Published February 2026 · Updated September 2026
QuoteIQ is the CRM built for brick, block, and stone contractors — Good/Better/Best stone-type pricing, brick and block material inventory, mortar and grout tracking, chimney and retaining wall estimates, multi-week weather-aware scheduling, material-and-labor job costing, bid pipeline tracking, and an AI suite on every plan. Plans start at $29.99/month.
What is the best CRM for masonry businesses in 2026? QuoteIQ. It is the only field-service platform that pairs masonry-shaped estimating — Good/Better/Best stone-type Options Estimates and bundled hardscape packages on every plan — with material inventory for brick, block, stone, and mortar, per-unit job costing, satellite wall and patio measurement, 4K phase documentation, and an AI suite that runs on every tier. Five plans run from $29.99/month for a solo mason to $699/month for unlimited seats, and every plan carries a 14-day free trial of the plan you select.
TL;DR: Masonry is heavy-material, multi-week, weather-governed work, and most CRMs are built for one-hour service calls. QuoteIQ is not. Options Estimates let a homeowner choose between block, manufactured veneer, and natural stone in one document. Inventory Management counts brick by the pallet and mortar by the bag across yard, truck, and job site. Job Costing subtracts labor and expenses from contract price so you see margin per wall, not per month. Scheduling blocks multi-week phases and reschedules by drag when rain lands mid-course. MapMeasure Pro sizes wall runs and patios from aerial imagery, and QuoteIQ Cam timestamps every course. With 277,700 masonry workers in the field and OSHA silica rules governing every cut, documentation is no longer optional. Start at $29.99/month.
If you run a masonry operation, your day does not look like a plumber’s day. You have a 60-foot retaining wall sitting at the block-laying phase on one site, a chimney rebuild waiting on scaffold delivery, a homeowner who just asked to upgrade from manufactured veneer to natural fieldstone on their fireplace surround mid-project, a crew that needs four pallets of CMU on tomorrow’s foundation job, a landscaper emailing plans for a paver patio and fire pit, and a builder leaving a voicemail about veneer facades on three new-construction homes — all while you are striking joints in 85-degree heat. Generic CRMs assume a technician drives to a house, works for ninety minutes, and collects. Masonry assumes a crew, a material order, a footing cure, a weather window, and a three-week calendar block.
That structural mismatch is why so many masonry contractors end up with four tools: a spreadsheet for brick and block counts, a separate photo app, a second phone line, and a calculator for job margins. QuoteIQ was built by people who ran service businesses, and it collapses that stack into one platform. The full feature set runs on iOS, Android, and web with the same capabilities on each, so an estimate started on a phone at a site walk finishes on a laptop at the yard.
Three things make masonry different from every other trade QuoteIQ serves, and each one maps to a specific capability. First, material dominates the bid. Stone, block, and mortar can be more than half the contract value, so an estimate that does not itemize material is a guess — which is why Standard Estimates carry a Materials section with unit type, unit cost, and auto-totals that link straight to inventory products. Second, the sale is visual. A homeowner cannot picture the difference between a stucco-finished block wall and a hand-laid dry-stack until they see it, which is what the Before & After AI preview exists to solve. Third, the job is long. Excavation, footing, block, veneer, and caps are distinct phases that each need their own calendar block, their own photo record, and often their own progress invoice.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics counted about 277,700 masonry workers in 2025 across brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and related trades. Meanwhile the Census Bureau put private construction spending at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,614.2 billion in July 2026. The demand is there; the constraint is crew hours and estimate throughput — which is exactly what software can move.
The rest of this guide walks the specific capabilities masonry contractors use daily, a realistic jobsite week on the platform, how to evaluate QuoteIQ against other field service platforms, what every plan actually includes, and eight of the questions masonry business owners ask most. If you want to price a job before you finish reading, the concrete cost calculator and the full calculator library are free and require no account.
Every platform claims to serve contractors. What matters for a masonry business is whether the software understands pallets, tons, bags, cure windows, and multi-phase jobs. Below are the twelve QuoteIQ capabilities masonry contractors lean on hardest, each labeled with the plan that unlocks it so there is no guesswork at signup. Full plan detail lives on the pricing page.
Options Estimates put Good, Better, and Best side by side in one document — a concrete block wall with stucco finish and poured cap, a manufactured stone veneer build with mortared joints and natural caps, and a hand-laid natural fieldstone dry-stack with bluestone caps and integrated lighting. The homeowner picks the stone, not the price. You can hide individual line prices, attach photos to any service line, and convert the accepted tier to an invoice in one tap.
