Getting started
This walks you through setting up dronelist.io as a solo drone operator.Signing up
Creating an account takes you through four short screens: your workspace name, your home base (the address travel distance on quotes is measured from), and your plan. No card is needed — every new account starts on Pro for 14 days. Your home base matters more than it looks. Without it, quotes cannot work out the trip to a site and the Site tab on a proposal stays empty. You can change it later under Settings → Organization.The setup checklist
Home shows a Finish setup card until you have worked through five items. It disappears on its own once they are all done.1
Business profile
Your photo, headline, and service area, under Profile. Your name and headline appear at the top of every proposal your client reads, so write the headline for them. See Profile.
2
Services
The work you sell — inspections, mapping, photography — under Pricing. Each one is a name, a price, a unit, and how long a typical job takes. See Pricing.
3
Rates
What your business costs to run, on the same Pricing page. This is what lets every quote show its own margin. See Pricing.
4
Fleet
Your drones and gear, under Fleet. You can import flight history from DroneLogbook, Airdata, or DJI FlightHub. See Fleet.
5
Compliance
One credential or insurance policy, under Compliance. dronelist warns you before either lapses. See Compliance.
Do the Services and Rates steps before you write your first proposal. A quote pulls its
line items from your services and its margin from your rates — without them the proposal still
works, but it cannot tell you whether the price is any good.
The commercial loop
The product is built around one flow, and it ends at an accepted proposal:
There is no delivery, scheduling, or invoicing stage after acceptance. That is deliberate — see Plans & billing.
Where everything lives
The sidebar has three parts.
The assistant is not a page in the rail. It opens from the button at the bottom right of any screen, from the ask box on Home, or with ⌘K.
Tips
Start with one real client
Start with one real client
One company, one contact, one opportunity for work you are actually chasing. A real record
shows you what the product is for faster than sample data does.
Set your currency and address before you quote
Set your currency and address before you quote
Currency, date format, and your business address all appear on proposals and feed the trip
distance. Set them under Settings → Organization first.
Let the pricing wizard do the first pass
Let the pricing wizard do the first pass
If you do not know what to charge, the wizard on the Pricing page walks you from your real
costs to a price band, and writes your services and rates in one go.