QuoteIQ

Grout Cleaning Software 2026

The Best CRM for Grout Cleaning Companies in 2026

QuoteIQ gives tile and grout restoration businesses per-square-foot tiered pricing, satellite floor measurement, supply inventory, per-job costing, sealing upsell packages, AI before/after previews and an AI assistant with 55 tools — starting at $29.99 per month with published pricing you can read without a sales call.

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QuoteIQ is the CRM we build for grout cleaning companies, and it is designed around the three things that decide whether a tile and grout job is profitable: what you charge per square foot, how accurately you measured the floor before you quoted it, and what the chemicals and crew hours actually cost you. Plans run from $29.99 per month for one user to $699 per month for unlimited users, every tier includes the full AI toolset through IQ Credits, and every tier comes with a 14-day free trial that gives you full access to the plan you pick.

TL;DR: A grout cleaning business runs on square footage, chemistry and upsells, so the software has to price all three. QuoteIQ handles good/better/best pricing with Options Estimates, bundles cleaning plus sealing with Package Estimates, pre-measures floors from satellite imagery with MapMeasure Pro, documents grout condition in 4K with QuoteIQ Cam, renders an after-photo before you ever touch the floor with the AI Image Generator, tracks chemical spend against revenue in Job Costing, answers after-hours calls with the AI Virtual Call Team, and keeps commercial accounts moving in Pipelines & Deals. Pair it with IICRC technical standards and EPA Safer Choice product selection and you have a business that prices, documents and defends its own work.

Why Trade-Specific Matters

What a Grout Cleaning Business Actually Needs From Its CRM

Most field-service platforms were built around a service call: a technician arrives, diagnoses something, replaces a part, and leaves. Tile and grout restoration does not work like that. You are selling a surface, priced by the square foot, at a service level the homeowner chooses after they watch you run a test patch. The estimate is a sales document, not a work order, and the profit sits in the difference between what you charged per square foot and what the pre-spray, the acid restorer, the color seal and the crew hours consumed. A platform that cannot model any of that will let you run a busy, unprofitable year without ever telling you.

That is the gap QuoteIQ’s tile and grout software was built to close. The estimate types support genuine good/better/best selling. The measurement tools let you quote a floor before you stand on it. The Inventory Management module tracks the pints and gallons you actually consume. And Job Costing subtracts labor and expenses from the ticket so the margin on a color seal project is a number you can read rather than a feeling you have.

Good, better, best is the whole business model

Nearly every residential grout job can be sold three ways: a basic clean, a deep restoration with a clear impregnating sealer, or a full color seal with a topical tile sealer on top. The same floor, the same drive time, the same setup — three very different tickets. Options Estimates put all three side by side on one document so the homeowner is choosing a service level rather than deciding whether to buy at all. If you would rather bundle than tier, Package Estimates roll cleaning, sealing and shower recaulk into one turnkey price. For a fast phone quote there is the Quick Estimate, and for a detailed line-item scope on a commercial bid there is the Standard Estimate. All four types are on every plan, starting at Essentials.

The Tier Math

Take a 400-square-foot kitchen and foyer and price it three ways at example rates of $0.75, $1.50 and $2.50 per square foot. That is $300, $600 or $1,000 for the identical floor, identical drive and identical setup. The incremental cost of the top tier is chemistry and roughly two extra crew hours. Presenting one price makes $300 the ceiling; presenting three makes it the floor.

You cannot price a floor you have not measured

Measuring rooms on your hands and knees at the consultation is the slowest, least persuasive part of the visit. MapMeasure Pro measures from satellite imagery inside the estimate itself — building footprint, driveway, and the drawing tools you need for irregular shapes — and saves the measurement to the customer profile so it exports straight onto the quote. Its screenshots attach to the estimate as visual proof of the scope you priced, and the August 2026 release added a historical aerial imagery timeline that lets you scroll back through years of photos of the property. Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access sit alongside it, so before you knock you already know the build year, the finish level and roughly what tile you are walking into. All three unlock at Beginner.

Chemistry is your cost of goods sold

Alkaline pre-spray by the gallon, acid restorer by the quart, color seal by the pint in dozens of shades, impregnating sealer, diamond pads by grit, rotary brush heads, caulk by color — a grout van carries a real parts inventory, and running out of one shade of color seal mid-project costs you a return trip. QuoteIQ’s Inventory Management covers Products with SKUs, cost, customer price and reorder points; Locations so you can separate warehouse from Van A and Van B; Suppliers; Orders that move Draft to Confirmed to Received; and a Transactions log of every receipt, issue, return, damage and adjustment. Materials on an estimate link back to those products so your pricing stays current. One mechanic worth knowing precisely: stock deducts when the invoice is paid, not when the job is marked complete, and a deposit does not count as paid. Inventory Management is an Elite feature.

