Christmas light proposal software
Send the proposal before the excitement wears off
Generated from the design you just traced in their driveway: the render leads, one number follows, and your footage and rates never appear on it.
The example below is the whole customer document — $3,810.20 total, $1,905.10 deposit, $1,905.10 balance. What it never prints is per-run footage, unit rates, bulb counts, job cost or margin.
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Choosing a plan starts a subscription — $69/month or $499/year — which renews automatically on that interval unless you cancel before the renewal date. Canceling stops the next renewal; the period you have paid for runs to the end.
Who this is for
The contractor whose quote arrives on Thursday. Not because they are slow, but because the design, the measurement and the price all had to happen somewhere that was not the driveway — and by Thursday the number is sitting in an inbox next to two others.
You currently send a number in an email
Sometimes with a screenshot of a mockup attached. It is the fastest thing available, and it is still a price with no picture attached to it.
The homeowner wants to show someone else
A render of their own house is a thing they can forward. A per-foot figure is a thing they compare.
You have had an install argue with a quote
A proposal is only finished if the crew's copy says the same thing. That is the second half of this page.
01 — The document
A proposal, not a take-off.
The render is first, because that is what a homeowner holds up to show somebody who is not standing in the driveway. Then the package and the number, and nothing else.
One number, not a spreadsheet
Total investment, deposit and balance. A customer evaluating a line-item take-off is negotiating; a customer looking at their lit house is deciding.
Your pricing stays yours
Rates, bulb counts, job cost and margin are on the estimate screen and stay there. They are not withheld awkwardly — they are simply a different document.
Generated, not rebuilt
It reads the same trace the price came from, so there is no third place for the number to be retyped and no version of it that disagrees.
02 — What leads it
The picture on the proposal is the design that was priced.
Not an illustration commissioned to sell the job — the nighttime view generated from the runs the estimate was built from. The homeowner and the crew are looking at the same geometry.
Every render is kept. A new one never replaces the last, so you can always show a customer what you promised them.
03 — After they accept
Accepting it freezes what was sold.
The moment a quote is accepted it locks, and the crew’s work order is generated from that snapshot. Edit the design afterwards and the crew keeps reading what the customer actually bought.
Everything the proposal hides
Per-run measured, billed and prepare footage; product, colour and spacing; bulbs, clips and wire at your allowance; crew notes.
Equipment it was priced around
A lift priced into the sale cannot be edited off the crew's copy. A sold job reaching the schedule without one is a wasted day.
It says which one it is
The page states on its face whether you are looking at the sold scope or the live design, so nobody has to infer it.
Where this sits in the job
The proposal is the fifth step and the work order the sixth, and they are two views of one accepted job rather than two documents somebody has to keep in agreement. Both are generated from the trace made in step two.
Before you ask us
Questions about the proposal itself
What does the customer actually receive?
One document, led by the nighttime render of their own house. Below it, the package, the total investment, the deposit and the balance. The example on this page is $3,810.20 total, with a deposit and balance of $1,905.10 each.
What does the proposal not show them?
Per-run footage, your unit rates, bulb counts, job cost and margin. None of it is printed. That is a deliberate separation: the customer is buying a finished house, and handing them a take-off invites a line-by-line negotiation about a number they have no way to evaluate.
Can I send it before I leave the driveway?
That is the point of generating it from the design rather than rebuilding it later. The photo, the trace, the price and the proposal are one sitting, on a tablet, while the customer is still standing next to you.
Do I have to rebuild the proposal if I change the design?
No. It reads the same traced design the price came from, so a change to a run is a change to the document. What it will not do is silently change a proposal that has already been accepted — see the next answer.
What happens when they accept it?
The scope freezes. The accepted quote locks and the crew work order is generated from that snapshot, so it keeps describing what was sold even if the design is edited afterwards. The work order states on its face whether you are looking at the sold scope or the live design.
Does the crew see the customer proposal?
No — they get the opposite document. Everything the proposal hides is what the work order is made of: per-run measured, billed and prepare footage, product, colour and spacing, materials to load at your allowance, crew notes, and any equipment the job was priced around. A lift priced into the sale cannot be edited off the crew's copy.
Is there e-signature, deposit collection or invoicing?
No. The proposal carries the deposit and balance figures, but taking the money, signing and invoicing are not in C9X PRO and it does not claim them. Whatever you already use for that keeps doing it.
Can I show them more than one option?
Every render is kept rather than overwritten, so previous versions of a design stay available and you can always show a customer exactly what you promised them. Colour schemes are the cheapest version of this — the same trace in warm white, red and white or multicolour measures identically.
Send one proposal from a driveway and judge it on that.
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No credit card required. Full access for 14 days, and the trial does not convert — at the end of it access pauses until you choose to subscribe, and your projects are kept either way.
Choosing a plan starts a subscription — $69/month or $499/year — which renews automatically on that interval unless you cancel before the renewal date. Canceling stops the next renewal; the period you have paid for runs to the end.
The rest of the same job
Stop describing it. Send it.
The render they can forward, the number they can decide on, and a crew work order that says exactly what they bought — all from the design you traced while you were standing there.
No credit card. Full access for 14 days, and the trial does not convert — access pauses at the end of it until you choose a plan, $69/month or $499/year, each renewing on that interval unless cancelled. Your projects are kept either way.