Published July 2026 · Updated September 2026
A 10-person epoxy crew pays $599/month for Jobber Plus on month-to-month billing, then adds separate tools for instant website quoting, truck inventory, and real-time crew tracking. QuoteIQ Elite is $299/month for 10 users, with photo-based AI estimating, finished-floor previews, inventory, and customer self-quoting built in.
For most epoxy flooring businesses, QuoteIQ Elite is the strongest Jobber alternative in 2026. At $299/month for 10 users it costs $100 less than Jobber Grow and $300 less than Jobber Plus at the same 10-user size (Jobber’s month-to-month rates, checked September 11, 2026), and it adds photo-to-estimate AI, finished-floor previews, satellite measurement, native material inventory, and customer self-quoting that Jobber either sells through partners or doesn’t list on its plan chart.
TL;DR: Jobber is a solid scheduling and invoicing platform, but an epoxy crew that wants photo-based quoting, finished-floor previews, and truck-level material tracking ends up stacking partner tools on a $399–$599/month 10-user plan. QuoteIQ Elite runs $299/month for 10 users and includes the AI Estimator, Before & After AI, MapMeasure Pro, job costing, inventory, InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, and live crew GPS. Two outside numbers belong in every epoxy quote: installers earn a $25.00 median hourly wage, and OSHA’s silica rule caps grinding dust at 50 µg/m³. Jobber still wins for Xero users and heavy Zapier shops.
Jobber is a clean, well-built platform for general field service work, and plenty of epoxy flooring businesses use it to schedule jobs and send invoices. The friction shows up when an epoxy operation tries to sell the way this trade actually sells: quoting a three-car garage flake system, a metallic showroom floor, a warehouse coating, or a basement moisture-mitigation job from a handful of photos; showing a homeowner what their stained, cracked concrete will look like before they commit to a multi-thousand-dollar project; and knowing whether the job made money once resin, hardener, flake, and topcoat were paid for.
To be fair to Jobber, part of that list is now covered natively. According to Jobber’s own plan comparison, its Grow and Plus plans include job costing built from tracked materials, labor, and expenses; every plan lets you attach photos to jobs; and online booking lets customers put appointments on your calendar. The gaps that remain are narrower but expensive. Instant priced quoting on your website runs through a partner such as ResponsiBid at $179–$229/month plus a one-time setup fee. Truck and warehouse material inventory runs through a partner such as Ply, priced by the number of stock locations. Real-time crew location needs a tracking device from one of Jobber’s fleet partners. And nothing on Jobber’s plan comparison analyzes a floor photo to build a line-item coating estimate or generates a finished-floor preview.
This guide doesn’t argue Jobber is a bad product. It shows, with prices checked on each vendor’s own page on September 11, 2026, what an epoxy operation pays to match what QuoteIQ Elite includes on one plan, where Jobber genuinely wins, and how to move your customer list if you decide to switch. If you’re weighing other platforms too, the QuoteIQ comparison hub covers more than 60 head-to-heads.
An epoxy quote is really five decisions stacked together: how many square feet you’re coating, how the slab gets prepped, what repairs it needs, which coating system goes down, and how many trips the cure schedule forces on your crew. Get any one of them wrong and a profitable-looking garage turns into a break-even weekend. That’s why the estimating tool matters more in this trade than in most home services.
Exterior slabs such as driveways, patios, and pool decks can be measured from satellite imagery with MapMeasure Pro (Beginner plan and above), which saves the measurement to the customer profile and attaches a screenshot to the estimate as visual proof of scope. Interior garage and basement floors still need a site measurement or good photos, and QuoteIQ’s AI AutoMeasure and Measurement Library (added in the July 2026 release, all plans) keep those numbers organized per property. Before you drive out, Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access help you confirm garage size and home value from the office.
Diamond grinding or shot blasting, crack chasing, spall repair, and moisture testing are where experienced contractors protect their margin and where rookies lose it. Build each prep step as its own line item so customers see why a cheap bid that skips grinding will peel. The Materials section on estimates (public beta since April 2026) lets you list product, quantity, unit type, and unit cost for each repair material and link it to your inventory, and sub-items let you nest “crack repair” under “surface prep” so the estimate reads cleanly.