Selling the transformation before you do it

Homeowners consistently underestimate how dramatic grout restoration looks, which is why the test patch closes so many jobs. The Before & After AI generator does the same work earlier: it takes the actual photo of their stained kitchen or mildewed shower and renders a realistic restored version in roughly fifteen to twenty seconds, ready to attach to any estimate type or invoice. Pair it with 4K condition photos from QuoteIQ Cam, a signed scope through E-Signatures and your sealer warranty stapled on with Contract Attachments, and the customer has seen the outcome, the evidence and the terms before they commit.

Built by contractors, which is why the workflow fits

QuoteIQ was co-founded by Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers, both Co-Founders and both home-service operators before they were software founders. That history shows up in small places: draft mode with continuous autosave so a dead phone does not cost you an estimate, the ability to hide individual line-item prices on a bundled package, materials that carry unit type and unit cost, and a mobile app that does everything the web app does. For the technical side of the trade, the IICRC — an ANSI-accredited, non-profit standards body founded in 1972 with tens of thousands of certified technicians worldwide — publishes the stone, masonry and ceramic tile cleaning curriculum most serious grout operators train against.

Feature Set

Twelve QuoteIQ Features a Grout Cleaning Company Uses Every Week

These are the tools that map directly onto tile and grout work, with the plan each one unlocks on. Where a feature’s plan tier is currently under review internally, we describe what it does and leave the tier off rather than guess.

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Per-Square-Foot Tiered Pricing

Build Standard, Upgraded and Premium on one document — basic hot-water extraction, deep restoration with a clear impregnating sealer, and full color seal with topical tile sealer. Real-time totals, markup and discount controls, deposit requirements and the option to hide individual line prices. Options Estimates · every plan.

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Satellite Floor Measurement

Measure building footprint and interior areas from aerial imagery inside estimate creation, draw complex shapes freehand, save measurements to the customer record and attach the screenshot to the quote as proof of scope. Historical imagery timeline added August 2026. MapMeasure Pro · Beginner and up.

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Chemical & Supply Inventory

Products, Locations, Suppliers, Orders and Transactions — track pre-spray, acid restorer, color seal by shade, sealers, diamond pads and caulk with cost, customer price, margin and reorder points visible in the list. Stock deducts on invoice paid. Inventory Management · Elite.

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Per-Job Profit Reporting

Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses equals Profit, with a margin bar on every job’s Report tab. Labor pulls automatically from clocked hours at each employee’s rate; chemical costs link in as job expenses. Pair it with the expense tracker and receipts. Job Costing · Pro and up.

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Sealing & Protection Bundles

Roll deep cleaning, impregnating or topical sealer, color seal, shower recaulk and mildew treatment into one Complete Tile & Grout Restoration Package the customer accepts as a single price. Convert an accepted estimate into a recurring maintenance subscription in one step. Package Estimates · every plan.

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AI Before & After Previews

Feed it the homeowner’s own photo of dark, stained grout lines and it renders a realistic restored version in about fifteen to twenty seconds, attachable to any estimate type or invoice. Each regeneration draws IQ Credits, and the credit cost is previewed before the action runs. Before & After AI · every plan.

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Cure Times & Recurring Visits

Drag-and-drop day, week, month and employee-timeline views; multi-day jobs render as continuous events; Schedule Later creates a job with no date yet; individual occurrences of a recurring series move without disturbing the rest. Map calendar view on all plans. Scheduling · every plan.

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4K Condition Documentation

Macro photos of staining depth, mildew penetration, cracked grout and lippage, organised by job and date, with annotations, before/after comparisons and unlimited 4K cloud storage. Build custom inspection forms and share galleries with commercial accounts. QuoteIQ Cam · Beginner and up.

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AI Autopilot — 55 Tools

Conversational control of the whole CRM by voice or text across 55 integrated tools in 13 categories. “Move all of today’s jobs to Friday and text every customer.” “Invoice all of today’s completed jobs and send them.” Called “Ask AI” inside the app; same feature. AI Autopilot · every plan via IQ Credits.

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24/7 AI Call Answering

An AI phone team that answers inbound calls around the clock, qualifies leads, filters spam, runs on a knowledge base and agent voice you configure, and records and transcribes every call with summaries and notifications. Priced per minute through IQ Credits, so minutes scale with your tier. Virtual Call Team.

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Commercial Deal Pipelines

Kanban and list views, stages carrying close probability, weighted forecasting (amount × probability), six-metric analytics, multi-assignee deals, attachments and internal notes kept separate from customer-facing content. Elite runs up to five pipelines; Max is unlimited. Pipelines & Deals · Elite and up.

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Customer Self-Service

Let homeowners build their own quote from your service library with InstaQuote, book against your real availability with InstaSchedule, and approve, pay and request service from a branded Client Portal with no app download. Portal at Pro; self-service tools at Elite.

