Fence & Deck Estimating Software for Contractors & Suppliers
Draw it. Price it. Get it signed.
3D designs with full material lists and regional pricing. Trace the yard from satellite, design in true 3D, and send a signable estimate with real material math — posts, joists, concrete bags and all — before you leave the driveway.
Four steps.
Same site visit.
Everything between "how much for a fence?" and a signed estimate — without opening Excel, a price book, or your truck door twice.
Trace the property
Type the client's address, get the satellite view, calibrate the scale, and trace the fence line right over their actual yard.
Design in 3D
Decks and fences render board-by-board as you build. Flip to X-ray to show the client the bones: joists, beams, footings.
Price it for real
A true bill of materials — every post, hanger, and concrete bag — priced for your region, or your own supplier price list.
Send. Sign. Done.
The client gets a clean estimate on their phone, signs with a finger, and you get notified. Invoice from the same screen.
Drag it. Watch the lumber yard answer.
This is a taste of the real engine — the app prices the full structure: beams sized to span, joists at your spacing, buy-length optimization, cut waste, the works.
Software that knows
which way the joists run.
Generic CRMs make you type the numbers. F&D Studio computes them — from the same span tables and spacing rules you build by.
Satellite tracing with real scale
Geocode the address, calibrate against a known length, and trace runs that come back in true feet. Gates, corners, and sheds snap into the plan.
A real bill of materials
Not "$/sq ft × area." Posts, rails, pickets, hangers, screws by count, concrete by the bag — with buy-length optimization and exact-vs-efficient cut modes.
X-ray framing view
One tap strips the deck to its structure. Clients see what they're paying for; you see what you're building.
Regional + custom prices
Ottawa to Dallas — regional multipliers out of the box, or load your own supplier price list and quote with your real costs.
E-sign + invoices
Send a signable estimate by email, get notified the moment it's signed, convert it to an invoice in one click.
A calendar clients can book
Share your open dates and clients pick a site visit themselves — or drag a job onto the calendar yourself. Crew conflicts flag automatically.
From signed to built
Every job gets a board — crew days, materials, field notes, and costs — so nothing lives in a separate spreadsheet.
Payment button, right in the invoice
Card payment or e-transfer instructions ship inside the same email as the invoice — no separate link to chase down.
Six materials, every layout
PT, cedar, vinyl, aluminum, chain link, and hybrids — multi-run layouts with gates, slopes, and per-segment detail.
Code-aware structure
Joist and beam sizing that follows the span tables (DCA-6), footing layout, stairs, railings — recalculated live as you drag.
Blueprint-grade PDFs
Estimates ship with a clean site plan, 3D beauty shot, and itemized materials — the kind of paperwork that wins jobs.
Half the price of the big guys.
More of the capability.
| F&D Studio | Big-name takeoff apps | Spreadsheet + price book | |
|---|---|---|---|
| True 3D deck & fence design | ✓ Board-by-board | 2D drawings | — |
| Satellite trace with scale | ✓ Built in | Top tier only | — |
| Material-level BOM (posts, bags, screws) | ✓ Automatic | Manual templates | You are the engine |
| E-signature on estimates | ✓ Included | ✓ | — |
| Real Canadian regional pricing | ✓ 6 regions + custom | — | If you maintain it |
| Price | $75 CAD/mo* | $150–300 USD/mo | Your evenings |
*Pro plan, launch price (reg. $149 CAD/mo). Plans start at $50 CAD/mo. Takeoff app range reflects single-user entry pricing from STACK and Buildxact.
We run it on our own jobs, every day.
F&D Studio isn't a demo product — it's what AMA United, our own fencing and decking company in Ottawa, uses to trace, design, and quote every real job. If a feature doesn't survive an actual driveway estimate, it doesn't ship.
Pays for itself on the first job.
One padded "just-in-case" line item costs more than a year of F&D Studio.
Design, quote, invoice & get paid.
- Unlimited fence + deck 3D designs
- Satellite tracing & scale calibration
- Instant material list & pricing
- Branded estimates with your logo
- Accept payments — card or e-transfer
- Real Canadian regional pricing
- Customer Hub + CSV import (incl. QuickBooks exports)
Everything in Lite, plus jobs, crews & scheduling.
- Everything in Lite
- Jobs, crews & scheduling
- Upload supplier prices to override estimates
- Marketplace — build supplier profiles
- Embeddable Instant Estimator for your site
- Email support
For companies and suppliers.
- Everything in Pro
- Books accounting — double-entry, built in
- Priority support
- 3 team seats — quote together
- Maintain your own material catalog & costs
ALL PRICES CAD · CANCEL ANYTIME · PAYMENTS SECURED BY STRIPE
Asked at the counter.
Where do the material prices come from?+
Does it really calculate structure, or just square footage?+
Can my client sign from their phone?+
I'm in the US — does the pricing work for me?+
What happens after the 7-day trial?+
Stop estimating on the back of an invoice.
Draw your first fence in the next five minutes. Card required to start — you won't be billed until your 7-day trial ends.