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Best Gutter CRM in 2026: Choose by the Gutter Work You Do

The best gutter CRM in 2026 for cleaning routes, seamless installs and guard sales, with prices for QuoteIQ, Jobber and Builder Prime read November 3.

Published November 3, 2026 · 11 minute read

White gutters and a downspout on a gray sided house, rain dripping from the roof edge against a pale sky
Photo: Miles Smith on Unsplash

Four gutter companies can sit on the same street and run four different businesses. One cleans the same 600 houses every fall. One hangs seamless runs off a machine on a trailer. One sells guards at the kitchen table for a few thousand dollars a house. One is a roofer who adds gutters to every storm job. The best gutter CRM for each of them is not the same product, and most "top ten" lists skip that question. This guide sorts the choice into four decisions, then shows what each company publishes about its price.

Quick answer. The best gutter CRM depends on the work. For cleaning routes, Jobber is the simple low cost pick. For seamless installs quoted by the foot, QuoteIQ is built for it. For in home guard sales, look at Builder Prime. If gutters ride along with roofs, use a roofing CRM such as JobNimbus or Cedar House Stack.

Cedar House publishes this guide and makes one of the products in it, Cedar House Stack, plus a field app, Cedar House Field. Prices and features for the other companies were read on their own websites on November 3, 2026.

What is the best gutter CRM for your kind of gutter work?

The best gutter CRM is the one shaped like the jobs that pay your bills, priced for the number of people who need a login. A cleaning company lives on repeat visits and small tickets, so it needs a calendar that books itself and billing that never waits. An install crew lives on a measurement and a per foot price. A guard company lives on a sales process with financing and commissions. A roofer with gutters needs gutters as one line on a bigger job.

Decide which shop you are, how you measure, what it costs at your size and what should repeat. Pick the product last.

Decision one: which gutter business are you really running?

Most gutter companies do a bit of everything, but one kind of work usually brings in most of the money. Pick that one.

The cleaning and maintenance route

Hundreds of small jobs, mostly the same houses every spring and fall, one or two people on a truck. You need online booking, recurring jobs, automatic reminders, and a card on file so nobody chases a $200 invoice. General home service tools are strong here. Jobber pitches its Connect plan at repeat work and lists automated client reminders and automatic payment collection on it.

The seamless install crew

Fewer, bigger jobs, each one measured, quoted by the linear foot, and built from a machine. You need fast measuring, a price book that knows 5 inch from 6 inch, downspouts, corners and end caps, and a work order the crew can read in the driveway. This is where gutter specific quoting earns its keep.

The guard sales company

A sales appointment at the kitchen table, a bigger ticket, often financing, and commissions to pay. You need a pipeline, follow up that runs without the owner, proposals with options, e signature, and commission tracking. A home improvement sales CRM fits better than a cleaning tool.

The roofer or exterior company that also does gutters

Gutters are part of a roof job, a siding job, or a storm claim. You do not need a separate gutter system at all. You need your roofing CRM to quote gutters as their own scope on the same job. Our best roofing CRM comparison covers that buyer.

Decision two: where will your footage come from?

A gutter quote is only as good as the footage under it, so decide how you will measure before you pick software. There are three common ways, and the software you choose should match yours.

  • Tape and ladder. Accurate and slow. The software only needs a good form to type the runs, corners, stories and downspouts into, and a price book that does the math.
  • Satellite or aerial measuring inside the app. QuoteIQ says its MapMeasure Pro measures the roof perimeter from satellite images and works out linear footage, so a rep can quote from the truck. Check it against a few houses you have already measured by hand before you trust it on a quote.
  • A roof report you already have. If you also do roofs, the eave length on a roof measurement report is most of the gutter run. A roofing CRM that reads that number saves typing it twice.

Whatever the source, the footage should be typed once and flow into the estimate, the material list and the work order.

Gutter CRM prices, read November 3, 2026

Three of the companies in this guide publish a full price, two ask you to talk to sales, and the ways they charge are all different.

Gutter CRM pricing as published on November 3, 2026
SoftwareHow it chargesPublished priceBest fit
QuoteIQPlan by user countBilled monthly: Essentials $29.99 (1 user), Beginner $99.99 (2), Pro $199.99 (4), Elite $299.99 (10), Max $699.99 (20). Extra users $25 a month. Yearly saves two months. 14 day trialInstall crews quoting by the foot
JobberPlan and team sizeOne user, billed monthly: Core $49, Connect $139, Grow $199 ($29, $99, $149 billed annually). Two to five people: Connect $199, Grow $299, Plus $499 monthly ($149, $229, $399 annually). No card for the trialCleaning routes and repair calls
Housecall ProPlan and team sizePage title says from $59 a month. Plan prices are given through a short quiz and a demo. 14 day trial, no cardCleaning and service work
JobNimbusPlan by user countNot published. Essentials up to 3 users, Pro up to 10, Premium up to 19, Enterprise 20 and up, all by request. 14 day trialRoofers who also hang gutters
Builder PrimePlatform fee plus users$300 a month platform fee, $60 per office or sales user, $10 per field user, billed monthly. Annual saves 17%. SMS from $200 a monthIn home guard sales teams
Cedar House Stack and FieldPer personStack $99 per user a month up to 5 users, then flat bands from $599. Field $25 per seat. Founding prices, later $129 and $39. Crew members who only clock in are freeInstall and exterior companies, with door knocking