How AI Is Metered

There is no separate AI add-on. Every plan includes a monthly allowance of IQ Credits — 500 on Essentials, 1,500 on Beginner, 3,000 on Pro, 5,000 on Elite and 8,000 on Max — that reset each billing cycle and fund the AI tools. A Virtual Call Team minute costs 125 credits, an AI AutoMeasure runs 100, a property or parcel lookup 50. Every AI action shows its credit cost and asks for confirmation before it runs, so nothing draws down without you seeing it first.

In The Field

A Wednesday at a Four-Person Grout Cleaning Company

Here is an illustrative day at Crystal Grout Pros, a composite four-person tile and grout business running two vans in Tampa. The dollar figures are example pricing, not QuoteIQ performance claims — what matters is which tool does which job.

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6:45 AM — Dispatch and van check

Carlos opens the calendar and reads the board. Van A takes an $2,200 whole-home color seal across 820 square feet of tile; Van B takes a $650 commercial restaurant kitchen at 7:30 followed by a $425 shower restoration at 11. He checks Inventory by location — Van A holds two gallons of alkaline pre-spray, a gallon of acid restorer, six pints of Almond color seal and a full set of diamond pads; Van B carries commercial degreaser, recaulk tubes in White and Almond and shower-specific rotary tools. Route Optimization sequences Danny’s two stops, and Carlos confirms dispatch through Team Communication.

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8:15 AM — Documentation before a drop of chemical

At the South Tampa house, QuoteIQ Cam captures 4K macro shots of every tiled room: staining depth in the kitchen, mildew in the master bath, a cracked grout line at the dishwasher, lippage on two foyer tiles. Those photos are the record that protects the job if anyone later claims the floor was damaged. Carlos logs materials against the job as expenses so Job Costing has real numbers to work with; the actual stock deduction happens in Inventory once the invoice is paid, so a deposit alone will not move the count. Meanwhile Danny texts through ClientHub that the restaurant manager approved a $380 dining-room add-on, and Carlos approves the change from his phone.

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11:30 AM — The consultation that was already half done

Before he arrives, Carlos pulls the property in MapMeasure Pro and estimates roughly 870 square feet of tile across the kitchen, foyer and two baths. Property Street View shows a 2019 build — likely large-format porcelain with narrow joints. He builds three tiers in Options Estimates, runs a two-foot test patch in the foyer, then shows the AI before/after render of their own kitchen. Sealer warranty and care instructions ride along via Contract Attachments, the customer signs with E-Signatures, and the 50% deposit clears through online payments. The deal moves to Scheduled in Pipelines.

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Before he leaves — the shower upsell

Carlos walks both bathrooms. Mildewed caulk at the floor-to-wall transition, stained shower-floor grout, soap scum on the glass track. He builds an on-site Package Estimate: master shower deep clean and recaulk at $285, guest shower recaulk at $185, and an annual maintenance agreement at $315 for two visits. Total add-on $785 on a $1,305 project. The equipment is already running and the crew is already on site, which is the entire argument for making this pitch on every residential job. If the customer would rather spread it, Consumer Financing through Affirm, Klarna or Afterpay is available on every plan and you are paid in full upfront.

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Afternoon — the number that actually matters

On the whole-home job, Job Costing assembles the real picture: 1.5 gallons of pre-spray, two quarts of acid restorer, five pints of color seal, 1.5 gallons of impregnating sealer, diamond pad wear, caulk and supplies, plus two technicians for 5.5 hours at their hourly rates pulled straight from Time Tracker Pro. Price minus labor minus expenses equals profit, shown with a margin bar. Roll that across the week in business analytics — revenue by service, by customer and by employee, conversion rate, average ticket, open pipeline value — and you find out which service tier is carrying the company.

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End of week — reviews and the next three weeks of work

The homeowner texts back through ClientHub. Carlos sends a review request through Review Multiplier, which ships both an instant post-payment redirect to your review page and an email/SMS review-request automation with four event triggers. Friday afternoon he checks Pipelines: six residential consultations next week, a medical office and a daycare proposal outstanding, and a twelve-unit townhome final-clean contract pending. Email and text automations keep the unanswered estimates warm without him touching them, and data export gets the quarter’s numbers to his bookkeeper.

Drive Time Is Margin

Two vans, four to six stops a day, cure times that force you back to the same address — routing is not a luxury in this trade. QuoteIQ’s Route Optimization sequences the day for minimum drive time and recalculates when a job is added late; measured across QuoteIQ accounts it cuts drive time by 15–30%. Route Density answers the separate question of where your work clusters, so you can sell a zone rather than chase one job across town.

“Same day. Not tomorrow morning — same day. Whoever sends a clear, specific estimate first is the one the customer starts comparing everyone else to. That’s a psychological anchor, and it’s real.”