Inventory Management runs five modules — Products, Locations, Suppliers, Orders, and Transactions. Track brick by the pallet, CMU by the unit, natural stone by the ton, manufactured veneer by the box, mortar by the bag, sand by the yard, plus rebar, wall ties, lintels, flashing, cap stones, sealant, and grout. Locations cover yard, truck, and active site. Stock deducts when the invoice is paid, and a deposit alone does not move stock.
Job Costing runs Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses to a profit figure with a margin bar on every job’s Report tab. Labor pulls automatically from clocked hours at each employee’s hourly rate. Expenses link to the job, so the mini-excavator rental, the dumpster, and the concrete sub all land on the right wall. Pair it with Expense Tracking for receipts, categories, and CSV export.
QuoteIQ Cam captures unlimited 4K photo and video organized by job and date — existing conditions, excavation and grading, footing pour, block courses, joint striking, stone placement, veneer, cap setting, pointing, and final. Add annotations, build custom inspection forms with PDF sections, and share galleries with the customer. Timestamped drainage and rebar photos are what settle a warranty argument two years later.
The Before & After AI generates a realistic finished render from the actual site photo in roughly fifteen to twenty seconds, and it attaches to any estimate type or invoice. Show a homeowner their crumbling block wall as terraced natural stone with bluestone caps before they have signed anything. There is also a manual before and after photo editor for side-by-side comparisons in proposals and marketing.
Scheduling renders multi-day jobs as continuous calendar events, so a three-week wall reads as one block rather than fifteen disconnected visits. Drag a phase to move it when rain lands mid-course, drag a single occurrence of a recurring series without touching the rest, and use Schedule Later to log a signed job with no date attached. Day, week, month, and employee-timeline views, plus a map-based GEO-Schedule view on every plan.
Package Estimates bundle a retaining wall, paver patio, and fire pit into one outdoor living package, or a chimney rebuild, firebox reline, hearth extension, and new cap into a complete fireplace restoration. Bundling simplifies the homeowner’s decision to a single yes. For faster turnarounds there are Quick Estimates, and every type supports deposits, markup controls, expiration dates, and reusable templates.
Pipelines & Deals gives you a Kanban board and list view with stages that carry close probabilities, so forecast value is amount multiplied by probability rather than wishful thinking. Six-metric analytics cover total, weighted, open, closed-won, new, and average deal age. Track builder veneer contracts, landscaper referrals, and property-management tuckpointing accounts separately. Elite runs up to five pipelines; Max is unlimited.
AI Autopilot is conversational control of the whole CRM by voice or text, with 55 integrated tools across 13 categories. Move all of today’s jobs to Friday and text every customer. Invoice all of today’s completed jobs and send them. It is the same feature the app labels “Ask AI.” For photo-to-quote work the separate AI Estimator reads property photos, asks follow-ups, and builds market-accurate line-item pricing.
The Virtual Call Team is an AI phone team that answers inbound calls around the clock, qualifies the lead, filters spam, and records and transcribes every call with a summary pushed to you. It runs from a knowledge base you write, in a voice you choose, and can run outbound and simultaneous call campaigns. Minutes meter through IQ Credits, so lower tiers carry fewer answered minutes than higher ones.
MapMeasure Pro measures from satellite imagery inside estimate creation — wall run lengths, patio and driveway areas, lot grades, chimney locations. Drawing tools handle irregular shapes, measurements save to the customer profile, and screenshots attach to the estimate as visual proof of scope. A 2026 addition scrolls back through years of historical aerial photos of the property. Companions Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access unlock at the same tier.
Attach Contracts pins engineering drawings, retaining wall calculations, permit documents, drainage plans, material spec sheets, and scope addendums to the estimate itself. When the homeowner approves natural fieldstone with bluestone caps, the signed spec travels with the contract. E-Signatures start at the entry plan, and editing an estimate after sending automatically voids the outstanding signature request.
Two capabilities masonry contractors ask about most sit at Elite: Inventory Management and Pipelines & Deals. If material counting and builder-partnership forecasting are the reason you are switching, price the Elite plan at $299/month for 10 users rather than starting lower and upgrading in month two. Upgrades mid-cycle are prorated and credits jump immediately, so there is no penalty for moving up — but there is a week of rebuilt habits.
