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Managing Contacts

Add clients, vendors, and employees to your contact database.

Creating Estimates

Build detailed estimates with sections, margins, AI-written descriptions, and line items — then send or turn them into a proposal.

Proposals & E-Signatures

Build proposals with the drag-and-drop builder and collect electronic signatures.

Invoicing & Payments

Create invoices, bill progressively, track payments, accept online card + ACH payments, and manage outstanding balances.

Task Management

Create and assign tasks, track them on a board, and let inspections and automations open tasks for you.

Pipeline Overview

Manage your sales pipeline with a visual kanban board.

Client Portal

Give clients a branded portal to view proposals, invoices, and project updates.

Scheduling & Calendar

Schedule events and inspections, dispatch crews, view jobs on a map, and sync with Google or Outlook.

Document Management

Upload, organize, and share project documents and photos.

Reports & Analytics

Operational reports on sales, receivables, payables, profitability, and time by project — all from the Reports page.

Construction vs Service Pipelines

When to use the Construction pipeline, when to use Service, and how one-off calls vs recurring contracts fit.

Time Tracking

Clock in/out, pay periods, overtime rules, break classification, and PTO policies.

Service Contracts (Recurring Customers)

Auto-generated visits, bundled period invoicing, and contract lifecycle for repeat service customers.

Dispatch Board

Assign visits to crew, optimize routes, and handle multi-day or past-due work.

Online Payments (Stripe)

Accept card and ACH payments directly through Breche by connecting Stripe.

Calendar Sync (Google + Outlook)

Two-way sync between your Breche calendar and Google Calendar or Outlook.

Project Budgets & Job Costing

Track internal project budgets, approve them, and see Budget vs Actual on the Profitability report.

Work Orders

Send scoped, priced work orders to your subs and vendors, collect their e-signature, and track them from draft to completed.

Vendor Management

Add vendors and subs, organize them by trade, give them a portal, message them, and track master service agreements.

Bid Requests

Request competitive bids from multiple vendors, compare them side by side, and convert the winner into a work order.

Change Orders

Document and get sign-off on scope changes. Change orders work exactly like estimates — same builder, same signing — just tracked separately.

Material Orders & Purchase Orders

Create purchase orders for materials, send them to suppliers, and track them from ordered to received.

Selections & Allowances

Let customers choose their finishes and fixtures against budget allowances, approve them in the portal, and auto-generate a change order when they go over.

Custom Forms

Build reusable forms and checklists — safety checks, punch lists, site surveys — fill them in the field or via a public link, and convert them to estimates.

Project Messages

Keep every project conversation — internal notes, client emails, vendor threads, field updates — in one place, with @mentions, threading, and delivery tracking.

AI Features

Breche's built-in AI drafts line-item descriptions, customer emails, document titles, and project summaries — so the busywork writes itself.

Lien Waivers

Generate conditional and unconditional, progress and final lien waivers, send them to subs for e-signature, and chase them with automatic reminders.

Scheduling Inspections

Book municipal and quality inspections on the project calendar, track them from scheduled to completed, and keep a linked task so nothing slips.

Jobs & Job Costing

Turn an approved project into a job with a schedule and cost items, and track estimated vs. actual to see variance as the work runs.

Managing Templates

Create reusable templates for estimates, proposals, invoices, emails, scopes of work, contracts, and more — so you never start from scratch.

Project Expenses

Log job costs and bills against a project, attach receipts, track what's paid, and feed real numbers into job profitability.

Payments Ledger

See every payment across all projects in one ledger — manual and Stripe — with filters, an audit trail, and clear edit rules.

Map & Route Optimization

See your jobs on a map, plan crew routes for the day or week, and optimize stop order to cut windshield time.

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