— Mike Vidan, Co-Founder, QuoteIQ · Full insights
Comparison

QuoteIQ vs Jobber vs Housecall Pro vs ServiceTitan for Tile & Grout Work

Every competitor figure below was read from that company’s own live pricing page on September 18, 2026. Jobber and Housecall Pro publish plan pricing; ServiceTitan does not — its packages page lists Starter, Essentials and The Works with no dollar figures and a request-a-quote button. All four are capable platforms and all four have shipped AI features; the honest question is not who has AI but which tool models a square-foot, service-tiered, chemical-heavy job.

CapabilityQuoteIQJobberHousecall ProServiceTitan
Entry plan, 1 user, monthly$29.99 (Essentials)$49 no-commitment (Core)$79 monthly / $59 annual (Basic)Not published
Around 10 users, monthly$299 (Elite, 10 users)$399 (Grow, 10 users)$329 monthly / $299 annual (Max, 8 users; $35 per extra user)Not published
Unlimited users$699 (Max)Not offered — 15 users on Plus at $699, then $29 per extra userNot offered — per-user pricing above 8Per-technician pricing
Published pricing at allYes, all five plans onlineYesYesNo — quote after a demo
Good/better/best estimate typeOptions Estimates, every planOptional line items and add-onsSales Proposal Tool on MaxProposals and quotes
Bundled package estimate typePackage Estimates, every planNot listed on their plan-features tableSales Proposal Tool on MaxProposals
Satellite measurement in the estimateMapMeasure Pro, Beginner+Not listed on their plan-features tableNot listed on their plan tableNot listed publicly
AI before/after image generationIncluded, every planNot listed on their plan-features tableNot listed on their plan tableNot listed publicly
Photo documentationQuoteIQ Cam, unlimited 4K, Beginner+Job attachments all plans; files and media library on PlusPhoto reports and annotations on Essentials+Technician app
Job costingPro and upGrow and up; automated job costing on PlusListed on Basic and upIncluded
Materials / parts inventoryInventory Management, Elite+Not listed on their plan-features tableNot listed on their plan tableInventory app included
Sales pipelineElite+ (5 pipelines), Max unlimited$49/mo add-on; included on PlusPipeline DashboardLeads and pipeline
Dedicated business phone numberClientHub, Pro and upTwo-way SMS on Grow; no dedicated line listedVoice Solution offered separatelyPhones Pro add-on
24/7 AI call answeringVirtual Call Team, IQ Credits, all plansReceptionist $29/mo add-on; included on PlusAI team members listed on every planAvailable
Customer self-quotingInstaQuote, Elite+Online booking and request formsOnline bookingScheduling Pro add-on
Accounting syncQuickBooks Online, Pro and upQuickBooks Online and XeroQuickBooksQuickBooks Online and Sage Intacct
Free trial14 days, full access to your chosen plan14 days on Grow features14 days on Max featuresNo free trial listed

Read that table honestly and the picture is not “everyone else is bad.” Jobber and Housecall Pro are strong generalist platforms with real AI and real job costing. The difference for a grout business is where the money leaks: measuring a floor twice, quoting one price instead of three, and never learning what the color seal actually cost you. QuoteIQ puts satellite measurement, tiered and bundled estimate types, AI before/after rendering and materials inventory in the same product — and publishes what each tier costs. If you want to run the comparison yourself, the full comparison hub covers sixty-plus platforms.

Where The Gap Is Widest

At one user QuoteIQ Essentials is $29.99 against Jobber Core at $49 and Housecall Pro Basic at $79 billed monthly. At ten users QuoteIQ Elite is $299 against Jobber Grow at $399. Above fifteen seats the gap compounds: QuoteIQ Max is a flat $699 for unlimited users while Jobber’s 15-user Plus plan is $699 and adds $29 for every seat after that — so a 25-person operation is $699 against $989. All figures read from each company’s published pricing page on September 18, 2026.

Crew Management

Running Two Vans Without Losing Track of Either

Once you are past a single truck, the constraint stops being sales and starts being coordination — who is on which job, who is clocked in, who can see the financials. QuoteIQ’s EmployeeHub bundles the field-ops side at Elite: an employee database with hourly rate and availability, GPS location tracking that shows the team on a live map while they are clocked in and pauses on breaks, Time Tracker Pro for GPS clock in and out with per-job hours and full edit history, and Team Communication for one-on-one and group chats with job assignment. Clocked-out employees never appear on any map, without exception.

Access is controlled by roles and permissions, which got a full overhaul in August 2026 with calendar permissions properly separated out. A permission-restricted apprentice sees shortcut cards instead of the main dashboard, so Javi can see today’s assigned jobs without seeing last month’s margins. Two limitations worth planning around: there is no automatic overtime calculation and no native payroll — hours export to whatever payroll system you already run. If you grow into formal crews rather than ad-hoc pairs, crew creation, tracking and scheduling plus the Sales Team Tracker with per-rep commission percentages sit on Max, which also carries unlimited user seats at a flat price.

