Published June 2026 · Updated October 2026
Standing seam, exposed fastener, and commercial metal re-roofing run on measurement accuracy, material-level job costing, and multi-week production schedules. QuoteIQ Elite is $299.99/mo for up to 10 users with satellite measurement, job costing, route optimization, GPS tracking, customer self-booking, and a dedicated business phone all native — no per-user add-ons, no per-report measurement fees.
For metal roofing contractors, QuoteIQ is the strongest JobNimbus alternative because the capabilities a panel installer leans on daily — satellite measurement, per-material job costing, route optimization, GPS crew tracking, inventory, and 24/7 customer self-booking — are native to the platform rather than assembled from separate subscriptions. QuoteIQ Elite is $299.99/mo and includes 10 users, with additional seats at $25 per user per month. Every plan carries a 14-day free trial with full access to the plan you select.
TL;DR: Metal roofing lives or dies on measured square footage and material-level margin. QuoteIQ puts MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement and roof pitch on Beginner and above, Job Costing on Pro and above, and Route Optimization, Inventory, InstaSchedule, EmployeeHub and Pipelines & Deals on Elite at $299.99/mo for 10 users. Roofing remains a growth trade — the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects roofer employment up 5% from 2025 to 2035, and OSHA requires fall protection at six feet in construction, which is exactly why measuring from aerial imagery instead of climbing matters.
JobNimbus built its reputation in residential roofing and insurance restoration, and contractors who live in that workflow speak well of it. But a metal roofing business is a different animal. Standing seam panels are fabricated to length. Exposed fastener systems price per square with a different labor curve. Metal roof coatings are sold by surface area and mil thickness. Commercial re-roofing runs for weeks, not an afternoon, with substrate prep, tear-off staging, and panel deliveries that have to land in sequence.
That shape of work puts pressure on four things most general roofing CRMs treat as optional: precise square-footage measurement before anyone drives out, job costing broken down by material type rather than one lump number, production scheduling across multi-week jobs, and inventory visibility on panels, trim, clips, and fasteners sitting across a warehouse and three trucks. When those live in spreadsheets or separate subscriptions, margin leaks quietly.
This guide covers what QuoteIQ includes natively for metal roofing crews, which plan unlocks what, and where a platform comparison genuinely favors staying put. It is written for owners running standing seam installs, metal panel retrofits, coating applications, and commercial metal re-roofing — not for the general roofing market. If you also run adjacent exterior work, the same account covers general roofing, gutter installation, siding, and roof washing.
Fall protection is required at six feet in construction under OSHA’s fall protection standard. Every roof you measure from aerial imagery instead of a ladder is a climb you did not have to protect, insure, or staff — and a quote you delivered the same day. QuoteIQ’s roof and pitch measurement runs inside MapMeasure Pro on Beginner and above.
We do not publish competitor pricing, seat limits, or feature-absence claims on this page. Vendor pricing and feature sets change without notice, and a stale number helps nobody making a five-figure software decision. For current JobNimbus plans, inclusions, and rates, check their own pricing page directly — and ask them specifically about metal roofing job costing, panel inventory, route optimization, and customer self-scheduling so you are comparing the same scope described below. Every QuoteIQ figure on this page is our own published pricing, verified against myquoteiq.com/pricing.
Five plans, published rates, no per-report measurement charges and no mandatory integrations. Annual billing is ten times the monthly rate, which works out to two months free. Extra seats are $25 per additional user per month on any paid plan.
