Websites & e-commerce
Why your contractor website isn’t getting leads
A ten-minute checklist for contractors and home-service businesses whose website gets visits but not calls, and what to fix first.
Snow removal
Ready before the first snow.
Contracts signed before the season, routes your crews can follow at 4 am, visit and salt logs you can stand behind, and invoices that match what was done. Systems and websites for snow and ice contractors.
Sound familiar?
Where it usually breaks.
Contracts on paper, renewals from memory
Seasonal, per-push and per-visit contracts live in a filing cabinet or someone’s inbox, so renewals slip and prices drift from one winter to the next.
Routes in one driver’s head
When the person who knows the route is off sick, the next driver is guessing in the dark, and properties get missed or done twice.
Logs that won’t hold up
A slip-and-fall claim can arrive months after the storm. Without a dated record of each visit and what went down, it’s your word against theirs.
Billing pieced together after the storm
Per-push and per-salting invoices get rebuilt from texts and memory once the snow stops, and some visits never get billed at all.
What we build
One system, from the first call to the invoice.
- Websites & e-commerce
A website that sells the season
Pages for commercial and residential snow clearing in the towns you cover, with a quote form that brings in contracts before the first snowfall.
See the service - CRM & ERP
Contracts, properties and routes in one place
Every property with its contract type, site notes and photos, grouped into routes your crews open on their phones, and visits logged from the truck with the time, the material used and a photo.
See the service - Automation & QuickBooks
Invoices that match the storm
Per-push, per-salting and seasonal billing built from the visit log and sent to QuickBooks, so every visit is billed once and nothing is re-typed.
See the service - Growth: SEO, marketing & sales
Contracts signed before winter
Local search, your Google profile and a follow-up process timed for late summer and fall, when property managers and homeowners line up their contractor.
See the service
A good fit
Who this is for
Landscapers who plow in winter
The same crews and trucks, a different season. One system for both, so customers, history and invoices carry over.
Commercial snow and ice contractors
Plazas, condos and industrial sites, where a missed visit or a missing log is a liability, not just a complaint.
Residential route operators
Driveways on seasonal contracts, where the route and the billing have to run without you checking every stop.
Why us
We’ve built this kind of system before.
We built the CRM and operations system a Niagara landscaping company runs on, from quotes and crews to jobs and invoices.
We led IT, finance and sales at a company we grew from $0 to $26M and sold.
Live work
See one live.
Escarpment Contracting, a St. Catharines property maintenance and snow removal company, sells to homeowners and property managers. We designed and built its website for both.
- A page for each of its nine services, and a page for each main town it works in.
- Pages for property managers, from condo and townhome corporations to apartment buildings and rental portfolios.
- A quote form that asks what a quote needs up front: the service, the property type, the town and the driveway size.
- Before-and-after photos of its own jobs, and answers to the questions people ask before they call.
For trades businesses
Lead Engine for trades
A website built to bring in calls and quote requests for a trades business, with the follow-up done for you. The same price as Lead Engine.
- A page for each service and each area you work in
- Your Google Business Profile set up and complete
- Call tracking and missed-call text-back
- Quote requests sent straight to your CRM or a spreadsheet
- Review requests sent after each job
- Live within 30 days of content approval
One price to start
$6,500 CAD
+ $249/mo
Covers hosting, backups, monitoring, updates, edits and support.
Live within 30 days of content approval, or your first three months of care are free.
Book a free 30-minute diagnosticQuestions
Questions about snow removal.
Can the system handle seasonal, per-push and per-visit contracts?
Yes. Each property carries its own contract type and price, so a seasonal contract, a per-push driveway and a per-salting commercial lot can sit on the same route. Billing reads the contract and the visit log, so each customer is invoiced the way their contract says, without anyone re-typing it.
Why do snow contractors need visit and salt logs?
Slip-and-fall claims often arrive months after the storm. A dated log of each visit, what was cleared and how much salt went down, with photos, is what you’ll want to show your insurer. Logging it from the truck at the time beats rebuilding it from texts later.
We do landscaping in summer and snow in winter. Can one system do both?
Yes, and that’s usually the point. The same customers, crews and trucks move from one season to the next, so one system keeps the history, the contacts and the billing together. Summer jobs and winter routes sit side by side, and nobody keeps two customer lists.
2 more questions
When should a snow business start on this?
Before the season, ideally. Contracts are signed in late summer and fall, and nobody wants to change systems in the middle of a storm. If winter is already close, we start with what helps this season, like routes and visit logs, and build the rest once the snow stops.
Do we have to replace the software we already use?
No. If your current tools work, we connect them and fill the gaps. We only recommend a new system when the one you have is holding the business back, and we’ll explain why. Often the quickest win is connecting the tools you already pay for, so nobody re-types the same order into three systems.
More
More for trades & home services.
We built the system a Niagara landscaping company runs on, and we build the same kind of systems for other trades.
Next step
Want it running before the first snow?
Start with a free diagnostic. We’ll look at how your contracts, routes and billing run today and tell you plainly what we’d set up first.
What happens next
- You send this form. It takes about a minute.
- We reply within one business day and book a 30-minute call at a time that suits you.
- Within 2 business days you get a written one-page plan: what we’d fix first, and a fixed price. No obligation.
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We’ll reply within one business day to set up your call. Or skip the back-and-forth and pick a time now.