A realistic two-van structure

Van A — restoration crew. The owner plus a restoration specialist handle color seal projects, whole-home restorations and high-value consultations, carrying the truck-mounted extraction unit, the full color seal shade inventory and the diamond honing tools. Both hold manager-level access so either can assign work and log time. Van B — volume and commercial. A lead technician plus an apprentice run restaurant maintenance, standard residential deep cleans and shower restorations from a portable extraction unit. The lead has technician access to view schedules, clock in and update job status; the apprentice sees assigned jobs only. The owner as estimator keeps owner access across financials, Pipelines, analytics and inventory, and runs afternoon consultations while the crews finish cure-dependent work.

What Labor Actually Costs You

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median hourly wage for janitors and building cleaners at $17.27 as of May 2024, with roughly 351,300 openings projected each year through 2034 — a tight, high-turnover labor pool. Skilled tile and grout restoration technicians command well above that median, which is exactly why per-job labor tracking matters: at these rates an extra ninety minutes of unbilled time on a $600 job is real margin. Source: BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook.

“The test is simple: can you be unreachable for two weeks without the business falling apart? Not slowing down — falling apart. If your answer is no, the business isn’t running. You are.”

— Justin Rogers, Co-Founder, QuoteIQ · Full insights
Growth

Three Revenue Channels That Compound for a Grout Cleaning Business

One-off residential deep cleans are the hardest possible way to build a company: every dollar requires a fresh lead. The operators who get past a single truck are almost always running three channels at once — protection upsells attached to work they are already doing, recurring commercial contracts, and referral partnerships that deliver work without acquisition cost.

1. Attach protection to every cleaning project

The floor is already clean, the chemicals are already mixed and the crew is already on site. Returning later to apply impregnating sealer, color seal or a topical protectant means a second drive, a second setup and a second scheduling slot — which is why the sealing upsell belongs on the same estimate as the clean. Package Estimates present it as a Complete Tile & Grout Protection Package rather than a list of extras, and you can hide individual line prices so the customer evaluates the package rather than nitpicking a $0.35-per-square-foot sealer line. When a customer needs to spread the cost, Consumer Financing gives them Affirm up to $30,000 per job over three to thirty-six months, Klarna and Afterpay — on every plan, with you paid in full upfront and the provider carrying collections and default risk. Product selection matters here too: sourcing from the EPA Safer Choice certified list gives you a defensible answer for customers with kids, pets or asthma concerns, and it is a genuine differentiator on institutional bids.

2. Build a recurring commercial book

Restaurants, medical offices, daycare centres, gyms, hotel lobbies and retail floors all need scheduled professional grout cleaning to hold their appearance and, in food service, to satisfy inspection. These are not projects; they are contracts, and they carry you through the residential off-season. Track each relationship through its stages in Pipelines & Deals, where weighted value — amount times close probability — gives you a forecast that is not just wishful thinking. Bill them with Invoice Subscriptions, which handle discount, tax, fee and deposit math on a repeating schedule, and document each visit with inspection forms so the facility manager has a zone-by-zone condition record. For commercial kitchens specifically, the FDA Food Code is the model that most state and local health jurisdictions adapt, and a documented floor-maintenance schedule is a straightforward thing to hand an inspector. Five active contracts at a few hundred dollars a month each is a revenue floor that residential lead flow can never give you.

3. Become the name property managers and builders already have

A property manager handling tenant turnovers needs one grout company they can call without thinking. A builder needs one final-clean crew before handoff. You earn that relationship once and the work arrives on its own, at near-zero acquisition cost. Keep those referral sources in their own pipelines, and make sure you are reachable — these clients switch the moment responsiveness drops, which is where the AI Virtual Call Team and website contact request forms earn their keep. Add mass SMS and email campaigns segmented by tag at Elite to reactivate last year’s customers ahead of the holiday season. One note on setup: mass campaigns run on gateways you connect yourself — Twilio for SMS with A2P 10DLC registration, SendGrid for email — so budget for carrier fees.

Recurring Revenue Math

One four-location restaurant group at $650 per location per month is $31,200 a year. One six-suite medical building at $400 a month is $4,800 a year. A property manager sending six turnovers a month at $425 is $30,600. None of that depends on a single residential lead, and all of it is forecastable inside Pipelines before it closes.

One Platform

Everything Else You Would Otherwise Be Paying For Separately

The trade-specific tooling is the reason to look at QuoteIQ; the reason operators stay is that it replaces the spreadsheet, the separate photo app, the second phone line and the standalone review tool. Here is the rest of what ships in the box.

