Everything contractors ask before they trust a satellite measurement

Roof Manager is a satellite roof measurement platform with a full roofing CRM built in. You enter a property address, a member of our team traces the roof on aerial and satellite imagery, and you get back a professional report with pitch-corrected area, an edge-by-edge breakdown, and a priced material bill of materials — plus a pipeline, invoicing, proposals, and scheduling to run the rest of the job. It is built for roofing and exterior contractors across Canada and the United States.

Yes — every new account gets 2 free roof measurement reports, with no credit card required. They are complete professional reports, not watermarked samples or previews: same measurements, same diagrams, same material BOM, same PDF. The free trial also includes full access to the CRM, invoicing, and proposal tools. Create an account to claim them.

No. You can sign up, order a report, and have it in your inbox without speaking to anyone. If you would rather be walked through it, you can book a demo — but it is optional, and nothing is gated behind it.

A few minutes. Enter the property address, confirm the building on the satellite image, and submit the order. There is nothing to install and no training course — most contractors order their first report on the same day they sign up. The how it works page walks through the whole flow.

No. Every measurement is generated from satellite imagery, so nothing has to physically touch the roof. All you need is a web browser and the property address. You can order a report from your phone in the truck, from the driveway, or from the office.

No. Roofing contractors are the core audience, but the same measurements are used by siding and exterior crews, insurance and claims professionals, and property managers. The platform page breaks down which module fits which trade.

A member of our team traces the roof from available aerial and satellite imagery — no site visit, no ladder, no drone. They trace the outline and every ridge, hip and valley and set the pitch; our measurement engine converts that trace into real-world lengths and areas using the property's GPS coordinates, and a person reviews every report before it is released. The result is a pitch-corrected surface area rather than a flat footprint.

Footprint area is the roof's shadow on the ground; sloped area is the actual surface you have to shingle. A 6/12 roof has roughly 12% more surface than its footprint, and a 12/12 roof has about 41% more — so quoting from a footprint under-orders material on every pitched roof. Every Roof Manager report gives you both numbers, and the material BOM is always built from the sloped area.

Pitch is set per roof plane when our team traces the roof, checked against elevation data for the property where it is available, rather than as one number for the whole building. That matters on any roof where a garage, addition, or porch sits at a different slope than the main structure — a single averaged pitch quietly mis-sizes the whole take-off. Each segment in the report carries its own pitch and azimuth.

No. A member of our team traces every roof on aerial and satellite imagery; AI does not trace or measure the roof. The area, edge lengths and pitch corrections are computed by a geodesic measurement engine from the GPS coordinates of that trace, automated checks can hold back a report whose numbers do not add up, and a person reviews every report before it is released. That split is deliberate — an estimate you are going to quote from should not come out of a model that can hallucinate a number.

Every report states the imagery quality it was generated from, and the imagery date is what the measurement reflects. If a structure was added, removed, or re-roofed after the imagery was captured, the report describes the roof as photographed. If the property looks wrong to you, email support@roofmanager.ca — we would rather re-run it than have you quote from the wrong building.

Yes. Detached structures are measured as their own roof sections with their own pitch, and they appear as separate line items in the segment breakdown so you can include or exclude them from the quote. Complex roofs with multiple hip and valley runs are exactly what the edge breakdown is for.

Yes. Flat and low-slope commercial roofs are measured the same way — the pitch correction simply approaches zero, so the sloped area lands very close to the footprint. For very large multi-building sites, get in touch about enterprise volume rather than ordering them one at a time.

On properties with high-quality imagery, Roof Manager measurements can achieve 98.5% accuracy against an on-roof tape measure. Accuracy depends on the quality and visibility of the available imagery: trees, shadows, low-resolution imagery and hidden roof edges can reduce it. It comes from a person tracing the roof on the imagery with GPS coordinates and a pitch-corrected sloped-area calculation — not from scaling a picture by eye. Reports do not carry a numerical confidence or imagery-quality score; every report is reviewed by our team instead.

Every report is reviewed by our team before it is released. Automated checks can hold back a report whose numbers do not add up, and you can request a re-trace from the report if something does not match the property you know. Reports do not print a numerical confidence score or imagery-quality score. For code-critical work, verify on site.

Tell us and we will look at it. Reports that fail an internal check are flagged for review before delivery, but no automated system catches everything — if a diagram, area, or pitch does not match the property you know, email support@roofmanager.ca with the report number. Getting a bad number in front of a homeowner costs you far more than it costs us to re-run the trace.

Yes, and you should on your first few. Every report includes a plan-view trace drawn over the actual satellite image of the property, so you can see precisely which outline produced the number — not just the number. The edge breakdown lists ridge, hip, valley, eave, and rake totals separately, which makes it quick to sanity-check against anything you have measured by hand.

Every area figure in the report is pitch-corrected. The footprint is reported too, for reference, but squares, bundles, and every material quantity are calculated from the sloped surface area. This is the single most common place a cheap measurement tool costs a contractor money.

Yes. Reports include a complexity rating and a waste factor applied to the material take-off, because a simple gable and a cut-up hip-and-valley roof do not waste the same amount of material. The underlying quantities are shown as well, so you can apply your own waste percentage if your supplier or your crew works to a different standard.