| Plan | Monthly | Annual | Users | Best fit for metal roofing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Essentials | $29.99 | $299.99 | 1 | Owner-operator quoting coatings and small panel jobs. Estimates, invoicing, scheduling, e-signatures, AI tools. |
| Beginner | $99.99 | $999.99 | 2 | Adds MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement with roof pitch, QuoteIQ Cam documentation, and expense tracking. |
| Pro | $199.99 | $1,999.99 | 4 | Adds Job Costing, ClientHub business phone, automations, Client Portal, and QuickBooks Online sync. |
| Elite | $299.99 | $2,999.99 | 10 | The metal roofing tier: route optimization, inventory, InstaSchedule, InstaQuote, EmployeeHub with GPS, pipelines. |
| Max | $699.99 | $6,999.99 | 20 | Multi-crew operations: crew creation, crew scheduling, crew tracking, Sales Team Tracker, unlimited pipelines. |
| Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose. Prices shown are current published QuoteIQ rates. Subscribers who joined before a price change keep their rate for as long as they stay on the same plan. | ||||
The real comparison is not one monthly number against another — it is how many subscriptions you need to reach the same capability. A metal roofing operation typically wants measurement, photo documentation, job costing, GPS, routing, review automation, and a business phone line. On QuoteIQ those are plan features. Before you compare, price the equivalent stack at your current vendor including every per-seat, per-report, and per-vehicle charge, then put the two totals side by side.
Elite includes ten seats at $299.99/mo. Additional users are $25 per user per month, so an estimator and two more installers do not force a tier jump. Roles and permissions control what each one sees.
IQ Credits power the AI suite — AI Autopilot, AI Estimator, and Virtual Call Team. They reset each billing cycle and every AI action shows its credit cost before it runs.
Metal roofing generates heavy photo and video evidence. Elite carries 500 GB of File Manager storage, with QuoteIQ Cam handling 4K upload and the customer documentation archive.
Use this as your requirements checklist when you evaluate any platform. Each row is a capability a metal roofing contractor actually uses, with the QuoteIQ plan that includes it. Take the same list to your current vendor and confirm which rows are native, which are paid add-ons, and which are third-party integrations.
| Capability a metal roofing business needs | Included in QuoteIQ on | What it does on a metal job |
|---|---|---|
| Satellite roof measurement | ✓ Beginner+ | MapMeasure Pro measures roof area, panel runs and any surface from aerial imagery, inside estimate creation. |
| Roof pitch calculation | ✓ Beginner+ | Pitch is calculated from aerial imagery and saved with the measurement — no climb to confirm a 4:12 before pricing panels. |
| Historical aerial imagery | ✓ Beginner+ | Scroll back through years of photos of a property to see the prior roof system before you bid a retrofit. |
| Job costing by material and labor | ✓ Pro+ | Job Costing runs Price − Labor − Expenses = Profit, pulling labor automatically from time tracking. |
| Good / better / best pricing tiers | ✓ All plans | Options Estimates present exposed fastener, standing seam and coating side by side so the customer upgrades themselves. |
| Photo documentation and inspections | ✓ Beginner+ | QuoteIQ Cam handles 4K capture, before/after comparison and the customer documentation archive. Inspection forms come in on Pro. |
| Dedicated business phone line | ✓ Pro+ | ClientHub gives two-way calling and texting in-app, with every message saved to the customer record. |
| Automated follow-up sequences | ✓ Pro+ | Email & text automation chases the commercial bids that take six months to close. |
| QuickBooks accounting sync | ✓ Pro+ | QuickBooks Online syncs invoices, payments, customers and expense categories. |
| Route optimization | ✓ Elite+ | Route Optimization sequences the day to cut drive time 15–30%; Route Density shows where work clusters. |
| Real-time GPS crew tracking | ✓ Elite+ | GPS location tracking shows clocked-in crews on a live map with traffic overlay. Clocked-out employees are never shown. |
| Customer self-scheduling | ✓ Elite+ | InstaSchedule books roof inspections 24/7 against real calendar availability. |
| Customer self-quoting | ✓ Elite+ | InstaQuote lets homeowners build their own coating or panel quote from your service library. |
| Panel and fastener inventory | ✓ Elite+ | Inventory Management tracks products, locations, suppliers, orders and transactions across warehouse and trucks. |
| Visual sales pipeline | ✓ Elite+ | Pipelines & Deals weights each commercial bid by close probability. Elite includes up to 5 pipelines; Max is uncapped. |
| Automated review requests | ✓ Elite+ | Review Multiplier automation fires after payment. The dashboard itself is on every plan. |
| Natural-language CRM control | ✓ All plans | AI Autopilot runs 55 integrated tools across 13 categories by voice or text — move a week of jobs, invoice a day’s work. |
| AI before-and-after visuals | ✓ All plans | Before & After AI renders a finished standing seam roof on the customer’s own photo in about 15–20 seconds. |
| Crew creation and crew scheduling | ✓ Max | Crews assigns a whole install team to a job. Assigning an individual is available on Pro. |
| Consumer financing at checkout | ✓ All plans | Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay let a homeowner finance a re-roof; you are paid in full upfront. |
| Plan gates reflect current QuoteIQ published plan inclusions. Capability names in the left column are deliberately vendor-neutral so you can run the same checklist against any platform you are evaluating, including JobNimbus — confirm each row on their own site rather than relying on a third-party comparison. | ||
Switching platforms costs real time, and no comparison page is worth much if it pretends the other product has no reason to exist. Three situations genuinely favor staying put, and all three are worth testing against JobNimbus’s current feature list before you decide.