Features read the same on every vendor’s site. What separates platforms is what happens between 6:30 AM and the Friday invoice run. Here is a composite week for a masonry business with two field crews, a chimney specialist, and a yard manager — the shape most $600,000-to-$1.5-million masonry operations take.
The forecast reads 72 degrees and dry, which is inside the mortar window. The calendar shows two live projects rendered as continuous multi-day blocks rather than scattered visits. Site one is an $18,400 retaining wall at the eighth course of 12-inch CMU with rebar and grout fill queued for tomorrow. Site two is a $7,800 chimney rebuild where the specialist is setting flue liner above the roofline. Crews clock in through Time Tracker Pro and GPS location tracking confirms everyone on site by 7:00. A check of inventory shows three pallets of CMU staged at site one — enough for the day — but tomorrow’s grout fill needs 40 bags of mortar and two yards of sand on site by 6:00 AM, so the purchase order goes out from the Orders module before anyone leaves the yard.
A notification says the Virtual Call Team answered a call at 6:15 and captured the lead: a failing timber retaining wall with rotting ties, an eight-inch lean, and water pooling behind it. The homeowner wants something that reads as real stone. The call is recorded, transcribed, and summarized, and the qualifying answers are already on the contact record. You open MapMeasure Pro from the truck and measure roughly 55 linear feet of slope with three to four feet of grade change, then check Property Street View — a colonial on a hillside lot, wall along the driveway, tight equipment access from the street. You send a ClientHub text from your business number to set a site walk for 8:00 tomorrow, before crews start.
You walk the failing wall and photograph it with QuoteIQ Cam: bowing ties, soil erosion, standing water at the base, root damage, no drainage. Laser measurement gives 58 linear feet at 3.5 feet average height, about 203 square feet of wall face. You build an Options Estimate with three tiers — $6,800 for demo, drainage gravel and perforated pipe, concrete footing, CMU wall with stucco finish and poured cap; $14,500 for the same structure with manufactured stone veneer, mortared joints, natural cap stones and landscape restoration; $26,000 for an engineered wall in natural fieldstone dry-stack with bluestone caps, three lighting locations, terraced planting pockets, and a French drain. The Before & After AI renders the middle tier from the site photo while you are standing there. You attach the drainage plan and insurance certificate via contract attachments, send for e-signature, and the homeowner takes the $14,500 tier. A 40% deposit clears through online payments and the deal moves to Contract Signed in Pipelines.
Back at site one the block work is plumb through eight courses with dowels set and grout fill scheduled. The homeowner walks out: the neighbors just had veneer done and she wants it on hers. This wall was quoted as exposed CMU with a stucco cap. You build a change order as a Standard Estimate — manufactured veneer at $12 per square foot across 320 square feet of face, additional mortar and metal lath, three days of a two-person crew, and natural stone caps — landing at a $7,000 change order. Photos of the clean CMU face go on the estimate, it sends by ClientHub text with e-signature, and it comes back signed in ten minutes. The project moves from $18,400 to $25,400 and job costing recalculates margin on the spot rather than at month end.
Site one at $25,400 with the veneer upgrade carries $7,840 in material — 640 CMU at $1.85 per unit, rebar, 80 bags of mortar at $8.50, grout fill, four yards of sand at $45, drainage pipe and gravel, the footing pour, veneer stone, lath, caps, and waste factor — plus 186 crew hours across three weeks, a $1,200 excavator rental and a $380 dumpster. At 65% complete the running cost is $14,200 and the projected margin is 36%. Site two, the $7,800 chimney, carries roughly $2,100 in material with 42 labor hours and a $480 scaffold rental, tracking to 44%. Rentals and supplier invoices post through expense tracking, hours flow from Time Tracker Pro, and the analytics dashboard rolls both into revenue by service, employee, and crew.
The chimney finishes. Final QuoteIQ Cam photos run crumbling-to-rebuilt with the new liner, stainless cap, and crown coat, and the closing invoice for the remaining $4,680 goes out with the gallery attached. The customer pays by card at the embedded checkout, no redirect. Review Multiplier fires the review request — either as an instant post-payment redirect to your review page or as an email and SMS sequence on a trigger. Site one hits the grout-fill milestone and a progress invoice for $7,620 goes out. Then a custom home builder calls about becoming his preferred masonry sub — veneer facades, outdoor fireplaces, and paver patios on six homes a year at roughly $18,000 each. That is a $108,000 relationship, and it becomes a deal in Pipelines with a probability attached rather than a note in your phone.
