Published March 2026 · Updated September 2026
QuoteIQ is the CRM built for window tinting services — Good/Better/Best film pricing by shade and brand, satellite glass measurement, per-vehicle and per-building job costing, film and supply inventory, dealer and fleet pipelines, and an AI suite on every plan. Plans start at $29.99 per month.
QuoteIQ is the best CRM for window tinting services in 2026 because it handles the four things a tint shop does that generic field-service software does not: tiered film pricing on a single estimate through Options Estimates, satellite glass-area measurement with MapMeasure Pro, per-vehicle and per-building profit math through Job Costing, and dealer, fleet and commercial lead tracking through Pipelines & Deals. Pricing runs from $29.99 per month for a solo installer up to $699 per month for unlimited users, and every plan includes a 14-day free trial of the plan you choose.
TL;DR: Window tinting is a shade-and-film business, not a flat-rate business, so the estimate tool decides your ticket size. Build dyed, carbon and ceramic side by side with Options Estimates, bundle windshield and headlight work with Package Estimates, pre-measure commercial glass from satellite with MapMeasure Pro, document intake and finished glass in 4K with QuoteIQ Cam, show the finish before you cut film with Before & After AI, run film and supply stock with Inventory Management, and answer dealer calls around the clock with the Virtual Call Team. Federal glazing rules sit in NHTSA’s FMVSS, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks the automotive glass trade you are hiring from.
A window tinting services business does not sell a job. It sells a film, a shade percentage, a warranty and an install slot, and those four variables move the price of the same vehicle by several hundred dollars. That is why generic field-service software struggles here: it wants one line item and one price, while a tint shop needs a dyed option, a carbon option and a nano-ceramic option on the same screen, priced off the same glass area, with the heat-rejection difference explained in a sentence the customer actually reads. QuoteIQ was built by contractors for that kind of selling, which is why window tinting services owners use it to run estimates, bay scheduling, film stock, crew hours and dealer relationships from one place instead of stitching a quoting app to a spreadsheet to a separate photo tool.
Start with the estimate, because it sets the ceiling on everything downstream. Options Estimates present Good, Better and Best as three columns the customer compares in one view, so a sedan can be quoted at a dyed price, a carbon price and a ceramic price without you building three documents. Standard Estimates handle line-item commercial work where every elevation is priced separately, Quick Estimates cover a walk-in windshield strip in under a minute, and Package Estimates bundle tint plus windshield plus headlight film into one protection package. All four estimate types are on every plan, including Essentials, and all four can carry photos, terms, your license number, deposit requirements and e-signatures that the customer completes on their phone.
Then measure before you drive. MapMeasure Pro measures square footage from satellite imagery inside the estimate itself, which for architectural work means you can size a storefront elevation, a second-floor curtain wall or a whole-home window package before the walk-through, and attach the measurement screenshot to the estimate as visual proof of scope. Property Street View shows you the facade and its orientation, and Zillow Quick Access pulls property detail for residential jobs. Those three sit on Beginner and above, alongside QuoteIQ Cam and Contract Attachments — the two tools that keep a tint shop out of damage disputes.
Finally, know what the job actually earned. Job Costing on Pro and above subtracts labor and expenses from the ticket and shows the profit and margin bar per job, with labor pulled automatically from Time Tracker Pro hours. Expense Tracking captures the film roll, the pre-cut kit and the blades against the right job, and QuickBooks Online carries it into the books. If you are still pricing off gut feel, the free home service business calculators and the in-app Business Calculators are a faster starting point than a spreadsheet.
The two features a growing tint shop asks for first — film Inventory Management and dealer/fleet Pipelines & Deals — both unlock on Elite at $299 per month with 10 users, not on Pro. Elite runs up to 5 pipelines; Max at $699 per month removes that cap and the user cap together.
Each card below names the plan tier the feature unlocks on, so you can size a plan against the way your shop actually runs rather than guessing. Example pricing shown inside the cards is illustrative shop math, not QuoteIQ pricing — set your own rates in the price book.
Options Estimates put three film tiers on one document. A worked example for a four-door sedan: dyed film at 20% shade for $199 with basic UV rejection, carbon at 20% for $389 with no signal interference and colour stability, nano-ceramic at 20% for $549 with the highest infrared rejection. Commercial work prices per square foot on the same structure. The customer compares film technology, heat performance and warranty term in one view instead of three emails, and markup, discount and deposit controls are built into the same screen.
