Most contractor software was built for plumbers and HVAC techs, then rented to everybody else by the seat. The NCGS CRM™ was built for contractors — gutter-foot pricing, satellite measuring, and material ordering are inside the same app your crew already uses, and on Pro and White Glove, one flat price covers your whole company.
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Comparison prepared October 2026. Competitor prices are published month-to-month list prices — see sources at the bottom.
Month-to-month, no annual contract. Watch the second line of every card — that's where the real difference is. Two of these four — Jobber and Housecall Pro — charge you again for every person on your crew who opens the app.
Built for contractors, by their supplier
1 person included · +$25 per extra person, up to 3 people
Whole company + satellite measure
Whole company, done-for-you setup
General field service — all trades
1 user only
1 user · $199/mo for 5 users
1 user · $299/mo for 5 users
Sales-pipeline CRM — built for painters
Flat rate, not per user
Flat rate, not per user
Quote from Drip Jobs
General home services — all trades
1 user only
Up to 5 users
Up to 8 users
Same CRM, three levels — exactly what each plan includes, nothing held back. Every plan starts with the free 30-day trial at White Glove level (card required, $0 during trial). End the trial on White Glove and your first 2 months are $149.50/mo, then $299/mo.
| Feature | Starter$89/mo | Pro$169/mo | White Glove$299/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| On every plan | |||
| People on the account | 1 included · +$25 per extra person · up to 3 people | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Customers, contacts & sales pipeline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bid sheets for 21 trades — estimates, invoices & receipts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email follow-up reminders | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Job profit on every job — pay & material counted for you | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Clock — every punch GPS-stamped | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mileage log — work & personal miles for taxes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Color Visualizer | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simple Mode — big calm buttons, per login | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works in 72 languages | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Works in dead zones — offline queue, drafts & full data export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Referral credits — earn 2% of referrals' bills, up to 30% off yours | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pro & White Glove | |||
| Two-way texting with customers | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Email blasts | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Appointments, reminders & calendar sync | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Satellite measuring & professional roof reports | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Storm Map door knocking | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Route Optimization — the day's stops in best driving order | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Field Capture — photos, video & voice notes filed to the job | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Business Cards — designer & print, free | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Insurance Claims — one-click claims packet | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| White Glove only | |||
| Crew Auto-Clock App — geofence clocks crew in & out by itself | — | — | ✓ |
| Done-for-you setup — contacts, pipeline & crew set up for you | — | — | ✓ |
| Add-ons & pay-as-you-go — on top of any plan | |||
| Anna — AI assistant | +$5/mo | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Field Ops package — online booking & dispatch (14-day free trial) | $499/mo | $499/mo | $499/mo |
| Neighbor Mailer — postcards for the street you just worked | $149/mo* | $149/mo* | $149/mo* |
| Find-an-Installer listing | $5/mo† | ✓Included | ✓Included |
| Business Phone — your number inside the CRM | Coming soon — $25/line | Coming soon — $25/line | Coming soon — $25/line |
| Leads Marketplace — homeowner leads, pay per lead | $15 / $35 | $15 / $35 | $15 / $35 |
| Avatar Studio — video commercials of you | $15/video | $15/video | $15/video |
* Neighbor Mailer includes 100 mailers a month. Avatar Studio packs: 5 videos for $59 · 12 for $119.
† Find-an-Installer listing: free for your first 30 days, and free any month you buy materials from NCGS. On Starter after the free window it is $5/mo — added only with advance warning; opt out any time; refund within 5 days of the add. Listing only (no CRM): $5/mo with a card on file.
Business Phone is $25/mo per line when it goes live — reserve yours now; nothing is charged until then.
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Drag the slider to the number of people who'd actually open the app — owner, office, and every installer. Per-seat pricing compounds fast; our Pro and White Glove pricing doesn't move.
Math shown: NCGS Pro is flat per company at any crew size (White Glove is too); Starter is $89 for 1 person plus $25/mo per extra person, up to 3 people total. Jobber Grow uses published team bundles ($199 for 1, $299 for 5, $399 for 10, $499 for 15). Housecall Pro Essentials is $189 for up to 5 users, then $100/mo per extra user. Drip Jobs Advanced is a flat $147. All month-to-month list prices, October 2026.
