San Francisco, CA
DOORS ESTIMATING.

## Door Estimating Built for San Francisco Contractors San Francisco is not a standard market. You are working in a dense urban grid where Victorian and Edwardian stock dominates, seismic retrofit mandates reshape rough openings, and the Department of Building Inspection (DBI) moves on its own timeline. A generic estimating spreadsheet does not account for any of that. Estimate.Pro does. ### What Makes Door Work Different in San Francisco **Historic and pre-code construction.** A large share of residential and commercial buildings in neighborhoods like the Mission, Castro, Hayes Valley, and Noe Valley predate modern framing standards. Non-standard rough opening sizes are the rule, not the exception. Your estimate has to account for header work, shimming, and custom-size sourcing before you even price the door unit itself. **Seismic considerations.** California Building Code Title 24 and the city's mandatory soft-story retrofit program have pushed significant changes to door frame and threshold requirements in multi-unit residential buildings. Cripple walls, hold-downs, and altered rough openings add scope that flat-rate pricing will miss. Estimate.Pro's scope builder lets you flag structural line items so they appear clearly on the bid — protecting you and setting accurate client expectations. **ADA and Title 24 access compliance.** Commercial tenant improvement work in San Francisco routinely triggers path-of-travel upgrades under CBC Chapter 11B. Door hardware, clearance widths, thresholds, and closer specifications are all compliance checkpoints. Build those line items into your template once inside Estimate.Pro and they pull forward on every relevant job. **Permit fees and DBI review time.** The San Francisco DBI charges permit fees on a valuation-based schedule. For a straightforward door replacement on a commercial property, permit fees can run $350–$700 depending on declared valuation and whether a structural element is involved. Factor those fees into your estimate or you absorb them on every job. ### The 8-Minute Bid Workflow Estimate.Pro is built around a single sequence: walkthrough the job, capture measurements, generate a scoped estimate, send it. 1. **AR measurement on-site.** On supported devices, ONNX-assisted live AR measurement captures opening dimensions in real time. On any phone or tablet, photo measurements give you a marked estimate you can refine in the office. Either way, you leave the site with numbers, not notes on a napkin. 2. **AI scope-of-work generation.** Describe the job — pre-hung exterior door, non-standard rough opening, new threshold, existing hardware reuse, paint-grade casing — and the AI drafts a line-item scope. You review, adjust material costs from your saved workspace, and confirm labor rates for the Bay Area market. 3. **Priced estimate out the door.** The median time from walkthrough to sendable bid is 8 minutes. For door contractors running 3–5 estimates a week across multiple neighborhoods, that matters. ### Pricing That Fits Your Operation - **Free tier** — no credit card, no time limit. Start estimating today. - **Pro** — $39/seat/month. Full estimate workflow, saved cost workspace. - **Elite** — $79/seat/month. Adds Stripe Connect invoicing with 0% platform fee and invoice exports for your bookkeeper. - **Crew** — $399/month flat. Covers your whole crew under one subscription. On the Free tier, Stripe Connect carries a 3% platform fee. Pro and above run at 0%. ### Your Material Cost Workspace San Francisco lumber and millwork pricing runs above national averages. You can store your actual supplier pricing — from vendors like Truitt & White, McBride Lumber, or your preferred distributor — directly in Estimate.Pro's saved material cost workspace. Every new estimate pulls those numbers forward. You are not guessing at current costs and you are not repricing from scratch on every bid. ### Built for 25 Trades, Including Yours Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. If you sub out framing, painting, or locksmith work on larger door packages, your subs can run their own estimates on the same platform. Everyone is working from the same scope language. ### Start Without Risk The free tier has no credit card requirement and no expiration. Build your first estimate on a real job and see where it fits your workflow before you pay anything.