MapMeasure Pro measures square footage from aerial imagery inside estimate creation, with drawing tools for irregular elevations and measurements saved to the customer profile. For a storefront you size the glazed area, add your waste factor and price the elevation before the walk-through. Screenshots attach to the estimate as proof of scope, and the historical imagery timeline lets you scroll back through years of aerial photos of the same property — useful when a property manager disputes what was there last season.
Inventory Management runs five modules — Products, Locations, Suppliers, Orders and Transactions — so film rolls carry SKU, unit cost, reorder point and an In Stock / Low / Out indicator. Locations cover the shop, the mobile van and an active commercial site separately, which matters when a 60-inch ceramic roll is on the truck and the bay job needs it. Materials on estimates link to products so pricing stays current. Stock deducts when the invoice is paid; a deposit alone does not move stock.
Job Costing gives every job a Report tab: total price minus labor minus expenses equals profit, with a margin bar. Labor pulls automatically from clocked hours at the employee’s hourly rate, so a two-hour ceramic sedan and a sixteen-hour storefront are measured the same way. Expenses link to the job through Expense Tracking, receipts included. That is the difference between knowing a dealer batch was busy and knowing it was profitable.
Package Estimates bundle services so the add-on conversation happens once, at the counter, while the vehicle is already prepped. A Complete Vehicle Protection package might combine full ceramic tint, a windshield strip, headlight and taillight film and a sunroof panel; a commercial package might combine solar film with an anti-graffiti overlay and a safety-film upgrade priced per square foot. Bundles show the saving against buying each item separately, which is the whole point.
Before & After AI generates a realistic finished image from the actual photo you just took, usually in about 15 to 20 seconds, and attaches it to any estimate type or invoice. Customers cannot picture the difference between 20%, 35% and 50% shade on their own glass, and a building manager cannot picture a glare-free west elevation. Showing it removes the guesswork from the upgrade conversation. Each generation draws IQ Credits, and every regeneration draws again, so the cost preview appears before it runs.
Scheduling is drag-and-drop across day, week, month and employee-timeline views, colour-coded by status, with multi-day commercial installs rendered as one continuous event. Schedule Later lets you create the job now and date it once the film lands. Individual occurrences of a recurring fleet visit can be dragged without disturbing the series, and completed jobs can be mass-invoiced straight from the calendar. A GEO-Schedule map view shows the day geographically, which is how mobile tinters plan a route.
QuoteIQ Cam captures or uploads photos and video organised by job and date, with before/after comparison, annotation and unlimited 4K cloud storage. Photograph the rock chip and the door ding at intake and the claim conversation is over before it starts. Custom Inspection Forms turn that into a signed condition report, and the Before & After Photo Editor builds the side-by-side you post afterwards.
AI Autopilot is conversational control of the whole CRM by voice or text, with 55 integrated tools across 13 categories. Real commands look like moving every job on today’s board to Friday and texting each customer, or invoicing all of today’s completed jobs and sending them. In the bay that means building an estimate without taking your gloves off. Inside the app the same feature is labelled Ask AI — one feature, two names. Actions draw IQ Credits and show the cost before they run.
The Virtual Call Team answers inbound calls around the clock, qualifies the lead, filters spam, records and transcribes every call and sends you a summary, using a knowledge base and agent voice you configure. It also runs outbound and simultaneous call campaigns. It does not book the appointment for you — it captures and qualifies so you can. Time is metered at 125 IQ Credits per minute, so the minutes available scale with your plan’s monthly credit allowance rather than being unlimited.
Pipelines & Deals — labelled Deals in the app — gives you Kanban and list views with close-probability percentages per stage and a weighted value equal to amount multiplied by probability, so a forecast reflects reality. Six-metric analytics cover total, weighted, open, closed-won, new and average deal age. Run separate boards for dealer referrals, fleet contracts, property managers and retail. Elite supports up to 5 pipelines; Max is uncapped.
ClientHub gives the shop a dedicated business number with two-way calling and texting inside QuoteIQ from phone, tablet or desktop, every message saved to the customer profile and synced across devices. Call routing sends after-hours dealer calls to a specific tech, an external number or the Virtual Call Team. AI Text Generator drafts the reply, and the Client Portal lets the customer approve the estimate and pay without an app download.