An honest sheet, including the rows where the big platforms beat us. The pattern to notice: everything gutter-specific lives in exactly one column.
| Feature | NCGS CRM™For contractors | JobberGeneral field service | Drip JobsBuilt for painters | Housecall ProGeneral home services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Only in the NCGS CRM | ||||
| Satellite measure with AI auto-traceMeasure the roof and gutter runs before you ever drive out — if a roof can’t be read from the photo, it says so instead of guessing, and every number carries a “verify with a tape measure” reminder | ✓Pro & White Glove | — | — | — |
| Field capture from the job sitePhotos, video and voice notes filed straight to the job — captioned, transcribed, and spoken measurements wait for your tap onto the bid. Nothing retyped, nothing lost in a dead zone▶ WatchLink copied ✓ | ✓Pro & White Glove | — | — | — |
| Professional roof reports with a labeled diagramTrace the roof and get a report branded with your own company name and logo: summary totals, a clean diagram with every facet stamped with pitch and area and every ridge, hip, valley, eave and rake line labeled with its length, a waste-factor recommendation and material takeoffs. Draw rough — traced corners snap together and near-straight edges straighten, so the diagram comes out clean. Satellite-derived, with the verify-in-the-field reminder printed right on it | ✓Pro & White Glove | — | — | — |
| Job photos that measure the housePhotos of the house live right on the bid sheet — one tap runs satellite measure off the job address and drops the gutter footage back onto that same sheet, tape-measure reminder included | ✓Photos on every plan · measure Pro & White Glove | — | — | — |
| A job page your customer can followOne link per job, under your letterhead: Bid sent → Signed → Scheduled → In progress → Completed → Paid, figured automatically from the bid, signature, appointments and paid stamp — nothing extra for you to update. The bid summary, scheduled dates, your shared photos, a call button and a message box that lands in your email are all on it, and the customer only ever sees their own job | ✓Built into every bid sheet | ◐Client hub on higher tiers | — | ◐Customer view on select plans |
| Draw on job photos, then share themMark up a photo right in the app — arrows, circles, notes — saved as a new photo with the original untouched. Pick which photos the customer sees, tag them Before/After, and they pair up on a shareable photo page under your letterhead | ✓Markup + photo page on every plan | — | — | — |
| Order material inside the same appContractor pricing, order history tied to your account | ✓Outside our ~150-mile area? Pick your usual supplier and print your material list instead — nothing auto-orders from us | — | — | — |
| Your NCGS material purchases lower your CRM billSpend perks for northcentralguttersupply.com customers local to Blackwell — detailed in section 05 below | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Gutter estimating, the way you actually bidGutter ft + downspout ft × your price/ft, gutter screen by the foot, sketch grid, one-page printout that matches your paper form — plus a printable contract page with signature lines, so customers with no email can sign in person | ✓ | ◐Generic quotes | ◐Painting production rates | ◐Generic estimates |
| Painting estimating, the way painters bidLine items by sq ft / ln ft / each / room, paint brand + sheen + coats right on the bid, printed painting contract page with signature lines | ✓ | ◐Generic quotes | ✓Painting production rates — their specialty | ◐Generic estimates |
| Bid sheets for your tradeDedicated sheets for gutter, siding, roofing, painting, electrical and plumbing, plus a trade bid sheet with preset lines for 14 more trades — concrete, fencing, decks, drywall, flooring, mowing, HVAC and more — each printing with a contract page titled for the trade | ✓Dedicated sheets for gutter, painting, electrical, plumbing & HVAC (plus siding & roofing), trade sheets for 14 more trades — combine several in ONE bid (roof + gutter + siding) with one total and one contract | ◐One generic quote form | ◐Painting only | ◐One generic quote form |
| Minimum job chargeSet your minimum once — any bid under it gets an automatic "Minimum charge" line for the difference, instead of padding the fuel surcharge to fake it | ✓Automatic on every bid sheet — gutter and the trade sheets (painting, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, trade) — your amount, prints on the bid | ◐Pad small quotes by hand | ◐Pad small bids by hand | ◐Pad small quotes by hand |
| Sales tax for YOUR stateDownload a starter pack for your state (Oklahoma & Kansas live — more states as contractors join) or save your own towns; every bid sheet picks from your list | ✓State starter packs + your own saved towns | ◐Set rates yourself | ◐Set rates yourself | ◐Set rates yourself |