Most residential epoxy jobs sell best as three tiers. QuoteIQ’s Options Estimates put all three on one estimate on every plan, and Package Estimates bundle prep, coating, and topcoat into a single price when a customer just wants a number. For commercial bids that need every line broken out, Standard Estimates itemize everything, and Quick Estimates handle small touch-ups and recoats.
Grind, crack fill, pigmented epoxy base, clear topcoat. The entry option for rental garages and budget-driven homeowners.
Epoxy base with full flake broadcast and a polyaspartic topcoat. The workhorse residential garage system and the tier most customers pick.
Metallic epoxy or quartz broadcast with a UV-stable topcoat for showrooms, basements, and high-end garages that double as living space.
Sanity-check your per-square-foot numbers against the free epoxy flooring cost calculator, and use the concrete cost calculator when a job needs new slab work before coating. For mixed-material projects, the flooring cost calculator helps you price the areas you won’t coat, and basement moisture-mitigation jobs pair well with the basement waterproofing cost calculator. Every tool lives on the home service business calculators hub, and QuoteIQ’s in-app Business Calculators add a National Average Guide for reference pricing.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a May 2024 median wage of $25.00 per hour ($52,000 per year) for flooring installers and tile and stone setters, with 112,300 jobs and 6% projected growth from 2024 to 2034. Labor is usually the line that decides whether an epoxy job is profitable, so price it from real clocked hours.
Multi-coat systems often mean a second visit for the topcoat. QuoteIQ’s scheduling calendar renders multi-day jobs as continuous events, lets you create a job with no date and assign it later, and color-codes status so the office can see which floors are waiting on a topcoat. Appointment reminders go out by SMS and email so homeowners clear the garage before your crew arrives.
Epoxy contractors carry two risks most home service trades don’t: silica dust from grinding and solvent vapors from coatings. Both affect what you charge, what you document, and what you tell the customer before the job starts.
Grinding concrete releases respirable crystalline silica. OSHA’s construction standard, 29 CFR 1926.1153, sets a permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air averaged over an 8-hour shift and an action level of 25 µg/m³. OSHA estimates that about two million construction workers are exposed to respirable crystalline silica in more than 600,000 workplaces, according to its construction fact sheet. In practice that means shrouded grinders, HEPA dust extraction, and respiratory protection on longer grinding tasks — equipment that belongs in your prep pricing, not your overhead guesswork.
OSHA’s permissible exposure limit for respirable crystalline silica in construction, averaged over 8 hours, with a 25 µg/m³ action level. Document the dust controls you used on every grind with photos and a checklist.
QuoteIQ’s inspection forms turn your pre-job and dust-control checklist into a repeatable template with customizable PDF sections, and QuoteIQ Cam (Beginner and above) stores timestamped photos by job and date, with unlimited 4K photo and video storage. If a customer later claims delamination, you have the prep photos, the moisture reading, and the signed scope in one place.
The EPA notes that levels of several organic chemicals average 2 to 5 times higher indoors than outdoors, and that during and right after activities such as paint stripping, levels can reach 1,000 times outdoor background. The agency’s advice is simple: increase ventilation when using products that emit VOCs and follow label precautions. For an epoxy business, that translates into clear customer instructions about ventilation, pets, and how long before the car goes back in the garage.
How much higher the EPA says average indoor levels of several organic chemicals run compared with outdoors. Put ventilation and cure-time expectations in writing on every interior job.
Put those instructions in your estimate terms and conditions, attach your warranty or service agreement with Contract Attachments (Beginner and above), and collect approval with e-signatures, which start on the Essentials plan and let customers sign on their phone.
Jobber prices by team size. To compare like for like, both cards assume 10 users — the number QuoteIQ Elite includes — on month-to-month billing, using each vendor’s published pricing as checked September 11, 2026.
