Roofing estimating software that bids from the roof, not from a report you paid for.
Curbsight is roofing estimating software that drafts the bid from the roof itself. Trace the roof on satellite or on a photo from the driveway and the squares, the pitch per facet and the linear take-off come with it. The estimate prices from your own price book, the proposal carries one, two or three options, the homeowner picks and signs on their phone, and the material order and the invoice build from the same numbers. No report to order, no fee per roof, at any volume.
What roofing estimating software has to do
A roofing bid is four things in a row: a measurement you trust, quantities that follow it, prices that are yours, and a document the homeowner signs before the competitor's truck pulls up. The industry sells the first one per roof, per report, forever, on a roof somebody already chose, and the other three in a second tool. Curbsight does all four in one app, and it starts one step earlier, on the map that says which roof to bid. The office half, the pipeline, the invoice and the books, is the roofing CRM; the door half is roofing canvassing software.
The measurement: trace the roof, read what you drew
The workbench traces a roof in three passes over satellite imagery, a drone orthophoto or a photo from the driveway: the shape for the total area, the facets for the slopes, the lines for the runs. Out of it come the squares to the tenth, the pitch per facet, and the linear take-off: ridge, hip, valley, eave and rake, the five numbers that turn a shingle order into the right count of drip edge and ridge cap. Where the pitch has been measured it is on the card with its source; where it has not, the card says it is assuming 6/12 and tells the rep to confirm on the roof. Nothing is rounded and no waste is added on the rep's behalf; both are switches he flips, and the card says which he flipped. A saved take-off reads back on the phone the same way, squares, valleys, hips and ridge, so the crew sees what the rep drew.
| The take-off line | Where it comes from | What it drives in the estimate |
|---|---|---|
| Squares | The traced area, per facet, with pitch applied | Shingles, underlayment, starter, ice and water: every line your book prices in squares |
| Pitch per facet | Measured where it has been measured; otherwise the card says it is assuming 6/12 and asks the rep to confirm on the roof | The multiplier on every area, and the labor tier |
| Ridge and hip | The linear take-off, drawn on the roof | Ridge cap, hip and ridge vent |
| Valley | The linear take-off | Valley metal, ice and water in the valleys |
| Eave and rake | The linear take-off | Drip edge, starter, gutter apron |
| Waste and rounding | The rep's choice, never applied on his behalf | The order figure: what actually gets bought |
From the take-off to the signed bid
The estimate drafts itself from the roof
Pick the price book and the estimate is written: every line your book prices in squares takes its quantity from the roof the rep just measured, so changing the trace moves every quantity, subtotal and total at once. The measurement is the spine. Lines the roof does not drive, boots per penetration, starter along the eave, keep the quantity your book says until the rep edits it on the step, and the box is right there. In a live market a draft can exist before anyone visits, from the building's own footprint; the trace is what makes it a bid.
Your price book, not a sample one
A price book is a package: your shingle, your underlayment, your labor tier, your margin, as many books as you sell. Keep a good, a better and a best, or one per manufacturer. A Roofr price catalog imports as it is; a spreadsheet from anywhere else maps by column. Nothing in the estimate is anyone's number but yours.
The proposal the homeowner signs
One, two or three options from the same take-off on one link, your branding and your terms on it. The homeowner picks the option on their phone, the total updates, they sign, and the signed proposal lands on the job as the contract. A Field rep sends one signable proposal with his name on it; Curbsight OS carries the templates, the multi-option builder and the terms library.
The order and the invoice, from the same numbers
On Curbsight OS the material order builds from the estimate and goes to ABC Supply at live branch pricing, or prints as a sheet for any other supplier. The invoice generates from the estimate, the homeowner pays it on a link, and it lands in QuickBooks Online without being re-typed. The insurance supplement builder reads the same job.
The step before the estimate: which roof to bid
Every measurement report in the industry starts with somebody choosing a house. On a per-report tool that choice comes from a referral, a call or a rep's hunch about a street. With scored territory, Curbsight's map arrives with every home in your zips ranked 0–100 by how likely it is to need the work, the roof age estimate on the card, and every hail swath drawn street by street with the days left on the carrier's filing window. The estimate is the last step, not the first. How the ranking is built stays ours; the doors it puts at the top of the list are on the screen at a demo, on your own zips. The whole field-sales stack is on roofing sales software.
What roofing estimating software costs
The measurement workbench and the measurements book, your price books, the multi-option branded proposal with your terms, material ordering from the estimate, invoicing with QuickBooks sync, the supplement builder, and the whole roofing CRM behind it. From one seat, no minimum, month-to-month. 7-day trial with no card, 14 days with one. No per-report fee, ever.
A roof measurement at the door, a proposal the homeowner signs on their phone, and payment on the spot, with the rep's canvassing day around it. One rate at every seat count, self-serve with a 7-day trial, no seat minimum, no setup fee, no contract, no per-report fee.
Roofing estimating software compared: Curbsight vs Roofr and RoofSnap
The two estimating tools a roofer is most likely paying per report today, on the five rows that decide the bid. Each cell is read from the full comparison page it links to, so this table and those pages cannot disagree. Competitor prices are from their published pages, dated on each page. EagleView, the other per-report measurement, shows up on the JobNimbus, AccuLynx and RoofIT comparisons as the report those CRMs charge for on top.
| Row | Curbsight | Roofr | RoofSnap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roof measurements | Computed automatically for your territory — no per-report fee | Ordered reports, $13–19 each on top of the subscription (2-hr guarantee on paid plans) | Technician-produced reports from aerial and satellite imagery, ordered one roof at a time; published turnaround as of August 2026 is 2-4 hours standard during business hours, about 30 minutes on rush and 60 minutes guaranteed on commercial or roofs over 50 squares; unlimited draw-it-yourself measurements included with a subscription |
| What a measurement costs | Included — no per-order fee, at any volume | Free–$349/mo tiers + per-report fees + add-ons (estimator, sites, SMS) | Per order and per user, published and never flat — orders bill on top of the subscription; the chart and the dates are in the pricing note below |
| Estimates and proposals | Estimate drafts itself from computed roof square footage; multi-option good/better/best proposals from your own templates, homeowner picks, signed total flows into the job | Polished proposals (good/better/best) built from the ordered report | Five custom estimates in a good-better-best format in under 10 seconds, branded reports and contracts |
| Finding the roof to bid | Every property scored 0–100 on a map, before the first knock | Not provided — instant-quote widget captures inbound (add-on) | Measures and quotes a roof you already chose |
| Getting paid | Invoicing + online payments + QuickBooks Online sync | Invoicing + payments; QuickBooks sync is limited (their most-repeated review complaint) | Deposits and full payments in-app with 40+ payment methods, homeowner financing through Acorn Finance |
The order chart and the dates the RoofSnap cells refer to are on its comparison page. The full pages: Curbsight vs Roofr · Curbsight vs RoofSnap · the real math on per-report fees · roofing software pricing, every vendor.