| One-button switch-overLeaving another CRM? Export one file, tap one button — your contacts and open jobs land here, ready to work. Your old system stays exactly as it is — run both side by side, you're never stuck | ✓One-button transfer — contacts & open jobs come with you, nothing lost, duplicates skipped | ◐Contacts import only — your pipeline doesn't come over in one click | ◐Contacts import only — your pipeline doesn't come over in one click | ◐Contacts import only — your pipeline doesn't come over in one click |
| Job Intel — rate an address before you quote itSee how a jobsite treated the last crew: paid on time, slow payer, scope creep, difficult | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Live NWS weather radar in the appKVNX radar loop covering north-central Oklahoma, refreshes every 5 minutes | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Public installer listing with your job photosFree Find-an-Installer listing under your own town & state — homeowners search by town or ZIP and find you in your area, with your approved finished-job photos on your listing. Free for your first 30 days, and included free with Pro and White Glove. Buying your materials from North Central Gutter Supply keeps it free too — on Starter after the first 30 days, the $5/mo is added automatically in months you don't buy materials from us (you're warned before it starts, and you can turn it off anytime). Listing only, no CRM? $5/mo after the free 30 days with a card on file. | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Neighbor Mailer — postcards for the street you just workedPrint postcards & door hangers for the homes around a finished job — or approve the neighbor list and we mail them for you (100 included each month with the add-on). QR code straight to your quote page, with tracked scans | ✓Add-on | ◐Separate third-party mail service | ◐Separate third-party mail service | ◐Separate third-party mail service |
| Business Phone — your own business number inside the CRMPick your number, two-way texting with customers from the app, calls forwarded to your cell, voicemail with transcripts — the same number on your bids and contracts. $25/mo per line, free setup, on any plan | ✓Add-on — coming soon: choose it now, goes live next month | —No built-in business line | —No built-in business line | —No built-in business line |
| Anna Phone Answering — Anna actually answers your business callsA separate add-on from Business Phone: Anna picks up, greets your callers, takes messages and can book the job. $99/mo — coming later, not available yet, and never bundled into the $25 Business Phone line▶ WatchLink copied ✓ | ◐Separate add-on — $99/mo, coming soon | ◐AI answering sold as a paid extra | ◐AI answering sold as a paid extra | ◐AI answering sold as a paid extra |
| Avatar Studio — commercials of YOU, without filmingBuild your avatar once from your own photo and your own voice, then type a script and get a video of yourself saying it — intro ads, review asks, seasonal specials. Pay per video with credits: 1 credit $15, 5 for $59, 12 for $119. Available on every plan | ✓Add-on — pay per video, on all plans | —Not built in | —Not built in | —Not built in |
| Use it in your languageOne tap on the 🌐 picker in the header switches the CRM into any of 72 languages — English, Español, Português, Français, Deutsch, ไทย (Thai), Arabic, Japanese, Hindi, Ukrainian and dozens more. Menus, buttons and labels in the language your crew actually reads, remembered per device — and if a phone is already set to one of the 72, the CRM starts in that language on its own▶ WatchLink copied ✓ | ✓72 languages built in | ◐Limited | ◐Limited | ◐Limited |
| Send bids in your customer's languageWhen you email, text or print a bid, pick the customer's language — the bid, the contract and the phone signing page come out in any of 72 languages — English, Español, Português, Français, Deutsch, ไทย (Thai), Arabic, Japanese, Hindi and 60+ more. Prices and totals are untouched, the English version stays the legal one (the document says so, in the customer's language), and the picker opens on English every time so nothing ever goes out in the wrong language by accident | ✓Built in — free | — | — | — |
| Day-to-day CRM work | ||||
| Priced per company, not per seatPro & White Glove: every employee gets their own login at no extra charge. Starter includes 1 person, +$25/mo per extra person up to 3 people total | ✓ | —$29/mo per extra user | ✓Flat rate | —$75–$100/mo per extra user |
| Sales pipeline & customer contactsEstimate sheets attach to the contact automatically | ✓ | ◐Pipeline only on Plus ($499+) | ✓ | ◐Pipeline is a paid add-on |
