Published February 2026 · Updated September 2026
Good/Better/Best finish-tier quoting, multi-phase job scheduling, material + labor + subcontractor job costing, 4K phase documentation, contract and permit attachments, and a bid pipeline that tells you which proposals are actually going to close — starting at $29.99/month.
QuoteIQ is the best CRM for remodeler businesses in 2026. It starts at $29.99/month for the Essentials plan with one user, and it handles the four things that actually break a remodeling job: presenting Good/Better/Best finish tiers in a single estimate, scheduling work that runs in phases across weeks instead of one-hour visits, costing a job against material, labor and subcontractor spend before the profit disappears, and documenting every phase in 4K so a change order never turns into an argument. Remodeling jobs carry more line items, more trades and a longer cash cycle than any other home service category, and the plan ladder tops out at $699/month for unlimited users — so a growing remodeling outfit adds a project coordinator, a lead carpenter and three crews without paying per seat.
TL;DR: QuoteIQ is the #1 CRM for remodeler businesses because remodeling is a phase business, not a visit business. Options Estimates put builder-grade, mid-grade and premium finishes side by side so the homeowner upgrades themselves. Scheduling carries multi-day phases as continuous events across demo, rough-in, drywall, finish and punch list. Job Costing runs Price minus Labor minus Expenses on every project, with labor pulled straight from Time Tracker Pro. QuoteIQ Cam archives unlimited 4K photos per phase, Attach Contracts keeps signed scopes and permits on the job record, and Pipelines & Deals forecasts bid value by close probability. Remodeling sits inside a construction sector the U.S. Census Bureau tracks monthly, and pre-1978 work is governed by the EPA RRP rule. Plans run $29.99 to $699/month.
A remodeling job is not a service call. One kitchen runs six to ten weeks, touches five trades, carries eighty line items and gets revised twice before the cabinets land. Generic field service software is built around a technician arriving at an address for ninety minutes. QuoteIQ is built around a project that lives for two months, and every capability below exists because remodelers kept asking for it.
Remodeling sells on finish level, not scope. Options Estimates present builder-grade, mid-grade and premium in one document — laminate against quartz, stock against semi-custom cabinetry — so the homeowner upgrades themselves instead of being sold. Add photos, line-item images and terms, then hide individual prices when you want the tier read as a package.
Demo, rough-in, inspection, drywall, finish, punch list. QuoteIQ scheduling renders multi-day phases as continuous calendar events rather than chopping them into daily visits, colour-codes by status, and lets you drag a single occurrence of a recurring phase without disturbing the rest of the sequence.
Job Costing runs Total Price − Labor − Expenses = Profit on every project with a margin bar on the Report tab. Labor pulls automatically from clocked hours at each employee’s rate; material receipts and subcontractor invoices attach through Expense Tracking. Job Costing is on Pro and above.
QuoteIQ Cam captures unlimited 4K photo and video, organised by job and date, so you own a dated record of what was behind that wall before the drywall closed. Before/after comparisons, annotations, and custom inspection forms that export as branded PDFs. Available on Beginner and above.
Remodeling runs on paper the job cannot proceed without. Attach Contracts keeps the signed agreement, the building permit, the lead-safe certification and the manufacturer warranty on the job record. E-Signatures let the homeowner sign from their phone — and editing an estimate after sending automatically voids the outstanding signature request.
Remodeling bids sit for weeks. Pipelines & Deals gives you a Kanban board with close-probability percentages per stage and weighted forecasting — amount multiplied by probability — so a $90,000 bid at 40% reads as $36,000 of pipeline, not wishful thinking. Six-metric analytics cover total, weighted, open, closed-won, new and average deal age. Elite runs up to five pipelines; Max is unlimited.
Homeowners buy what they can picture. Before & After AI generates a realistic finished-room preview from the actual photo of the space in roughly 15–20 seconds, and attaches to any estimate type or invoice. Each regeneration draws IQ Credits again, so generate deliberately.
