NZ handyman quotes
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Describe or photograph

Type what needs doing, upload a photo of the site, or attach an engineering drawing. The AI reads all of it.

AI generates the breakdown

Materials, labour hours, and line items — priced in NZD to current New Zealand rates, broken down by trade.

Review, adjust, send

Edit any line item, apply your markup, export a branded PDF and email it to the client from the app.

What should a New Zealand handyman quote include?

List every job separately with its own time and materials, rather than quoting a day rate for an unspecified list, and show 15% GST alongside your NZBN and IRD GST number. A day rate sounds simple and then gets argued about the moment the list grows, which on maintenance work it always does. Include a call-out and materials-run line if that is real work for you. Then state plainly which items on the client’s list you are NOT doing and why, because that sentence is worth more than the rest of the quote.

What work is a handyman not allowed to do in New Zealand?

The lines are drawn around licensed trades, and they are not optional. Electrical work is for people registered with the Electrical Workers Registration Board — swapping a light fitting or a socket is not a handyman job. Plumbing, gasfitting and drainlaying sit with the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board, so a leaking gully trap or a new tap connection goes to a licensed person. Anything structural or affecting weathertightness is likely restricted building work, needing a consent and a Licensed Building Practitioner. A client’s maintenance list will routinely cross those lines without them realising, so the professional answer is to quote what you can do, name what you cannot, and refer the rest — which is also how you avoid doing unlicensed work you cannot insure.

Does the AI know New Zealand handyman pricing?

Yes. Quotes are priced in NZD against current New Zealand rates — hourly and half-day rates, small carpentry and repairs, fixings and mounting, patching and touch-up painting, fence and gate work, flat-pack assembly, and call-out and materials runs — with 15% GST applied rather than Australia’s 10%. Each item on a list is priced on its own so the client can add or drop jobs without the whole number becoming a negotiation.

How do I price a job list that keeps growing on site?

Quote the list you were given, then price additions at a stated rate rather than absorbing them. The pattern on maintenance work is that a client thinks of three more things while you are there, and a handyman who does them for nothing trains that client to expect it. Put an hourly rate for additional work on the quote, note that additions are agreed before they start, and keep the original list itemised so it is obvious what was and was not in the price. It also protects the client: an itemised quote is what lets them say yes to five of eight jobs today and book the rest for later.

Does Insta Quotes work for handymen anywhere in New Zealand?

Yes. Insta Quotes prices handymen quotes in NZD to current New Zealand rates nationwide, including Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, Dunedin and regional areas, with 15% GST applied. Generate and send a branded quote wherever the job is.