Software for small businesses
Small tools that answer one question about your business.
What to charge per hour. Whether a load pays. Which lawns make money. What is safe to spend today. Each JTS tool answers one question like these, simply enough that you have your answer the first evening.
What do you do?
General contractor · Electrician · Sign maker · Lawn treatment · Physical therapist · Event rental
Every monthly JTS tool: 14 days free, no card.
Sitework, by JTS · custom built
Custom websites and apps, built for your business. Nothing off the shelf.
Tell JTS what your business needs — booking, instant quotes, customer logins — and it gets built for you, from scratch: something nobody sells off the shelf. Just need a website this week? Answer a few plain questions and Sitework builds it while you watch.
From $29 a monthCustom builds quoted to the job · Starter: 14 days free, no card
Live examples · one on each plan Three made-up businesses. Click one to look around.
Starter $29/month 14 days free · no card
Tall Pines Lawn & Wash
Lawn care and pressure washing
Own It $499 one time
Blue Door Kitchen & Bakery
Southern kitchen and bakery
Custom from $2,500 + $149/month
Ridgeline Heating, Air & Plumbing
Heating, air and plumbing
For businesses
Built for one trade
Each one does the math for one kind of business.
Chalkline
From $79 a month 14 days free, no cardFor US businesses
Hourly rate calculator for contractors
- You put in
- What you pay your crew, what the business costs to run each month, and the hours you actually bill.
- You get
- Your break-even hourly rate, the rate to charge for the profit you want, and a price book built from it.
Shop Rate
$99 a month 14 days free, no cardFor US businesses
Effective labor rate for auto repair shops
- You put in
- Last month's repair orders: a CSV export from Tekmetric, Shopmonkey, Mitchell 1 or Shop-Ware, or typed in by hand.
- You get
- The hourly rate you really collected next to your posted rate, and the dollars lost to discounts, unbilled diagnostics and comebacks.
Milepost
$79 a month 14 days free, no cardFor US and Canadian businesses
Cost per mile for truckers and small fleets
- You put in
- Your miles, loaded and empty, and last month's bills: fuel, truck payment, insurance, repairs and pay.
- You get
- Your real cost per mile, the least a loaded mile has to pay you, and a straight answer on any load you are offered.
Yardstick
$59 a month 14 days free, no card
Job costing for lawn care businesses
- You put in
- Each day's route: the lawns, what each one pays, and how long your crew was out.
- You get
- What every lawn really earns once the drive time is counted, the money-losers listed first, and a fair price for the next one.
EZ Move
From $50 a month 14 days free, no cardFor US businesses
Job estimates for moving companies
- You put in
- What is in the house, room by room or just its size, plus the stairs and how far the truck parks from the door.
- You get
- How many trucks and movers, how many hours, and the price to quote. It gets closer with every job you log.
Waterline
$59 a month 14 days free, no card
Pricing for pressure washing businesses
- You put in
- The surface and its square feet, plus what your rig, chemicals and time cost you.
- You get
- A price that covers the hours the job really takes, checked against the going rate, and which past jobs actually paid.
Drawline
From $79 a month 14 days free, no cardFor US businesses
Pay applications and retainage for subcontractors
- You put in
- Your contract with the GC, its schedule of values, and the work you finished this month.
- You get
- A pay application ready to send the GC, what every GC still owes you, the retainage they are holding, and lien waivers that match.
Box 12 Helper
$49 per company for the tax year One-worker calculator free, no cardFor US employers
W-2 box 12 overtime and tips calculator
- You put in
- A year of your workers' hours and pay, from your time clock or our template, and the tips they reported.
- You get
- Each worker's qualified overtime (box 12, TT), tips (TP) and box 14b code, with the math for every week shown, ready for your payroll company or W-2 software.
Lead Math
Free, or $9 a month for Unlimited Free plan, no card
Lead cost tracker for home service businesses
- You put in
- Each lead you paid for, from Google, Angi, Thumbtack or anywhere else, what it cost, and which ones you booked.