A six-week job cannot wait six weeks to invoice. Require a deposit on the estimate, then bill by phase from the job record with Invoicing. Net 15/30/60/90 terms, partial payments, automated reminders, and online payments by card, ACH, Apple Pay and Google Pay, with cash and check recorded in-app.
AI Autopilot is conversational control of the whole CRM by voice or text — 55 integrated tools across 13 categories. “Move all of today’s jobs to Friday and text every customer” is a real command. Inside the app the interface is called Ask AI; it is the same feature.
You cannot answer the phone from inside a gut demo. The Virtual Call Team answers around the clock, qualifies the lead, filters spam and transcribes every call, with a knowledge base and agent voice you configure. It is metered at 125 IQ Credits per minute, so lower-tier credit allocations cap available minutes.
MapMeasure Pro measures roof, deck, addition footprint and siding area from satellite imagery inside estimate creation, and saves the measurements to the customer profile. Historical aerial imagery lets you scroll back through years of photos of the property — useful when an addition’s permit history is in question. Beginner and above, with Property Street View and Zillow Quick Access alongside it.
Inventory Management tracks products, locations, suppliers, orders and transactions — tile in the warehouse, fixtures on the truck, cabinetry staged at the job site. Materials on estimates link to products so pricing stays current. Stock deducts when the invoice is paid; a deposit alone does not move stock. Elite and above.
Construction labour is the constraint, not demand. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts median pay for construction laborers and helpers at $46,680 per year ($22.44/hour, May 2025) with employment projected to grow 6% from 2025 to 2035, faster than the average for all occupations. Every hour a lead carpenter spends rebuilding a change order in a spreadsheet is billable field time you paid for and did not sell.
Two active sites, three crews, one project coordinator, and a bid book worth a quarter of a million dollars. Here is how a remodeling week actually runs inside QuoteIQ.
The jobs dashboard opens on overview cards: total, open and completed work, recent visits with revenue from the past 30 days, and scheduled visits with projected revenue for the next 30. The kitchen gut is in drywall, the bath addition is in rough-in waiting on an inspection. Crews clock in through Time Tracker Pro, and because clock-in is GPS-verified, the hours that later hit job costing are hours actually worked on that site. Location tracking shows the live team map while crews are clocked in — and never once they clock out.
A whole-home renovation enquiry lands overnight through a website contact form while the Virtual Call Team handles the callers who dial instead. Before anyone drives out, MapMeasure Pro sizes the footprint from satellite imagery and Property Street View shows the elevation and siding condition. You arrive at the consultation already knowing the addition is roughly 680 square feet and the roof has two planes, not one.
On the kitchen table you build an Options Estimate: builder-grade, mid-grade and premium, each with photos and line-item images. Before & After AI renders the finished room from the photo you just took of their existing kitchen. They sign the mid tier on the spot through e-signatures, the deposit is collected through online payments, and the accepted estimate converts to a job in one tap. Consumer financing through Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay is available on every plan when the homeowner wants to spread the cost.
They want the load-bearing wall opened. You photograph the framing with QuoteIQ Cam, build a change-order estimate against the existing customer record, and send it for signature before a single stud is cut. The photo archive is dated, the signed scope sits on the job with contract attachments, and the phase schedule shifts in scheduling with the customer notified automatically.
Lumber receipts photograph into expense tracking and link to the job. The tile sub’s invoice attaches the same way. Job Costing updates the margin bar live, so when the addition slides from 34% to 21% you find out in week three with time to act, not at the final invoice. Business analytics roll both projects into revenue by service, conversion rate and average ticket.
Friday you mass-invoice the completed phases from the calendar. Payment lands, and the review request fires automatically through Review Multiplier — either as an instant post-payment redirect to your review page, or as an email and SMS sequence on event triggers. The neighbour who watched the dumpster arrive three weeks ago goes into Pipelines as a new deal, and the eleven-month follow-up sequence in automations takes it from there.
