QuoteIQ Cam: The CompanyCam Alternative Built Into Your CRM
Published December 2025 · Updated August 2026
Stop paying for a second app to hold your job photos. QuoteIQ Cam captures, organizes and stores every before-and-after shot, inspection form and job report in the same system that writes your estimates, sends your invoices and holds your customer records.
If you want contractor photo documentation without a second subscription and a second login, QuoteIQ Cam is the CompanyCam alternative to look at first. It is bundled into QuoteIQ from the $74.99/month Beginner plan up, it carries unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage, and every image lands on the job and the customer record that already holds your estimates and invoices — no integration to configure, no per-photo-app bill.
Your photos are scattered. Your proof is missing.
Almost every contractor takes the photos. Very few can produce them eighteen months later when a homeowner claims the siding was already cracked, when an insurer wants documentation, or when an accountant asks what that $1,400 material run was actually for.
The photos exist. They are just sitting in a camera roll between a screenshot of a parts diagram and a picture of somebody's dog, with no job attached, no customer attached and no way to search them.
- Photos split across three crew members' phones, a group text and an email thread
- No dated record of what the property looked like before your truck showed up
- Phone storage full, so the oldest job photos get deleted first
- Upsells lost because the customer never sees what you saw on the roof
- Nothing to hand an accountant or an adjuster when documentation is requested
This is not a small-stakes problem. Home improvement and contractor disputes sit among the most-reported complaint categories in the Consumer Federation of America's annual survey of state and local consumer agencies — the 2024 edition drew on 41 agencies across 31 states.[2] When the disagreement is about condition, whoever has the dated photo record wins the conversation.
There is a tax dimension too. The IRS puts the burden of proof on the business owner to substantiate what is claimed, and generally expects supporting records to be kept for at least three years — four years for employment tax records.[1] A photo tied to a job, a date and an expense is a record. A photo in a camera roll is not.
Everything QuoteIQ Cam actually includes
QuoteIQ Cam is not a gallery bolted onto a CRM. It is a documentation module that runs from first inspection through final invoice, and it is included on the Beginner plan and every plan above it. Full detail lives on the QuoteIQ Cam feature page.
In-app capture or camera-roll upload
Shoot inside QuoteIQ or pull from the photos already on the phone. Either way the image is filed against the job and the date instead of landing in a general camera roll.
Before & after comparisons
Pair the two shots you already took into a side-by-side that reads instantly. The Before & After Photo Editor handles the layout so you are not fighting a design app at 7pm.
Custom inspection forms
Build the checklist your trade actually runs, save it as a template, and control which sections appear on the exported PDF. See inspection forms for the full builder.
Job reports
Turn a completed visit into a clean report with the photos, the checklist results and your notes in one document you can hand to a homeowner, a property manager or an adjuster.
Annotations
Circle the rot, arrow the leak, mark the crack. An annotated photo removes the argument about which spot you were talking about — and it sells the add-on for you.
Unlimited 4K cloud storage
Photos and video, full 4K, no cap tied to your plan tier. Upload from the driveway, clear the phone, and the originals stay in the cloud attached to the job.
Attach to estimates and invoices
Photos drop straight onto quotes and invoices, and images can sit on individual services and line items so the customer sees exactly what each number is paying for.
Share galleries with customers
Send the homeowner the visual record of the work instead of describing it over the phone. Fastest way to end a "did you actually do the back fence?" conversation.
Customer documentation archive
Every photo, form and report accumulates on the contact record. Three years of history for that address sits one tap away, whoever on your team is looking.
One documentation loop, start to finish
The value is not the camera. It is that the camera sits inside the same system as the estimate, the schedule, the invoice and the customer record — so nothing has to be moved anywhere.
1. Before the work — the arrival inspection
Open the job, open the inspection form, walk the property. The checklist prompts each photo you need, so the newest guy on the crew documents the same way you do. Every shot files against the job and the date automatically.
2. During the work — scope changes and finds
When you find the rotted board behind the gutter, photograph it and annotate it on the spot. That image can go onto a change-order line item immediately, which is a far easier conversation than a phone call describing damage the customer cannot see.
