Custom Software for Trades & Contractors.
We're an Edmonton software development company that builds custom software for trades, contractors and field-service businesses — one system for estimating, scheduling, dispatch, job costing and invoicing, wired into QuickBooks, and yours to own. No per-seat subscription, no bending your business around someone else's app.
You Don't Need "Software."
You Need These Problems Gone.
Most trades and field-service businesses don't wake up wanting a CRM. They want the leak to stop — the quote that went out late, the lead nobody called back, the job that lost money and nobody noticed until it was closed. Here is what a growing trades business actually fights, and what custom software does about each one.
Disconnected spreadsheets & apps
Estimating in one spreadsheet, the schedule on a whiteboard, invoices in QuickBooks, customer notes in a phone. Nothing talks to anything, so the same job gets re-typed four times and the truth lives in whoever you ask.
What we build → One custom system where a lead becomes a quote, a job, a schedule entry and an invoice without anyone re-entering it.
Leads falling through
The call comes in while everyone's on the tools, the web form lands in an inbox nobody watches, and the follow-up lives in the owner's head between jobs. Work doesn't get lost loudly — it just quietly goes to whoever answered.
What we build → Capture every lead — call, form, text — in one place, auto-respond in seconds, and keep following up until it books.
Manual estimating
Quotes queue behind one senior estimator, go out days late, and get priced from memory. Slow, inconsistent quotes lose jobs to whoever answered first with a number.
What we build → A pricing engine built on your real rates and materials, so anyone turns field notes into an accurate, client-ready quote in minutes.
Scheduling & dispatch
A cancelled morning stays empty because refilling it means twenty calls; an emergency bumps a booked job and the customer finds out by not seeing your truck.
What we build → A dispatch board built for your crews, with confirmations, reminders and a live waitlist that refills cancellations automatically.
Job tracking
Nobody's quite sure which jobs are active, which are waiting on materials, and which finished last week but never got invoiced. Status lives in text threads.
What we build → Every job on one board with a real status, documents and photos attached, and nothing falling off the end unbilled.
Time tracking & job costing
Hours get remembered at the end of the week, materials get guessed at, and you find out a job lost money long after it's closed — if you ever find out at all.
What we build → Crews log hours and materials from the field, tied to the job, so you see true cost and margin while you can still act on it.
Change orders
Scope changes get agreed on-site, verbally — then billing day arrives and nobody wrote down the extra work. You eat the cost or fight about it later.
What we build → Capture the change with a photo and a line of text, price it from your rates, and get client sign-off from their phone before the work happens.
Invoicing & getting paid
Invoices go out late because assembling them is a chore, then get chased only when cash gets tight — the worst possible schedule.
What we build → Invoices assemble themselves the day work wraps and chase themselves on a schedule, so you stop financing other people's projects.
Customer communication
Customers call to ask where the crew is, whether the quote was received, when the invoice is due — and every one of those calls interrupts real work.
What we build → Automatic confirmations, on-the-way texts, quote and invoice updates in your name, so customers stay informed without a single interrupting call.
Duplicate data entry
The same customer, job and price get keyed into the quote tool, the calendar, the accounting package and the invoice — four chances to make a typo, hours a week gone.
What we build → Enter it once. The system carries it through every step, and syncs to your accounting stack instead of asking you to re-type it.
QuickBooks & accounting integration
The office re-keys every invoice and payment into QuickBooks by hand, so the books are always a week behind and never quite reconcile.
What we build → A live QuickBooks (or Sage) integration so invoices, payments and customers flow both ways — the books stay current on their own.
Owning your data
Your pricing logic, job history and customer list live inside a subscription platform, shaped by someone else's idea of how a contractor works — and you pay per seat to rent them, forever.
What we build → A system you own outright: your data, your workflow, no per-seat fees as the crew grows, no feature you depend on getting retired.
A Software Company That Runs What It Ships.
We're a software development company, not an agency that hands off a repo and disappears. We design, build, deploy and operate the software your business runs on — and you own it at the end.
Discovery
A 30-minute call, then a working session where we map how a lead becomes a paid job in your business today — every call, quote, hand-off and invoice. We find the single biggest leak before we write a line of code.
Scope & plan
You get a concrete plan: what we'll build first, what it costs, and when it's live. Larger systems are phased so you get working software early — usually the piece that stops the biggest leak — not a six-month wait for one big launch.
Build
We design and develop the software around your real workflow, rates and terminology — not a generic template you bend around. You see it come together in stages and shape it as it's built.
Integrate
We wire it into what stays: QuickBooks or Sage, your phone number, your supplier price files, field tools like Jobber. An integration your business needs isn't a feature request on someone's roadmap — it's part of the build.