If most of your metal roofing work arrives through storm claims — adjuster coordination, supplement tracking, mortgage check stages — a platform built around that claim lifecycle is doing something QuoteIQ addresses through custom pipeline stages rather than a purpose-built claims module. That is a real difference in fit, and it should weigh heavily.
Some roofing platforms connect directly to distributor accounts so material orders leave the estimate screen. QuoteIQ does not offer direct supplier ordering — materials are managed through Inventory and ordered through your supplier’s own portal. If that handoff saves your office manager an hour a day today, price that honestly.
Migration has a cost measured in retraining and short-term error rate. If your crews, estimators and office staff are fluent in a system that is not actually losing you money, the correct answer may be to fix the one gap rather than move. Run the capability checklist above and count the genuine misses before committing.
Retail and commercial metal work — panel retrofits, coating programs, new standing seam — where margin depends on measuring accurately, costing by material, routing crews tightly, and letting customers book themselves. Those are plan features here, which is why the comparison usually turns on how many subscriptions it takes to match the list.
Run both for two weeks on the same five jobs. QuoteIQ’s 14-day free trial gives full access to the features of the plan you select, so quote the same five metal roofs in both systems, cost them out, and compare the margin numbers that come back. The National Roofing Contractors Association publishes technical and business resources worth consulting while you build that evaluation.
Measurement is the first margin decision on a metal job. Get the squares wrong and every panel, clip and trim run downstream is wrong with it.
Metal is a material-heavy trade. A standing seam job can swing thousands of dollars on gauge, panel waste and clip count — and you will not feel it until the quarter closes unless the platform costs each job as it runs.
A metal roof is a once-in-forty-years purchase, so your review count grows slowly unless every completed job asks. Automating the ask is the difference between four reviews a year and forty.
Most roof inquiries arrive after a storm, after hours, from someone comparing three contractors. Whoever can be booked first usually wins the inspection.
Three metal systems, three completely different cost structures. Standing seam carries high material cost and slow labor, with panels cut to length and seamed on site. Exposed fastener — R-panel, corrugated, Ag panel — moves fast and prices lower per square but carries a fastener count and a maintenance conversation. Coatings price on surface area and mil thickness over an existing substrate, with prep driving most of the labor. A price book that only knows “roof, per square” cannot hold all three.
QuoteIQ’s price book carries each system as its own service with its own materials, markup and labor assumption, and the four estimate types let you choose how it reaches the customer. Standard estimates give you full line-item control for a commercial re-roof. Quick estimates handle a repair call without ceremony. Package estimates bundle a roof with gutters and trim. And Options estimates put exposed fastener, standing seam and a coating on one document as good, better and best — which is how metal contractors move a customer up a tier without a second site visit. All four are on every plan.
Line items carry photos, sub-items for parent-child breakdowns, markup and discount controls, deposit requirements and the ability to hide individual prices when you want a system total rather than a parts list. The Materials section lets you attach panels, clips and trim to the estimate and link them to inventory products so pricing stays current. You can also rename estimates company-wide to “Proposal” or “Quote” with the custom document label if that is the language your commercial clients expect.
