Best roofing software in 2026 for contractors

Roofing software splits along a line most comparison articles ignore. A restoration shop and a retail replacement shop do different work, sell to different buyers, and get paid by different people. Buying the wrong side of that line is how roofers end up paying restoration-platform money to run repair jobs, or trying to fight an adjuster from a tool built for scheduling lawn crews.

Do you need restoration software or retail software?

Answer this before you look at a single feature list. If more than half your revenue comes through insurance claims, you are a restoration shop, your customer is functionally the adjuster, and your operating problem is scope and supplements. If most of your revenue is homeowners paying for a replacement or a repair out of pocket or through financing, you are retail, your customer is the homeowner, and your problem is closing the sale and collecting on schedule.

Plenty of roofers do both, and then the honest answer is the majority of your work should drive the decision, with the minority handled a little manually. Running two systems is worse than running one imperfect one.

The picks, tool by tool

Claver, $19 to $79 per month: best value for retail and repair

Claver is flat-priced with no per-seat fees: Starter $19/mo for two users, Crew $39/mo for eight, Business $79/mo for twenty. For a retail roofer the useful set sits on Crew: a sales pipeline that follows a lead from doorknock to deposit, photo-heavy job records with timestamped images, milestone invoices each stage sends for the customer to pay by card or ACH, and free subcontractor seats for 1099 installers. Business adds lead-source ROI tracking that follows the Google click ID through to the signed job, which matters when roofing keywords run $40 to $120 a click and you are guessing at which ones pay.

The limits, plainly. Claver does not do aerial roof measurement, and it does not integrate with EagleView or Hover today, so you order those reports separately and enter the squares yourself. It is also not an insurance restoration platform: there is no Xactimate integration and no supplement pipeline built around adjuster correspondence. What it does well is everything from the sales conversation to money in the bank on a retail job. If that is your business, the flat price is hard to beat. See Claver for roofing.

AccuLynx: the full roofing CRM

AccuLynx is a roofing-specific, all-in-one platform covering sales pipeline, production management, and financials, with add-ons for document automation, messaging, customer portals, payments, and crew management. It is the default answer for a serious restoration shop and it is a genuinely deep product. It publishes no pricing and sells through a quote process, so plan for a sales conversation and an implementation period rather than a card-and-go signup. Worth every dollar at the right size; a poor fit for a two-crew repair outfit.

JobNimbus: pipeline-first, restoration and retail

JobNimbus is the other name roofers reliably shortlist, with sales boards, estimating, proposals through a SumoQuote integration, aerial measurements ordered through their Measurements product, payments, financing, and QuickBooks sync. Plans are Essentials for up to 3 users, Pro for up to 10, Premium for up to 19, and Enterprise above 20, but the company publishes no dollar figures and prices by user count and add-ons. Verified on their pricing page September 12, 2026. Strong choice, unknown cost until you call.

Roofr: best for measurements plus proposals

Roofr is the roofing-specific tool that publishes every number, which is worth something on its own in this category. Verified September 12, 2026: Starter is $0/mo with measurement reports at $19 each, Measure+ is $109/mo, Essentials is $249/mo, and Scale is $349/mo, with reports dropping to $13 each on any paid plan and always pay as you go. Annual billing saves up to 15%. Add-ons are priced separately: Instant Estimator $125/mo, Roofr Sites $85/mo, and an AI Receptionist $85/mo.

The free Starter tier makes it an easy first purchase for a small shop that mainly needs measurements and a decent-looking proposal, without committing to a platform. It is a measurement and sales tool rather than a full service-side operations system, so a roofer doing repairs and maintenance alongside replacements will still want scheduling, dispatch, and recurring billing somewhere. Plenty of shops run Roofr for the quote and something flat-priced for the work.

Jobber and Housecall Pro: the general-purpose options

Jobber suits a repair-led roofer who wants the least friction getting a crew onto a mobile app. Core is $49/mo month to month or $29 billed annually for one user, verified September 27, 2026. Housecall Pro leans into homeowner-facing marketing, with Max at $349/mo for one user or $649/mo for an 8-user team. Neither is built for insurance work, and both will feel thin the first time you need a supplement package. For a shop doing gutter and repair work alongside roofs, they are reasonable. Compare on Claver vs Jobber.