Meet Derek Lawson, a composite example built from how tint shops use the platform. He owns Elite Shade Tinting, a three-year-old window tinting services company with two bays, one mobile unit and four people. His shop runs on Elite, because film inventory, dealer pipelines and EmployeeHub all live at that tier. Every dollar figure below is his shop’s own pricing in a worked example, not a QuoteIQ rate.
Derek opens the QuoteIQ calendar. Bay 1 holds a batch of six vehicles from a dealer account running carbon tint at $285 each. Bay 2 has four retail appointments — a ceramic crossover at $649, a carbon sedan at $389, a ceramic pickup at $549 and a ceramic SUV at $699. His mobile tinter Marcus is routed to a whole-home job with 22 windows at $3,850. An inventory check confirms four rolls of 20% carbon in 40-inch, three rolls of 20% ceramic in 40-inch, two rolls of 35% ceramic in 60-inch, plus heat guns and slip solution loaded. Marcus clocks in on Time Tracker Pro with GPS location tracking, which shows the team on the live map only while they are clocked in. That is the whole morning — two bays and a van moving before 7:30.
Alex starts the dealer batch with a pre-cut kit pulled from stock against the right year, make and model, so waste stays near zero and each vehicle takes about ninety minutes. Derek takes the crossover in Bay 2 — full ceramic at 20% on sides and rear, a 70% ceramic windshield and headlight film. QuoteIQ Cam photographs intake condition first, including a rock chip on the passenger windshield and a ding on the rear quarter, before any film touches glass. After heat-shrinking the rear window and trimming the edges, the same tool captures the finished glass showing clean edges and even shade. Material use is logged through Expense Tracking against the job — 28 linear feet of 20% ceramic, 8 feet of 70% windshield film and one headlight kit — which is what makes the margin number at the end of the day real rather than estimated.
Between retail slots Derek visits a restaurant with a glass storefront. He has already run MapMeasure Pro and sized roughly 680 square feet of glazing across twelve floor-to-ceiling panels plus an entrance door, and Property Street View confirmed a south-facing elevation taking direct afternoon sun. On site he verifies the numbers and learns the owner wants heat control without darkening the dining room. He builds an Options Estimate on the spot: a reflective solar film at $7.50 per square foot, a spectrally selective ceramic at $12.50 per square foot that keeps visible light high while cutting infrared, and a dual-layer ceramic plus safety film at $18.50 per square foot. Before & After AI renders the glare-free dining room from the photo he just took. Manufacturer warranty, performance data sheet and care instructions ride along as contract attachments. The owner signs the middle tier at $8,500 with e-signature, pays a 50% deposit by card through online payments, and the deal moves to Scheduled in Pipelines.
The pickup owner comes back for his truck and likes the ceramic. Derek builds a Package Estimate on his phone at the counter: full windshield ceramic at $249, headlight film at $149, taillight film at $99, a sunroof panel at $79 and door-edge protection at $199 — $775 as separate items, offered as a $649 bundle. The base ticket was $549, so the vehicle leaves at $1,198. Job Costing recalculates immediately: $89 windshield film, $42 headlight kit, $28 taillight kit, $18 sunroof film and $35 door-edge material, plus 1.5 additional hours of labour, against $649 of added revenue. The reason this works is physical, not persuasive — the vehicle is already in the bay, already masked, already clean, and a second visit would cost an hour of setup twice over.
The dealer batch closes at $1,710 for six vehicles: six pre-cut carbon kits at $38 each, $12 of slip solution, $18 of blades and squeegees, and nine hours of tech time. Retail Bay 2 closes at $2,286 across four vehicles. Marcus logs the residential job at $3,850 against film, six hours of labour and supplies. Because the labour came from clocked hours rather than memory, Job Costing shows the real margin on each one, and dealer batches read differently from retail even when the day’s revenue looks similar — pre-cut kits eliminate waste but the per-vehicle price is lower. A pipeline review closes the day: retail appointments booked, commercial estimates pending, fleet quotes sent and dealer batches inbound, each stage carrying its own close probability.