On payments, two flows are worth keeping straight. Your subscription to QuoteIQ is processed by Whop, the processor for new subscribers; accounts established on Stripe are legacy and may stay or migrate one way to Whop. Separately, your customers pay their invoices by credit or debit card, ACH bank transfer, Apple Pay or Google Pay online, with cash and cheque recorded manually in the app — and payout and bank details are configured in your settings. Need to price a job before you build the estimate? The home service business calculator hub collects the free tools, including the carpet cleaning cost calculator and the flooring cost calculator for adjacent surface work, plus a free cleaning invoice template and a contractor invoice template if you are still invoicing by hand.

Pricing

QuoteIQ Pricing for Grout Cleaning Companies in 2026

Five plans, published rates, no sales call required. Every plan carries all four estimate types, Options pricing, scheduling, invoicing, online payments, consumer financing, e-signatures and the full AI suite through IQ Credits. Annual billing gives you two months free on every tier.

Essentials$29.99/mo1 user · 500 IQ Credits · All 4 estimate types · Scheduling · Payments · AI suite
Beginner$74.99/mo2 users · 1,500 credits · + MapMeasure Pro · QuoteIQ Cam · Expense Tracking · Attachments
Pro — best starting point$149.99/mo4 users · 3,000 credits · + ClientHub · Job Costing · Client Portal · Automations · QuickBooks
Elite$299/mo10 users · 5,000 credits · + Inventory · Pipelines · InstaQuote · Routing · EmployeeHub
Max$699/moUnlimited users · 8,000 credits · + Crews · Sales Tracker · AI Website Builder · Priority Support

Which tier fits a grout business? A solo operator quoting from photos can genuinely run on Essentials. The moment you want satellite measurement and 4K documentation — which is to say, the moment you start selling restoration rather than cleaning — you want Beginner. Pro is where most two-to-four-person shops land, because it adds a dedicated business number through ClientHub, Job Costing and QuickBooks Online. Multi-van operations move to Elite for inventory, pipelines, routing and EmployeeHub.

Optional extras, stated plainly: the AI Website Builder is $34.99 a month and is included on Max, which also bundles four additional businesses. Done-For-You setup comes in two tiers, $299.99 and $999.99, covering contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session — optional, one-time, and not required to get running. IQ Credit top-up packs exist if you run heavy on AI in a busy month, and credits reset each billing cycle. Upgrading mid-cycle charges the prorated difference and your credits jump immediately.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About CRM Software for Grout Cleaning Companies

QuoteIQ is the CRM built specifically for tile and grout restoration work, starting at $29.99 per month for one user and scaling to $699 per month for unlimited users. What separates it from generalist field-service platforms is that it models the way grout jobs are actually sold and costed. Options Estimates present basic cleaning, deep restoration and full color seal side by side on a single document so the homeowner chooses a service level rather than deciding whether to buy. MapMeasure Pro measures the floor from satellite imagery inside the estimate before you ever drive out. Inventory Management tracks pre-spray, acid restorer, color seal by shade and diamond pads at the product level, and Job Costing subtracts labor and chemical expenses from the ticket to show real margin per job. Every plan includes the AI suite, and every plan comes with a 14-day free trial giving full access to the plan you select. Operators who want the technical side of the trade covered as well should look at the stone, masonry and ceramic tile curriculum published by the IICRC, the ANSI-accredited standards body for the cleaning and restoration industries. Start with the tile and grout industry page for the full feature breakdown.

QuoteIQ publishes five tiers: Essentials at $29.99 for one user, Beginner at $74.99 for two users, Pro at $149.99 for four users, Elite at $299 for ten users and Max at $699 for unlimited users, with annual billing giving two months free on every tier. Most two-to-four-person grout operations land on Pro, which adds a dedicated business phone number, job costing, the client portal, automations and QuickBooks Online. Multi-van shops move to Elite for materials inventory, pipelines, route optimization and EmployeeHub. For context on the market, competitor rates read from their own live pricing pages on September 18, 2026: Jobber’s entry Core plan is $49 per month for one user with no commitment and its ten-user Grow plan is $399, while Housecall Pro’s Basic is $79 billed monthly or $59 billed annually and its eight-user Max plan is $329 monthly, with $35 per additional user. ServiceTitan publishes no dollar figures at all and requires a demo before quoting. Optional QuoteIQ extras are stated up front: the AI Website Builder is $34.99 per month and included on Max, and Done-For-You setup is a one-time $299.99 or $999.99. Full details sit on the pricing page. When you are budgeting the labor half of the business alongside the software, the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook publishes current wage and employment data for cleaning occupations.