| Estimates, invoices & paid-in-full receiptsOne sheet flips from invoice to stamped receipt when the balance hits zero | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text the receipt to customers without emailOne tap on the paperwork opens your own messaging app with the receipt text and the customer job-page link filled in — the page stamps itself RECEIPT — PAID IN FULL, and an unpaid balance texts as an invoice with the amount due the same way | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Your own lead-capture linkSend it, post it — new leads land straight in your CRM | ✓ | ✓Online booking | ✓ | ✓Online booking |
| Crew time clock with GPSCrew logins + manual clock-in on every plan (Starter covers up to 3 people total); geofence auto-clock is White Glove; every punch location-stamped; the account holder sees the whole crew's punches and weekly hours in the app, can adjust crew punches right in the app — every adjustment is logged — and tracks crew pay there too: each person's hourly rate, pay per day and per week, a paid-through date, and the amount still owed — the rate math is a starting point, and the holder can type the actual amount paid for any day so flat pay wins; and a punch tied to a job carries that day's actual pay onto the job's profit automatically (holder-only; employees never see pay amounts) | ✓ | ◐Time tracking on Connect & up | —No GPS crew tracking | ◐GPS on Essentials & up |
| Crew job-sheet viewingEvery job on the crew schedule leads with a View job sheet button: crew assigned to the job open the actual job paperwork — scope, measurements, notes, job photos and the house drawing — read-only, with no prices shown and nothing editable. Jobs they are not assigned to stay closed to them | ✓Built in on every plan | ◐Job info in the team app | —Built for sales teams | ◐Job info in the team app |
| Automated follow-up sequencesPre-built drip campaigns that chase open estimates for you — ours send on day 2, day 7 and day 21 after the bid goes out, and stop the moment the customer replies, signs, pays a deposit, or the bid is won or lost. No separate drip app, no per-message meter | ✓Built in on every plan | ◐Quote follow-ups on Connect & up | ✓40+ drip campaigns — their specialty | ◐Review & reminder automations |
| Automatic Google review requestsThe moment a job is marked paid in full, your customer gets a short thank-you with your own Google review link — once per job, in your company's name, never ours | ✓Built in on every plan | ◐Review requests on higher tiers | ◐Review campaigns | ✓Review management built in |
| QuickBooks Online sync | ◐One-click QBO exports + a sync health check today; live two-way sync is built and waiting on a one-time Intuit setup — we label it honestly instead of claiming it early | ✓Connect & up | ◐Limited | ✓Essentials & up |
| Getting started & getting help | ||||
| Free trial | ✓30 days of White Glove — the top tier; card at sign-up, $0 during the trial | ✓14 days | ✓Demo-led | ✓14 days |
| Keep-the-top-tier offerDuring your trial, pick your plan — White Glove comes with a half-price start instead of dropping a tier | ✓$149.50/mo for your first 2 paid months, then $299 — pick White Glove during your trial, or it is the plan you roll into if you never pick | — | — | — |
| One-time free step-upPicked a plan and missing a feature? Step up to any higher plan free in your first week — even straight to White Glove | ✓One free upgrade per company, in the first 7 days on a paid plan — pick any higher plan, even straight to White Glove; the higher price only starts at your next renewal | — | — | — |
| Done-for-you setupYour contacts, pipeline, and crew set up for you — not a webinar and a help article | ✓White Glove | ◐Self-serve onboarding | ◐Guided setup | ◐Dedicated onboarding on MAX |
| Support from people who know gutter workYour supplier, in Blackwell — the same people you call for material | ✓Priority support on White Glove | ◐National support queue | ◐National support queue | ◐National support queue |
| Setup / implementation fee | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
This is the part no national platform can copy: your CRM and your material supplier are the same company, so the two sides of your business finally work together.
Pro and White Glove measure the property from satellite imagery with an AI auto-trace of the roof and gutter runs. Quote more jobs without burning fuel on every first visit — no other CRM on this sheet measures anything. And the tracing becomes a professional roof report under your own company name: a clean labeled diagram (every facet, pitch and line length), totals, a waste recommendation and material takeoffs, ready to hand the homeowner. Got years of paper bid sheets? The built-in Paper Archive photographs them, reads the numbers off the page, redraws the sketch clean, and loads them into your CRM as leads and draft bids. And every measurement contractors save makes the measuring tools smarter for everyone.
Your paid material purchases count toward CRM perks every month (next section). Buy enough and White Glove is free. Jobber and Housecall Pro will never discount your software because you bought coil — they don't sell coil.