AI Estimator analyzes property photos, asks targeted follow-up questions and generates market-accurate line-item pricing for your area — a starting point you then correct, not a finished quote. Inside the estimate itself, AI CoPilot edits the document conversationally: add a service, change the tax rate, set a deposit, draft the cover message. And Before & After AI renders a realistic finished metal roof onto the customer’s own house photo in roughly 15–20 seconds, which closes color and profile conversations that otherwise take a sample board and a second appointment.
Metal crews are smaller and more skilled than tear-off crews, so a wrong hourly rate compounds fast. QuoteIQ’s business calculators include an hourly rate calculator on Pro and above, plus the National Average Guide covering roughly six major home-service industries. Our free cost calculator library is open to anyone, and the insulation cost calculator is useful when you are bidding a metal retrofit with an added thermal layer.
Every estimate can go out as a branded proposal with your company story, service descriptions, a photo gallery, documents and customer reviews attached — preview before sending, save as a template, and reuse it on the next commercial bid. Proposal sends cost 100 IQ Credits per estimate and are included at no credit cost on Elite and Max. Customers sign on their phone with e-signatures, available on every plan including Essentials, and you can attach contracts, licenses and insurance certificates from Beginner up. Editing an estimate after sending automatically voids the outstanding signature request, which prevents the classic dispute over which version got approved.
Metal roofing carries inventory in a way shingle work does not. Coil and flat stock, panels cut to length, ridge caps, rake and eave trim, closure strips, butyl tape, clips, screws with matched color heads — much of it job-specific, some of it sitting on a truck since the last retrofit. The money lost is rarely one big event; it is a few hundred dollars of trim re-ordered because nobody knew the first run was already on the rack.
Inventory Management on Elite and above runs five modules. Products carry SKU, category, unit, cost, reorder point and in-stock, low and out indicators, with cost, customer price and margin visible right in the list. Locations model your warehouse, each truck and a job site. Suppliers hold your distributor records. Orders move Draft to Confirmed to Received, and receiving automatically creates receipt transactions. Transactions log every movement — receipt, returned, issued, damaged, loss, adjustment — so a shortage has a history rather than a shrug.
Stock deducts when the invoice is paid, not when the job is marked done. A deposit does not count as paid, so partial payment on a commercial metal job will not move material off your shelf count unless you use the deduct option on that screen. Worth knowing before you reconcile a month of panel usage against a half-collected job.
Materials on estimates and invoices link to inventory products, so when your supplier raises 24-gauge pricing you update the product once and future quotes carry the new cost. Expense tracking from Beginner up captures receipts, categorizes them and links them to a specific job, which is what makes job costing arrive at a number you trust rather than an estimate of an estimate. Everything exports — data export is on every plan, and you own your data.
One honest limitation worth stating plainly: QuoteIQ does not connect directly to distributor ordering systems. You manage stock and costs here and place the order in your supplier’s portal. If direct-from-estimate material ordering is load-bearing in your current workflow, weigh that specifically.
A metal roofing schedule holds two incompatible shapes at once: a commercial panel install that occupies a crew for three weeks, and a scatter of inspections, repairs and coating assessments that have to fit around it. Scheduling handles both with drag-and-drop across day, week, month and employee-timeline views, multi-day jobs rendered as continuous events rather than a row of disconnected blocks, and color-coding by status.
Schedule Later lets you create a job with no date and assign it once the panel delivery is confirmed — useful when the fabricator, not your crew, is the constraint. Individual occurrences of a recurring series can be dragged without disturbing the rest, which matters for maintenance contracts on commercial metal. Two-way Google Calendar sync keeps the owner’s phone current, and automated appointment reminders go out by SMS and email without anyone remembering to send them.
Routing is where a multi-truck metal operation gets its hours back. Route Optimization sequences the day’s stops for minimum drive time, accounts for appointment windows and job duration, recalculates when a repair gets added at ten in the morning, and hands off to GPS navigation. Route Density answers the other half of the question — not what order, but where the work clusters — so you can hold Tuesdays for the south county and stop crossing town twice a day. Both are Elite and above.
Route optimization cuts drive time 15–30%. That is fuel, payroll and a recovered service call per truck per week. For the tax side, the IRS standard mileage rate rose mid-year in 2026 — 72.5 cents per mile from January through June, and 76 cents from July 1 — so accurate mileage records are worth more this year than last.