3. After the work — the proof package
Pair before and after, generate the job report, attach the gallery to the invoice. The customer receives the work and the evidence of the work in the same message, which is measurably better than an invoice arriving alone.
4. Forever after — the archive
Everything stays on the customer profile. When the same homeowner calls two seasons later, you open the record and see exactly what you did, what it looked like, what you charged and what you flagged for next time.
The shot list, trade by trade
Documentation only works if it is the same every time. These are the checklists worth building as inspection templates on day one — the field trades they cover are enormous: BLS counted 929,930 landscaping and groundskeeping workers alone in its May 2023 occupational estimates.[3]
Pressure washing and soft washing
This is the trade where photos are worth the most, because the whole product is a visible change. Shoot each elevation before you pull a trigger, and shoot the same framing after — same distance, same angle, same time of day if you can manage it. Then document the things that will be blamed on you: oxidized siding, failing window seals, existing paint flaking, loose mortar, dead landscaping near the downspouts. Log the water source and any surface you refused to clean. On the sales side, an annotated before shot of a black roof or a green driveway is the single most effective add-on tool in the trade — and when you are building the number, the pressure washing cost calculator gives you a defensible starting price to quote from.
Roofing and gutters
Photograph all four elevations from the ground first, then the roof plane by plane. Get the flashing, the valleys, the boots, the ridge, the decking wherever it is exposed, and every penetration. Interior shots of ceiling staining matter as much as the roof itself — they establish that the damage existed before you touched anything. Gutter work needs the fascia and soffit condition documented before the first hanger comes off, because rotted fascia discovered mid-job turns into an argument about who caused it unless there is a dated photo. Attach the whole set to the estimate and the add-on sells itself.
Lawn care and landscaping
Recurring work is the hardest to document because nothing dramatic happens on any single visit. Shoot a standard set on the first visit of the season — turf condition, bed lines, existing irrigation heads, tree health, any hardscape cracking — then a light after-set on each service so there is a dated record that the crew was there and the work was done. That record settles the "you skipped my property last Thursday" call in about ten seconds. Damage claims in this trade are almost always about sprinkler heads, edging on a neighbor's line, or ruts in soft ground, so photograph those specific things every time.
Painting
Prep is the invisible half of a paint job and the half customers question. Document the surface condition first — peeling, chalking, caulk failure, wood rot, nail pops — then the prep work itself, then coverage. Photograph the color approval and the actual can labels. Interior work needs the room condition before you mask, including existing furniture damage and floor condition, because a paint crew is the default suspect for any scuff discovered afterwards. A before-and-after set on a single feature wall is also the best social proof this trade has.
Cleaning, window cleaning and bin cleaning
Document scratched glass, failed seals, screen damage and any existing stain before you start — window cleaners take the blame for scratches that were there for years. For interior cleaning, photograph the state of each room on arrival. Commercial accounts are where this pays best: a dated photo set attached to each service visit is the difference between renewing a contract and defending it. Recurring-service customers also respond well to a periodic gallery showing the standard being maintained rather than an invoice arriving with no context.
HVAC, plumbing and electrical
Photograph the data plate, the model and serial, the existing condition of the equipment and the surrounding area before any work. Document panel condition, existing code issues, corrosion, prior repairs done by somebody else, and the condition of the drywall or flooring you will be working near. Then photograph the completed install, the connections and the readings. Service trades live and die on the second visit — when you can open the customer record and see photos from the last three calls, diagnostics get faster and the technician stops re-discovering the same problems.
Where documentation turns into revenue
A photo app stores pictures. A CRM with a camera in it can use them — which is the entire argument for keeping documentation in the same system as the money.
Photos on the estimate itself
QuoteIQ writes four estimate types — Standard, Quick, Options and Package — and images can sit on individual services and line items in all of them. That matters most on Options estimates, where you are presenting Good/Better/Best tiers: a photo attached to the middle and top tier makes the upgrade concrete instead of abstract. Deposits, markup and discount controls, terms and your license number all travel on the same document.
Measurement proof alongside the photos
MapMeasure Pro is also on Beginner and above, and its satellite measurement screenshots attach to estimates as visual proof of the scope you measured. Roof segments are auto-detected with color-coded pitch from solar data, and the historical aerial imagery timeline lets you scroll back through years of photos of the same property. Photo evidence plus measurement evidence on one quote is a hard combination to argue with.
