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Adding roof measurement reports to a roofing CRM
How a roofing CRM or estimating platform offers measured roof reports under its own brand, what the integration looks like end to end, and the product decisions that matter more than the code.
ProductsMeasured reports
Commercial roof report: apartments and businesses for $30
RoofQuery's commercial roof report measures every building at one address, from apartment buildings to offices and restaurants, for $30 in about eight hours.
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How a roof measurement report is made
What happens between sending an address and receiving a measured roof. Aerial imagery, a trained technician, a normalized geometry document, and the files rendered from it.
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How many structures does a roof measurement report cover?
One address, one report, every building on the property. How scope works, how a house, a detached garage and outbuildings come back as separate structures, and why the price does not change with the count.
Getting startedStorm reports
How to order a storm report by API
Order a RoofQuery storm report with one POST: the request, the instant response, the five PDF links, a new date of loss on any read, and free sandbox tests.
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How to order your first roof measurement report by API
From a new account to a delivered PDF, XML and ESX in one afternoon. Sandbox first, then live, with the exact request and the webhook you will receive.
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How to resell roof measurement reports under your own brand
What a resellable roof report is, what RoofQuery lets you do with one, how to price it, and the mechanics of putting your customer's brand on every PDF.
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How white-label branding works on RoofQuery roof reports
Your logo, colors, contact details and license number on every PDF, set once for the account or per contractor you order for. What can be changed, what cannot, and how to brand a report for a contractor.
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Rapid Squares: a roof squares report in under 30 minutes
Rapid Squares is $7 per address: each building outlined on an aerial photo with an estimated pitch and its squares with waste, delivered in under 30 minutes.
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Residential roof report: what you get for $10 in about 2 hours
RoofQuery's residential roof report: a technician-measured roof as a white-labeled PDF, XML, diagrams and data, $10 in about two hours, with an optional ESX.
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Roof measurements in insurance claims workflows
How claims platforms, adjusting firms and restoration software order measured roof reports with the claim number on them and deliver an Xactimate ESX straight into the estimate.
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RoofQuery vs EagleView: pricing, turnaround and reselling compared
EagleView prices its Premium report by roof size and volume tier and licenses reports for internal use. RoofQuery prices its measured report flat by property type, delivers in about two hours, and lets you white-label and resell.
By industryStorm reports
Storm reports in a roofing CRM: five branded PDFs per lead
How a roofing CRM gives every lead a branded storm report PDF: the homeowner summary, hail and wind verification, date of loss and full history, with samples.
ProductsStorm reports
Storm Reports: hail and wind history and five PDFs for $5
RoofQuery Storm Reports, in open beta: five years of hail, wind and tornado history for an address in about 2 seconds, $5 or free, with five branded PDFs.
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Testing a roof report integration in sandbox before you spend
Sandbox keys run scripted order timelines against fixed addresses, with real webhooks, real XML and real PDFs. What each scenario exercises and how to test revisions and failures.
By industryStorm reports
Verifying the date of loss on a roof claim
How to check a claimed hail or wind date of loss: what was recorded at the property and within 1, 3 and 5 miles, and the nearest storms either side.
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What is an Xactimate ESX file, and what RoofQuery puts in one
The .esx format, why insurance and restoration work runs on it, and how a RoofQuery report becomes an ESX that opens in Xactimate under the claim number.
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What's in a roof measurement report
Page by page and field by field, what a RoofQuery report contains, how the PDF and the API data line up, and which numbers a contractor, adjuster or solar designer actually uses.
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What's in a storm report
What a RoofQuery storm report contains: hail and wind by distance, date of loss, damage chance, confidence, the parcel and owner, and the five PDFs.
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Which storm report PDF to send
The five PDFs that come with every RoofQuery storm report, who each is for, how long it is, and which one to send to an adjuster, a homeowner or a sales lead.
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Hail size chart: which hail sizes damage a roof
Hail sizes from pea to softball in inches, what the National Weather Service calls severe, and the sizes at which common roofing materials start to be damaged.
How it worksStorm reports
How radar hail estimates work, and how far to trust them
How NOAA radar estimates hail size, why it differs from hail on the ground, and how storm reports turn radar, reports and warnings into a confidence rating.
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Roof measurement glossary: facets, pitch, eaves, hips, valleys and more
Every term a roof measurement report uses, defined the way RoofQuery measures it. Areas, pitch, the ten edge types, derived values and file formats, with the matching API field for each.
How it worksStorm reports
Wind speed and roof damage: what 58, 75 and 110 mph mean
What wind speeds mean for a roof, from the 58 mph severe threshold to the Enhanced Fujita scale, and how storm reports measure wind near a property.
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