By Friday Elite Shade Tinting has finished 28 vehicles plus two residential packages. The pickup’s before-and-after is the week’s best asset, and the Before & After Photo Editor turns it into a side-by-side worth posting. Final invoices go out for the completed work and customers settle by card or ACH. Review Multiplier fires after payment and sends the review request. Then the week’s real win lands: a property-management company with twelve office buildings wants one tinting contractor for tenant buildouts and film replacement, which Derek logs as a deal with its own stage and probability. Business analytics close the loop with revenue by service, conversion rate, average ticket and pipeline value on one dashboard.
Two of the day’s jobs — the dealer batch at $1,710 and the storefront at $8,500 — have almost nothing in common operationally. One is six low-ticket vehicles with pre-cut kits and nine hours of labour; the other is a single multi-day install with 680 square feet of film and a deposit. Without per-job costing on Pro or above, a shop cannot tell which of the two it should be selling more of.
The table below is a QuoteIQ capability map rather than a competitor scorecard, because competitor plans, seat counts and feature sets change often enough that a table like this goes stale within a quarter. For current Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan and CompanyCam pricing and inclusions, check each vendor’s own pricing page on the day you are comparing — that is the only figure worth quoting. QuoteIQ’s side-by-side breakdowns live on the comparison hub.
| Capability a tint shop needs | In QuoteIQ | Unlocks on |
|---|---|---|
| Good/Better/Best film tier pricing | Options Estimates | Essentials $29.99 |
| Bundled protection packages | Package Estimates | Essentials $29.99 |
| Customer signs on their phone | E-Signatures | Essentials $29.99 |
| AI finished-look preview | Before & After AI | Essentials $29.99 |
| Conversational CRM control | AI Autopilot — 55 tools | Essentials $29.99 |
| 24/7 inbound answering & qualifying | Virtual Call Team (credit-metered) | Essentials $29.99 |
| Satellite glass-area measurement | MapMeasure Pro | Beginner $74.99 |
| 4K intake & finish documentation | QuoteIQ Cam | Beginner $74.99 |
| Film warranty & compliance attachments | Contract Attachments | Beginner $74.99 |
| Per-vehicle / per-building profit math | Job Costing | Pro $149.99 |
| Dedicated business phone line | ClientHub | Pro $149.99 |
| QuickBooks Online sync | QuickBooks integration | Pro $149.99 |
| Film & supply stock control | Inventory Management | Elite $299 |
| Dealer / fleet / commercial pipelines | Pipelines & Deals (5 on Elite) | Elite $299 |
| Customer self-quoting and self-booking | InstaQuote & InstaSchedule | Elite $299 |
| Crew GPS, time tracking, permissions | EmployeeHub | Elite $299 |
| Route sequencing for mobile units | Route Optimization & Route Density | Elite $299 |
| Unlimited seats & crew scheduling | Crews, Sales Team Tracker | Max $699 |
Two things stand out when you read it as a tint shop rather than a generic contractor. First, the selling tools — tiered pricing, bundles, AI previews, e-signature — are all on the entry plan, so a solo installer gets the ticket-raising features on day one. Second, the operational tools that only matter once you have film stock, a mobile van and referral partners cluster on Elite. Most shops land on Pro while they are one location with a couple of techs, then move up when the van or the dealer account arrives.
A tint operation splits into three kinds of work that rarely share a schedule: high-volume bay installs, mobile residential and fleet work, and commercial projects that run for days. EmployeeHub on Elite holds all three with one permission model, an employee database carrying hourly rate and availability, and a roles-and-permissions layer that was overhauled in the August 2026 release with calendar permissions separated out properly.
Derek and one tech cover two bays. Marcus runs the van for residential and on-site fleet work. Jenna, the commercial estimator, holds a Manager role: she runs satellite measurements, builds tiered estimates with AI previews, works the pipeline and follows up through ClientHub — but her role permissions keep per-job margins and price-book editing out of reach. Everyone clocks in on Time Tracker Pro, and clocked-out staff never appear on the location map — no exceptions.
Two limits are worth stating plainly so you plan around them. QuoteIQ does not calculate overtime automatically, and there is no native payroll — hours export to whatever payroll system you already run, with break counts and durations included in reports and CSV, and admin-only manual adjustments carrying a full edit history. Team Communication covers one-to-one and group chat with job assignment, so the “which roll is on the van” question stops being a phone call. If you grow past ten seats or need crew-level scheduling and a Sales Team Tracker with commission percentages per rep, that is Max with Crews and unlimited users.
