Quotes that went quiet are money on the table

Perché watches every open estimate, tells you which ones are worth chasing first, and gives you the follow-up message to send.

Most home service owners send more estimates than they can follow up on. A furnace replacement quote goes out on Tuesday, the phone rings on Wednesday, and by the following week nobody remembers who was waiting on what. The customer didn't say no — the quote just went quiet.

That is the most expensive kind of lost job, because you did the hard part already: you showed up, diagnosed the problem, and wrote the number down. Everything left is a short, friendly message.

Perché reads the estimates already in your field service software (or spreadsheet), measures how long each has gone without customer activity, and ranks the open ones so you know exactly who to contact today.

How Perché finds it

Plain rules you can read and change — no black box.

  • ✓An open estimate with no customer activity for 14 days is flagged (the threshold is yours to change in Settings).
  • ✓Age is measured from the customer's last real activity, not from when Perché first noticed it.
  • ✓Every estimate shows its reasons in plain English — for example “No customer activity in 35 days” or “No follow-up has been sent yet.”
  • ✓The recovery queue ranks open estimates by expected value × urgency, blending staleness, this customer's own history of saying yes, and whether anyone has followed up.
  • ✓When an estimate flips to won or converted in your software, the flag clears on its own.

What you get

A ranked “who to call today” list

Cold estimates sorted by dollars and urgency, with the reasons shown so you trust the order.

A ready-to-send follow-up

A short, friendly message for each estimate. Professional can add a smarter rewrite grounded in what the estimate was for.

Honest numbers

Revenue identified, a probability-weighted expected recovery, and what actually came back — kept as three different numbers on purpose.

From flag to recovered dollar

1
Connect or upload
Link Jobber, Housecall Pro, Service Fusion or Workiz (read-only) or upload a spreadsheet.
2
We flag the quiet ones
Every night Perché checks each open estimate against your threshold and ranks them.
3
You send the follow-up
One click sends the email (Professional adds text and optional automatic first touches).
4
We track the outcome
Won, lost, or still pursuing — and whether a Perché follow-up came first.

Straight talk

What we won't promise: a specific percentage of cold quotes will close. Whether a customer says yes depends on your price, your timing and their situation. Perché makes sure no estimate dies from neglect, and it shows you what actually came back so you can judge the value for yourself.

Common questions

It compares today's date to the estimate's last customer activity (or creation date). If it's still open past your threshold — 14 days by default — it's flagged.
On Starter, never — every message needs your click. On Professional you can opt in to automatic first-touch emails (up to three, escalating). Text messages are always a manual click.
Perché falls back to the estimate's creation date. A spreadsheet works too if it has a customer, value, status and date for each estimate.
Workiz doesn't currently expose priced quotes to us, so the cold-estimate category isn't available for Workiz accounts — the dashboard says so instead of showing a misleading zero.

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