NCGS Rewards takes ½% to 2% off contractor pricing as your yearly paid spend climbs — Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, one $25,000 rung per tier. That discount lives in the same account as your CRM and your orders.
Support is North Central Gutter Supply in Blackwell — people who know what a strip miter is. White Glove adds priority support and done-for-you setup: we get your contacts, pipeline, and crew in, so you're not configuring software at midnight.
An owner Money dashboard — collected, still-owed with 30/60/90-day aging, pipeline by stage, biggest open bids — plus a profit view on every job: bid total minus the material you bought for the job (record the purchase on the bid sheet and it counts on its own; your own price book covers the rest) and the pay that belongs to the job — punches on a job carry each person's actual pay onto it automatically, and pay you record by hand counts too, flat crew shares and all; record by hand for the same person and day and that amount wins, never counted twice. Where a cost is not set, it says so and marks the profit partial — it never invents a number.
Offer three options on one bid: the base job, Better with the add-ons you choose, Best with the full upgrade. The customer picks one on the signing page and signs for that option — the picked lines join the bid and the total updates. Contractors close more upgrades when the upgrade is one tap, not a second sales call.
Every bid sheet, emailed bid and signing page carries a small Powered by NCGS CRM line at the bottom, under your own letterhead, with a QR code. When another contractor scans it and joins, the signup is credited to your company — referrals you can see, earned off paper you were already handing out. And the Invite tab inside the app keeps that same link and QR ready to copy, text or share on purpose, with a ready-made invite message and the running list of every company that joined with your code. And those referrals pay you back: for every company that signs up with your code and pays, you earn 2% back in referral credits — banked in your account, never expiring, and never applied without your say-so. When you choose, apply them for up to 30% off your bill.
Every bid sheet grows a customer job page: one link that shows the homeowner the stage the job is in — bid sent, signed, scheduled, in progress, completed, paid — with the bid summary, scheduled dates and a message box, all under your letterhead and all figured from records you already keep. And the photo page does the showing-off: draw arrows and notes right on a job photo (the original stays untouched), pick the photos to share, tag them Before and After, and the page pairs them up. Fewer “just checking in” calls, more proof of work — on every plan.
The takeoff already on your bid sheet becomes the pick list: coil in the job's color, downspout sticks, elbows, hangers, miters and caps, grouped the way a crew loads and rounded up to whole pieces. Your crew checks each line off as it goes on the truck — the same list on every phone, saved as they go — and the figures match the material order exactly, because both come from the same sheet. No prices on the load sheet, ever, so the whole crew can work from it. One tap also sends the material list to be gotten ready, or prints a clean load sheet for the cab.
When a storm rolls through, the Storm Map pins your own leads, jobs and deals on the neighborhood you're working — with live National Weather Service alerts for the spot you're standing in. Tap a house, log the knock (no answer, not interested, appointment, new lead), and the last two are already in your pipeline before you reach the next door. Today's knocks tally themselves under the map. Built for one hand, a phone, and a street full of damaged gutters. (Pro plan and up.)
Color is the hardest yes in the sale, so the Color Visualizer puts the new color on the customer's own house: open a job photo, paint over the gutter or siding with a finger, and tap through your colors — the paint keeps the photo's own light and shadow, so it reads as the same house wearing a new color. It saves as a preview photo on the job (labeled an approximation, because real color shifts with light) and shares on the customer photo page like any other job photo. No stock house, no guess — their house, your colors.
Link a claim to its bid sheet and the claims packet assembles the whole adjuster document in one click: your letterhead, the homeowner and claim details, the claim's scope lines, the bid sheet's scope of work (quantities only — never your internal costs), before/after photos plus the job photos you chose to share, the roof report when one is on file, and a signature block for both sides. Print it or save it as a PDF — the adjuster gets one clean stack instead of five scattered emails. (Pro plan and up.)
One-click exports carry your customers, invoices and payments into QuickBooks Online today — paid-in-full jobs stamped RECEIPT, never invoice — and a built-in sync health check hunts the exact problems that make other apps' syncs silently lose data: a bid with no customer, a payment with nothing to attach to, a total that doesn't foot, a customer entered twice. Each finding jumps you straight to the fix. Live two-way sync is built and waiting on a one-time Intuit setup; until it lands, the page says so in plain sight rather than claiming a sync that isn't running.