On-the-way texts from Pro up tell a commercial property manager the crew is rolling, and reminders and tasks keep the punch list from living in someone’s truck console. Field access runs through full mobile and web parity on iOS, Android and browser, so an installer on a roof and an estimator at a desk are looking at the same job.
Metal installers are specialists, and the labor market reflects it — the Bureau of Labor Statistics put median annual pay for roofers at $55,440 in May 2025 and projects 5% employment growth from 2025 to 2035. Keeping a good seamer crew means paying accurately and scheduling honestly, which starts with knowing real hours per job.
EmployeeHub on Elite and above carries three pieces. Time Tracker Pro runs GPS clock in and out, hours per job, break counts and durations in reports and CSV, admin-only manual adjustments and a full edit history. GPS location tracking shows a live team map while crews are clocked in, pauses on breaks and stops at clock-out — clocked-out employees are never shown on any map. Team communication handles one-on-one and group chats with job assignment attached.
Those clocked hours are what make job costing real: labor cost calculates as hourly rate times clocked hours, per job, automatically. Two limitations to know up front — there is no automatic overtime calculation, and there is no native payroll; hours export to whatever payroll system you already run. Roles and permissions control who sees costs, who sees only their own schedule, and who can touch pricing. Crew-level work — creating named crews, scheduling and tracking them as a unit — sits on Max; assigning an individual to a job is available on Pro.
OSHA requires fall protection at six feet in construction, and metal roofs are slick, hot, and unforgiving of a misstep. Measuring from aerial imagery, documenting with QuoteIQ Cam from the ground where possible, and sending one crew up once with a complete scope beats three exploratory trips. The NRCA publishes safety training material worth running your crew through annually.
A warehouse re-roof or a multi-building panel retrofit does not close on the first visit. It moves through a facilities manager, a budget cycle, sometimes a board, and it competes with two other bids the whole way. Treating that like a residential lead — quote sent, follow up twice, mark it dead — is how six-figure work quietly disappears.
Pipelines & Deals on Elite gives you Kanban and list views, stages with close-probability percentages, and a weighted value calculated as amount times probability — so your forecast reflects reality instead of the sum of every open bid. Six analytics metrics cover total, weighted, open, closed-won, new and average deal age, and that last one is usually the number that changes behavior. Deals carry multiple assignees, PDF and image attachments, and internal notes kept separate from anything the customer sees. Elite includes up to five pipelines; Max removes the cap.
Between touches, email and text automation on Pro and above runs the multi-step sequences — triggered on estimate created, estimate scheduled, estimate declined or invoice paid — with personalization tags and send timing from immediate out to 24 months. You can describe the automation you want in plain language and have it built for you. Mass campaigns on Elite segment your list by tag for a spring coating push, though they require your own Twilio and SendGrid gateways, so budget for carrier fees.
The Client Portal on Pro and above gives each commercial customer a branded, secure link — no app, no account — where they view and approve estimates, pay invoices, see appointments and inspections, submit service requests and leave a review. For a property manager tracking four buildings, that portal is the difference between being a vendor and being the roofing department. Inbound inquiries land through website contact forms and your client database holds the history.
Commercial roofing demand tracks construction activity. The Census Bureau’s Value of Construction Put in Place survey publishes monthly estimates of total U.S. construction work done — a free leading indicator for the nonresidential segment you are bidding into. Pair it with your own business analytics: conversion rate, average ticket and pipeline value by service line.
Metal roofing invoices are large, which changes the collection problem. You need a deposit before material is ordered, a way to bill progress on a three-week commercial install, and an answer for the homeowner who wants the standing seam but is looking at the number.
Invoicing converts from an estimate or job in one tap and supports partial payments and deposits, Net 15/30/60/90 terms for commercial accounts, automated payment reminders with timing you set, invoice templates, expiration dates and an audit trail. Invoice subscriptions cover recurring maintenance agreements — the annual fastener and sealant inspection that keeps an exposed fastener roof under warranty. Mass invoicing from Beginner up bills a batch of completed jobs at once.