- You get
- What a lead and a booked job really cost from each source, the profit left after the lead cost, and a reminder to rate your Google leads.
Plate Cost
$49 a month per location 14 days free, no cardFor US restaurants
Food cost and menu pricing for restaurants
- You put in
- What you pay for each ingredient, and how much of each goes on a plate.
- You get
- What every plate costs, its food cost %, a menu price that hits your target, and a warning when a price rise puts a dish over it.
For any business
Whatever your business does.
Benchmark
$29 a month 14 days free, no cardFor US businesses
Budgeting for small business owners
- You put in
- Your bank transactions (a file from your bank, or typed in) and the bills you pay each month.
- You get
- What is safe to spend today, tax set aside as money comes in, and your cash flow 13 weeks ahead, for the business and your household.
Lineup
$29 a month 14 days free, no card
Staff scheduling for small businesses
- You put in
- Who works which shifts this week.
- You get
- Everyone sees their shifts on their own phone, and each person is told about their own changes the way you pick. No app to download, one price for the whole team.
Sitework
From $29 a month Starter: 14 days free, no card
Custom websites and apps for small businesses
- You put in
- Plain answers about your business, or, for a custom build, what you need it to do.
- You get
- A website that works on phones and is set up to be found on Google, or an app built from scratch for you.
For larger distributors
Independent distributors doing $10M to $100M a year.
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See one work before you sign up
No account, no card and no email address. Each one opens the real tool right away, filled with made-up numbers you can change.
- Chalkline Contractors and trades Try it with sample numbers →
- Shop Rate Independent auto repair shops Try it with sample numbers →
- Milepost Owner-operators and fleets up to 10 trucks Try it with sample numbers →
- Yardstick Lawn care and landscaping businesses Try it with sample numbers →
- EZ Move Moving companies Try it with sample numbers →
- Waterline Pressure washing businesses Try it with sample numbers →
- Caliper Independent distributors, $10M to $100M Try the demo company →
- Benchmark Any small business, and the household it pays for Try it with sample numbers →
- Drawline Subcontractors working under a GC Try it with sample numbers →
- Box 12 Helper Small businesses that pay overtime or have tipped workers Try the free calculator →
- Lead Math Home service businesses that pay for leads Try it with sample numbers →
- Plate Cost Restaurants, cafes and food trucks Try it with sample numbers →
Why they work
What the software you are using now will not do.
Simple from the first evening.
No training, no setup call, no manual. Each tool asks for a handful of figures you already know, in plain words, and shows you the answer on one screen. If you can read a bank statement, you can use it.
Made for your trade, not bent to fit it.
A lawn care route and a truck do not have the same problem, so they do not get the same software with the words swapped. Each of the tools that work out costs was built for the trade it names, and the math inside it is that trade's math.
The price does not go up when you hire somebody.
It is the same whether it is you on your own or you and four others — on every tool except Caliper, whose plan covers up to 3 people at your company. A lot of business software charges per person, so the bill grows every time you take somebody on, which quietly taxes you for growing.
There is a way to say what you think, and it gets read.
Every one of these has a feedback box built in. What you type goes straight in — not a ticket number, not a queue, not a first-line script reading from a manual. That does not mean everything gets built, but nothing you say disappears into a void.
Your figures stay yours.
Nothing is sold, shared, or used to compare you with anyone. Ask, and your file is sent to you. Chalkline can also be installed on a computer in your own office, and Caliper does all its checking in your own browser, so with those two your figures never leave the building.
Why trust a small company
JTS is a small software business. Here is what that means for yours, and the terms make every one of these promises.
No lock-in.
Monthly tools run month to month with no contract. Stop any time from the tool's own settings, and you are not charged again.
A copy whenever you want one.
Ask, and we send you a copy of everything you have put in. Ask us to delete it, and it is deleted within 30 days.
Notice before anything closes.
If we ever close a tool, we email you at least 60 days ahead and give you a way to take your data with you.
Try it before you pay.
Every monthly tool starts with 14 days free, with no card, on your own figures.