Roofers, with gumption.
Roofing software for photo quotes, scaffold dates and wet weeks
Roofers spend their days on ladders and their evenings writing quotes. We build roofing firms the software that turns photos of a roof into a quote before you've left the drive and keeps scaffold and weather in one diary, plus the marketing that brings in jobs worth climbing for.
Sound familiar?
Quotes for a roof the customer can't see.
The customer can't get up there, so they're taking your word that the lead flashing has split or the felt has perished. A quote that just says "roof repairs" and a number looks like guesswork next to a rival's with close-up photos. Getting those photos off your phone and into a proper quote tonight is the hard part.
Scaffold, skips and the weather, all at once.
A re-roof needs scaffold up before you start, a skip on the drive, materials delivered on the right morning and a dry run of days. Then the forecast changes. Now the scaffolder, the merchant and the customer all need ringing, and the job after this one moves too. That's a lot of phone calls to make from a ladder.
Call-outs after every storm.
When the wind gets up, the phone rings with slipped tiles, missing ridge tiles and a leak over the landing. Every caller is urgent and some need a make-safe today. Keeping track of who rang, who's been visited, who needs a tarp and who's still waiting for a quote is hard to do on scraps of paper in the van.
Watertight roofs. Watertight paperwork.
Roofing software built around weather and scaffold.
Every system is built around how your roofing firm already works. Here are some of the things we'd build for roofers. Job management. How our bespoke systems work.
Photo quotes built on site.
Take photos as you inspect, circle the problem and add a note, then drop them into a quote with your own prices for tiles, lead, membrane and labour. Scaffold and skip hire sit on their own lines, so nothing is buried. The customer gets a clean PDF with pictures of their roof, not a number in a text.
A job diary that knows about scaffold.
Each job shows the days it needs, when the scaffold goes up and comes down, when materials arrive and when the skip is due. Move a job for rain and you get a list of who to tell, with a text ready for the customer. Scaffold that's up but idle stands out, so it doesn't sit there for a fortnight.
A storm call-out list.
After a blow, every call goes on one list with the address, what they've seen and any photos they've sent. Sort by area to plan the day, mark make-safes and tarps as done, then turn each visit into a quote for the proper repair. Nobody gets forgotten because their details were on the back of a merchant's receipt.
Sign-off with before and after photos.
When the job is finished, the crew takes the finished photos and the customer signs off on a phone or tablet. They get a summary by email with before and after pictures, the work done and any guarantee you give. The invoice comes from the same record, so it goes out the day the scaffold comes down.
Materials lists for every job.
Quote a job and the materials list is already there: tiles, battens, membrane, lead, ridge and fixings. Turn it into an order for your merchant, or a checklist for the yard, so the van leaves with everything. Costs logged against each job show whether that flat roof paid as well as you thought.
Where AI helps roofers.
Roofing admin happens at ground level, usually after dark. AI takes the first pass at the writing, and you're still the one who has been up the ladder. How we use AI.
- Storm calls, logged in orderAfter a windy night, every caller gets an answer and lands on your storm list with the address, the damage they can see and whether water is coming in.
- Quotes from the ladderPhotos from the ladder and a voice note about the flashing turn into a draft quote at your own rates, ready to check before you've packed the ladders away.
- Before and after, written upTalk through what you replaced as you come down. Once you've read it, the customer gets a short written report with the before and after photos, handy for their insurer.
Showing up when someone searches roofer near me.
Roofing searches come in two kinds. After a storm it's "roofer near me" or "roof repairs near me", typed by someone with a bucket on the landing. Otherwise it's planned, "flat roof replacement Leeds" or "new roof cost", because it's a big spend. Both usually start on Google's map listings. We set up your Google Business Profile with your services and areas, and build a website with a page for each type of work you want more of.
Roofing has a trust problem that isn't your fault. People have heard stories, and they can't see the work you've done. So we show it: real photos of your roofs, your crew and your scaffold, before and after, with the town named. Reviews asked for the day a job is signed off carry weight with the next customer. A tidy van, a matching quote and a website that looks the same quietly say you're the proper sort.
An illustration, not a real client
Example: a small roofing firm with one van.
This is an invented illustration of what we'd build, not a real client. Imagine a roofing firm with one van, two roofers and a labourer, doing repairs most weeks and the occasional re-roof. We'd give the owner a roofing quote app on their phone that turns roof photos into a clean PDF before they leave the drive. The diary shows scaffold, skips and materials for each job, and wet days move with a text to every customer affected. After a storm, every call-out lands on one list.
Questions roofers ask.
What would roofing software like this cost?
It depends on what you need, so there's no price list. A roofer doing repairs on their own needs something much smaller than a firm running two crews on re-roofs. We'll talk through how you quote and plan now, then give you a fixed price for the build. Plenty of firms start with photo quotes, the part that eats the most evenings, and add the rest later.
Will it work on my phone on site?
It's built for phones first, with big buttons for gloved hands and photos that save even when the signal drops out. We'd suggest taking the photos on the roof and building the quote once you're back on the ground, but that's your call. The office side runs on a normal computer and sees the same jobs, photos and quotes.
Can the quote show scaffold as a separate cost?
Yes, and it's usually worth doing. Scaffold is a big line on most roof quotes, and a customer who can see it separately understands why the total is what it is. You can price it from your scaffolder's rates, add hire weeks and show it next to skip hire and materials, so the labour figure isn't carrying everything.
What happens when rain stops a job halfway through?
You move the remaining days, and the system shows everything tied to them: the scaffold hire, the skip, any deliveries and the next job waiting. Customers get a polite text with the new dates. You'll also see where scaffold is standing idle, which helps when you're talking to your scaffolder about extending the hire or getting it struck.
Can it help with storm damage and insurance jobs?
It can keep what an insurance job tends to need in one place: dated photos of the damage, notes from your inspection, the make-safe you did and a clear quote for the repair. You can send the customer a tidy report to pass on to their insurer. We won't pretend to know every insurer's process, but good records rarely hurt.
Why not use off-the-shelf roofing business software?
Tools like Tradify, Joblogic and ServiceM8 suit plenty of roofers, and if one fits the way you work, you should use it. We build something when your firm doesn't fit their shape, perhaps the way you price, the way you plan scaffold, or wanting quotes, website and marketing to join up. We'll tell you honestly which camp you're in.
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Tell us how things run now, paper, spreadsheets and all. We'll tell you honestly what we'd build for a roofer like you, and what we wouldn't bother with.