Customers pay by credit and debit card, ACH bank transfer, Apple Pay and Google Pay online, with cash and check recorded in-app. Checkout is embedded on the page rather than bouncing the customer to a third-party site, and tips are supported. Online payments run through the QuoteIQ Payments Service; QuoteIQ never stores card numbers.
Consumer financing is where metal contractors close the gap between a shingle quote and a metal quote. Affirm covers up to $30,000 per job over 3 to 36 months; Klarna offers Pay-in-4 and Pay-in-30; Afterpay runs Pay-in-4 to roughly $4,000. The customer applies at checkout in about thirty seconds for an instant decision, you are paid in full upfront, and the provider carries collections and default risk. It is available on every plan, including during the trial.
On the books side, QuickBooks Online sync on Pro and above pushes invoices, payments, customers and expense categories across, with duplicate-sync locks and automatic customer creation before estimate sync. If you are still building your back office, the SBA’s guidance on managing your business is a solid free starting point, and our free construction invoice template and contractor invoice template are open to anyone.
Metal systems outlive the crew that installed them. When a call comes in eleven years later about a leak at a valley, the question is always the same: what did we actually install, and what did the deck look like underneath? If the answer lives in a retired foreman’s phone, you are rebuilding the job from memory.
QuoteIQ Cam on Beginner and above captures in-app photos and video or pulls from the camera roll, organizes everything by job and date, supports annotations and before-and-after comparisons, carries unlimited 4K photo and video cloud storage, and keeps a customer documentation archive on the contact record. Inspection forms on Pro give you customizable checklists with images, notes and PDF output — substrate condition, fastener pull test, existing flashing, ventilation — delivered to the customer as a professional document rather than a text message.
A customer-facing photo gallery and shareable job links turn that documentation into marketing, and the before and after photo editor makes the comparison presentable. For reflective and coated systems, EPA ENERGY STAR guidance on cool roofs explains how high solar reflectance lowers roof surface temperature and cooling load — useful, citable context when you are selling a coating program to a facilities manager on operating cost rather than on appearance.
Everything described above is reachable conversationally through AI Autopilot, which runs 55 integrated tools across 13 categories by voice or text on every plan — move all of Thursday’s jobs to Monday and text the customers, invoice everything completed today, pull the margin on the last six standing seam jobs. Virtual Call Team answers inbound calls around the clock, qualifies leads, filters spam and records and transcribes every call, metered per minute through IQ Credits. And AI Smart Import is how your existing customer list gets here — CSV from any CRM with automatic column mapping.
QuoteIQ is the strongest fit for metal roofing in 2026 because the capabilities panel contractors use daily are native rather than assembled from separate subscriptions. MapMeasure Pro satellite measurement with automatic roof pitch starts on Beginner at $99.99/mo. Job Costing arrives on Pro at $199.99/mo. Elite at $299.99/mo for 10 users adds route optimization, inventory, InstaSchedule and EmployeeHub with GPS. Build your own requirements checklist and confirm each row on every vendor’s own site — pricing and features change without notice. The decision usually turns on how many separate subscriptions it takes to match that list, since measurement, routing, inventory and a business phone line are plan features here rather than add-ons. JobNimbus remains the stronger fit if insurance restoration drives most of your revenue or if direct distributor ordering from the estimate screen is central to your workflow. Context on the trade’s direction is available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which projects 5% roofer employment growth from 2025 to 2035.
QuoteIQ runs five plans: Essentials $29.99 for 1 user, Beginner $99.99 for 2, Pro $199.99 for 4, Elite $299.99 for 10, and Max $699.99 for 20. Annual billing is ten times the monthly rate, so two months are free. Additional seats are $25 per user per month on any paid plan. Most metal roofing operations land on Elite because routing, inventory, customer self-booking and GPS crew tracking all sit there. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose, one trial per person, business and payment method, and a credit or debit card is required to start. Subscribers who joined before a price change keep their rate for as long as they stay on the same plan. Elite also carries 5,000 IQ Credits a month for the AI suite and 500 GB of file storage for photo and video evidence, and Done-For-You setup is available separately at $299.99 or $999.99. Current rates are always on the pricing page. For budgeting your own labor rate, the BLS reported median roofer pay of $55,440 in May 2025.
