Offices and cafés, handed over. Stages paid, not chased.

The client buys a finished space for one price: shell-and-core to handover — partitions, ceilings, MEP tie-ins, joinery, finishes. Your quote has to read like the finished room, broken into stages the client can follow, priced from a BOQ you built line by line. A single lump figure invites a cheaper rival; a clear staged breakdown sells the competence.

In InstaJack you build that breakdown from your own price book: your lines, your units, your rates — per square metre of partition, per door set, per fit-out stage as a lump sum. The quote goes out on WhatsApp and is approved on the link, stage structure and all. This is the commercial contractor's page; the workshop joinery trade itself lives at Carpentry & Fit-Out.

• Staged quote breakdown the client can follow, stage by stage
• Your BOQ lines saved in your book, reused on the next tender
• Approval on the WhatsApp link before mobilisation
• A buying list per job for materials and long-lead items

Fit-out money moves in steps: an advance, progress payments against completed stages, a handover payment — and retention, held back until snags are cleared and often long after the keys are handed over. Every stage is a small negotiation about what 'complete' means, fought over photos and walk-rounds.

With the Claim Pack (AED 79 per firm per month), stage claims are built from the approved quote's own lines: claim the stage or the percentage complete, with variations already approved sitting in the same stack. The record shows claimed, approved and retention still held, job by job — so the retention release battle starts from a clean paper trail instead of a memory of site meetings.

Before a partition goes up: mall or landlord approvals, NOCs, authority sign-offs — in Dubai, bodies like DDA or TECOM on some projects — plus method statements and night-work permits, because malls let you build when shoppers go home. During the job: variations every time the client's designer changes a finish. At the end: the snagging list, item by item, standing between you and the final payment.

InstaJack answers the money side of that pile: the bookings diary holds approval milestones, night-work programmes and handover dates; variations are priced and approved on the client's phone before the finish changes, not after it is fitted; and quotes, stage claims and invoices with your bank details all generate from the same approved lines. The snag list still gets walked — but it gets walked against a claim record everyone already agreed.

• Approval milestones and night-work dates in one diary
• Variations approved before the work, with the price on record
• Stage claims built from approved lines only (Claim Pack)
• Handover paperwork generated, never retyped

Straight answer: there is no built-in starter price book for turnkey fit-out in InstaJack. Fit-out pricing depends on the building, the landlord's spec and the finish level — café money is not office money, and invented defaults would price your tenders wrong.

The honest mechanic is the same one every firm on InstaJack uses: the book is yours. Load your standard BOQ lines once — partitions, ceilings, joinery packages, stage lump sums, in your words at your rates — and every tender after is assembly, not authorship. Start on Core, free forever, and add the Claim Pack when stage claims and retention tracking become the heavy work.