Use an Options Estimate, which puts good, better and best on one document rather than forcing three separate quotes. A typical structure for a 400-square-foot kitchen and foyer prices basic hot-water extraction at one rate, deep restoration with acid scrub and a clear impregnating sealer at roughly double, and a full color seal with topical tile sealer at roughly triple — the same floor, the same drive, three different tickets. Options Estimates are on every QuoteIQ plan, carry real-time totals, markup and discount controls and deposit requirements, and let you hide individual line prices so the customer compares outcomes instead of auditing your sealer cost. If you would rather bundle than tier, Package Estimates combine cleaning, sealing and shower recaulk into one turnkey price, and an accepted estimate can convert directly into a recurring subscription. Attach your sealer warranty and care instructions, collect approval through e-signatures, and take the deposit via online payments before you leave the driveway. When customers ask which products you use, sourcing from the EPA Safer Choice certified list gives you a specific, verifiable answer.

Yes. MapMeasure Pro measures from satellite imagery inside estimate creation — building footprint, driveway, lawn and complex shapes via freehand drawing tools — and saves every measurement to the customer profile so it exports straight onto the quote. Screenshots attach to the estimate as visual proof of the scope you priced, which settles most scope disputes before they start, and the August 2026 release added a historical aerial imagery timeline that lets you scroll back through years of photos of the same property. It is available from Beginner upward. Aerial imagery gives you the envelope rather than the interior, so the practical workflow is to use it to size the property and pre-build your tiers, then confirm the actual tiled area on site and adjust. Pair it with Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access to see build year and finish level before you knock, so you arrive knowing whether you are walking into large-format porcelain with narrow joints or 1990s ceramic with half-inch sanded grout. That preparation turns the consultation into a test patch and a close rather than twenty minutes on your knees with a tape. The free flooring cost calculator helps sanity-check your per-square-foot rates, and the BLS wage data for cleaning occupations helps you cost the labor half.

QuoteIQ’s Inventory Management module handles it across five parts. Products carry SKU, category, unit, cost, customer price, margin and a reorder point with In Stock, Low and Out indicators — so alkaline pre-spray by the gallon, acid restorer by the quart, color seal by the pint in each shade, impregnating and topical sealers, diamond pads by grit and rotary brush heads all live as trackable items. Locations let you separate the warehouse from Van A and Van B. Suppliers and Orders move purchases through Draft, Confirmed and Received, with receiving automatically creating receipt transactions. Transactions log every movement: receipt, issued, returned, damaged, loss and adjustment, and the whole history comes out through data export when your accountant asks. Materials on estimates and invoices link back to those products so your pricing stays current when supplier costs move. One mechanic to know precisely: stock deducts when the invoice is paid, not when a job is marked complete, and a deposit does not count as paid. Inventory Management is an Elite feature, and it pairs with expense tracking and job costing to show what chemistry really costs per job. Whatever you stock, OSHA’s Hazard Communication standard requires safety data sheets to be accessible to the crew handling them.

It depends on what leaks money in your operation, and it is worth being accurate here: Jobber is a capable platform with AI voice and chat tools, job costing on its Grow tier, routing, GPS tracking and a sales pipeline available as an add-on. The differences that matter for grout work are narrower and more specific. Satellite measurement inside the estimate, AI before/after image generation from the customer’s own photo, dedicated good-better-best and bundled package estimate types, customer self-quoting and materials inventory are not listed on Jobber’s published plan-features table as read on September 18, 2026 — they are all in QuoteIQ. On price at the same team size, Jobber’s ten-user Grow plan is $399 per month against QuoteIQ Elite at $299 for ten users, and above fifteen seats QuoteIQ Max stays flat at $699 while Jobber adds $29 per additional user. The honest recommendation is to trial both: QuoteIQ’s 14-day trial gives full access to whichever plan you select. Start with Options Estimates, MapMeasure Pro and Job Costing on a real job, and compare the rest in the comparison hub. For neutral ground on labor costs, the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook is the reference both camps use.

Attach the protection to the cleaning estimate rather than pitching it afterwards. The economics are simple: the floor is already clean, the chemistry is already mixed and the crew is already on site, so the incremental cost of applying an impregnating sealer, a topical tile sealer or a full color seal is chemistry plus a modest amount of labor. Coming back later means a second drive, a second setup and a second scheduling slot. Package Estimates present the whole thing as a Complete Tile and Grout Protection Package — clean, seal, shower recaulk, mildew treatment — at one price, and you can hide individual line prices so the customer evaluates the package rather than the sealer line. Show the outcome first with an AI before/after render of the customer’s own floor, back it with 4K condition photos from QuoteIQ Cam, and close with e-signatures on the spot. Where the total gives a customer pause, Consumer Financing offers Affirm up to $30,000 per job over three to thirty-six months plus Klarna and Afterpay on every plan, with you paid in full upfront. Choosing products from the EPA Safer Choice list gives households with children, pets or asthma a concrete reason to say yes.