Before the ResponsiBid setup fee, Ply, and tracking devices
The minimum monthly gap between Jobber Plus at 10 users plus ResponsiBid Pro ($828) and QuoteIQ Elite ($299) — $6,348 a year before setup fees, inventory software, or tracking hardware. On Jobber Grow at 10 users ($399) plus the Pipeline ($49) and Receptionist ($29) add-ons and ResponsiBid Pro ($229), the floor is $706/month.
Summary: Jobber now covers job costing, job photos, and online booking on its own, so the honest gap is smaller than older comparisons claimed. What remains — instant website quoting, material inventory, real-time crew location, AI photo estimating, and finished-floor previews — still costs an epoxy crew at least $529 more per month on Jobber Plus than on QuoteIQ Elite, and two of those capabilities aren’t on Jobber’s plan chart at any price.
Jobber details come from Jobber’s plan comparison and pricing page, checked September 11, 2026. QuoteIQ tiers are shown where the feature starts.
| Capability | Jobber | QuoteIQ |
|---|---|---|
| AI photo-to-estimate | ✗ Auto-drafted quotes from incoming requests; no photo analysis listed | ✓ AI Estimator — every plan (IQ Credits) |
| AI finished-floor preview | ✗ Not listed on the plan chart | ✓ Before & After AI — every plan, about 15–20 seconds per image |
| Satellite measurement | ✗ Not listed on the plan chart | ✓ MapMeasure Pro — Beginner and above |
| Job photos and documentation | ✓ Photos and attachments on jobs; files and media library on Plus | ✓ QuoteIQ Cam with inspection reports and unlimited 4K storage — Beginner and above |
| Job costing | ✓ Grow and Plus; automated job costing on Plus | ✓ Job Costing — Pro and above |
| Good/Better/Best quoting | ✓ Optional line items for upsells on Grow | ✓ Options and Package Estimates — every plan |
| Instant customer self-quoting | ⚠Partner app, e.g. ResponsiBid at $179–$229/mo plus setup fee | ✓ InstaQuote — Elite and above |
| Customer online booking | ✓ Online booking on every plan | ✓ InstaSchedule on live availability — Elite and above |
| Material inventory | ⚠Partner app, e.g. Ply, priced per stock location | ✓ Inventory Management — Elite and above |
| Real-time crew location | ⚠In-app activity tracking; real-time via fleet partner device | ✓ EmployeeHub GPS while clocked in — Elite and above |
| Route optimization | ✓ Routing listed on the plan chart | ✓ Route Optimization plus Route Density — Elite and above |
| AI assistant | ✓ Jobber AI Voice and Jobber AI Chat | ✓ AI Autopilot, 55 tools across 13 categories — every plan (IQ Credits) |
| AI phone answering | ✓ Receptionist: $29/mo add-on, included on Plus; can book jobs | ✓ Virtual Call Team: 125 IQ Credits per minute; minute-limited on lower tiers |
| Sales pipeline | ✓ Pipeline: $49/mo add-on, included on Plus | ✓ Pipelines & Deals — Elite (5 pipelines), Max (unlimited) |
| Business phone and texting | ✓ Two-way text messaging on Grow and Plus | ✓ ClientHub dedicated number with in-app calling and texting — Pro and above |
| Customer financing | ⚠Plan chart lists Jobber Capital, financing for your own business | ✓ Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay on every plan |
| Accounting sync | ✓ QuickBooks Online and Xero | ✓ QuickBooks Online — Pro and above |
| 10-user monthly price | Connect $299 · Grow $399 · Plus $599 | Elite $299 |
| Free trial | 14 days on Grow plan features | 14 days with full access to the plan you choose |
✓ = listed on the vendor’s plan. âš = available through a partner app or a narrower native equivalent. ✗ = not listed on the vendor’s plan comparison as of September 11, 2026. Jobber sells its plans at lower rates with a 1-year commitment or annual prepay; month-to-month rates are shown for both vendors.
Summary: Jobber and QuoteIQ now overlap on job costing, photos, online booking, routing, texting, and AI assistants. The differences that matter for an epoxy business are AI photo estimating, finished-floor previews, satellite measurement, native inventory, instant self-quoting, and live crew GPS — all on QuoteIQ Elite for $299/month, versus $399–$599/month for a 10-user Jobber plan before partner apps.
