Paperwork dies in the truck.
The field report that never made it back to the office is the invoice that never went out. Nobody lost it on purpose — the pile lost it.
By the Trades, For the Trades
Plumbing software that counts every part.
Deep inventory — shelf, van, receiving, field buys, returns — on the same record as the job, so a part that goes on the truck lands on the invoice. Plus the day board, dispatch, invoicing, and whole-home CAD in one system on a machine your shop owns.
From $99/mo · real month-to-month · runs on your box, not our cloud. A walkthrough of the real product — not a self-serve signup.
A stock card with sample items. Not a live catalog.
The pile
Shops run on five tools that don't talk to each other.
A whiteboard for the day. A calendar for the schedule. A quoting app, an invoicing app, and paper drawings for the repipes. Every seam between them is a place money falls out — and everybody who's run a shop knows where:
Follow-ups live in somebody's head.
The callback the office meant to make, the estimate nobody checked on — remembered at 9 PM, forgotten by 7 AM.
Parts go on the job and not on the bill.
The valve the tech grabbed off the van made it onto the ticket — or it didn't. Missed items are quiet money.
Nobody knows where the guys are.
The 10 AM radio-check tax: who's done, who's running late, who's actually still on the water heater.
The other guys sell a nicer version of the same pile — same seams, better paint. NectARM is one record that moves through the whole day.
The focus
Deep stock — the part that goes on the job lands on the bill.
This isn't an inventory tab bolted on the side — it's an inventory system. Shop stock and van stock with quantity, bin, and a photo on every card. Receiving, restock, field buys, and van returns logged on the same record. Associated items remember the companions: a T fitting already knows it needs three rings.
Showroom puts the same catalog in front of the tech on site and the counter — fixtures, install prices, special order when it isn't stocked, and a draft estimate that moves into the field report. And because stock rides the same card as the job, the valve the tech grabbed off the van makes it onto the invoice. That's where the quiet money stops leaking.
One record
The call and the invoice are the same card.
Monday starts on the board. The house gets drawn in the same product. When the crew closes the stop, billing is already looking at that card. Nothing gets retyped, so nothing gets dropped.
01Book it
Unscheduled calls wait on the board in plain sight. Scheduling →
02Send the right truckZones and drive time rank the opening. Dispatch →
03Draw the houseWhole-home isometric CAD, 2D and 3D. The CAD →
04Run the jobStatus, parts, labor, photos — all on the card.
05Bill itClosed work lands in the billing queue. Invoicing →
06Get paidCard pay links, customer portal, QuickBooks sync.
The other guys don't have this either
Draw the whole house. Walk the runs. Hang the print.
Every shop software in this category will sell you a calendar. None of them draw the house. Shop-native isometric CAD for whole-home systems — a true blueprint on an X / Y / Z grid, inch snap, in the sizes the shop stocks. Cold, hot, drain, vent, and gas ride on every run. Drain snaps to shop drain angles at 1/4" per foot. 3D is an editor: place a fitting, rotate it, keep drawing from the open port — or hit WASD walk and move through the runs like the shop map.
And because the drawing is in the same record, the takeoff counts itself — pipe, fittings, hangers, fixtures. Print the sheet. Hang it. The crew builds what the office priced.
Already ships: 2D / 3D, WASD walk, slope, flow markers, inch snap, hangers, takeoff, print. Building toward intelligent flow and auto sizing on the runs.
Sample isometric drawing. Not a live customer. Walk the house in 3D or read about the CAD.
Sample house
Walk the house
Same product language as Field Help 3D: enter a sample whole-home drawing, walk the rooms, and see cold, hot, drain, vent, and gas on the runs — laid over the house's own floor plan. This is a marketing demo — not the full CAD editor, and not a live customer job.
hive.nectarm.com/field-help · 3D walk
Sample house ready
Sample demo house. Not a live customer drawing. Esc exits.
Rest of the day
Everything else rides the same record.
The board isn't one tab of five — it's the system. Each piece below deep-dives on its own page.
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Dispatch & zones
Suggest ranks openings by drive time, service zone, and who's on call. Live map while techs are logged in — not background tracking.
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Invoicing & QuickBooks
Closed jobs land in a billing queue — materials and labor already attached. Card pay links on every invoice. QuickBooks stays your books.
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Deep inventory
Shelf, van, receiving, field buys, returns — quantity, bin, and photo on one card. A T fitting already knows it needs three rings.
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Techs on phones
Jobs, field reports, van stock, timeclock — the same product on the mobile web, nothing to install or update.
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Customer portal
The house gets its own door: what's happening, what they owe, a way to ask for service — and a way to pay without calling.
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Buzz after-hours
Add-on answering on the shop line: confirms, logs, pages on-call, briefs the tech, connects. Never quotes a price.
Who built this
A plumber's kid. Now an apprentice. Wrote the whole thing.
He grew up hearing about the lost paperwork at the dinner table — then apprenticed and watched it happen for real: field reports that never made it back, follow-ups that lived in somebody's head, parts that never made the invoice, and a dispatcher guessing where the vans were.
So he wrote the system — the board, the CAD, the invoicing, all of it — and the shop he apprentices at runs it every day. If it doesn't hold a real Monday, it doesn't ship. The full story →
Your data
It runs on a box your shop owns.
We don't host you on our cloud. The system installs on a machine at the shop — we send an installer and a Cloudflare tunnel so the crew can reach it from the field. Your customers, your jobs, your invoices: they live in your hive, on hardware with your name on it.
Leave whenever — monthly is real month-to-month. The data was never ours to hold anyway. More answers →
How we price it
Flat for the shop. Published.
The other guys quote per-technician after a demo call. Ours are on the site. There's no checkout page because a walkthrough comes first — but the numbers are right here.
Semi-Pro
$99 / month or $999 / year
Three tech seats and five other logins. Board to invoice templates. No QuickBooks.
4 of 5 left
$259 / month
$189 a month early access — 4 of 5 spots left. Eight tech seats and up to twenty logins. The full Pro shop loop.
Configured with you
Contact for pricing
After a walkthrough, we configure their company system — seats, phones, and voice.
Quick answers
The questions every shop asks first.
Can we leave if it doesn't fit?
Monthly is real month-to-month — cancel when you want. And your data lives on your own box, so leaving never means losing your records.
How do we get set up?
On an annual agreement we move your customers and open work in with you — guided, because a clean start is worth it for both of us.
Is there a mobile app?
The same product on the mobile web — jobs, field reports, van stock, timeclock. Nothing for techs to install or remember to update.
Is it only for plumbing?
The first shop is a plumbing company and the CAD is plumbing-native. The board, jobs, and invoicing fit any service shop — other trade pages come when the product earns them.
By the Trades, For the Trades
If the current stack is a pile of tabs, talk to us.
We'll walk the real product — the board, a whole-home drawing, an invoice — not a slide deck. It's a hiveworthy system: nine roles keep every worker bee on their own screen, so people see their job, not the whole company. Day-one is software-only; phones, Buzz, and hardware are add-ons when you want them.
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