Mobile units carry a second cost most shops under-count: drive time. Route Optimization sequences the day’s stops for minimum drive time and recalculates when a job is added late, which QuoteIQ measures at a 15–30% reduction in drive time, while Route Density shows where your work clusters so you can zone the week before you sequence the day. Mileage itself is deductible at the IRS standard mileage rate, which for the second half of 2026 is 76 cents per business mile — worth logging properly through Expense Tracking rather than reconstructing in April.
A base tint that leaves without a windshield strip, headlight film or sunroof panel leaves margin on the table, and the reason is mechanical rather than psychological: the vehicle is already masked, the bay is already occupied and the prep time is already spent. Adding those items at the counter costs roughly an extra hour of labour; selling them as a separate appointment costs a full second setup, a second scheduling slot and a second chance for the customer to change their mind. Package Estimates make the bundle a single tap, and because the bundle price is built from your own price book, the saving shown to the customer is real rather than invented. Track the attach rate in analytics by service so you know which add-on actually sells, and use a price list template as a starting structure if you are formalising your menu for the first time.
Dealers want tint applied before a vehicle hits the lot, and once a relationship is established the work arrives in batches of four to eight with pre-cut kits and almost no consultation time. That makes dealer work the most predictable revenue a tint shop can hold and usually its cleanest margin per labour hour, even at a lower per-vehicle price. The failure mode is treating it as ad-hoc: a dealer relationship needs a named owner, a stage and a follow-up cadence, which is exactly what a dedicated board in Pipelines & Deals provides, with weighted value showing what the relationship is worth against its close probability rather than its best case. Batch invoicing for the month runs from the calendar, and Invoice Subscriptions handle a standing monthly arrangement without rekeying it.
Fleet work — service vans, delivery vehicles, corporate motor pools — behaves like dealer work with longer lead times and more paperwork. The win condition is usually documentation rather than price: a fleet manager needs to see the film specification, the warranty and the per-vehicle record. Contract Attachments keep the spec sheet and warranty bound to every estimate, QuoteIQ Cam builds the per-vehicle photo record, and data export hands their procurement team the summary they will ask for. If the account runs across several depots, Route Density tells you whether an on-site week is cheaper than bringing vehicles in.
Every building with a west or south elevation is a solar-film candidate, and property managers strongly prefer one contractor for tenant buildouts and film replacement across a portfolio. Commercial jobs are larger, slower and more document-heavy than automotive, and they lead to multi-year maintenance relationships. Pre-measure elevations with MapMeasure Pro so the walk-through is a confirmation rather than a survey, present three film tiers on one Options Estimate, and let the manager approve and pay from the Client Portal without chasing a signature. For portfolio-scale work the Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns is a free way to size how many establishments in your county actually fit your target profile before you spend a month prospecting.
Retail pays the bills this week, dealer batches smooth the month, fleet accounts smooth the quarter and commercial contracts smooth the year. A shop running only the first one is a shop whose January looks nothing like its July — which is the argument for running all four as separate boards inside Pipelines & Deals rather than one undifferentiated lead list.
Automotive tint sits inside a two-layer rule set, and getting the paperwork right is cheaper than getting it wrong. At the federal level, motor-vehicle glazing is governed by the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, codified in title 49, part 571 of the Code of Federal Regulations and published by NHTSA. On top of that, every state sets its own visible-light-transmission limits by window position, its own rules on reflectivity and windshield strips, and its own medical-exemption process. Those limits differ enough between neighbouring states that a mobile unit crossing a state line is working to a different number that afternoon.
Practically, that means three documents should ride with every automotive job: the film’s manufacturer specification showing the VLT you actually installed, the warranty, and a signed acknowledgement where a customer requested a shade outside the standard limit under an exemption. Contract Attachments bind all three to the estimate so they are stored against the customer rather than in a folder in the office, and e-signatures capture the acknowledgement on the customer’s own phone at the counter. Because editing an estimate after it has been sent automatically voids an outstanding signature request, you cannot accidentally end up with a signature attached to a superseded scope.
Documentation protects you on the physical side too. Inspection Forms turn intake into a repeatable checklist with customisable PDF sections — existing chips, scratches, delaminating factory tint, aftermarket defroster damage — and QuoteIQ Cam timestamps the photographic record to the job. A tint shop that photographs the rear defroster grid before removing old film almost never loses that argument afterwards. Keep the completed reports in the customer’s documentation archive and the same record answers a warranty question three years later.
