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Software for trades

The second shift ends here.

Contractor estimating software that keeps going after the estimate — invoices, hours and site reports, done before you leave the yard. In 23 countries, under the law of each one.

Available from late 2026

One email at launch, nothing else. You confirm with a click, you can unsubscribe at any time, and the list is deleted after launch. Details in the privacy policy.

The document list in the office: quotes and invoices with recipient, date, amount and status, with filters for document type, period and status above them.

The work that starts after work

The job site is not what costs you the evening. What comes after does: typing up, hunting down, straightening out.

  • Everything gets written twice

    Hours, materials and photos end up on a note in the van. In the evening someone types them up a second time.

    With Zirko

    The entry is made where the work happens — on the phone. Hours even with no signal. Nothing is written a second time.

  • Every figure lives in three places

    Quote in a word processor, hours in a spreadsheet, photos in a messaging app. For the invoice, someone gathers it all again.

    With Zirko

    Quote, hours, materials and photos hang off the same job. The invoice takes them from there.

  • Fixing it afterwards costs the most

    An invoice has gone out and something is not right. Number, tax rate, deadline — sorting that out after the fact costs an evening.

    With Zirko

    Before you finalize, no number has been issued and nothing is used up. Zirko already knows your country's currency, public holidays and invoicing rules.

What a job looks like from the inside

Four screens from the running application — in your language, with the amounts and tax rates of your country.

Step 1 of 4

Write the quote

Line items, quantities, measurements and discounts — in the same editor the invoice comes out of later. Zirko knows fourteen document types; the quote is the first of them.

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The document editor: line items with quantity, unit, unit price and tax rate, with the document totals on the right.

Step 2 of 4

Hours and scheduling

Who is assigned where, who worked how long, who is on leave. Target and actual sit side by side, public holidays come from country and region.

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Scheduling as a board: one row per employee from top to bottom, days from left to right, the assignments as bars inside.

Step 3 of 4

The site in your pocket

Assignments, hours, project folder, chat and site reports with photo and signature. Hours you have entered are not lost when there is no signal.

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The upcoming assignments on the phone, grouped by date: each entry with project and site address plus the buttons for route and time tracking, at the top the switches for from today or past and for mine or the team’s.

Step 4 of 4

Invoice to the customer

The invoice takes over the quote's line items and is a document of its own. Interim payments are offset, finalizing assigns the number. Dispatch and payments are then recorded on the document.

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The preview of the finished invoice: recipient, line items with quantity and unit price, below them the net total, the tax and the gross total, plus the payment terms.

How to get started

No data migration project, no sales call in between. You sign up yourself and get going.

  • Create the account

    Business, name, e-mail, country, password. We ask for nothing more — and certainly not for a means of payment.

  • Set the business up

    Enter address and logo, invite your staff. Tax rates and public holidays for your country already come with Zirko.

  • Write the first document

    Add a customer, enter the line items, finalize. Zirko assigns the document number only on finalizing — nothing is used up before that.

Available from late 2026

One email at launch, nothing else. You confirm with a click, you can unsubscribe at any time, and the list is deleted after launch. Details in the privacy policy.

Everything that is built

Four areas, one list. What is listed here runs today.

  • In the office

    • Documents
    • Projects
    • Scheduling
    • Time tracking
    • Incoming invoices
    • Customers
    • Master data

  • On site

    • Zirko App
    • Assignments
    • Hours
    • Project folder
    • Site reports
    • Dead spot

  • On iPhone and Android

    • An app, not a bookmark
    • Built for one hand
    • Photos that end up at the project
    • Signature on the glass
    • No prices on a site phone
    • Two roles for the site

  • Foundations

    • E-invoicing
    • Unchangeable records
    • Roles and permissions
    • Fifteen languages
    • Payment reminders
    • Signature from a distance
    • Export and CSV

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Three things solved differently here

Not louder, but verifiable. Every one of these points can be seen inside the application.

