Take Your Business to the Next Level
Take Your Business to the Next Level Introducing Joist Pro Elite: Our most powerful set of estimating and invoicing tools. Contractors and Remodelers everywhere: get ready to maximize your invoicing potential! After months of designing, building and polishing, we’re thrilled to finally release our newest solution: Joist Pro Elite. Whether you’re trying Joist for the first time or upgrading from another Joist...

Win Better Jobs with Joist Pro
Win More Jobs with Joist ProIntroducing Joist Pro Joist was started 6 years ago with a mission to help contractors save time and win more jobs. Since then, we’ve proudly helped our customers grow and improve their businesses. It’s been an incredible journey, but there’s still a lot of work left. We have tons of new features in our sights, but need to...

How to Win Bigger Jobs with Homeowner Financing
How to Win More Jobs with Homeowner Financing Joist Homeowner Financing equips contractors with the ability to offer clients financing options to fund their projects. Thousands of businesses are already using Homeowner Financing to help their clients and win more jobs! Homeowner Financing is incredibly easy to incorporate into your business: FREE to use Completely optional — turn it ON or OFF any time you’d...

Introducing: Joist Homeowner Financing
Introducing: Joist Homeowner Financing Our mission at Joist is to make contractors heroes. We do this by providing a tool that helps you: Win jobs Get paid quickly Save time Look professional Winning jobs is hard! Contractors tell us the biggest challenges they face today are: Clients rejecting estimates due to budget Job scope reduction, cutting into profit Clients unable to pay for costly change orders, often causing job delays Homeowners...

Make it Easy for Clients to Pay with Joist Payments
Win More Jobs with Joist PaymentsLast year we launched Joist Payments, allowing you to accept online payments from your clients directly through the invoices you send them. We added this feature to the Joist App for 2 big reasons: Customers kept telling us they were losing jobs to competitors who were offering the client fancy online payment options, like credit card and...

Start Your Jobs Faster with Joist Deposits
Start Your Jobs Faster with Joist Deposits We’ve officially launched our new Deposits feature to help you easily collect the $$$ you need to start your jobs quickly and with peace of mind. To check it out just launch the app and you’ll see the feature under ‘Payment Option’ on the Edit screen. Or if you’re interested in learning more, here’s some info...

Joist Markups FAQ
Joist Markups FAQ Big news — we’re officially launching our Markups feature to help ensure you generate the profit you deserve on every job To check it out just launch the app, start a new Estimate or new Invoice, and you’ll see the feature right below the Subtotal line. Or if you’re interested in learning more, here’s some info we thought might be...

Joist Payments FAQs
Joist Payments FAQs Our newest feature - Joist Payments - is now live! If you’re ready to get started just go into your Joist App account and follow the Payments prompts on screen. Otherwise, here are a few things we thought you might like to know.How do I use Joist Payments? As with everything we do at Joist, we tried to keep it simple...

Before/After Photo Tips for Contractors
Before/After Photo Tips for Contractors As a contractor, it can be hard to know where to focus your marketing efforts. Good news: one of the most important things you can do to promote your company is something you are likely already doing! Sharing past projects can help demonstrate your expertise and speaks volumes with new clients. You may already snap quick...
Tips & Shortcuts for Working with Your iPhone/iPad in the Field
Tips & Shortcuts for working with your iPhone/iPad in the field Congratulations, you’ve started using your iPhone/iPad in your contractor business to work in the field. Here are a few tips and tricks to maximize the effectiveness of using these devices. Shake to “undo”Have you ever accidentally erased a note on your device? Or crucial information about a client? Here’s the perfect...