One platform absorbed the brick and block spreadsheet, the separate photo documentation subscription, the second phone line, the manual margin math, and the sticky note holding the builder’s number. The mobile and web apps carry the same capabilities, so nothing in that week required going back to an office. If you want to sanity-check your own numbers against national ranges first, the concrete cost calculator, fence cost calculator, and demolition cost calculator are open to anyone.
Field service platforms change pricing and packaging constantly, and most comparison content on the internet is quoting rate cards that expired a year ago. The honest way to evaluate is to build a checklist of masonry-specific requirements, then take that checklist to each vendor’s own current plan pages and confirm what tier each item sits on and what it costs today. Below is the checklist, with QuoteIQ’s answer stated plainly and a column telling you exactly what to verify on the other platforms rather than us telling you what they do or do not offer.
The three platforms masonry contractors most often shortlist alongside QuoteIQ are Jobber, Housecall Pro, and ServiceTitan. Each has real strengths and each publishes — or in some cases declines to publish — its own current pricing. Check their pages the day you decide, not the day you read an article. Our full comparison directory tracks these side by side.
| Masonry requirement | QuoteIQ answer | What to verify on other platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Good/Better/Best stone tiers in one document | Options Estimates — every plan | Ask whether tiered options are a core estimate type or a higher-tier add-on, and at what plan. |
| Material inventory by pallet, ton, and bag | Inventory Management — Elite, five modules | Confirm whether inventory exists natively or requires a third-party integration, and which unit types it supports. |
| Unlimited 4K phase photo documentation | QuoteIQ Cam — Beginner and above | Check whether photo documentation is included or sold as a separate subscription, and what storage limits apply. |
| AI rendered “after” preview from a site photo | Before & After AI — every plan | Ask what AI features ship today versus what is on a roadmap, and how usage is metered. |
| Per-job labor and material margin | Job Costing — Pro and above | Confirm the tier where job costing unlocks and whether labor pulls automatically from time tracking. |
| Probability-weighted bid pipeline | Pipelines & Deals — Elite and above | Check whether the CRM has real deal stages with forecasting, or only a lead list. |
| Engineering and permit attachments on estimates | Attach Contracts — Beginner and above | Verify file-type support and whether attachments carry through to the signed contract. |
| Satellite measurement inside the estimate | MapMeasure Pro — Beginner and above | Ask whether measurement is native or an integration, and whether measurements attach as visual proof. |
| Dedicated business number with two-way calling | ClientHub — Pro and above | Confirm whether a business line is included, what it costs, and whether calls log to the customer record. |
| 24/7 AI answering with transcripts | Virtual Call Team — every plan, metered by IQ Credits | Check whether AI answering is included or an add-on, and how minutes are priced. |
| Customer self-quoting from your website | InstaQuote — Elite and above | Ask whether customers can build and submit their own quote, or only request a callback. |
| Conversational control of the whole CRM | AI Autopilot — 55 tools, every plan | Ask what the AI can actually execute versus what it can only draft. |
| Entry price | $29.99/month, 1 user | Pull current published rates from each vendor’s own pricing page on the day you compare. |
We deliberately publish no dollar figures, seat counts, or “they don’t have it” claims about other platforms on this page. Several vendors restructure plans multiple times a year and some no longer publish a public rate card at all, which means any number we printed would be wrong within months and unfair to them in the meantime. Go to their own pricing pages, price your actual seat count, and compare against the QuoteIQ table below. The ServiceTitan pricing calculator can help you model a real seat count for enterprise-tier platforms.
Five plans, flat monthly rates, no extra per-user fees on top of the seat count included in each tier. Every plan carries the four estimate types, Options pricing, multi-day scheduling, invoicing, online payments, consumer financing, and the AI suite, with a monthly IQ Credit allowance that powers AI actions. Annual billing multiplies the monthly rate by ten, so two months come free.
Which plan fits a masonry business? A solo mason writing estimates from the truck works on Essentials. The moment you want satellite measurement and photo documentation — which for masonry is almost immediately — Beginner is the floor. Most two-crew operations land on Pro, because that is where job costing and the business phone line unlock and where QuickBooks Online sync begins. If you are counting brick and block in a yard or forecasting builder contracts, Elite is the right tier. Max makes sense when you are running true crews with a sales rep on commission.
