Indianapolis, IN
ROOFING ESTIMATING.

## Roofing Estimates in Indianapolis Move Fast — Your Bids Need To Match Indianapolis sits in one of the most active hail corridors in the Midwest. After a storm rolls through Marion County, the window between inspection and signed contract can be hours, not days. A roofer who shows up with a polished, itemized estimate the same afternoon wins the job. A roofer who emails a number three days later does not. Estimate.Pro is built for that pace. You walk the roof, record measurements and damage with your phone, and the app produces a priced scope of work in a median of 8 minutes. You leave the driveway with a sendable bid. --- ## What Makes Indianapolis Roofing Different **Storm volume drives the business.** The Indianapolis metro averages multiple significant hail events per year. That means your estimating workflow has to handle insurance-style line items — tear-off, decking replacement, ice-and-water shield, drip edge, ridge cap — not just a square count and a material price. Estimate.Pro's roofing scope templates include these line items by default. You adjust quantities; the math is already wired. **Marion County permit requirements add a step.** The City of Indianapolis–Marion County requires a building permit for most residential re-roofing jobs, and inspectors check decking exposure and nailing patterns. Your estimate needs to account for permit fees and the inspection timeline. Estimate.Pro lets you include permit line items in every proposal so the homeowner sees the real project cost, not a number that balloons after you pull the permit. **Flat and low-slope work is common downtown.** Older Indianapolis neighborhoods — Fountain Square, Bates-Hendricks, the Near Eastside — have a high concentration of flat-roof residential and mixed-use buildings. Slope affects both material selection and labor rate. The app handles pitch-adjusted square calculations so a 2:12 modified bitumen job and a 7:12 shingle job price correctly without manual conversion. **Seasonal load is real.** Spring storm season and late-fall pre-winter rush compress your estimating calendar. You cannot afford to spend 45 minutes on a spreadsheet for every lead. The 8-minute target exists because of exactly this situation. --- ## How the App Works for Roofers **AR measurement on supported devices.** Point your phone at the structure. Estimate.Pro's ONNX-assisted AR detection traces roof planes and calculates square footage live. On devices where AR isn't supported, photo measurements are generated and clearly marked as estimates — you'll always know what's field-verified and what's approximate. **Scope of work auto-populated.** Once dimensions are captured, the app generates a line-item scope: squares of shingles, underlayment, ice-and-water shield footage, linear feet of ridge and hip, flashing, ventilation, and disposal. You add or remove items based on what you saw on the roof. **Your material costs, your numbers.** You know what you pay at ABC Supply or your local distributor. Estimate.Pro stores your material costs in a saved workspace. The estimate reflects your actual cost structure, not a national average that doesn't match Indianapolis pricing. **Send from the driveway.** The finished estimate is a clean, branded PDF or shareable link. The homeowner gets it before you've left the neighborhood. That's the difference between being the first bid they see and being the third. --- ## Pricing That Works for a Roofing Operation - **Free tier** — no credit card, no time limit. Start building estimates today. - **Pro — $39/seat/month** — full AR measurement, saved material workspace, unlimited estimates. - **Elite — $79/seat/month** — adds Stripe Connect invoicing and invoice exports. Run the estimate and collect the deposit in the same workflow. - **Crew — $399/month flat** — covers your whole crew. No per-seat math when you're running multiple estimators during storm season. Stripe Connect payments carry a 3% platform fee on Free. On Pro and above, that fee is 0%. --- ## Built for 25 Trades, Optimized for Roofing Estimate.Pro supports 25 trades. The roofing workflows are purpose-built — not a generic template adapted from a painting module. Pitch calculations, square-based pricing, insurance supplement line items, and Marion County permit fields are part of the roofing scope by design. If you're working storm season in Indianapolis and you're still building estimates in a spreadsheet, you're leaving jobs on the table. The first roofer with a clean bid wins. Set up your free account and run your first estimate today.