Each report includes total roof area (both footprint and pitched/sloped), pitch and azimuth analysis for every roof segment, edge-length breakdowns for ridge, hip, valley, eave, and rake, a material bill of materials with waste factor, 3D and plan-view diagrams, and a professional branded PDF you can hand to a customer or a supplier.

Reports are delivered in 1–3 hours, and usually in under an hour. We email a download link as soon as your report is ready, and it appears in your dashboard at the same time. Every report is traced and reviewed by our team, so a complex roof, unclear imagery or a busy queue can take longer — there is nothing to chase, and you get the notification the moment yours is ready.

A print-ready PDF plus a shareable web link. The PDF is what most contractors attach to a quote or hand to a supplier; the link is useful when you want a homeowner or an adjuster to see the report without an email attachment. Both stay available in your dashboard.

Yes — white-label reporting is included free with every account, at no extra charge and with no per-seat fee. Set your logo, sender name, and reply-to address once and they apply to every report cover, header, and delivery email from then on. The homeowner sees your company, not ours.

Yes. Every report carries a full bill of materials — shingle bundles, underlayment rolls, ridge cap, ice and water shield, drip edge footage — with squares and quantities calculated from the sloped area and a waste factor applied. It is built to be handed straight to a supplier.

Reports are $10 CAD each after your 2 free trial reports. There is no minimum, no subscription requirement, and no commitment on the pay-as-you-go option — buy one report, or buy a hundred. Full pricing is on the pricing page.

Yes — $199 CAD per month covers up to 30 reports every month, along with the full CRM, invoicing, and proposals. It is month-to-month with no contract. If you are ordering more than about 20 reports a month, the subscription costs less than paying per report.

Yes. Prepaying $1,990 CAD for the year gets you two months free versus paying monthly, and drops 360 report credits into your account up front rather than metering them out 30 at a time. That suits seasonal work, where you burn most of your reports in a few busy months.

No. Credits never expire. Reports you have paid for stay in your account until you use them, including through a slow winter or a season you sit out. We do not reset balances at the end of a month or a year.

No. The 2 free reports require no card and no billing details at all. You only enter payment information when you decide to buy your third report or start a subscription.

Card payments are processed by Square; Roof Manager does not directly process card details. Separately — and this is a different thing — the invoicing built into your CRM lets your own customers pay you by Square card payment or by e-transfer, and Roof Manager takes no platform fee on money your customers pay you.

Yes. Pay-per-report has zero commitment by definition. The monthly subscription is month-to-month with no contract — cancel and it stops at the end of the period you have paid for. The annual plan simply will not renew if you cancel, and you keep full access through the year you already paid for.

Yes, for high-volume and multi-branch teams. If you are running several crews or offices, or need centralized billing across locations, contact us and we will price it against your actual volume rather than making you stack subscriptions.

Roof Manager supports properties across the U.S., Canada and additional regions, including Australia, subject to imagery availability. Whether a report can be completed is decided property by property: the aerial or satellite imagery for that address has to show the roof clearly enough to trace. The coverage & availability page explains how that decision is made.

No. Availability depends on usable imagery and roof visibility for the individual property. Trees, deep shadow, low-resolution or outdated imagery can stop a trace even in a supported region, and when the roof cannot be seen well enough the report is declined rather than guessed.

Yes. Roof Manager supports properties across Canada, subject to imagery availability for the individual property: major cities and most towns have usable imagery, while remote and northern addresses vary. Roof Manager was built in Canada for Canadian contractors first, so metric and imperial units are both first-class throughout.

Yes. Roof measurement reports are available for properties across the United States, subject to imagery availability. Reports are priced in CAD, which for US contractors generally works out favourably. Storm, hail, and hurricane work is a common use case, and the pitch-corrected area and edge breakdowns are the documentation adjusters ask for.

Some rural, remote, heavily wooded or newly built properties do not have imagery good enough to measure from, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a bad number. When the roof cannot be traced, our team declines the report, you get an email saying so, and the report credit returns to your account. If you hit this on an address you need, email support@roofmanager.ca.

A full street address is the reliable input. Postal codes and plus codes cover an area rather than a building, so they cannot identify which roof you mean on their own. Once the address resolves, you confirm the building visually before the trace begins.

Yes — the full CRM ships free with every Roof Manager account, with no subscription and no per-seat fees. That includes the visual pipeline, the customer and job database, branded invoicing, proposals with e-signature, calendar and scheduling, and team management. You pay for reports; the software around them is included.

It runs the job from lead to paid. A visual pipeline drags deals through New → Quoted → Approved → Scheduled → Complete with separate stages for insurance claims; every property, contact, report, invoice, and note is searchable in one place with full history; and scheduling syncs two-way with Google Calendar. The platform page covers it module by module.

Yes. Branded invoices accept Square card payments and e-transfer, with deposit, progress, and final invoices all tracked on the same job card — and no platform fee on what your customers pay you. Proposals are built from the measurement BOM, support good-better-best tiers and photo attachments, and can be signed from any phone.