Software subscriptions and equipment purchases interact with depreciation rules that changed for the current tax year. The IRS sets the maximum Section 179 expense deduction at $2,560,000 for tax years beginning in 2026, reduced dollar-for-dollar once qualifying property placed in service exceeds $4,090,000. Talk to your accountant about how a mixer, a skid steer, and a software subscription are each treated — the answers differ.
A masonry business is a people business wearing a materials costume. Block layers, stone setters, laborers mixing mud, an equipment operator, a chimney specialist working solo, and usually someone running the yard — all spread across weather-dependent sites that move. EmployeeHub unlocks at Elite and carries the pieces that matter when your team is not standing in front of you.
GPS location tracking through location tracking shows a live map of the team while they are clocked in, pauses during breaks, and stops entirely at clock-out — clocked-out employees never appear on any map. Clock-in location verification confirms the crew reached the right address before the first course goes down. Time Tracker Pro handles GPS clock in and out with per-job hours, break counts and durations in reports and CSV export, admin-only manual adjustments, and a full edit history so a corrected timecard is never a silent change. Team Communication keeps one-on-one and group chats plus job assignment inside the platform instead of a group text thread nobody can search.
Roles and permissions received a full overhaul in 2026 with clearer gates and calendar permissions separated out. That matters for masonry specifically: your yard manager needs to see inventory, supplier orders, and delivery schedules without seeing project margins. Your lead mason needs the day’s schedule and the ability to snap progress photos, not your pricing. Laborers need clock-in and nothing else. Permission-restricted users see shortcut cards rather than the full dashboard, so the app stays simple for the people who only need one part of it.
Two capabilities sit above Elite and are worth knowing about before you pick a plan. Crew creation, tracking, and scheduling — building named crews, scheduling them as units, and getting crew-level analytics and routing — is a Max capability, as is the Sales Team Tracker with per-rep commission percentages, conversion metrics, and year-to-date leaderboards. If you have a dedicated estimator on commission, that is the tier.
QuoteIQ does not run payroll and does not calculate overtime automatically. What it does is capture accurate, GPS-verified, job-linked hours with full break detail and export them cleanly to whatever payroll system you already use. That is a deliberate scope choice — hours are the hard part on a masonry crew spread across three sites; the payroll math is already solved elsewhere.
In most trades, labor swamps material. In masonry it is often the reverse, and the material is bought in units that do not match how you sell. You buy block by the unit and pallet, stone by the ton, veneer by the box or square foot, mortar by the bag, sand by the yard, and rebar by the length — then you sell a wall by the square foot of face. Any costing system that cannot hold both sides of that translation will lie to you.
Set it up in this order. One: build your Price Book with the services you actually sell — retaining wall by face square foot, veneer by square foot, chimney rebuild by course or lineal foot, tuckpointing by square foot, paver patio by square foot. Two: load the Products module with SKU, category, unit, cost, and reorder point for every material you stock, so the list shows cost, customer price, and margin at a glance. Three: use the Materials section on Standard Estimates — name, description, quantity, unit type, unit cost, auto-total — and link those lines to inventory products so pricing stays current when your supplier raises block by a nickel. Four: make sure every crew member clocks in and out through Time Tracker Pro, because Job Costing pulls labor automatically from clocked hours at each person’s hourly rate. Five: route rentals, dump fees, permit costs, and subcontractor invoices through Expense Tracking and link each one to its job.
Once that is in place, the Report tab on any job returns Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses with a profit-margin bar. You stop discovering in March that last summer’s veneer work carried a lower margin than the block work you priced more conservatively. The analytics dashboard then rolls it up: revenue by service, by customer, and by employee or crew; outstanding versus collected; quotes sent, conversion rate, average ticket, and pipeline value; completion rate and job duration; and customer counts, repeat rate, and lifetime value.
Stock deducts from inventory when the invoice is paid — not when the job is marked complete. A deposit does not count as paid, so stock does not move on a deposit unless you use the deduct option on that screen. On a masonry job with a 40% deposit and a three-week build, that distinction decides whether your yard counts are right in week two. Plan your reorder points around the payment event, not the completion event.
Free calculators worth bookmarking while you build your price book: the concrete cost calculator for footings and slabs, the foundation repair cost calculator for structural work, the basement waterproofing cost calculator and French drain cost calculator for the drainage side of retaining wall work, the demolition cost calculator for tear-outs, and the land clearing cost calculator for site prep. There is also a contractor invoice template and a construction invoice template if you are still invoicing on paper, plus the full business calculator library and the in-app business calculators with a national average pricing guide.