Treat them as a pipeline rather than a series of one-off bids. Restaurants, medical offices, daycare centres, gyms, hotel lobbies and retail floors all need scheduled grout maintenance, and those relationships move through predictable stages: walkthrough, proposal, negotiation, signature, first service, ongoing. Pipelines and Deals tracks each one on a kanban board with close-probability percentages and weighted forecasting — amount multiplied by probability — so your projection reflects reality rather than optimism; Elite runs up to five pipelines and Max is unlimited. Bill them with Invoice Subscriptions, which handle discount, tax, fee and deposit math on a repeating schedule, and document every visit with custom inspection forms so the facility manager gets a zone-by-zone condition record they can file. Give each account a branded Client Portal so they can approve estimates, pay invoices and submit service requests without emailing you, and keep the relationship warm with automated follow-up sequences. For food-service accounts specifically, the FDA Food Code is the model most state and local health jurisdictions adapt, and a documented floor-maintenance schedule is straightforward evidence at inspection time.

Key Takeaways

What Actually Changes When a Grout Cleaning Company Runs on QuoteIQ

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You stop quoting one price. Options Estimates put basic cleaning, deep restoration and full color seal on the same document, so the customer picks a service level instead of deciding whether to hire you at all. Every plan includes it.

2

You arrive already knowing the floor. MapMeasure Pro sizes the property from satellite imagery inside the estimate and attaches the screenshot as proof of scope, so the consultation is a test patch and a close rather than twenty minutes with a tape measure.

3

You find out what the chemistry cost. Job Costing takes total price minus labor minus expenses and shows profit with a margin bar; labor pulls automatically from clocked hours, so the margin on a color seal is a number rather than a guess.

4

You never run out of Almond #14 mid-job. Inventory Management tracks color seal by shade, sealers, pads and caulk with reorder points across warehouse and van locations, with stock deducting when the invoice is paid.

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The customer sees the result before you start. The AI before/after generator renders their own stained grout restored in fifteen to twenty seconds, and QuoteIQ Cam keeps the 4K condition record that protects you afterwards.

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Commercial work becomes a forecast, not a hope. Pipelines and Deals weight each contract by close probability and Invoice Subscriptions bill the recurring ones automatically.

7

The 9 PM caller reaches a person, not voicemail. The AI Virtual Call Team answers around the clock, qualifies the lead, records and transcribes the call, and hands you a summary — metered per minute through IQ Credits on every plan.

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You can read the price before you talk to anyone. All five QuoteIQ plans are published, from $29.99 to $699 with unlimited users at the top, and the 14-day trial gives full access to whichever plan you choose.

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Getting Started

How to Switch Your Grout Cleaning Business to QuoteIQ in Four Steps

Most operators are quoting real jobs inside a day. Here is the order that works.

1

Start the trial and import your customers

Create the account and pick the plan you want to test — the 14-day trial gives you full access to that plan’s features, and a credit or debit card is required to start. Bring your customer list across with AI Smart Import, which reads a CSV from Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan or any other CRM and maps the columns automatically; you can also import straight from your phone contacts. Budget about twenty minutes.

2

Build your price book around square footage

Enter your services as per-square-foot rates at each service level — basic extraction, deep restoration with clear sealer, full color seal — plus flat-rate items like shower recaulk and tile chip repair. Set up your three tiers once as an Options Estimate template and your bundles as Package Estimate templates so you are never rebuilding them in a customer’s kitchen. Add your logo and licence number so PDFs go out branded.

3

Quote your next three jobs inside the app

Pre-measure the property with MapMeasure Pro, photograph grout condition with QuoteIQ Cam, render the outcome with the AI before/after generator, send the three-tier estimate and collect the signature and deposit on site. Do this on live jobs rather than test data — the point is to see whether the tiering changes what customers buy.

4

Turn on costing and reporting before you commit

Log chemical and supply costs as job expenses, clock the crew in through Time Tracker Pro, then open the Report tab on each finished job to see price minus labor minus expenses. Check the same numbers rolled up in business analytics and decide on the evidence. If you want the setup done for you, Done-For-You onboarding is available in two one-time tiers.

Before You Migrate

Export your existing customer list, open estimates and price book from your current platform before you cancel anything — you own your data on QuoteIQ too, and export is on every plan. Run both systems in parallel for a week rather than cutting over mid-season. One free trial applies per person, per business and per payment method, and the trial converts to the plan you selected at its published rate unless you cancel before it expires.

Expert Authority

Who Built This

Mike Vidan — Co-Founder, QuoteIQ

More than twenty years running home service businesses before co-founding QuoteIQ. His view on estimating is blunt: speed is the whole game, because the first clear, specific estimate becomes the anchor every other bid is measured against. He writes about pricing, closing and operations at QuoteIQ Insights.

Justin Rogers — Co-Founder, QuoteIQ

A serial entrepreneur and home service operator who co-founded QuoteIQ after running the same software problems that every growing contractor hits. His test for whether you own a business or a job: could you disappear for two weeks without it falling apart? Read more at QuoteIQ Insights.

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