Yes. You can draw territories, assign reps, and log every door with one tap, with a real-time team dashboard showing coverage as it happens. Because measurement is built in, a rep can pin a property and produce an estimate from the porch instead of booking a callback.

The Instant Estimator is a widget you put on your own website so homeowners can enter their address and get a priced estimate immediately, branded as your company. It turns website visitors into qualified leads with a measurement already attached, instead of a name and a phone number. See the Instant Estimator page.

Yes, and there is no per-seat charge for it. Team management is part of the free CRM, so adding estimators, crew leads, or office staff does not change your bill — report credits are the only metered thing.

Yes. Reports include the pitch-corrected area calculations, per-segment breakdowns, and material estimates that you can submit as supporting documentation with a roofing claim. Whether a specific carrier accepts a specific document is always the carrier's call, so confirm expectations with the adjuster on large claims.

Yes — this is one of the heaviest use cases, particularly in the US. A measurement report establishes the scope of the roof precisely, which is the number the whole claim is built on, and it can be produced for a whole street of affected properties without sending anyone up a ladder.

Yes. The pipeline carries dedicated insurance-claim stages alongside the standard quote-to-complete flow, because claim jobs move on the carrier's clock rather than the customer's and mixing them into one pipeline makes both harder to read.

Roof Manager produces the measurement and take-off side — area, pitch, edge lengths, and material quantities — which is the input an estimate is built from. Contractors typically use it to replace a separate paid measurement report while keeping whatever estimating system their carriers expect. Our measurement software comparison goes through this in detail.

It replaces a standalone measurement service and, for most contractors, a separate CRM, invoicing app, and proposal tool as well. Rather than paying per report to one vendor and a monthly seat fee to two or three others, the measurement, the pipeline, the invoice, and the proposal all live on the same job.

The measurement output is comparable — pitch-corrected area, edge breakdowns, and a material take-off — but the pricing model and the surrounding platform are not. Roof Manager is meaningfully cheaper per report and includes the CRM, invoicing, and proposals for free, where those are typically separate products or separate subscriptions. The measurement software comparison covers each one individually.

Get in touch and we will help. Every account can add customers directly and the CRM is usable from day one without any import, but if you are arriving with a real book of business, contact us rather than retyping it — describe what you are coming from and we will tell you what is possible.

No, and running them side by side is the right way to evaluate it. Order a report for a property you have already measured with your existing service and compare the two — that is exactly what the 2 free reports are for, and it is a far better test than any feature comparison table.

No. Pay-as-you-go has no commitment, the monthly plan is month-to-month, and the annual plan is a prepayment for a discount rather than a lock-in — cancel it and it simply does not renew. There is no cancellation fee and nothing to negotiate your way out of.

Yes. Roof Manager runs on Cloudflare's edge network with 256-bit encryption in transit and Canadian PIPEDA privacy compliance. Card payments are processed by Square: card details go to Square and are never stored on our servers.

No. We do not sell, rent, or license customer or homeowner data, and we share it only with the service providers listed in our Privacy Policy that are needed to run the platform. Your CRM, your reports, your contacts — they belong to you. Customer data is used only to deliver the reports and CRM features you have asked for. The full legal version is in the Privacy Policy.

You own the report you paid for — rebrand it, resell it, attach it to an insurance claim, white-label it for your franchise, whatever your business needs. The underlying satellite imagery is licensed from Google for use within your report, so you cannot republish raw imagery on its own, but every measurement, diagram, BOM, and PDF in your report is yours to use commercially.

Your account stays in read-only mode for 90 days after cancellation, so you can still download every PDF, export your CRM contacts, and pull your invoicing history as CSV. After 90 days the account is fully purged. You can request a complete data export at any time by emailing support@roofmanager.ca.

Not from us. Measuring a property generates no contact with the homeowner of any kind — no email, no letter, no notification. Anything the homeowner receives comes from you, under your branding, when you decide to send it.

On Cloudflare's distributed edge infrastructure, which is also what makes the platform fast from a phone on a job site. Roof Manager is a Canadian company operating under PIPEDA; if you have a specific data-residency requirement for an enterprise deployment, raise it with us before you sign up rather than after.

Email support@roofmanager.ca for anything about an account, an order, or a report — include the report number and we can go straight to it. For sales, volume pricing, or enterprise questions, use sales@roofmanager.ca or the contact form.

Yes. Live system status for the report engine, payments, and the CRM is published at roofmanager.ca/status. You can subscribe to incident notifications there if you want a heads-up before you notice something yourself.

Roof Manager installs to your phone as a progressive web app — open the site in your phone browser and add it to your home screen, and it behaves like an installed app with no app store required. This is deliberate: it means a fix ships to every device the moment we deploy it, with no update to wait for.

The tutorials and guides section walks through the workflows step by step, and the blog covers the wider trade topics — pricing, canvassing, and estimating practice. If something is not documented, ask support and we will write it up.

Ask us directly — the form below goes to a person, or email sales@roofmanager.ca. Questions that come up more than once end up on this page, so asking genuinely helps the next contractor who lands here.