Masonry work fails in ways that are invisible once the veneer goes on. A retaining wall that was not drained looks identical to one that was, until the third spring. A chimney rebuilt without proper flashing looks fine until a storm. When a homeowner calls two years later, the only thing standing between you and a rebuild at your cost is a timestamped photo record of the drainage gravel, the perforated pipe, the rebar spacing, the footing depth, and the flashing detail.
QuoteIQ Cam exists for exactly that. Unlimited 4K photo and video, organized by job and date, captured in-app or pulled from the camera roll, with annotations and before-and-after comparisons. Custom inspection forms with templates and customizable PDF sections turn a phase walk into a document rather than a memory, and the customer documentation archive lives on the contact record so it is still there when the call comes. Share galleries with the customer during the build and the “I was never told about the drainage” conversation never happens.
The compliance side is not optional either. OSHA’s respirable crystalline silica standard for construction sets an 8-hour time-weighted permissible exposure limit of 50 micrograms per cubic meter with an action level of 25, and masonry, concrete work, and tuckpointing are named among the activities that generate exposure. Cutting block, grinding joints, and mixing dry mortar all sit inside that rule. Your written exposure control plan, your Table 1 task controls, and your training records are separate documents — but the job-level photo and form record that shows a saw with integrated water delivery in use on a given day is the kind of contemporaneous evidence that makes an inspection short.
Trade bodies are the place to keep current on codes and standards rather than a software blog. The Mason Contractors Association of America runs education on estimating, wall bracing, and masonry codes, and the Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association publishes technical resources across concrete masonry, segmental retaining walls, pavers, and manufactured stone veneer. Both are worth a membership line in your budget.
Five photo moments protect a masonry contractor more than any other: existing conditions before you touch anything, the open excavation showing depth and soil, the drainage assembly before backfill, the reinforcement before grout, and the finished work in the same frame as the first shot. Build them into a saved inspection form so the crew cannot forget them.
Seasonality is the structural problem in masonry. Outdoor work slows when mortar will not cure, spring arrives as a flood, and the gap between them is where masonry businesses lose crews to other trades. The fix is not more marketing in April; it is relationships and a calendar built in October.
Builder and general contractor partnerships. Every new-construction home needs foundation block, and most need veneer, a fireplace, or a walkway. Pipelines & Deals tracks each builder relationship from first meeting to standing agreement with a probability attached, and the weighted forecast tells you whether next quarter is actually covered. A custom builder doing six homes a year at roughly $18,000 in masonry per home is a $108,000 relationship; a production builder doing fifteen at a smaller per-unit scope can be larger still. Standing rate agreements turn into repeatable estimates through email and text automations, which unlock at Pro and can be built by describing them in plain language.
Landscaper and GC cross-referrals. Landscapers hit retaining wall, paver, and outdoor kitchen requests constantly and generally do not self-perform them. Tag every referral source in the client database, track the deals separately in Pipelines, and send a quarterly hardscape-season reminder through automations. A single productive landscaping partner sending five to eight hardscape referrals a season changes your year. The same logic runs in reverse toward landscaping, general contracting, remodeling, and deck building partners.
Winter work: chimneys, fireboxes, interior stone, tuckpointing. When exterior work stops, the indoor book is fireplace rebuilds, firebox relining, interior accent walls, tuckpointing, and chimney repair — plus the chimney service side if you carry it. Mass text and email campaigns at Elite segment your past customers by tag and put a pre-heating-season chimney inspection offer in front of exactly the people who bought a wall in June. ClientHub holds every prior conversation on the contact record, so the follow-up is specific rather than a blast.
Adjacent scopes you already have the crew for. Masonry businesses routinely leave money on the table in concrete, foundation repair, basement waterproofing, French drain installation, paving, excavation, fence installation, and tile and grout. If you already own the excavator and the crew knows compaction, the drainage and site-prep scope on your own walls is margin you are currently subbing out.
Let customers quote and book themselves. At Elite, InstaQuote lets a homeowner select from your service library, see a real-time total, and submit — quote delivered instantly by email or text — and InstaSchedule lets them book against your real calendar availability at any hour. For a masonry business, that is most valuable on the small, repeatable scopes: tuckpointing a chimney, resetting a few pavers, a fire pit. Those are the jobs that clog your phone and that you would rather not drive to before quoting. The Client Portal at Pro gives every customer a branded, no-download place to view estimates, pay invoices, see appointments, request service, and leave a review.