Sources: QuoteIQ pricing, Jobber pricing, Builder Prime pricing, the Housecall Pro and JobNimbus pricing pages, and Cedar House pricing, all read November 3, 2026. Card processing and texting are extra on most of them.

Decision three: what will it cost for the people who need a login?

Count the people who need to quote, schedule or bill, not everyone on the payroll. Installers who only need the day's job and a clock in often need less than a full seat. Here is one made up shop priced from the table above: an owner who sells, one office person, and two installers.

Monthly cost for a four person gutter install shop, from prices published November 3, 2026
SoftwareHow the four people are countedMonthly, billed monthly
QuoteIQ Pro4 users included$199.99
Jobber Connect, 2 to 5 people5 users included$199 ($149 billed annually)
Jobber Grow, 2 to 5 people5 users included, adds optional line items and job costing$299 ($229 billed annually)
Builder PrimePlatform, 2 core users, 2 field users$440
Cedar House Stack2 Stack users, installers on free crew clock accounts$198
JobNimbus, Housecall ProBy planBy quote

Worked out from the pricing pages listed above, read November 3, 2026. Cedar House shows founding prices. Add $25 a month per installer who takes a Field seat.

At this size QuoteIQ, Jobber Connect and Cedar House land within a few dollars of each other, so price will not decide it. Builder Prime costs about twice as much here because of the platform fee, which pays off only if its sales tools fit how you sell. For a one person cleaning business, Jobber Core at $29 a month billed annually or QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99 is the floor.

Decision four: what should repeat without you touching it?

Gutter money repeats, so the software should remember the next visit for you. Ask every vendor to show three things on a real customer.

  1. A cleaning that books itself. Spring and fall visits on the calendar a year ahead, with the invoice and the card charge attached.
  2. A follow up after an install. A guard offer to every customer whose new gutters went up without guards, and a check in before the first leaf season.
  3. A neighbor who saw the truck. A way to reach the houses around a finished job while the crew is still on the street.

Route companies should weight the first item most. Install and guard companies should weight the other two.

QuoteIQ: built around per foot quoting

QuoteIQ is the tool in this guide most clearly aimed at gutter installers. Its gutter page describes satellite roof perimeter measuring, per linear foot pricing templates by material, story adders and roof plus gutter bundles. Prices are public and run from $29.99 a month for one user to $699.99 for twenty, with more users at $25 each. Its gutter page says a card is needed to start the trial. Before you commit, check its satellite footage against your tape on a few tricky rooflines, and check how many IQ Credits your team will use, since that monthly allowance does not roll over.

Jobber and Housecall Pro: for cleaning routes and repair calls

For a route business, a general home service tool is often the right answer. Jobber publishes every price, starts at $29 a month billed annually for one person, and its Connect plan adds automated reminders, automatic payments, checklists and QuickBooks Online sync. Grow adds optional line items, useful for offering guards on a cleaning quote, and job costing. Gutters do not appear in the industry list on Jobber's pricing page, so expect to build your own price book. Housecall Pro is the other common pick for service work. It no longer lists plan prices in the page body and asks you through a short quiz or a demo instead.

JobNimbus: when gutters ride along with roofs

If most of your gutter work is on roofing and exterior jobs, JobNimbus is a common choice. Its gutter page lists estimates from your measurements, boards for production, work orders for crews and subs, material ordering from QXO and SRS Roof Hub, and QuickBooks two way sync. Every plan is priced by request and sized by users: up to 3, 10, 19, and 20 plus. Our JobNimbus alternatives guide covers what roofers weigh against it.

Builder Prime: for in home guard sales

Builder Prime is a home improvement sales and production platform with a gutter and gutter guard page. It lists lead tracking, automated follow up, estimates built around linear footage, downspouts and guards, e signature, commission tracking, work orders and production scheduling. The $300 platform fee makes it the priciest published option for a small team, and it gets cheaper per person as the team grows. It is month to month by default.