Deploy & operate
We don't hand off a repo and disappear. We deploy it, train your team, and keep it running and improving. You own the software; we keep it working.
Custom Software, Running in Alberta.
Real systems in real Alberta trades and contracting businesses, with the numbers the owners measured — not numbers we invented. Field operations have zero tolerance for software that doesn't hold up; that's where our track record was earned.
4 hrs → 20 min
per quote · Zebra Landscaping
A landscaping company's quoting bottleneck was a senior estimator and a full workday per quote. We built a custom estimating platform — satellite measuring, site-condition pricing, one-click PDF — that cut it to under twenty minutes, and let any team member quote accurately from day one.
2–3 hrs → minutes
per bid · a demolition contractor
A demolition and site-clearing contractor spent hours per bid manually checking Alberta procurement portals and writing proposals. We built a bid-intelligence system that monitors every relevant source, scores tenders against their capacity, and drafts the submission — bids now take minutes.
One system
entire back office · Axel
A general contractor working across Edmonton and Calgary ran the office on spreadsheets, texts and memory. We built Axel — one custom CRM and operations platform shaped around how they actually run work, owned by the company that runs on it.
Built Around Your Trade.
The problems above are shared, but the pressure points, quoting norms and seasonality change by trade. We've written a page for each — and for AI and automation on top of the software, see AI for Trades.
Electricians
Service calls, panel and EV-charger projects, and the permit paperwork between them.
Plumbers
Emergency-first phones, flat-rate quoting, and after-hours calls that decide the month.
HVAC
Two peak seasons, maintenance agreements, and equipment quotes that need to land same-day.
Roofers
A compressed season, hail-storm surges, insurance paperwork, and high-ticket quotes.
Landscapers
Spring-rush intake, field quoting, and routes that live and die on scheduling.
Construction & general contractors
The project layer — RFIs, change orders, progress draws, holdbacks and subcontractor coordination.
Custom Software for Trades, Answered.
More on cost, timeline and build-vs-buy in custom software questions, answered.
Do You Build Custom Software Specifically for Trades and Contractors?
Yes — trades, contractors and field-service businesses are our deepest vertical. We're an Edmonton software development company, and most of our proof is Alberta contractors: a landscaping estimating platform, a demolition contractor's bid-intelligence system, and Axel, a full back-office platform for a general contractor working across Edmonton and Calgary. We build software around how a specific trade actually runs, not a generic template.
What Kinds of Software Do You Build for a Trades Business?
Whatever your business runs on: custom CRMs, estimating and quoting engines, scheduling and dispatch boards, job-tracking and job-costing systems, change-order workflows, invoicing and payment chasing, customer-communication automation, and QuickBooks or Sage integrations — usually combined into one system so a lead flows all the way to a paid invoice without anyone re-typing it. We also build AI and workflow automation on top, like AI receptionists that answer every call.
How Is This Different From Jobber, ServiceTitan or Other Field-Service Software?
Off-the-shelf field-service platforms rent you the same workflow they rent everyone, per user per month, forever — and your pricing, job history and customer list live on their servers, shaped by their idea of how a contractor works. A custom build is yours: shaped around your crews, integrated with the tools you already run, no per-seat fees as you grow, and an asset you own instead of a subscription you rent. When off-the-shelf genuinely fits, we'll tell you — but when your business has a way of working that the tools fight, custom is what stops the fight.
Will It Integrate With QuickBooks and the Tools We Already Use?
Yes — that's usually the point. We build around what stays: your accounting package (QuickBooks, Sage), your existing phone number, your supplier price files, and field tools like Jobber or Procore. Because the system is custom, invoices, payments and customers can flow both ways with your books instead of being re-keyed by hand.
What Does a Custom Software Build Cost, and How Long Does It Take?
Scope drives price — a focused tool like an estimating engine or an AI receptionist is a different build than a full back-office platform. Focused builds typically go live in weeks; larger systems are phased so you get working software early. Both start with a 30-minute call where we map your workflow and put a real number and timeline on the specific system we'd build. Because you own the result, there's no per-seat subscription compounding underneath it.
Are You Actually Based in Edmonton?
Yes. AltaPro AI is an Edmonton, Alberta software development company. Most of our proof is Edmonton- and Calgary-area contractors, and everything we build is cloud software, so trades in Red Deer, Lethbridge, Sherwood Park, St. Albert and across Alberta run the same systems the same way. The discovery call is a video call; the software doesn't care where the trucks park.
Edmonton software development for trades
Book a 30-Minute Call.
30 minutes. We map how leads, quotes, jobs and invoices move through your business today, show you your single biggest leak, and hand you a costed plan for the software that fixes it — whether you build with us or not.
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