QuoteIQ prices by plan, with users included. Jobber prices by plan and team size. Both tables show month-to-month rates.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual (2 months free) | Users | What it adds for an epoxy business |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $29.99 | $299.99 | 1 | All four estimate types, invoicing, e-signatures, consumer financing, AI Estimator and Before & After AI |
| Beginner | $74.99 | $749.99 | 2 | MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam, expense tracking, contract attachments, advanced analytics |
| Pro | $149.99 | $1,499.99 | 4 | Job costing, ClientHub, email and text automations, client portal, QuickBooks Online |
| Elite | $299 | $2,990 | 10 | InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, inventory, pipelines, route optimization, EmployeeHub GPS |
| Max | $699 | $6,990 | Unlimited | Sales team tracker, crews, AI Website Builder, 4 additional businesses, priority support |
Every plan includes a 14-day free trial and a monthly allowance of IQ Credits for AI features. See every plan on the QuoteIQ pricing page, or go straight to Essentials, Beginner, Pro, or Max.
| Jobber plan | 1 user | 5 users | 10 users | 15 users |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | $49 | — | — | — |
| Connect | $139 | $199 | $299 | $399 |
| Grow | $199 | $299 | $399 | $499 |
| Plus | — | $499 | $599 | $699 |
Source: Jobber’s pricing page, checked September 11, 2026, month-to-month rates. Additional users are $29/month each. Marketing Suite ($99/mo), Receptionist ($29/mo), and Pipeline ($49/mo) are add-ons on Core, Connect, and Grow and are included on Plus. Jobber’s 1-year-commitment and annual rates are lower.
What a 10-person crew saves on QuoteIQ Elite ($299) versus Jobber Grow at 10 users ($399) — $1,200 a year on the subscription alone, before counting the self-quoting, inventory, and AI estimating tools Elite adds.
Epoxy is material-heavy. Resin kits, hardener, flake, quartz, metallic pigment, and polyaspartic topcoat all sit on trucks and shelves, and a single mis-ordered kit can stall a job for a day. QuoteIQ’s Inventory Management (Elite and above) runs five modules: Products with SKU, unit, cost, and reorder point; Locations for each truck and warehouse; Suppliers; Orders that move from draft to confirmed to received; and Transactions that record every receipt, issue, return, loss, or adjustment. Stock deducts when the invoice is paid, and a deposit alone doesn’t move stock, so your counts track real sales rather than promises.
Materials you list on estimates and invoices link to those products, so pricing stays current. Every expense — tooling, fuel, a last-minute flake order — goes into Expense Tracking with receipts, and Job Costing pulls it together into Total Price − Labor − Expenses = Profit for every floor. Home Service Analytics then shows revenue by service, conversion rate, average ticket, and outstanding versus collected balances, so you can see whether metallic jobs actually out-earn flake.
Most epoxy contractors take a deposit to lock material orders. QuoteIQ estimates support deposit requirements, and Invoicing handles partial payments, automated reminders, and Net 15, 30, 60, or 90 terms for commercial clients. Customers pay online by credit or debit card, ACH bank transfer, Apple Pay, or Google Pay through Online Payments, and you can record cash and checks in the app. For bigger residential jobs, Consumer Financing offers Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay on every plan; the customer applies at checkout, gets an instant decision, and you’re paid in full upfront while the provider carries the collections risk.
The per-job ceiling for Affirm financing through QuoteIQ, with terms from 3 to 36 months. Klarna and Afterpay cover smaller pay-in-4 and pay-later purchases, and all three are available on every QuoteIQ plan.
Commercial maintenance contracts — annual recoats for a warehouse or a showroom — fit Invoice Subscriptions, which handle discounts, tax, fees, and deposits on a recurring schedule. If you still bill some jobs by hand, the free contractor invoice template and construction invoice template keep your paperwork consistent until you’re fully moved over.