The customer-facing side
On Pro and above, the Client Portal gives every customer one secure link — no app download, no account to create — where they can review estimates, pay invoices, see appointments and view customer-facing photo galleries and shareable job links. Documentation stops being something you email on request and becomes something the customer can simply go look at.
Two different "before and after" tools
Keep these straight, because they do different jobs. The Before & After Photo Editor is part of QuoteIQ Cam and composes your real photos into a comparison. Before & After AI is a separate tool on every plan that generates a realistic "after" preview from an actual photo in roughly 15–20 seconds using IQ Credits — a selling tool for work that has not happened yet, not a record of work that has.
Reviews and marketing
Your archive is a marketing library that builds itself. Every job leaves behind a paired before/after set already sorted by date and customer, ready for social or a portfolio page — no scrolling a camera roll on a Sunday night. Review Multiplier handles the request side, redirecting customers to your review page after payment and running review-request automations off job events.
Records that hold up
Photos are one leg of a record; receipts are another. Expense Tracking is also on Beginner and above, with categorized expenses, receipt capture, job linking and CSV export. Pair that with the photo archive and you have documentation that satisfies the IRS three-year retention guidance rather than a shoebox and a hope.[1] Your data stays exportable on every plan.
QuoteIQ Cam vs a standalone photo app
CompanyCam is a good, focused product. The question is not whether it takes good photos — it does. The question is whether you want your documentation living in a second subscription that has to be wired to your CRM, or in the CRM itself.
| QuoteIQ Cam | A standalone photo app | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | Inside QuoteIQ, alongside your estimates, invoices, schedule and customer records | A separate application with its own login |
| How it reaches your CRM | No integration needed — it is the same system | Via an integration you configure and maintain |
| Billing | Included in your QuoteIQ subscription from the Beginner plan up — no separate photo-app line item | Its own subscription, billed separately from your CRM |
| Photo & video storage | Unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage on every plan that includes Cam | Check the vendor's current plan pages |
| Inspection forms | Custom forms with templates and customizable PDF sections | Check the vendor's current feature pages |
| Attaching photos to a quote | Native — images sit on estimates, invoices and individual line items | Depends on what the CRM integration passes through |
| Customer archive | Photos, forms and reports accumulate on the same contact record as the job history | Held in the photo app, separate from your customer record |
We deliberately do not publish competitor pricing or feature lists here. Both change often, and a number that was right the week this page was written is not a number you should make a buying decision on. Check CompanyCam's own current pricing and feature pages, then compare against the QuoteIQ plan table below.
What QuoteIQ costs, and where Cam sits
QuoteIQ Cam is included from the Beginner plan up. Annual billing works out to two months free on every tier, and every plan includes a 14-day free trial of that plan's features.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Users | IQ Credits/mo | QuoteIQ Cam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $29.99 | $299.99 | 1 | 500 | Not included |
| Beginner | $74.99 | $749.99 | 2 | 1,500 | Included |
| Pro | $149.99 | $1,499.99 | 4 | 3,000 | Included |
| Elite | $299 | $2,990 | 10 | 5,000 | Included |
| Max | $699 | $6,990 | Unlimited | 8,000 | Included |
Beginner at $74.99/month is the entry point for documentation. Alongside QuoteIQ Cam it adds MapMeasure Pro, Property Street View, Zillow Quick Access, Expense Tracking, Contract Attachments, Mass Invoicing, Advanced Business Analytics and Custom Branding to everything on Essentials.
Pro at $149.99/month is where documentation becomes customer-facing: it adds the Client Portal, ClientHub with a dedicated business number and two-way calling and texting, email and text automations, on-the-way texts, website contact forms, job costing and QuickBooks Online. Elite and Max add self-scheduling, pipelines, inventory, route optimization and EmployeeHub on top.
Upgrading mid-cycle is prorated, credits jump immediately, and annual rates adjust proportionally — so starting on Beginner and moving up later costs you nothing extra.
Switching without losing the last three years
The realistic worry about consolidating is history. Nobody wants to abandon an archive or re-key a customer list. Two things make the move manageable.