Booked order is rarely driving order. Route Optimization takes the day's assigned jobs and appointments for each crew member and lays them out in the best driving order — the earliest stop starts the route, and every stop after that is sequenced to cut windshield time, with the estimated drive and miles from the stop before and a tap to open it in Maps. Each crew member sees their own route; the owner sees them all. It is basic route ordering: honest estimates with no live traffic in them, and when the road-routing service doesn't answer, the order falls back to a straight-line estimate and says so on the page. Less time watching the road, more time on the roof edge. (Pro plan and up.) ▶ Watch: Route OptimizationLink copied ✓
Not everybody wants a wall of tiles. Flip on Simple Mode and the home screen becomes a short list of big buttons — New Lead, Write a Bid, Customers, Schedule, Money — with everything else one tap away under More tools. Nothing is removed and nothing moves house; it is the same CRM with the noise turned down. The choice is per person, saved to your own login, so the owner can run the full home while a crew member who thinks in paper bid sheets gets the calm one — each on their own screen, neither changing the other's.
Most software charges your card in silence and locks you out the moment one charge fails. Here, the account holder gets an email three days before every monthly charge — plan, exact amount, the day it runs. And if a card is ever declined, the CRM does not shut off: you are emailed right away and the charge retries over the next few days while everything keeps working. Access pauses only if the final retry fails. A billing hiccup should never strand a crew in the field.
Field work happens where signal goes to die. Clock punches, storm-map door knocks and new leads saved with no signal are kept on the phone and send themselves the moment coverage returns — the screen shows a waiting-to-send count, anything unsent after a week is flagged as stuck rather than quietly dropped, and the same send can never land twice. Punches keep the time you actually punched. A half-finished bid sheet is kept as an on-phone draft too: close the app mid-bid, reopen the sheet, and it offers to pick up where you left off.
One tap downloads everything — contacts, deals, estimates, orders and invoices, appointments, time entries, price book, door knocks — as plain spreadsheets in a single file. And it still works if the account locks: log in during the data-retention window and the locked screen hands the account holder the same download. No emailing support, no hostage data. The same control runs the other way too: companies can delete a bad lead, a test job, or a whole contact themselves, right in the CRM — every delete names the record and asks "are you sure?" before anything is removed. Software you can leave any time is software you never have to be afraid of starting.
Homeowners ask for quotes on our Get Quotes page and the request lands straight in your CRM — a real lead in your contacts, not an email to chase. The price is printed right here: $15 for a cleaning / repair request, $35 for a new install / replacement. No membership fee. No annual contract. No deposit lock-in. Each request goes to at most 3 companies (the big marketplaces sell the same lead to 3–8), you pay from a prepaid balance you control, and a bad lead — wrong number, duplicate, outside your area, not a real job — reported within 7 days credits right back. Full section below.
Put a job on the schedule and the CRM writes three texts for your customer automatically: a confirmation that they're booked, a reminder at 6 PM the evening before, and a morning-of note that your installers are on their way — each in your company's name, never more than one of each per job per day, and any of the three can be switched off. Honest fine print: until your business texting number is connected, each text waits in the app as a one-tap send from your own phone — the moment the number is live, the same texts go out fully automatically.
Field Capture puts the camera and the notebook on the job, not in a group text. Shoot photos and video — or shoot on smart glasses and pick the shots from the phone gallery — talk a voice note with the measurements, and it all lands on the job captioned and written out. Spoken measurements wait as suggestions until a person taps them onto the bid. No signal on site? It queues on the phone and sends itself when you're back in range. ▶ Watch: Field CaptureLink copied ✓
Most CRMs stop at the screen. This one hands you something to leave behind: a business card designer that starts from your own letterhead — every line editable, five layouts, your colors, your logo — and prints sheets of ten at the true 3.5″ × 2″ card size on Letter paper or card stock, cut guides included. Every card carries your referral QR — woven into the card design itself, the code sitting inside the card's own bottom band beside a small “Powered by northcentralguttersupply.com” credit line — with a designed back side to match, so each card you hand out advertises the CRM and credits its sign-ups to your company. And the designer is free: no designer's invoice, no print shop's minimum order — change a phone number and the next sheet is right. (Pro plan and up.)