Cedar House Stack for a gutter company

Cedar House Stack is a CRM for roofing and the other home service trades, and gutters are one of its fifteen trades. Here is what a gutter company gets today.

  • A gutter estimate that starts with the job's measurements. A gutter sheet takes the run length, separate runs, inside and outside corners, stories, downspouts, guard length and old gutter to remove, and works out gutter, downspouts, elbows, hidden hangers, sealant and guards from your own prices. On a roofing job, the gutter run can come from the eave length already on the roof measurement.
  • A gutter starter estimate. New estimate offers a gutter template with removal, 5 inch seamless, 2x3 downspouts, elbows, hangers, end caps, miters, micro mesh guard and haul away. Each line takes your own price, and any line with no price is flagged before it can be sent.
  • A gutter install checklist and close out photos. Measurements confirmed, color confirmed, old gutters removed, fascia inspected, water test complete, with photo prompts for hanger spacing, sealed corners, outlets and where each downspout drains, in English and Spanish.
  • Repeat work. Any sold job can repeat on a schedule, and a finished gutter job can trigger a service ask after twelve months.
  • The door, if you knock. Cedar House Field pins every door, shows hail history, and sends leads straight into the Stack. Our hail canvassing guide covers how storm crews use it.

Prices are on the pricing page: $99 per Stack user up to five, then flat bands, and $25 per Field seat, at founding prices. Ordering aerial measurement reports from inside a job is coming soon. Until then, an uploaded report's numbers are read in. If gutters are part of a roofing or exterior business, start on the roofing and exterior page.

Gutter shops that should buy something else

Cedar House Stack is not the right fit for every gutter business, and these are the cases where we would point you elsewhere.

  • A one or two person cleaning route. Jobber Core or QuoteIQ Essentials costs about $30 a month and does what you need. A per user CRM built for sales and production is more than you will use.
  • An install crew that wants satellite footage inside the app today. QuoteIQ lists satellite roof perimeter measuring for gutters. Cedar House reads measurements you type or upload, and ordering reports from a job is not live yet.
  • A guard company with a large in home sales team. Builder Prime's per field user price and call center tools are built for that shape of company.
  • A roofer already happy on JobNimbus or another roofing CRM. Add gutters as a scope there. Switching systems for one trade rarely pays.

A one week test with three real gutter jobs

Do not judge a gutter CRM on a demo house. Take three jobs from last month, a cleaning, a seamless install and a guard sale, and run each through every trial you start.

  1. Day one. Load your real price book: 5 and 6 inch, downspout sizes, corners, end caps, guards, removal, story adders.
  2. Day two. Quote the install from your measured footage and check every line against what you actually charged.
  3. Day three. Send the guard quote with options, sign it on a phone, and take a deposit with a test card.
  4. Day four. Set the cleaning to repeat each spring and fall, and check the invoice follows it.
  5. Day five. Hand the install's work order to an installer and see whether they can do the job from it without calling the office.

The tool that gets all five done without a workaround is your answer. If you are leaving an older system, our guide to switching CRM software covers what to export first.

What gutter company owners ask about software

How much does gutter business software cost per month?

On November 3, 2026, published prices ran from about $29 a month for one person (Jobber Core billed annually, QuoteIQ Essentials) to about $200 a month for a four or five person team on QuoteIQ Pro or Jobber Connect. Builder Prime starts at a $300 platform fee plus $60 per office user. JobNimbus and Housecall Pro give prices through sales. Card processing and texting usually cost extra.

Can a CRM measure gutters from a satellite image?

Some can. QuoteIQ says its MapMeasure Pro measures the roof perimeter from satellite images and works out linear footage for a gutter quote. Rooflines with many corners, porches and second stories are where any remote measurement is most likely to miss, so compare it with your own tape on a few houses you have already measured before you quote from it alone.

Should gutter cleaning and gutter installs be in the same system?

Yes, if one company does both. The cleaning customer is the best lead for new gutters or guards, and the install customer is the best lead for a yearly cleaning. Keep both on one customer record so the history follows the house, and set the cleaning to repeat so it books itself each season.

How should gutters be priced in a CRM, by the foot or by the job?

Most installers price seamless gutter and guards by the linear foot and price the pieces, such as downspouts, elbows, corners and end caps, by the each, with a story adder for second floors. A flat job price works for cleaning. Whatever you use, put it in the price book once so every rep quotes the same number for the same house.

Do gutter installers need their own login?

Usually not a full one. An installer needs the day's job, the work order, the photos to take and a way to clock in. Several tools charge less for field users than for office and sales users, and some send the work order by link. Count only the people who quote, schedule or bill when you compare prices.

Cedar House Stack publishes this blog and makes one of the products written about here. Where another company's price or feature is quoted, it was read from that company's own public pages on the date shown beside it.

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