Free Roofing Software,
Forever.

Yes, free forever. CRM, photo estimates, invoicing, online card and ACH payments, automated Google review requests, tip collection, and two-way Google Calendar sync are all included on the free plan. The only thing you ever pay is standard payment processing on cards (~2.9% + 30¢, same as Stripe direct) and ACH (0.8%, capped at $5). No monthly fee, no per-seat fee, no credit card required to sign up.

Yes — photos are core to a roofing estimate, not an afterthought. Snap shots of the ridge, valleys, hail strikes, soft decking, and old flashing from your phone right on the roof, drop them into the estimate, and the homeowner sees the same evidence you do. Operators report close rates jump when the customer can scroll through actual roof photos instead of squinting at a printed line-item PDF. Photo upload is unlimited on the free plan; you don't have to worry about running out of attachment space mid-storm-season.

Yes. Every photo you attach to an estimate or job is stored on the customer's record with a date stamp and the user who uploaded it — so when the adjuster wants pre-tear-off shots, mid-job decking proof, and post-install pictures, they're all in one place instead of scattered across your camera roll. Pull the customer record up on your phone in the kitchen meeting, email any individual shot directly to the carrier, and stop digging through your camera roll the day before the meeting. We're not an estimating-software replacement — but the documentation we capture plays clean with whichever supplement workflow your office already runs.

Send a digital estimate from your phone with three options side-by-side — say, 3-tab asphalt, architectural shingle, and standing-seam metal. The homeowner sees roof photos, materials, warranty terms, and total price on one screen. They tap to approve, sign on the screen, and pay the deposit. No printed quote, no follow-up calls to ask if they liked option B. The estimate stays live in their phone so the spouse can review it at dinner without you needing to re-send anything. Most roofers report homeowners self-select up to "Better" when they see all three options visually instead of hearing the salesperson list them.

Yes. Tag each job with the crew or sub running it, and that crew's calendar shows their week's work without seeing every other job in the company. Useful when you've got an A-crew on tear-offs, a B-crew on repairs, and a sub crew you only call after a hailstorm spike. The owner sees everything; each crew sees just their lane — addresses, materials, customer phone numbers, and gate codes. Subs get a clean handoff, you stop fielding "wait, which house?" texts at 6:30am, and nobody shows up to the wrong driveway. Unlimited users on the free plan, so you never have to skip-add a foreman to save a seat fee.

Yes — and this is one of the most-loved features on the free plan. The moment your customer opens the estimate email or views the live estimate page, Menutize logs the event and notifies you. You'll know whether the homeowner has actually seen the $25K replacement quote before you call to follow up — so you stop guessing and you stop chasing leads who already moved on. Same tracking on invoices: when the customer opens the bill, when they view it, when they pay it. Most field-service tools either don't ship this or gate it behind a paid tier; we ship it free.

Split payments are standard for roofing — collect a 50% deposit at contract signing and the 50% balance on completion. Menutize handles both as separate payment links the homeowner taps from their phone. Deposit secures the materials order; balance posts the day the crew rolls off the driveway. No more chasing checks the week after a tear-off. Card and ACH both work; ACH is the cheaper rail for big jobs at 0.8% capped at $5, so on a $25K balance you're paying $5 instead of $725. Most roofers educate their homeowners on the ACH option once and never go back to checks.

Yes — two-way sync, included on the free plan. New estimates and scheduled jobs land on your Google Calendar instantly. Block time on your phone (supplier run, insurance meeting, kid's game) and Menutize won't let customers book over you. Most free CRMs in this space gate calendar sync behind a $29/mo upgrade. We don't.

The moment you mark a roof complete, the homeowner gets a one-tap text link straight to your Google Business Profile review screen. No copy-paste, no searching for your business. Storm-chase shops with a steady review cadence outrank competitors in the map pack — that's where the next ten leads come from when the next storm hits. You connect your Google Business Profile once during onboarding (about 2 minutes). Most roofing operators see their Google rating climb a half star and their monthly review volume 3-5x within 60 days of switching the auto-request on.

We take 0.5% on payments processed through Menutize, on top of standard Stripe rates. On a $25,000 roof that's $125 — about a third of what the $49/mo competitors would charge you in monthly fees alone over a year. We only earn when you earn, which keeps our incentives lined up with yours: if your business is slow, we don't charge you for software you're not using. If you're crushing it, we benefit too. No fixed-cost software bill that hits your card whether the crew worked this week or not.

Menutize generates clean invoices with line items, sales tax (where you set the rate), and totals — easy to hand to your bookkeeper or import into QuickBooks at year-end. Your customer's invoice and payment history are exportable to CSV at any time. We don't file your taxes for you, but we don't make tax season harder either.

Yes. Tag each completed job with the warranty term and material info, and that record stays on the customer for as long as you keep the account. When the homeowner texts you in 2031 about a leak, you pull up their record on your phone and the install date, materials, and crew are right there — no scrolling through three years of texts trying to remember which shingle line you used. If you want to push annual reminder texts during the warranty window, the optional $19/mo Automations add-on adds the recurring email and SMS sequences to do it on a cadence you set. Storing the data is free; sequencing the outreach is the upgrade.

That's actually who Menutize is built for. The big field-service tools charge per seat — $49 owner + $29/tech adds up fast on a four-man crew — and bury the features a small shop needs under enterprise complexity. Menutize Free is unlimited users on the free plan, no per-seat fees, and the workflows are designed for the owner who's also the salesperson, the dispatcher, and (when the helper calls in sick) the guy on the roof. Outgrow it and we have paid tiers; most one-to-three crew shops never need to.

About 10-15 minutes to be ready to send your first roofing estimate: sign up (no credit card), connect Stripe for payments, connect your Google Business Profile for the auto review request, hook up your Google Calendar for the two-way sync, and add your service menu (most shops start with three: roof inspection, repair visit, and full replacement with three material tiers). Optional later: import your existing customer CSV, upload your warranty terms, and set the cadence on annual inspection reminders.

You own your data. Export your customer list, jobs, photos, warranty terms, and invoice history to CSV at any time, no upgrade required, no waiting period. We've never made our exports clunky on purpose to lock people in — that's the kind of thing we built Menutize to get away from. If you ever do leave, you walk out with the same files you'd hand to your bookkeeper at year-end.