Your customers come across on their own. AI Smart Import is on every plan and takes a CSV from Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan or effectively any CRM, mapping the columns automatically. You can also import straight from your phone contacts. Data ownership runs the other direction too — export is available on every plan, and QuoteIQ never stores card numbers, which sit with the payment processor.
Your old photo archive can stay where it is during the transition. There is no rule that says you flip everything on a Monday. Start documenting new jobs in QuoteIQ Cam, let the archive build for a season, and keep read access to the old tool until you genuinely do not open it any more. Most contractors find that happens faster than expected, because the friction was never the camera — it was having documentation in one place and money in another.
Practically: start the trial on Beginner or above so Cam is switched on, build two or three inspection templates for the work you do most, and run them on every job for two weeks. That is enough to know whether the loop works for your crew. QuoteIQ runs on iOS, Android and the web with full parity, so a technician on a phone sees the same system as whoever is at the desk.
Contractor photo documentation, answered
What is the best CompanyCam alternative for contractors in 2026?
QuoteIQ Cam is the strongest option for contractors who want photo documentation inside their CRM rather than in a second app. It ships with QuoteIQ from the $74.99/month Beginner plan up, includes unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage, and attaches images directly to estimates, invoices and customer records with no integration to maintain.
Which QuoteIQ plan includes QuoteIQ Cam?
QuoteIQ Cam is included on Beginner ($74.99/month), Pro ($149.99/month), Elite ($299/month) and Max ($699/month). It is not part of the $29.99 Essentials plan. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial of that plan's features, so start on Beginner or above to test Cam. A credit or debit card is required to start.
How much does photo documentation software cost for contractors?
A standalone photo app is billed as its own subscription on top of whatever CRM you already pay for. With QuoteIQ the documentation is bundled: Cam is included from the $74.99/month Beginner plan, and Pro at $149.99/month adds the Client Portal and job costing. Check any competitor's current pricing page before you compare.
How do contractors document pre-existing damage before a job?
Run a photo checklist before work starts. In QuoteIQ Cam you build custom inspection forms with the shots your trade needs, capture in-app or upload from the camera roll, and every image files against the job and date on the customer record. The IRS generally expects supporting business records to be kept at least 3 years.
Can you attach job photos to estimates and invoices?
Yes. QuoteIQ Cam photos attach directly to estimates and invoices, and images can sit on individual services and line items across all four estimate types — Standard, Quick, Options and Package. On an Options estimate that means each Good/Better/Best tier can carry the photo that justifies its price.
Is there an app that makes before and after photos for contractors?
QuoteIQ includes two distinct tools. The Before & After Photo Editor builds side-by-side comparisons from your real job photos and is part of QuoteIQ Cam on Beginner and above. Separately, Before & After AI generates a realistic "after" preview from a single photo in about 15–20 seconds using IQ Credits.
How much photo and video storage does QuoteIQ Cam include?
Unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage, with no cap tied to your plan tier. Upload from the field, clear your phone, and every file stays attached to its job and customer profile. Your data remains exportable on every plan, including the $29.99 Essentials tier, so nothing you upload is locked in.
How do you share job photos with customers?
QuoteIQ Cam lets you share photo galleries with customers and attach images to the documents you send. On Pro ($149.99/month) and above, the Client Portal adds customer-facing photo galleries and shareable job links behind one secure per-customer link, with no app download or account required from the homeowner.
Put the camera where the money already is
Start a 14-day free trial of the plan you choose. Pick Beginner or above and QuoteIQ Cam is switched on from the first job.
QuoteIQ Cam is included on Beginner ($74.99/mo), Pro ($149.99/mo), Elite ($299/mo) and Max ($699/mo). Questions? Email support@quoteiq.io or text 912-913-7154.
Sources
- Internal Revenue Service, Common questions about recordkeeping for small businesses — general three-year retention rule, four years for employment tax records, burden of proof on the business owner.
- Consumer Federation of America, 2024 Consumer Complaint Survey Report (June 2025) — top complaint categories reported by 41 state and local consumer agencies across 31 states.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2023: 37-3011 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers — 929,930 workers employed nationally.