Epoxy crews move heavy equipment — grinders, dust extractors, generators — between jobs that often run two or three days. Knowing where each crew is and how long they’ve been on a floor matters for both scheduling and payroll. On Elite, EmployeeHub brings three tools together: GPS Location Tracking shows a live team map while employees are clocked in, pauses on breaks, and stops at clock-out — clocked-out employees are never shown; Time Tracker Pro records GPS clock-ins, per-job hours, and break durations with a full edit history; and Team Communication keeps one-on-one and group chat attached to the work.
One honest limitation: QuoteIQ doesn’t calculate overtime automatically and doesn’t run payroll. Hours export cleanly to the payroll system you already use.
Route Optimization sequences the day’s estimate visits and job stops for minimal drive time, accounting for appointment windows and recalculating when a job gets added, and Route Density shows where your work clusters so you can plan each day around one part of town. Density tells you where; optimization tells you in what order. QuoteIQ reports that route optimization typically cuts drive time 15–30%.
The IRS standard mileage rate for business driving from July 1 through December 31, 2026. A crew that trims 40 miles a week saves about $30.40 weekly — roughly $1,580 a year — in vehicle cost at that rate.
Homeowners rarely sign a garage floor the day they get the quote. They compare bids, talk it over, and wait for a slow month. The contractor who follows up consistently usually wins. QuoteIQ’s Email & Text Automations (Pro and above) run event-triggered, multi-step sequences with personalization tags, and since June 2026 you can describe an automation in plain language and have it built for you. ClientHub gives you a dedicated business number with two-way calling and texting from any device, with every conversation saved to the customer profile.
For high-ticket floors, branded Proposals turn an estimate into a full presentation with your company story, services, photo gallery, documents, and customer reviews. Proposals are available on every plan; each send uses 100 IQ Credits and is free on Elite and Max. The Client Portal (Pro and above) gives each customer a secure link to approve estimates, pay invoices, see appointments, and request service without downloading an app, and Pipelines & Deals on Elite forecast your month with probability-weighted deal values.
When a coating season slows, Mass Campaigns (Elite and above) send targeted SMS and email blasts to tagged customer segments — past garage customers who might want a basement next. You connect your own Twilio and SendGrid gateways, and carrier fees are yours. Missed calls get picked up by the Virtual Call Team, an AI phone team that answers 24/7, qualifies leads, filters spam, and records and transcribes every call, billed at 125 IQ Credits per minute. And AI Autopilot lets you run the CRM by voice or text — “invoice all of today’s completed jobs and send them” — across 55 tools in 13 categories.
Jobber is a mature, well-reviewed platform, and a fair comparison names the places it’s ahead. Each point below comes from Jobber’s own pricing page as checked September 11, 2026.
More accounting choice. Jobber syncs with QuickBooks Online and Xero. QuoteIQ’s QuickBooks integration covers QuickBooks Online only, on Pro and above. If your bookkeeper runs Xero, that’s a real reason to stay.
A bigger integration ecosystem. Jobber’s app marketplace connects 100+ tools, its Zapier integration reaches 7,000+ apps, and a Home Depot integration pulls product pricing and local store availability into quotes. QuoteIQ is built to need fewer integrations, but if your operation already runs on a web of Zapier automations, switching means rebuilding them.
An AI receptionist that books. Jobber’s Receptionist ($29/month add-on, included on Plus) can book jobs directly into your calendar. QuoteIQ’s Virtual Call Team answers, qualifies, records, and transcribes calls around the clock, but it doesn’t book appointments itself — customers who want to self-book use InstaSchedule instead.
White-glove onboarding on Plus. Jobber Plus includes a dedicated onboarding specialist and premium support. QuoteIQ’s equivalent is optional Done-For-You setup at $299.99 or $999.99, which covers contact import, price book setup, and a one-on-one onboarding session; Max adds priority support.
Switching platforms mid-season is disruptive, so it only makes sense if the new tool clearly pays for itself. Stay on Jobber if one of these describes your business:
For everyone else — especially crews that sell on photos, previews, and material margins — the math favors switching. Start with the plan that matches your crew size on the pricing page, and run a real job through the trial before you decide.