If you are costing a second installer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts median pay for automotive body and glass repairers at $52,530 a year — about $25.25 an hour — across roughly 185,800 jobs in 2025, with 4% growth projected through 2035. For the architectural side, glaziers sit at $57,080 a year, or $27.44 an hour. Put your real loaded rate into Job Costing and every per-vehicle margin on this page recalculates against reality.
Architectural film is a comfort-and-energy sale, and the customer who buys it is rarely asking for a darker building. A restaurant owner wants the afternoon glare off the dining room without losing the daylight; an office manager wants the south-facing floor to stop fighting the air conditioning at 3pm; a retailer wants UV control to stop merchandise fading in the display window. The vocabulary that wins those conversations is visible light transmission, infrared rejection and UV rejection as three separate numbers — which is exactly the structure an Options Estimate displays well, because the customer can see that the middle tier keeps the room bright while doing most of the heat work.
Indoor conditions carry real weight in that conversation. The EPA notes that Americans spend roughly 90% of their time indoors, which is why tenant comfort complaints reach a property manager long before an energy bill does. Frame the estimate around the room rather than the glass and the premium tier stops looking like an upsell.
Operationally, commercial jobs need a different build than automotive. Size elevations from satellite with MapMeasure Pro and attach the measurement screenshot as proof of scope. Price per square foot on a Standard Estimate when each elevation differs, and reserve the tiered Options format for the film decision itself. Schedule multi-day installs as one continuous event on the calendar, collect a deposit through online payments, and let the building contact approve the balance from the Client Portal. If the customer needs to spread the cost, Consumer Financing is available on every plan and the contractor is paid in full upfront. For NAICS coding on tenders and vendor registrations, the Census Bureau’s NAICS reference is the authoritative lookup, and the SBA’s business management guidance covers the accounting-method question — cash versus accrual — that usually surfaces the first time a shop takes a large deposit.
The argument for QuoteIQ is not only the tint-specific tooling. It is that the quoting app, the scheduler, the photo tool, the business phone, the review request and the books stop being separate subscriptions with separate logins and separate monthly bills.
Alongside those, every plan carries the AI suite — AI Autopilot, AI Estimator, Before & After AI, AI Text Generator and the Virtual Call Team — plus e-signatures, invoice subscriptions, Google Calendar sync, website contact forms, a customer database with mass import, reminders and tasks, tips on invoices, job galleries, full iOS, Android and web parity and data export. Multi-location operators can run additional businesses, and the whole feature list sits on the features hub. If you are moving off another CRM, AI Smart Import maps a CSV export from your old system automatically.
Customers settle invoices by credit or debit card, ACH bank transfer, Apple Pay or Google Pay online, with cash and cheque recorded in the app. Payouts and bank details are configured in settings, and recurring auto-pay is supported. QuoteIQ subscriptions themselves are billed through Whop for new accounts. Processing fees vary by method, configuration, risk profile, industry and volume, so ask during your trial rather than budgeting off a headline rate.
Five plans, priced by seats and monthly IQ Credits rather than by locking the selling tools behind a tier. Annual billing is the monthly price multiplied by ten, so two months are free on every plan. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial of the plan you choose.
For a single-bay shop with one installer, Essentials at $29.99 already carries tiered film pricing, package bundles, AI previews and e-signature — the four things that move a ticket. Add a second person and satellite measurement and you are on Beginner at $74.99. The moment you want per-vehicle profit, a business line and the books to reconcile themselves, that is Pro at $149.99 for four users. Elite at $299 for ten users is where most established tint shops settle, because film inventory, dealer pipelines and crew GPS all sit there together. Max at $699 removes the seat cap, uncaps pipelines and includes the AI Website Builder that is a $34.99 monthly add-on elsewhere.
A note on IQ Credits, since they are the one part of the pricing people ask about twice. Credits are the in-app currency for AI actions, included monthly on every plan, reset each billing cycle, and never a separate AI subscription. A Virtual Call Team minute costs 125 credits, an AI AutoMeasure runs 100, a property lookup 50, and ClientHub messaging is a few credits per SMS. Every AI action shows its credit cost and asks for confirmation before it runs, so there is no surprise draw. Credits have no cash value and are not refundable once purchased or consumed, and the core CRM never requires them — you can run estimates, invoicing, scheduling and job costing without spending a single credit. Top-up packs are available if a heavy month of AI previews runs you short, and a calculator pass on your own numbers is the fastest way to decide which tier fits.