The argument for QuoteIQ is not any single masonry feature. It is that the estimating, the material counts, the photos, the phone line, the costing, the scheduling, and the follow-up all live in the same record, so nothing has to be re-entered and nothing falls between two tools.
Plus e-signatures, contract attachments, tips on invoices, reminders and tasks, roles and permissions, crews, team communication, GPS location tracking, Time Tracker Pro, website contact forms, Google Calendar sync, Google Reserve booking, galleries, multi-business support, data export, full mobile and web parity, and the complete feature directory.
QuoteIQ is the strongest fit for masonry businesses in 2026 because it handles the three things that break generic field service software: material-heavy estimates, multi-week weather-governed schedules, and phase-by-phase documentation. Options Estimates put block, manufactured veneer, and natural stone tiers in one document on every plan. Inventory Management at Elite counts brick by the pallet, stone by the ton, and mortar by the bag across yard, truck, and job site. Job Costing at Pro subtracts labor and expenses from contract price per job. MapMeasure Pro sizes wall runs from aerial imagery inside the estimate, and QuoteIQ Cam timestamps every course in 4K. Plans start at $29.99 per month for one user and 40,000-plus contractors run on the platform at a 4.7-star average across 4,103 reviews. With roughly 277,700 masonry workers employed in 2025, the differentiator is throughput per estimator, not headcount.
QuoteIQ runs five flat monthly plans with the seat count included in the rate. Essentials is $29.99 per month for 1 user with 500 IQ Credits. Beginner is $74.99 for 2 users and 1,500 credits, adding MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam, and expense tracking. Pro is $149.99 for 4 users and 3,000 credits, adding job costing, ClientHub, automations, and QuickBooks Online. Elite is $299 for 10 users and 5,000 credits, adding inventory, Pipelines, InstaQuote, InstaSchedule, routing, and EmployeeHub. Max is $699 for unlimited users and 8,000 credits. Annual billing multiplies the monthly rate by ten, so Elite annual is $2,990. Most two-crew masonry operations land on Pro. Budget the subscription as an operating expense alongside insurance and vehicle costs — the SBA business guide covers how to structure those recurring line items.
Yes, on every plan. Options Estimates render three tiers side by side in one document — for example a concrete block wall with stucco finish and poured cap, the same structure faced in manufactured stone veneer with natural caps, and a hand-laid fieldstone dry-stack with bluestone caps and lighting. The homeowner chooses the material rather than negotiating the price, which reframes the whole conversation. You can hide individual line prices, attach photos to any service line, and apply markup and discount controls before sending. Package Estimates handle the other direction, bundling a wall, patio, and fire pit into one outdoor living scope. Pair either with a Before & After AI render so the tier is visible, not just described, then send for e-signature and track the decision in Pipelines. The Mason Contractors Association of America runs formal masonry estimating education if you want to sharpen the underlying numbers.
Yes. Inventory Management unlocks on the Elite plan and runs five modules. Products carries SKU, category, unit, cost, and reorder point with In Stock, Low, and Out indicators plus visible margin. Locations covers your yard, each truck, and active job sites. Suppliers holds vendor records. Orders moves from Draft to Confirmed to Received, and receiving auto-creates receipt transactions. Transactions logs every movement — receipt, returned, issued, damaged, loss, adjustment. Materials lines on Standard Estimates link to products so a supplier price increase flows into new bids automatically. One rule matters: stock deducts when the invoice is paid, not when the job is marked complete, and a deposit alone does not move stock. Feed the same product costs into job costing for true margin. The Concrete Masonry & Hardscapes Association publishes technical specs for segmental retaining walls and manufactured stone veneer.
Block the phases, not the days. QuoteIQ scheduling renders multi-day jobs as continuous calendar events, so a three-week wall reads as one block covering excavation and footing, block laying, veneer, and caps rather than fifteen disconnected visits. When rain or a freeze lands mid-course, drag the phase and the rest of the sequence moves with it; you can also drag a single occurrence out of a recurring series without disturbing the others. Schedule Later logs a signed job with no date so nothing sits in your head waiting on a weather window. Day, week, month, and employee-timeline views plus a map-based view cover different planning questions, reminders and tasks keep material deliveries attached to the right phase, and completed jobs carry a green border and badge so a glance tells you what is weather-delayed versus active. Notify customers automatically with automations or directly through ClientHub, and let them self-book at InstaSchedule. Demand context: the Census Bureau reported private construction spending at a $1,614.2 billion annual rate in July 2026.