Yes. Job Costing is included on Pro at $199.99/mo and above. Each job carries a report tab running Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses equals Profit, with a profit-margin bar. Labor is calculated automatically from Time Tracker Pro as hourly rate times clocked hours, so a standing seam job that ran three days long shows the margin hit immediately rather than at quarter close. Material costs flow in through expense tracking, available from Beginner up, with receipts linked to the specific job. Panels, clips and trim can be linked to inventory products so costs stay current. Because labor is captured as it happens rather than reconstructed later, a standing seam job that lost a day to weather or a waste problem shows up as a margin number while you can still price the next one differently. Note there is no automatic overtime calculation and no native payroll — hours export to your existing system. The SBA has free guidance on reading those margin numbers.
Yes. MapMeasure Pro measures roof area, panel runs, wall surfaces and flashing lengths from aerial imagery, and calculates roof pitch automatically — both included on Beginner at $99.99/mo and above, with no per-report charge. Measurements save to the customer profile, export into an estimate, and screenshots attach as visual proof of measured scope. Historical imagery lets you scroll back through years of photos to see the previous roof system before bidding a retrofit. This matters for safety as much as speed: OSHA requires fall protection at six feet in construction, so every quote produced without a ladder is one less exposure. It also compresses the sales cycle: a homeowner who calls Tuesday morning can have a measured, priced standing seam quote the same afternoon instead of waiting for an site visit slot. Pair it with Property Street View and QuoteIQ Cam for ground-level documentation, and Zillow Quick Access for property detail without leaving the estimate.
Yes, both on Elite at $299.99/mo and above, with no per-vehicle fee. Route Optimization sequences the day’s stops for minimum drive time, accounts for appointment windows and job duration, recalculates when work is added mid-morning, and cuts drive time 15–30%. Route Density shows where your work clusters so you can zone the week by service area. GPS location tracking inside EmployeeHub shows clocked-in crews on a live map with a traffic overlay, pausing on breaks and stopping at clock-out; clocked-out employees are never shown. For a metal roofing operation running three or four trucks between commercial installs and scattered inspections, that recovered time usually translates into an extra service call per truck per week without adding payroll. On-the-way texts on Pro and above tell the property manager the crew is rolling. Accurate mileage records also matter at tax time — the IRS business mileage rate rose to 76 cents per mile from July 1, 2026.
Yes. InstaSchedule lets homeowners and commercial property managers book inspections, consultations and coating assessments against your real calendar availability, around the clock, live-synced to your QuoteIQ calendar so nothing double-books. It is included on Elite at $299.99/mo and above, and is reachable from all four estimate types and from InstaQuote forms — so a homeowner who builds their own coating quote at eleven at night can book the inspection in the same session. Confirmations and reminders go out by SMS and email automatically, and the Client Portal on Pro and above gives repeat commercial clients a permanent place to request service. Because most roof inquiries arrive after hours from someone collecting three bids, being the contractor who can be booked at eleven at night is frequently the whole competitive advantage. Storm-driven demand is unpredictable, and NRCA resources cover managing that surge professionally.
Inventory Management on Elite and above runs five modules: Products with SKU, cost and reorder point; Locations covering warehouse, each truck and job sites; Suppliers; Orders moving Draft to Confirmed to Received; and Transactions logging every receipt, return, issue, damage, loss and adjustment. Panels, trim, clips and fasteners on an estimate link to inventory products so a supplier price change updates everywhere. One mechanic matters: stock deducts when the invoice is paid, not when the job is marked done, and a deposit does not count as paid. Pair it with expense tracking and job costing for true per-job margin. Worth noting that QuoteIQ does not connect directly to distributor ordering systems — you manage stock and costs here and place the order through your supplier’s own portal. Material cost swings track commodity markets — the Census Bureau construction spending data is a useful free indicator.