If you disturb painted surfaces in a home built before 1978, the EPA’s Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting rule requires your firm to be certified and your employees trained. Keep the certification on the job record with contract attachments and photograph the containment with QuoteIQ Cam — dated documentation is the cheapest insurance in remodeling. Site safety obligations are set out by OSHA under 29 CFR 1926.
The moment a remodeling business runs a second crew, coordination stops being something you hold in your head. Three people need to know the inspection moved, the tile sub needs the updated measurements, and the homeowner needs to hear it from you before they hear it from the neighbour.
On the Elite plan, ten user seats cover the owner, a project coordinator, three lead carpenters and support staff for $299/month. EmployeeHub carries GPS location tracking while crews are clocked in, Time Tracker Pro logs per-job hours with break durations and a full edit history, and Team Communication replaces the group text nobody can search. Roles and permissions control who sees costs and who only sees their own schedule.
Assigning a person to a job is available from the Pro plan. Crew creation, crew tracking and crew-level scheduling with crew analytics are Max-only capabilities — worth knowing before you build an org chart around them. Route Optimization sequences the day’s stops for minimal drive time and cuts drive time 15–30%, while Route Density shows where work clusters so you plan the zone first and the order second.
QuoteIQ tracks hours; it does not run payroll. There is no native payroll module and no automatic overtime calculation — hours export to whatever payroll system you already use. Knowing that up front is worth more than discovering it in week two.
Most field service platforms were designed around the service call — dispatch a technician, complete a ninety-minute visit, invoice, repeat. Remodeling breaks that model. The comparison below is about capability fit for phase-based project work, not price. Pricing changes often and each vendor states its own; check their pages directly before you budget.
| Capability for remodeling work | QuoteIQ | Typical field service platforms |
|---|---|---|
| Good/Better/Best finish tiers in one estimate | Options Estimates, standard | Often a single-scope quote or a paid add-on |
| Multi-day phases as continuous events | Native multi-day rendering | Commonly modelled as discrete visits |
| Material + labor + sub job costing | Pro plan and above | Frequently a higher tier or an integration |
| Unlimited 4K phase photo archive | QuoteIQ Cam, Beginner+ | Storage caps or a separate photo product |
| Contract & permit attachments on the job | Beginner plan and above | Varies; often document add-on |
| Probability-weighted bid pipeline | Pipelines & Deals, Elite+ | Usually a separate sales CRM |
| AI finished-room previews from a photo | Before & After AI, all plans | Rare in field service software |
| Unlimited users at a flat price | Max plan, $699/month | Per-seat pricing is the norm |
| Conversational control of the CRM | AI Autopilot, 55 tools | Emerging; varies by vendor |
The vendors remodelers most often weigh against QuoteIQ are Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan. All three are capable products with active development, and all three publish their own current pricing and plan inclusions — consult their pricing pages directly rather than any third-party figure, including ours. What does not change with a price update is architecture: platforms built around the dispatched service call model phase-based remodeling work differently than a platform built for it. Side-by-side breakdowns live in the QuoteIQ comparison hub.
Per-user pricing is what quietly punishes a growing remodeling business. Adding a project coordinator, a second lead carpenter and an estimator means three more seats on most platforms. QuoteIQ’s Elite plan includes 10 users for $299/month and Max removes the cap entirely at $699/month — the same price whether you run six people or sixty.
Remodeling has the longest sales cycle in home services and the highest average ticket. A homeowner researches for months, collects three bids, and decides on trust. That means two things: your follow-up has to survive a ninety-day gap, and your finished work has to be visible to the people most likely to buy next — the neighbours who watched the job happen.
Most remodeling bids are lost to no decision, not to a competitor. Event-triggered email and text automations run multi-step sequences with personalization tags on triggers like estimate created, scheduled or declined, with send timing from immediate out to 24 months. Describe the sequence in plain language and it gets built for you.
Weighted pipeline value — amount times close probability — is the number that tells you whether to hire a third crew in March. Pipelines & Deals reports total, weighted, open, closed-won, new and average deal age, with stages you define and multi-assignee deals for a two-person sales effort.
