Set Up Your Public Profile and Booking Page

Hometrace gives every inspector a public booking page that clients and agents can use to request inspections without a phone call. Setting it up takes about fifteen minutes and turns your inspector profile into a working lead intake form with accurate quotes.

What you'll need

• A headshot (square works best, JPEG or PNG)
• A short bio (2–3 sentences)
• Your service area (counties, cities, or ZIPs you cover)
• A rough idea of your pricing: base fee, surcharges by home size, and how foundation type affects time and cost

Set up your profile

1. Open Settings → Public Profile in your inspector dashboard.
2. Set your Profile URL (a short slug; this becomes your public link), then add your photo, bio, service areas, certifications, and website.
3. Scroll to the Scheduling section and toggle Enable Scheduling on so clients can book directly from your profile.
4. Your public profile lives at hometrace.co/inspectors/<your-slug> and your booking link at hometrace.co/inspectors/<your-slug>/book. Copy and share either one wherever you'd normally drop a phone number.

Configure booking-page pricing

Open Settings → Public Profile, scroll down to the Price Quote section, and click Manage. (Direct URL: /settings/public-profile/pricing.)

This is the quote engine clients see when they request an inspection. It's separate from the services and fees that show up on the final invoice (covered in Pricing, Services, and Fees). Hometrace builds a quote from these inputs:

• Base fee: your starting price for a standard inspection.
• Square footage bands: tiered prices and durations for larger homes (for example, $400 / 90 min for 1,000–2,500 sqft, $475 / 110 min for 2,500–3,500 sqft, and so on). Each band has its own price and its own duration, used to estimate scheduling. Add as many bands as you need.
• Foundation modifiers: surcharges by foundation type (slab, crawl space, basement, pier-and-beam). Configure each separately so a crawl space inspection can be priced differently from a slab.
• Year-built modifiers: older homes often take longer, so add a surcharge for homes built before, say, 1970.
• Add-on service durations: minutes per add-on, used so a sewer scope or radon add-on extends the visit estimate accurately. The add-on prices themselves are configured separately under Services & Fees.

When a client gets a quote, Hometrace evaluates these in order, sums them up, and shows the client a single total along with any add-on services they pick. The quote attaches to the inspection record so the final invoice matches what the client agreed to.

Tips

• Clients see your profile, services, and availability. Booking requests come into your dashboard for you to accept, decline, or counter-propose.
• Requests include the property address, preferred dates, and the agent's contact info if one was involved. That's everything you need to schedule without a follow-up call.
• Add-on services clients can opt into at booking time (sewer scope, radon, etc.) are configured separately under Settings → Payments → Services & Fees. See Pricing, Services, and Fees for that.

Next step

Open Settings → Public Profile and start filling it out, then Price Quote → Manage to set up your quote engine.