  • Unchangeable means: in the database

    An issued invoice can no longer be altered — neither through the interface nor around it. The protection sits as a rule in the database; only dispatch, payment and reminder notes plus the cancellation remain permitted. Corrections go through a credit note or a cancellation invoice, each with its own number.

  • Automation that shows what it does

    Reminders run at night. Beforehand you can start a dry run — it tells you what the next run would do without sending anything. Afterwards the log keeps for thirty days what was carried out, what was skipped and what failed, each with trigger and recipient.

  • An honest country answer before you sign up

    A business can be set up in Zirko in twenty-three countries. Whether the invoicing module runs fully, partly or not at all in your country is on screen before you register — not after the first charge.

23 countries, 15 languages

A business is always set up in its own country. Law, tax rates and e-invoicing deadlines differ from country to country — which is why every country has its own version of this page.

For Canada we are not aware of any general obligation to issue electronic invoices.

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Which countries these are

Every country has its own version of this page — with that country’s tax rates, deadlines and invoicing rules. Next to each one is the language that version speaks.

We remember your choice. Change it any time via “Choose country and language” at the foot of every page.

What you can check for yourself

No customer count, no star rating, no award badge — we have none of those. These four facts, on the other hand, you can verify at any time.

  • 23

    Countries

    That is how many countries you can set a business up in — with that country's tax rates, public holidays and invoicing rules.

  • 15

    Languages

    That is how many languages the application speaks. The language of a document is set separately from it.

  • EU

    Hosting

    Database and files are held in Frankfurt am Main — including for businesses outside Europe.

Which businesses this is for

You choose a plan and book the licenses you need; four features tell the plans apart. What that means for your size:

  • On your own or as a pair

    The smallest package is enough, and the mobile application is included in it. Nothing that only makes sense once there is a team.

  • Three to ten people

    One plan for the desks, one field license per field worker. Anyone who stops working is deactivated — you cancel their license or give it to someone else.

  • Larger businesses

    Five roles, from the owner to the team member. Who sees which prices and who approves hours is decided by the database, not by the interface.

What it costs

Three plans, plus further office seats and field workers per head. Four features tell the plans apart — the pricing page names them. No minimum term: cancel monthly, and the annual plan ends at the end of the paid year.

  • Single

    $54.90

    1 office workstation included · per month · plus tax

  • Each field license

    $17.90

    per person · per month · plus tax

Available from late 2026

One email at launch, nothing else. You confirm with a click, you can unsubscribe at any time, and the list is deleted after launch. Details in the privacy policy.

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Frequently asked questions

  • What is software for trade businesses?

    A program that brings the office side of a trade business together in one place: writing quotes and invoices, managing jobs and projects, recording working hours, scheduling assignments and documenting the site. The point is to enter the same detail only once — the line item from the quote later appears on the invoice, the hour recorded appears in the job costing.

  • What does software for trade businesses cost?

    Monthly prices per user or per plan are usual. Zirko has three plans: the smallest, with one office seat, costs $54.90 a month, each field license $17.90, both plus tax. Automation costs extra and is added per business.

  • What legal requirements does software for trade businesses have to meet?

    Three demands recur in every country we operate in: an invoice must no longer be changeable once it has been issued, document numbers must be assigned without gaps, and records must remain traceable and readable for the statutory retention period. On top of that comes electronic invoicing, whose deadlines and formats differ from country to country — the table on the e-invoicing page names them for each of the twenty-three countries, with the date on which we checked. This is not legal advice.

  • How do I get my data if I stop again?

    Through the full export in the settings — it covers the data of your business, not just the documents. After the contract ends, the data stays readable and exportable for thirty days.

Be there at launch

Zirko launches late 2026. Sign up and we'll let you know the moment it goes live — one email, nothing more.

Available from late 2026

One email at launch, nothing else. You confirm with a click, you can unsubscribe at any time, and the list is deleted after launch. Details in the privacy policy.

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