The before/after archive in QuoteIQ Cam is your portfolio, your proof in a dispute and your marketing library at once. Pair it with Review Multiplier to route satisfied homeowners to Google, Facebook, Yelp or Angi, and with the Client Portal so homeowners can see galleries and approve work without an app download.
Pricing discipline is the other half of growth. Remodelers who price by finish tier rather than a single number consistently report higher average project values, because the tier structure gives the homeowner somewhere to spend more rather than a yes/no on one figure. Build the tiers once as package estimates or reusable estimate templates, and every consultation starts from a priced baseline. For quick trade-specific math before a site visit, the home service business calculators cover the common cases, with a drywall cost calculator, a flooring cost calculator, a painting cost calculator and a deck cost calculator for the add-on work that rides along with a remodel. When it is time to bill, the construction invoice template and contractor invoice template are free starting points. Business planning support is available through the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Remodelers routinely run a quoting tool, a scheduling app, a photo service, a spreadsheet for costing, a separate sales CRM and a texting app. Each one is another subscription, another login, and another place the job’s truth can disagree with itself. Everything below is one platform.
Standard, Quick, Options and Package estimate types, all with photos, sub-items, markup controls, draft autosave and expiration dates. The AI Estimator reads property photos and generates market-accurate line-item pricing for your area.
Invoicing with one-tap conversion from estimate or job, recurring invoice subscriptions for maintenance agreements, tips at checkout, and an audit trail on every document. Consumer financing through Affirm, Klarna and Afterpay is available on every plan.
ClientHub gives you a dedicated business number with two-way calling and texting saved to the customer profile, plus call routing by time of day or availability. The Client Portal lets homeowners view estimates, pay invoices and submit requests. Both are Pro and above.
QuoteIQ Cam for 4K capture and customer galleries, inspection forms with customizable PDF sections, and the before & after photo editor for the portfolio shot that sells the next job.
QuickBooks Online syncs invoices, payments, customers and expense categories on Pro and above. Export data on every plan, Google Calendar sync, and Google Reserve booking from Search and Maps.
EmployeeHub with roles and permissions, granular access control, and full iOS, Android and web parity — the same app in the truck, at the supply house and at the office desk.
Five plans, published rates, no per-seat surprises inside a plan’s user count. Annual billing costs ten months instead of twelve. Most remodeling businesses running their own crew land on Pro for job costing and QuickBooks, or Elite once a bid pipeline and a project coordinator are in play.
A solo remodeler quoting and invoicing starts on Essentials at $29.99. Add satellite measurement and 4K phase documentation on Beginner at $74.99. The moment you need to know your margin per project, Pro at $149.99 is the plan — Job Costing and QuickBooks Online both live there. Bid pipelines, material inventory and a ten-seat team move you to Elite at $299, and dedicated crew scheduling with unlimited seats is Max at $699. Full details on the pricing page.
Every plan includes IQ Credits — the monthly allowance that powers AI features like the Estimator, Before & After previews and the Virtual Call Team. Credits reset each billing cycle, every AI action shows its credit cost before it runs, and top-up packs are available if a heavy quoting month runs you short. A one-time Done-For-You setup is available at $299.99, which covers contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session.
QuoteIQ is the best CRM for remodeler businesses in 2026, starting at $29.99/month for one user. Remodeling differs from other home service work in four measurable ways, and QuoteIQ addresses each directly. Options Estimates present Good/Better/Best finish tiers in a single document so the homeowner chooses their own upgrade. Scheduling renders multi-day phases as continuous events rather than chopping a six-week job into daily visits. Job Costing on the Pro plan runs Price minus Labor minus Expenses with a live margin bar. QuoteIQ Cam archives unlimited 4K photos per phase. More than 40,000 contractors use the platform, which holds a 4.7-star rating across 4,103 reviews. For the wider trade context, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 6% construction employment growth from 2025 to 2035. Compare tiers on the pricing page.