Most metal roofing contractors complete a migration inside one week. You export customers and job records from your current platform as CSV, bring them in through AI Smart Import, which maps columns automatically from any CRM, then build your price book for standing seam, exposed fastener, coatings, ridge cap, trim and substrate prep at your own rates. Set up Options Estimates for good-better-best tiers, connect QuickBooks Online, configure roles and permissions before crews log in, and have installers start clocking in through Time Tracker Pro so job costing has real hours from day one. The 14-day free trial gives full access to the plan you select, so run both systems on the same five jobs before committing. Done-For-You setup is available at $299.99 or $999.99 and includes contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session. The SBA has planning resources for operational changes like this.
Build a capability checklist before you compare prices. Measurement, job costing, routing, GPS, inventory, self-booking and a business line. Then confirm every row on each vendor’s own site rather than trusting a comparison page — including this one.
Elite is the metal roofing tier at $299.99/mo for 10 users. Routing, inventory, InstaSchedule, InstaQuote, EmployeeHub with GPS and pipelines all sit there. Extra seats run $25 per user per month.
Measurement accuracy is the first margin decision. MapMeasure Pro with automatic pitch starts on Beginner at $99.99/mo, with no per-report fee and no climb.
Cost by material, not by job average. Job Costing on Pro pulls labor from clocked hours automatically so a gauge or waste problem surfaces this week, not this quarter.
Staying put can be the right answer. If insurance restoration is your core revenue or direct supplier ordering saves real hours, those are genuine reasons to stay — QuoteIQ does not offer direct distributor ordering.
Test it on real jobs. The 14-day free trial gives full access to the features of the plan you choose. Quote the same five metal roofs in both platforms and compare what comes back.
From satellite measurement to job costing to automated reviews — a walkthrough of the platform 40,000+ contractors use to run their operations.
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Pick the tier that carries the features you are evaluating — for most metal roofing operations that is Elite, since routing, inventory and self-booking live there. The 14-day trial gives full access to the features of the plan you choose.
Download customer records, job history and contact data from your current platform as CSV, then bring them in with AI Smart Import, which maps columns automatically from any CRM. Support assists with field mapping, and Done-For-You setup at $299.99 or $999.99 covers import, price book and a one-on-one onboarding session.
Set rates for standing seam, corrugated and exposed fastener panels, coatings, ridge cap, flashing, trim, gutters and substrate prep. Configure Options Estimates for good-better-best tiers and link materials to inventory products so costs stay current.
Set roles and permissions, have installers clock in through Time Tracker Pro, connect QuickBooks Online, and quote the same jobs in both systems. Compare the margin numbers before you cancel anything.
Mike co-founded QuoteIQ out of the home service trades, building the platform around how contractors actually quote, schedule and get paid in the field rather than how enterprise software assumes they do. He publishes ongoing operating guidance for service business owners, and that field-first perspective is why measurement, job costing and documentation sit at the center of the product instead of at the edges.
Read Mike’s insights →Justin co-founded QuoteIQ to give contractors one platform instead of a stack of subscriptions, and he writes regularly for owners growing a service business from the first truck to the first crew. That all-in-one principle is why routing, inventory, review automation and a business phone line are plan features here rather than paid add-ons.
Read Justin’s insights →QuoteIQ LLC was founded on September 21, 2022 and is based in Savannah, Georgia. More on the team and the platform is on the features hub and across QuoteIQ Insights.
“I recently started up a roof and gutter cleaning business and this app has everything in one place. I can send estimates over the phone without even going to the house. It saves me time, and time is money.”
Hayden Hoppe · Google Play · Verified Review“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 · Verified Review“Was recommended here by @foreverselfemployed and it’s perfect for what I need. I can create customer profiles, make and send estimates and invoices to potential customers using the apps interface and layout to help organize myself and keep it all in one place. I’ve worked for roofing company in SE Louisiana for 15 years and I use this prim for my side jobs. Give it a shot, there’s only possibilities to learn and improve yourself from!”
Jacob Landry · Google Play · Verified ReviewSatellite measurement with roof pitch, job costing by material and labor, route optimization, GPS crew tracking, panel inventory, customer self-booking, automated reviews and a dedicated business line — included, not bolted on. Elite is $299.99/mo for 10 users.
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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
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ClientHub
Send and keep messages inside QuoteIQ.
InstaQuote
Allow customers to create estimates themselves.
InstaSchedule
Let clients schedule appointments themselves.
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