Load unit costs once, then let the job pull them. In Inventory Management each product carries its own unit type and cost — CMU by the unit, natural stone by the ton, veneer by the box or square foot, mortar by the bag, sand by the yard, rebar by the length. Materials lines on estimates reference those products, so quantities and totals compute rather than being typed. Job Costing at Pro then runs Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses with a margin bar on the job’s Report tab; labor pulls automatically from Time Tracker Pro hours at each person’s rate, and rentals, dump fees, and sub invoices post through Expense Tracking linked to the job. Analytics rolls it up by service, customer, and crew. On the tax side, IRS Publication 946 sets the 2026 Section 179 maximum at $2,560,000 for qualifying equipment.
Both, and they live in the same job record. MapMeasure Pro at Beginner and above measures from satellite imagery inside estimate creation — wall run lengths, patio and driveway areas, lot grades, chimney locations — with drawing tools for irregular shapes, measurements saved to the customer profile, and screenshots attached to the estimate as proof of scope. A 2026 addition scrolls back through years of historical aerial photos, and roof pitch is calculated and saved. Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access unlock alongside it. On documentation, QuoteIQ Cam captures unlimited 4K photo and video by job and date with annotations, and custom inspection forms turn phase walks into signed PDFs. That record matters for warranty disputes and for compliance — OSHA’s respirable crystalline silica standard names masonry and tuckpointing among covered activities.
Yes. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial with full access to the features of the plan you choose, so if you want to evaluate material inventory and Pipelines, start the trial on Elite rather than on a lower tier. A credit or debit card is required to start, one trial applies per person, per business, and per payment method, and the trial converts to the selected plan’s rate at expiry unless you cancel before then — cancellation is available at any point during the trial. Bring your existing customers with you using AI Smart Import, which maps CSV columns automatically from any prior CRM, then set up your estimate templates and price book before your first live bid. Mobile and web carry the same capabilities, so a trial started on a phone at a site walk continues on a laptop at the yard, and the apps are on the App Store and Google Play at a 4.7-star average across 4,103 reviews.
A complete tour of estimating, scheduling, photo documentation, invoicing, and the AI suite — the same workflow a masonry crew runs from the truck.
Watch Video →Most masonry contractors are live inside a week. The order below matters — importing customers before your price book exists means re-doing work.
Pick the tier that carries the capability you are switching for and start the 14-day free trial at registration. If material counting or bid forecasting is the reason, that is Elite; if it is costing and a business phone line, that is Pro. Trial access covers the features of the plan you select, so evaluating on a lower tier will not show you what you came to see. A credit or debit card is required to start.
Run your existing customer list through AI Smart Import, which maps CSV columns automatically from any prior CRM or from phone contacts. Then build the price book around how you actually sell — wall by face square foot, veneer by square foot, chimney by lineal foot, tuckpointing by square foot, pavers by square foot — and load your materials into the Products module with unit type, unit cost, and reorder point.
Build reusable estimate templates for your three or four most common scopes, then create your Options Estimate tier structure once so every future wall bid starts from it. Add employees with hourly rates in EmployeeHub, set roles and permissions so the yard manager sees inventory but not margins, and turn on Time Tracker Pro so labor flows into costing from day one.
Take a single real project from satellite measurement through tiered estimate, e-signature, deposit through online payments, phase photos, progress invoice, and final cost report. One complete loop teaches your crew more than a week of setup, and it surfaces the two or three settings you need to change before the rest of the book moves over.
QuoteIQ was founded on September 21, 2022 in Savannah, Georgia by Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers, both Co-Founders and both operators who ran home service businesses before they built software for them. That origin is why the platform treats a three-week wall as one job rather than fifteen appointments, and why material lives on the estimate instead of in a side spreadsheet. Their published thinking on operations, pricing, and field-service growth is collected at QuoteIQ Insights.
Co-Founder of QuoteIQ, focused on product direction and the contractor-first design philosophy that shapes the estimating and AI suite. Writing and interviews at his author page.
Co-Founder of QuoteIQ, focused on the operational side — scheduling, crews, field workflow, and the realities of running service work at scale. Writing at his author page.
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