QuoteIQ is the strongest fit for window tinting services in 2026 because it covers the four jobs a tint shop does that generic field-service software does not. Tiered film pricing runs through Options Estimates on every plan from $29.99 a month, so dyed, carbon and ceramic sit on one document. Glass area is sized from satellite with MapMeasure Pro from $74.99. Per-vehicle profit is calculated by Job Costing from $149.99. Dealer, fleet and commercial leads run as separate boards in Pipelines & Deals from $299. Around that sit a dedicated business line in ClientHub, 4K intake documentation in QuoteIQ Cam and an AI suite on every tier. More than 40,000 contractors run QuoteIQ at a 4.7 average across 4,103 reviews. For trade context on the installers you will be hiring, the Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks the automotive glass occupation directly.
QuoteIQ runs from $29.99 to $699 per month across five plans, and annual billing is the monthly price times ten, so two months are free. Essentials is $29.99 for one user and 500 IQ Credits. Beginner is $74.99 for two users and 1,500 credits, adding satellite measurement and 4K documentation. Pro is $149.99 for four users and 3,000 credits, adding job costing, a business phone line and QuickBooks Online. Elite is $299 for ten users and 5,000 credits, adding film inventory, pipelines and EmployeeHub. Max is $699 for unlimited users and 8,000 credits. Optional extras include the AI Website Builder at $34.99 a month, which is included on Max. Rival platforms restructure their tiers often enough that any figure printed in an article ages badly, so price them on each vendor’s own live pricing page on the day you compare. For the wider cost picture around the software itself, the SBA covers how to budget recurring operating costs against revenue.
Use an Options Estimate, which presents Good, Better and Best as three columns on one document the customer compares in a single view. A worked example for a four-door sedan at 20% shade: dyed at $199, carbon at $389, nano-ceramic at $549, each row carrying its own heat-rejection description and warranty term. Commercial glazing uses the same structure priced per square foot. Options Estimates are included on every plan from $29.99, alongside Standard, Quick and Package formats. Every estimate can carry photos, terms, your licence number, a deposit requirement and an e-signature the customer completes on their phone, and a Before & After AI preview of the finished glass. If you are building your price menu for the first time, the free business calculators are a faster starting point than a blank spreadsheet, and the SBA covers the pricing and accounting basics underneath it.
Yes. MapMeasure Pro, included from Beginner at $74.99 a month, measures square footage from aerial imagery inside estimate creation, with drawing tools for irregular elevations and every measurement saved to the customer profile. For a commercial storefront that means sizing the glazed area and pricing the elevation before the walk-through, then attaching the measurement screenshot to the estimate as visual proof of scope. A historical imagery timeline lets you scroll back through years of aerial photographs of the same property. Property Street View shows the facade and its orientation so you know which elevation takes the afternoon sun, and Zillow Quick Access pulls property detail on residential jobs. Pair it with QuoteIQ Cam on site. For the energy argument that sells the premium film, the EPA notes people spend about 90% of their time indoors.
Yes, on Elite at $299 a month and above. Inventory Management runs five modules — Products, Locations, Suppliers, Orders and Transactions — so each film roll carries a SKU, unit cost, reorder point and an In Stock, Low or Out indicator, which is how you separate 20% ceramic in 40-inch from 35% ceramic in 60-inch rather than treating them as one line. Locations track the shop, the mobile van and an active commercial site separately. Orders move Draft to Confirmed to Received, and receiving automatically creates the receipt transaction. Materials on estimates and invoices link back to products so pricing stays current, and stock deducts when the invoice is paid — a deposit alone does not move stock. Pair it with Expense Tracking so roll cost lands against the right job and Job Costing reports real margin. The Census NAICS reference is the standard code lookup for supplier accounts.