A built-in mileage log: start a trip and the app stamps the time and the GPS spot; end it with the ending odometer and the miles figure themselves — or type past trips in whenever. Every trip counts as work unless you flip it to personal, so the deductible miles are never the ones you forgot to mark. At year end it totals work vs personal miles per vehicle and prints the clean log your tax preparer actually wants: date, vehicle, from → to, miles, purpose. On every plan.
The lead marketplaces charge contractors roughly $300 a year for membership, $15–$85 per lead, sell each lead to as many as eight companies, lock it in with an annual contract — and don't publish any of it. This one works the opposite way, and the whole price list fits in this section.
▶ Watch: how the Leads Marketplace worksLink copied ✓
$15 for a cleaning or repair request. $35 for a new install or replacement request. Homeowners submit free at northcentralguttersupply.com/get-quotes; you only ever pay when a request in a ZIP you chose, for a trade you chose, lands in your CRM. Turn leads off any time — there is nothing to cancel.
Load $50, $100 or $200 by card on the Leads page inside the CRM; each delivered lead deducts its price. No surprise charges in the dark, no monthly lead bill, no arrears. When the balance runs out, leads pause until you top up — your call, every time.
Only companies that opted in, serve that ZIP, take that trade, and have the balance get the lead — in a fair rotation, so the same company isn't first every time. The lead appears in your Contacts (source: NCGS Leads) with the homeowner's phone, the job description and the property ZIP the moment it's delivered.
Wrong number, duplicate, outside your area, or not a real job: report it within 7 days from the Leads page and that lead's charge is credited back to your balance — once per lead, no phone tree, no dispute department. Paying for dead numbers is the marketplaces' business model; it isn't ours.
Own a home, not a company? The same page is for you: Get free quotes from local contractors
Plenty of software stops at the sales pipeline. This one keeps going into the field: it schedules the work, dispatches the crew, shows the manager the day as it unfolds, and adds up what every worker and every job did. That is the other half of running a contracting company.
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The owner's Crew Schedule shows today's scheduled jobs and exactly which crew members are on each one. Every clock-in and clock-out is stamped with the worker's GPS location and lands on the owner's crew screen the moment the punch is made, next to hours and pay for every worker — their rate, pay by the day and by the week, the date they are paid through, and what is still owed. Add the owner Money dashboard — pipeline by stage, collected versus still-owed with 30/60/90-day aging — and a profit view on every job (bid total minus real material and labor), and a manager can answer "where is everybody, what are they on, and what did it make?" without a single phone call.
Every job is born carrying its type of work — it starts from a trade bid sheet: gutter, roofing, siding, painting, electrical, plumbing, HVAC and more, twenty-one trades in all — plus its scheduled date and the customer's address. The owner assigns specific crew members to specific jobs on specific days, and the Crew Schedule shows who is already booked that day before anyone gets double-assigned; assigned workers get a night-before text and a morning wake-up text about their job. Then Route Optimization (PERK 14, above) takes each crew's day and orders the stops by the customers' locations, so the driving order is figured before the truck rolls.
This perk is for northcentralguttersupply.com customers local to Blackwell, and the only spend that counts is material purchased from North Central Gutter Supply — material bought anywhere else doesn't count. It's checked automatically on the 1st of each month against your prior month's paid NCGS material purchases. Spend drops, the perk steps down on its own — no contracts, no phone call, no hard feelings.
You pay the flat rate for your tier. On Pro and White Glove your whole crew is still included — that part never changes.
10% off Pro and 30% off White Glove, applied automatically while your spend holds.
The full top tier — satellite measure, geofence crew app, done-for-you setup, priority support — at no charge while your spend holds.
Jobber has polished online booking, a more mature route optimizer, and QuickBooks sync, and it's a fine general tool if you run several different trades. Drip Jobs has the best automated follow-up drips in the business — if chasing estimates is your only problem, it's built for that (for painters). Housecall Pro is strong on review management and dispatch for multi-trade service calls.
None of that measures a roof, prices a gutter job by the foot, orders your coil, or knows an Oklahoma tax rate. If your company installs gutters, the NCGS CRM starts where the others stop — and for most crews it costs less doing it.
Full White Glove — satellite measure and all — with done-for-you setup. A card is required at sign-up, and nothing is charged during the 30 days. During the trial you pick your plan — Starter $89/mo or Pro $169/mo at full price — or pick nothing and roll into White Glove at half price: $149.50/mo for your first 2 paid months, then $299/mo. Cancel anytime before the trial ends and you pay nothing.