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, trace the roof on high-resolution satellite imagery, and 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 solar installers (segment pitch and azimuth drive panel layout), siding and exterior crews, insurance and claims professionals, and property managers. The products page breaks down which module fits which trade.

We measure every roof remotely from high-resolution satellite imagery — no site visit, no ladder, no drone. The roof outline is traced against the imagery, elevation data is used to establish the slope of each roof plane, and the geometry engine converts that trace into real-world lengths and areas using the property's GPS coordinates. 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 comes from elevation data for the property, resolved per roof plane 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.

AI assists the process, but the geometry is deterministic math, not a guess from a language model. Vision models help identify and grade the roof surface and flag traces that look wrong; the actual area, edge lengths, and pitch corrections are computed by a geodesic measurement engine from GPS coordinates. 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.

Measurements are typically within 2–5% of a careful manual measurement. Accuracy comes from combining satellite imagery with GPS coordinate tracing and pitch-corrected sloped-area calculation — not from scaling a picture by eye. Accuracy on any single property depends on the imagery available for that address, which is why every report ships with an imagery quality rating and a confidence score instead of a blanket promise.

The confidence score is our own assessment of how much to trust that specific report. It reflects the imagery quality at that address, how cleanly the roof geometry resolved, and whether any automated check flagged something unusual. A high-confidence report is safe to quote from directly; a lower-confidence one is telling you to eyeball the diagram before you commit a price to a customer.

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, solar potential data where it is available, 3D and plan-view diagrams, and a professional branded PDF you can hand to a customer or a supplier.

We email a download link as soon as your report is ready, and it appears in your dashboard at the same time. There is nothing to chase and no queue to monitor — orders move automatically, and you get the notification the moment yours completes.

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.

Where solar data is available for the property, yes, at no additional cost — panel count potential and estimated yearly energy output, alongside the per-segment pitch and azimuth that solar designers need. Coverage of this data varies by region, so it is included when it exists rather than promised on every address.

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 through PCI DSS compliant providers. Separately — and this is a different thing — the invoicing built into your CRM lets your own customers pay you by Stripe or 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. If you are not happy with your first paid report, for any reason, email support@roofmanager.ca within 30 days. We refund the same business day — no forms, no retention script, no support loop. Your free trial reports stay free either way.

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.

We cover 40+ countries, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and most of Europe. The coverage page lists them in full and is the authoritative source — coverage follows the availability of high-resolution imagery, so it expands over time.

Yes — every province and territory where high-resolution satellite imagery is available, including Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, and all of Atlantic Canada. Roof Manager was built in Canada for Canadian contractors first, so metric and imperial units are both first-class throughout.

Yes — Roof Manager is fully operational across all 50 US states. 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 and remote addresses do not have imagery good enough to measure from, and we would rather tell you that than sell you a bad number. When imagery quality is too low, the report says so explicitly instead of quietly producing a confident-looking figure. 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 features page covers it module by module.

Yes. Branded invoices accept Stripe or 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 are commonly accepted by adjusters as supporting documentation for roofing claims. 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, PCI DSS compliant payment processing, and Canadian PIPEDA privacy compliance. Payment card details are handled by the payment processor and are never stored on our servers.

No. We do not sell, rent, share, or license customer or homeowner data to third parties. 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.