Jobber’s plan chart lists no tool that reads a floor photo. QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator analyzes the slab, asks follow-up questions, and builds line-item pricing for your market.
Upload a photo of the concrete. The AI reads surface type, condition, and scope, asks targeted follow-up questions, and generates market-accurate line items for your local area — ready for you to adjust, add a Before & After preview, and send. It’s available on every plan and runs on your included IQ Credits, with the credit cost shown before each action runs.
Pair it with your price book so prep, base coat, broadcast, and topcoat always come out at your rates, and let it suggest upsells like anti-slip additive or a metallic upgrade.
Explore AI Estimator →Epoxy is a visual sell. QuoteIQ’s Before & After AI generates a finished-floor preview from the customer’s own photo and attaches it to the estimate.
Snap a photo of the garage or basement. In roughly 15–20 seconds, the AI generates a realistic preview of the finished floor that you can attach to any estimate type or invoice. Homeowners see the flake blend or metallic finish on their own slab instead of a brochure photo. Each image uses IQ Credits, and regenerating a preview uses credits again.
After the job, capture the real result with QuoteIQ Cam and build side-by-side marketing images in the Before & After Photo Editor.
Explore Before & After AI →Resin, flake, and topcoat costs swing from job to job. Job Costing shows real profit the moment the job closes, with labor pulled from clocked hours.
Every job gets a report tab: Total Price − Labor − Expenses = Profit, with a profit-margin bar. Labor comes from time tracking (hourly rate × clocked hours), and expenses link to the job as you log them. It’s included on Pro and above.
Run a month of reports and you’ll know which systems, crews, and neighborhoods actually carry your margin — and which quotes need a price increase.
Explore Job Costing →3-car garage · full flake + polyaspartic
A glossy new floor is the best moment to ask for a review. Review Multiplier asks automatically, so nobody has to remember.
Review Multiplier works two ways: an instant redirect to your review page right after the customer pays, and an email and SMS review-request automation that fires on the events you choose. Send customers to Google Business Profile, Facebook, Yelp, or Angi.
More recent reviews on your Google profile help the next homeowner searching for garage floor coating in your area pick you over the crew down the road.
Explore Review Multiplier →QuoteIQ Elite is the best Jobber alternative for most epoxy flooring businesses in 2026. It costs $299 per month for 10 users, which is $100 less than Jobber Grow and $300 less than Jobber Plus at the same 10-user size on Jobber’s month-to-month pricing checked September 11, 2026. Elite includes the AI Estimator for photo-based coating quotes, Before & After AI finished-floor previews, MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement, native inventory management for resin, flake, and topcoat, and InstaQuote customer self-quoting — capabilities Jobber either sells through partner apps or doesn’t list on its plan chart. Labor is the other big cost line: flooring installers earned a $25.00 median hourly wage in May 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, so tools that cut estimating and admin hours pay back quickly. Solo installers can start on Essentials at $29.99 per month and move up as they add crews.
Jobber costs $49 to $699 per month on month-to-month billing, depending on plan and team size, according to its pricing page checked September 11, 2026. A solo installer on Core pays $49; a 10-person crew pays $299 on Connect, $399 on Grow, or $599 on Plus, and every user beyond a tier’s included count adds $29 per month. Receptionist ($29), Pipeline ($49), and Marketing Suite ($99) are add-ons below Plus. Epoxy crews then add partner apps for instant website quoting and inventory, which pushes a 10-user Plus setup to $828 or more per month before setup fees. By comparison, QuoteIQ Elite is $299 for 10 users, Pro is $149.99 for 4, and Max is $699 with unlimited users. Don’t forget driving: at the IRS business rate of 76 cents per mile, a crew logging 150 estimate and job miles a week spends about $114 weekly in vehicle cost, which is why Route Optimization and Route Density are part of Elite.