Through Job Costing, included from Pro at $149.99 a month. Every job gets a Report tab that takes the total price, subtracts labour and expenses and shows profit with a margin bar. Labour pulls automatically from clocked hours at the employee’s hourly rate through Time Tracker Pro, so a ninety-minute dealer vehicle and a sixteen-hour storefront are measured the same way without anyone reconstructing timesheets. Film, pre-cut kits and consumables attach to the job through Expense Tracking with receipts, and QuickBooks Online carries the result into your books. Business analytics then roll it up by service, customer and employee so you can see whether dealer batches or retail ceramic actually pay better. Drive time is a real cost too: log mileage at the IRS rate, 76 cents per business mile for the second half of 2026.
Run them as separate boards in Pipelines & Deals, included from Elite at $299 a month, where each stage carries a close probability and the weighted value equals amount multiplied by probability — so a dealer relationship is forecast at what it is likely worth rather than its best case. Elite supports up to five pipelines and Max is uncapped. Six-metric analytics cover total, weighted, open, closed-won, new and average deal age. Around the board, ClientHub gives the account a dedicated business line with call routing for after-hours dealer calls, the Virtual Call Team answers and qualifies around the clock at 125 IQ Credits per minute, Contract Attachments keep film specs and warranties bound to every estimate, and Invoice Subscriptions handle standing monthly arrangements. County Business Patterns helps size the dealer market in your county first.
Yes. 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. The trial converts to the selected plan’s rate at the end unless you cancel before it expires, and you can cancel at any point during the trial. Choosing the right plan to trial matters, because the trial mirrors that plan: trial Beginner at $74.99 if satellite measurement is the feature you are evaluating, Pro at $149.99 if it is job costing and a business line, and Elite at $299 if you need film inventory and dealer pipelines. Bring your existing customer list with you — AI Smart Import maps a CSV export from your old CRM automatically — and build two or three real tiered estimates in week one. The SBA has useful guidance on evaluating business software.
A full walkthrough of estimates, scheduling, job costing and the AI suite inside QuoteIQ.
Watch Video →Create the account at the pricing page and pick the tier that matches the feature you are evaluating, because the 14-day trial mirrors the plan you choose rather than opening everything. You can cancel at any point before the trial converts.
Export a CSV from your old CRM and let AI Smart Import map the columns, or import straight from your phone contacts. Then build the price book around film tiers rather than single prices, so Options Estimates assemble themselves. Load your protection packages at the same time.
Put one retail vehicle, one dealer batch and one commercial elevation through the system end to end — measure, quote all three film tiers, attach an AI preview, collect an e-signature and take the deposit through online payments. One real job teaches more than a week of demo data.
Switch on email and text automations for estimate follow-ups, set Review Multiplier to fire after payment, connect QuickBooks Online, and check the Job Costing report on your first completed vehicle. If the margin surprises you, that is the system working.
QuoteIQ was founded in September 2022 in Savannah, Georgia by two home service operators who ran crews before they wrote software, which is why the plan ladder gates seats and credits rather than the tools that win jobs.
“Same day. Not tomorrow morning — same day. Whoever sends a clear, specific estimate first is the one the customer starts comparing everyone else to. That’s a psychological anchor, and it’s real.”
— Mike Vidan, Co-Founder, QuoteIQ · Full insights →“Around $75,000 to $100,000 in annual revenue is where the invisible cost of manual management typically starts exceeding what software would cost. The most expensive thing in manual management isn’t the time spent on the tasks — it’s the revenue lost to the things that don’t get done.”
— Justin Rogers, Co-Founder, QuoteIQ · Full insights →“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”
Kyler Clay · Google Play“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“I was nervous switching systems, but QuoteIQ made the move seamless. Everything from customer details to quote follow-ups is now automated and stress-free.”
Emilio Deonna · App StoreTiered film pricing, satellite glass measurement, per-vehicle job costing, film inventory, dealer and fleet pipelines and an AI suite on every plan — from $29.99 per month.
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Estimates
Create and send professional estimates.
Invoicing
Send, track and collect invoices.
QuoteIQ Cam
Capture and document every job with ease.
Scheduling
Schedule jobs to your calendar in seconds.
Inspection Forms
Create and complete inspection reports.
MapMeasure Pro
Measure and price properties instantly.
Business Analytics
Real-time insight into your performance.
EmployeeHub
Assign, schedule & pay employees.
Virtual Call Team
Never miss a call with 24/7 AJ, assistant.
ClientHub
Send and keep messages inside QuoteIQ.
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Allow customers to create estimates themselves.
InstaSchedule
Let clients schedule appointments themselves.
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