Does roofing software include aerial roof measurements?

Nearly none of it does. Aerial measurement is a separate service you buy per report and either paste into your estimate or pull in through an integration. Treat it as a line item in your cost of sale, not a software feature you are entitled to.

EagleView publishes residential report pricing, verified September 12, 2026. Pay as you go on their Bronze plan, a small roof of about 20 squares is $32.75, a medium 40-square roof is $60, and a large roof above 40 squares is $87. Volume plans cut that: the same reports are $27.50, $54.75, and $81.25 on Silver, and $24.25, $49, and $75.50 on Gold. Their Full House report runs $105 down to $91. Platinum is call for pricing. Read the low end as the volume-plan floor, not what a two-crew shop pays.

Roofr is the cheaper entry point and publishes its numbers too, verified September 12, 2026: measurement reports are $19 each on the free Starter plan and $13 each on any paid plan, always pay as you go. That is a meaningful gap at 30 quotes a month.

Two practical notes. First, price the report into the job rather than absorbing it, because at 30 quotes a month a $30 report is $900 of unbilled cost. Second, a report is not an inspection. It tells you squares, pitch, and facets; it does not tell you the decking is soft over the north valley. Walk it, or send someone who will, and document what you find with the roofing inspection checklist.

What gets an insurance supplement approved?

Photo evidence, organized well enough that the adjuster does not have to ask you for anything. The software brand matters far less than the discipline. The shops that get supplements approved in days rather than weeks are the ones taking 60 to 100 timestamped photos per job and bundling them into a single PDF in three clearly labeled groups: pre-job conditions, in-progress detail, and post-job completion.

Each supplement line needs a photograph that makes the case on its own. Ice-and-water shield at the eaves means a photo of the existing detail and the code reference. Drip edge means a photo showing there was none. Decking replacement means a photo of the soft sheathing with a measuring tape in frame. An adjuster denying a supplement with that in front of them has to write down a reason, and most will not bother.

NRCA publishes the technical backing for a lot of these arguments through the NRCA Roofing Manual, which covers design, materials, and installation techniques across roof system types, alongside standards such as ANSI/SPRI/FM 4435/ES-1 for edge metal. Citing a published standard rather than your own preference changes the tone of a supplement conversation.

How should a roofer handle deposits and progress billing?

Tie each payment to a physical event rather than a date, so the homeowner can see what they are paying for. A common residential structure:

1. 30% at contract signing. This is the commitment, and it covers your permit and mobilization.
2. 40% at material delivery. The shingles are on the driveway and visible, which makes this the easiest payment you will ever collect.
3. 30% at completion. After final inspection and the site is clean, not before.

Check your state law before you set the first number, because several states cap what a home-improvement contractor may collect up front, and a few require a written contract with specific notice language above a dollar threshold. Whatever structure you choose, automate the charge. Milestone billing in Claver triggers a Stripe charge or ACH pull at each stage, which is the difference between collecting on delivery day and remembering to invoice on Thursday. The how to price a roofing job guide covers what the numbers should be before you split them into milestones, and the job profit margin calculator shows what is left after materials and labor.

How should roofing software handle subcontractor crews?

Most roofing installs run on 1099 crews, and per-seat software pricing punishes that structure hard. Four things to check:

• What a sub seat costs. If installers cost the same as office staff, a three-crew shop pays a lot for people who open the app twice a day. Claver includes free subcontractor seats on Crew at $39/mo.
• What a sub can see. The crew needs the job, the address, the scope, and somewhere to upload photos. They do not need your customer list, your margins, or your other jobs.
• Certificate of insurance tracking. Store the COI with an expiry date and an alert. An expired certificate on a crew that just fell off a roof is a very expensive filing error.
• Per-crew cost tracking. You cannot tell which crew is profitable if labor is one number. Track cost per job per crew and the answer is usually surprising.

Roofing is also the trade where OSHA fall protection exposure is highest, so whatever system you run, put the safety documentation where the crew already looks rather than in a binder in the office. Full plan detail is on pricing, and Claver for roofing walks through the rest of the setup.