Not as of September 2026. Jobber’s plan comparison lists auto-drafted quotes built from incoming requests, plus Jobber AI Voice and Chat, but no feature that analyzes a floor photo and prices a coating system line by line. QuoteIQ’s AI Estimator does that on every plan: it reads the photo, asks targeted follow-up questions, and produces market-accurate pricing for your area that you can adjust before sending. Pair it with Options Estimates to present solid-color, flake, and metallic tiers side by side, and add a Before & After AI preview in about 15 to 20 seconds. Prep still has to be priced honestly: OSHA’s silica standard for construction limits respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter over an 8-hour shift, so dust-controlled grinding belongs in the prep line. For exterior slabs, MapMeasure Pro measures square footage from satellite imagery, and the epoxy flooring cost calculator gives you a quick check on per-square-foot pricing.
Partly. Jobber’s Grow and Plus plans include job costing from tracked materials, labor, and expenses, and its Connect plan adds time and expense tracking, but truck and warehouse inventory runs through a partner app such as Ply, which prices by the number of stock locations. QuoteIQ handles both natively. Job Costing on Pro and above shows Total Price − Labor − Expenses = Profit on every job, with labor pulled from clocked hours. Inventory Management on Elite tracks resin, hardener, flake, and topcoat by product, location, supplier, and purchase order; stock deducts when the invoice is paid, and a deposit alone doesn’t move stock. Log receipts with Expense Tracking and watch margins in Home Service Analytics. Material handling affects safety too: the EPA reports that several organic chemicals average 2 to 5 times higher indoors than outdoors and recommends more ventilation when using products that emit VOCs, so price ventilation into interior jobs. For slab replacement work, check totals with the concrete cost calculator.
On QuoteIQ Elite, customers quote themselves with InstaQuote and book with InstaSchedule, both included at $299 per month. You build the service library — for example, per-square-foot flake and metallic systems — share the link on your website or social pages, and the customer sees a real-time total, submits, and can approve and book against your live calendar availability. Jobber’s plans include online booking for appointments, while instant priced quoting on a website usually comes from a partner such as ResponsiBid at $179 to $229 per month plus a one-time setup fee. You can also connect Google Reserve booking so homeowners book from Google Search and Maps, and capture every other lead with Contact Request Forms. Every unnecessary estimate visit costs money: at the IRS business rate of 76 cents per mile, skipping one 30-mile round trip saves about $22.80 in vehicle cost. Leads that still need a site visit move into Pipelines & Deals so none go cold.
QuoteIQ’s Before & After AI generates a realistic finished-floor preview from a photo of the customer’s actual concrete in roughly 15 to 20 seconds and attaches it to any estimate type or invoice. It runs on IQ Credits, which every plan includes each month, and each regeneration uses credits again. Capture the real before and after photos with QuoteIQ Cam on Beginner and above, build side-by-side marketing images in the Before & After Photo Editor, and let the homeowner approve on their phone with e-signatures. Jobber lets you attach photos to quotes and jobs, but its plan comparison lists no AI finished-floor preview. Set expectations about curing in writing as well: the EPA advises increasing ventilation when using products that emit VOCs, which affects how soon a family can use the garage again. Once the floor is done, share the finished gallery through the Client Portal, where customers can also pay invoices and request their next project.
Export your client list from Jobber as a CSV, then upload it to QuoteIQ’s AI Smart Import, which maps names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails automatically. Start a 14-day free trial on the plan you want; the trial gives full access to that plan’s features. A credit or debit card is required to start. If you’d rather hand it off, Done-For-You setup costs $299.99 or $999.99 and covers contact import, price book setup, and a one-on-one onboarding session. Then rebuild your epoxy price book in Standard Estimates, turn on Email & Text Automations for quote follow-ups, and move recurring commercial recoats to Invoice Subscriptions. If you’re on a Jobber 1-year commitment, time the move for renewal, because Jobber keeps billing monthly until the term ends. Budget crew time for training: with installers earning a $25.00 median hourly wage (BLS), two hours of onboarding for a five-person crew is about $250 of labor. Export Data is available on every plan, so your data stays yours.
