollis Interior969152%
Mesa Exterior14013847%
Cabinet Refinish405428%
Flagged — cabinet jobs are running 35% over estimated hours
02

The crew gets a different app

The field never sees the office.

Your crew installs the Whetstone field app and sees exactly one thing: the jobs they're on today and a button to clock in. No estimates, no margins, no client money, no settings to wreck. The office app and the field app share a database, not an interface.

Geofenced to the job site
Set the radius per shop — 150 to 300 meters around the site address. Punches outside it either get flagged for your review or blocked outright. Your call.
Habla español
Every worker picks their own language. The whole field app — jobs, punches, notes, warnings — switches with them. The office stays in English.
Works with no signal
Mountain job with no bars? Punches queue on the phone and sync the moment it finds service. Nobody loses an hour to a dead zone.
Approved hours flow straight into the payroll export in step 04 — the crew's clock is the same number your Gusto CSV is built from.
9:41
whetstone
ES
Hola, Alejandro
mar, 22 sep
Hollis Interior
22 sep – 26 sep
412 Elk Ave, Crested Butte
En turno
Entrada 7:42 a.m.
En obra
4:12:06
Marcar salida
Mesa Exterior
22 sep – 3 oct
1140 Gothic Rd
Fuera de obra
3 marcajes sincronizados
03

The whole shop, not just the bid

One plan. No seat tax, no module upsells, no "call for pricing".
Client signatures
Homeowners accept in the browser. You keep a PDF of what they signed — no extra e-sign vendor.
Invoices & Stripe
Branded invoices, a magic-link pay page, money straight to your account. Whetstone takes no cut.
Field app for the crew
Geofenced clock-in, offline punches, English or Spanish. Crew members see their jobs — nothing else.
Gusto payroll export
Approve calendar-linked hours, download a Smart Import CSV. Gusto stays the system of record.
QuickBooks Online
Issued invoices and payments mirror into your own QBO company. Whetstone still sends and collects.
Budget analysis
Import job costs and see where the bid actually went — before the month is already over.
P&L and annual plan
Roll finished jobs into a monthly P&L and a year you can actually steer.
Labor rates & crew
Your production rates, cost codes and the whole crew on one plan. Unlimited teammates.
Buildertrend CSV
Already on Buildertrend™? Whetstone exports upload-ready CSVs either way.

“This app has been an absolute game changer for our company. Estimates that used to take up entire evenings are done in minutes, and for the first time we know exactly where every job stands.”

Precise Painting LLC
Rob Dickinson
Owner/Operator, Precise Painting LLC
04

The big suites weren't built for you

Legacy contractor suites
$300–800 a month, plus per-seat and setup fees
Weeks of onboarding before your first estimate
Built for GCs — your small business is an afterthought
whetstone
$49.99 a month flat — unlimited crew and office seats included
Set up in an afternoon, bid the same day
Built for small contractor crews. Cancel anytime
Buildertrend
Already on Buildertrend™? Whetstone exports upload-ready CSVs either way — you don't have to rip anything out to try it.
05

$49.99 a month. That's the whole pitch.

One flat price for your whole company — unlimited crew and office seats included. Try it free for 14 days; if it doesn't save you a night of paperwork in the first week, walk away.

Start your free trial
No card required. Cancel from settings in two clicks.
$49.99
/month
or $499.99/year — save $99.89
Unlimited estimates, crew and office seats
Client signatures & branded invoices
Real-time crew calendar
Field app with geofenced clock-in, English or Spanish
Gusto payroll export & QuickBooks sync
Budgets, job performance & P&L planning
Buildertrend™-ready CSV exports

Talk to the people who build it.

Questions about setup, a feature your shop can't live without, or whether Whetstone fits the way you work — write to us and you'll hear back from the people who wrote the code.

Hand-built in Crested Butte, Colorado
A small team you can actually reach. We build custom functionality for our customers.