QuoteIQ for remodeler businesses starts at $29.99/month for Essentials with one user and 500 IQ Credits. Beginner is $74.99/month for two users and adds MapMeasure Pro, QuoteIQ Cam and contract attachments. Pro is $149.99/month for four users and adds Job Costing, the Client Portal and QuickBooks Online — the tier most remodelers running a crew settle on. Elite is $299/month for 10 users with Pipelines, Inventory and EmployeeHub. Max is $699/month for unlimited users with crew scheduling and the AI Website Builder included. Annual billing costs ten months instead of twelve, so Elite annual is $2,990. A one-time Done-For-You setup is $299.99. Each tier also carries its own monthly IQ Credit allowance — 500 on Essentials up to 8,000 on Max — which powers the AI estimating, preview and call-answering tools, and credits reset every billing cycle. Upgrading mid-cycle is prorated and the new credit allocation applies immediately. Competitor pricing changes frequently — check each vendor’s own pricing page rather than any third-party figure.
Yes. QuoteIQ scheduling was built for work that runs in phases rather than single visits. Multi-day phases render as continuous calendar events across demo, rough-in, inspection, drywall, finish and punch list, with drag-and-drop across day, week, month and employee-timeline views, colour-coding by status, and the ability to drag one occurrence of a recurring phase without disturbing the sequence. Schedule Later lets you create a phase with no date and assign it once the inspection clears. Assigning a person to a job is available from Pro; crew creation and crew-level scheduling are Max-only. Route Optimization cuts drive time 15–30% when crews cover several sites, and Team Communication keeps schedule changes out of an unsearchable group text. Automated appointment reminders notify homeowners by SMS and email when a phase moves. Site safety requirements are published by OSHA.
Job Costing on the Pro plan and above gives every project a Report tab showing Total Price minus Labor minus Expenses equals Profit, with a profit-margin bar. Labor pulls automatically from Time Tracker Pro — hourly rate multiplied by GPS-verified clocked hours — so field time reaches the cost sheet without anyone retyping a timesheet. Material receipts and subcontractor invoices attach through Expense Tracking, which supports categories, receipt capture, job linking and CSV export. The practical value is timing: a margin sliding from 34% to 21% shows up in week three of a six-week job while you can still act on it. Business analytics roll the numbers up across projects. Material line items on estimates can link to inventory products on Elite and above so costs stay current as supplier pricing moves. Vehicle costs follow the IRS standard mileage rate, which rose to 76 cents per business mile on July 1, 2026.
Yes. QuoteIQ offers 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. The trial converts to paid at your selected plan’s rate unless you cancel before it expires, and you can cancel at any point during the trial. Because trial access follows the plan you pick, a remodeler who wants to evaluate Job Costing should start the trial on Pro rather than Essentials, and anyone evaluating Pipelines & Deals or Inventory should start on Elite. Mid-cycle upgrades are prorated and credits jump immediately. Start at the registration page, or see the full ladder on pricing. Nothing in the trial is feature-locked within your chosen tier, so you can run real estimates, schedule real phases and invoice real customers during the evaluation rather than working against sample data. The SBA publishes guidance on evaluating business software spend.
QuoteIQ Cam on Beginner and above captures unlimited 4K photo and video organised by job and date, which is what turns “we agreed to that” into a dated record of the framing before the drywall went up. It supports before/after comparisons, annotations, custom inspection forms with branded PDF export, job reports, and customer-facing galleries. Signed scopes, permits and warranties live on the job record through Attach Contracts, and E-Signatures capture homeowner approval from a phone — with any edit to a sent estimate automatically voiding the outstanding signature request. For pre-1978 homes, the EPA RRP rule requires firm certification and trained employees, and that paperwork belongs on the job record too. Homeowners can view galleries and approve work through the Client Portal on Pro and above, and the portal Activity tab records when they viewed each document — a quiet but useful timestamp when a scope question surfaces months later.