Stay on Jobber if your books run on Xero, if your operation depends on its 100+ app marketplace or Zapier automations, or if you want an AI receptionist that books jobs straight into the calendar — Jobber’s Receptionist is a $29 per month add-on and is included on Plus. QuoteIQ syncs with QuickBooks Online only, and its Virtual Call Team answers, qualifies, records, and transcribes calls rather than booking them. If you’re partway through a Jobber 1-year commitment, Jobber keeps billing monthly until the 12-month term ends, so plan the switch for renewal. For everyone else — especially crews that sell on photos, previews, and material margins — QuoteIQ Elite covers AI estimating, inventory, and live crew GPS for $299 per month. Whichever platform you choose, make sure it can document dust controls: OSHA’s construction silica standard sets a 50 µg/m³ permissible exposure limit and a 25 µg/m³ action level, and QuoteIQ inspection forms turn your dust-control checklist into a signed record on every grind.
A full walkthrough of the platform built for home service contractors — estimates, scheduling, invoicing, and the AI tools covered in this guide.
Watch Video →From account creation to your first photo-based epoxy estimate.
Create your account at admin-quoteiq.web.app/register and pick the plan that fits your crew — Elite if you want InstaQuote, inventory, and live crew GPS. The trial gives full access to the features of the plan you choose. A credit or debit card is required to start.
Download your Jobber client list as a CSV file. Names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails are all you need to get started.
Upload the CSV to AI Smart Import, which reads your column headers and maps customer fields automatically. Prefer to hand it off? Done-For-You setup ($299.99 or $999.99) includes contact import, price book setup, and a one-on-one onboarding session.
Add your systems — solid-color, full flake, metallic, polyaspartic topcoat, surface prep, and crack repair — with your per-square-foot rates. Then photograph a floor, let the AI Estimator build the line items, attach a Before & After preview, and send by text or email.
QuoteIQ was co-founded in Savannah, Georgia, in September 2022 by Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers.
Mike co-founded QuoteIQ to give home service contractors one platform for quoting, scheduling, and getting paid instead of a stack of separate subscriptions. He writes and teaches on contractor pricing, sales follow-up, and growing from owner-operator to multi-crew business, and his work shapes how QuoteIQ handles high-ticket, visually sold trades like epoxy flooring.
Read Mike’s insights →Justin co-founded QuoteIQ alongside Mike with a focus on the business systems contractors need as they add trucks and crews — pricing discipline, job costing, and automation that keeps follow-up consistent. His insights cover building a service business that runs on process rather than memory.
Read Justin’s insights →Rated 4.7 stars across 4,100+ reviews on the App Store and Google Play.
“Great app! Very user friendly. Perfect for saving customers information, photos, and addresses. Also has useful tools to help you create invoices on the fly. And you can even measure the square footage of the house/roof and concrete. I definitely recommend giving it a try.”
— Davey Owen · Google Play
“I was nervous switching systems, but QuoteIQ made the move seamless. Everything from customer details to quote follow-ups is now automated and stress-free.”
— Emilio Deonna · App Store
“I’ve been using the app for a little over a month and in my opinion, is an essential part of my business. The app is easy to use and I love how professional the estimates and invoices look, especially when you attach photos. You can upload receipts, along with pictures which will be a huge benefit come tax time. It also integrates with quick books! I am so happy with how the app works, I’d give it more than five stars if I could! In a nutshell, the app is AWESOME! Highly recommended!”
— Nick Bosick · Google Play
Photo-based AI estimates, finished-floor previews, job costing, material inventory, customer self-quoting, and automatic review requests — in one platform, starting at $29.99/month.
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Estimates
Create and send professional estimates.
Invoicing
Send, track and collect invoices.
QuoteIQ Cam
Capture and document every job with ease.
Scheduling
Schedule jobs to your calendar in seconds.
Inspection Forms
Create and complete inspection reports.
MapMeasure Pro
Measure and price properties instantly.
Business Analytics
Real-time insight into your performance.
EmployeeHub
Assign, schedule & pay employees.
Virtual Call Team
Never miss a call with 24/7 AJ, assistant.
ClientHub
Send and keep messages inside QuoteIQ.
InstaQuote
Allow customers to create estimates themselves.
InstaSchedule
Let clients schedule appointments themselves.
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