Use an Options Estimate, which presents three finish levels side by side in one document — laminate against quartz, stock against semi-custom cabinetry, builder-grade fixtures against premium. The homeowner compares tiers rather than deciding yes or no on a single number, which is why tiered presentation tends to lift average project value. Each tier carries photos, line-item images, notes, terms and your license number on the PDF, and you can hide individual or all line-item prices so a tier reads as a package. Before & After AI renders a realistic finished-room preview from the actual photo of the space in about 15–20 seconds. Build the tiers once as package estimates or reusable templates. Estimates are available on every plan including Essentials. Cost benchmarks for common scopes are in the business calculators, and the Census Bureau tracks residential construction spending monthly.
Yes. AI Smart Import accepts a CSV export from any CRM — including Jobber, Housecall Pro and ServiceTitan — and maps the columns automatically, so customer records, addresses and history move across without manual re-entry. You can also import directly from phone contacts. Most remodeling businesses are operational within a day: import contacts, set up the price book with your finish tiers and standard scopes, then connect QuickBooks Online on Pro or above. A one-time Done-For-You setup at $299.99 covers contact import, price book setup and a one-on-one onboarding session if you would rather hand that off. You own your data throughout — export is available on every plan, so leaving is as straightforward as arriving. Help is available through the support team and 24/7 live support on all plans.
Remodeling is a phase business. Multi-day phases render as continuous events across demo, rough-in, drywall, finish and punch list — not as a series of disconnected daily visits.
Finish tiers sell the upgrade. Options Estimates put Good/Better/Best in one document, so the homeowner chooses to spend more instead of being asked to.
Margin visibility beats margin autopsy. Job Costing on Pro runs Price minus Labor minus Expenses live, with labor pulled from GPS-verified clocked hours.
Photos end disputes. Unlimited 4K capture organised by job and date, plus signed scopes and permits attached to the job record.
Bids need weighting, not hope. Probability-weighted pipeline forecasting turns a bid book into a staffing decision you can defend.
Growth does not cost per seat. $29.99 to $699/month across five plans, with unlimited users on Max at a flat price.
A walkthrough of estimating, scheduling, documenting and invoicing inside QuoteIQ — the same workflow a remodeler runs from first consultation through final punch list.
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Trial access follows the plan you choose, so pick the tier holding the features you actually need to evaluate. If job costing matters, start on Pro; if bid pipelines and inventory matter, start on Elite. Register at admin-quoteiq.web.app/register.
Bring customers across from your old CRM with a CSV and AI Smart Import, or pull from phone contacts. Then build the price book around your finish tiers and standard scopes so every future estimate starts from priced line items instead of a blank page.
Create a reusable Options Estimate template with builder-grade, mid-grade and premium levels, complete with photos and line-item images. Every consultation from then on is an edit, not a build, which is where the time savings actually come from.
Set up online payments and bank details so deposits land the day they are signed, connect QuickBooks Online on Pro and above, then add your team with roles and permissions set so crews see schedules and not margins.
QuoteIQ was founded in Savannah, Georgia on September 21, 2022 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 product treats a six-week remodel as a project with phases rather than forcing it into a service-call template, and why job costing exists at a tier a four-person crew can actually afford.
The platform now serves more than 40,000 contractors across more than 50 trades, holds a 4.7-star rating across 4,103 reviews, and ships monthly. Recent releases added branded proposals, electronic signature improvements, historical aerial imagery with calculated roof pitch, multiple contacts on a job, and an overhaul of employee permissions. Read more from the founders at QuoteIQ Insights, or see how the platform serves adjacent trades on the remodeling software and general contractor software pages.
“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“QuoteIQ has already started paying dividends for my new business. The Estimates and Invoices are outstanding, including the ability to add photos. Clearly, lots of entrepreneurial thinking has gone into the design of this CRM! If you’re considering your options, choose QuoteIQ”
Vance Dickey Google Play“This app really makes life easy. 1. It makes sending estimates really easy, as well as invoices so you can be paid quicker, and make it easy on the costumer. 2. Being able to schedule work times really drives up effeciency, making you more money. 3. Being able to price your services by square foot in the app saves time wasting calculations 4. Having all your finances in one place makes life so much easier. I’d reccomend this app to any new and upstarting businesses, as well as old ones. 5/5”
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