Best Siding Contractor CRM in 2026: A 10 Point Checklist

Most contractor software was built around a roof or a service call, and siding sits awkwardly in both. A re-side is priced off wall area, openings, starter, corners and trim, it often rides along with a roof and gutters on the same house, and the crew's work disappears behind the next course of panels the moment it is done. A siding contractor CRM has to handle all three of those, or your estimators end up back on a notepad. This checklist gives you ten things to test before you pay for one.

Cedar House Stack publishes this checklist and makes one of the products in it, so weigh our section about ourselves with that in mind. Every fact about JobNimbus, QuoteIQ, AccuLynx and Jobber was read on that company's own website on October 13, 2026.

What should a siding contractor CRM do?

A siding contractor CRM should take a lead from the first call to the final invoice while understanding that siding is sold by the square, built in layers and often sold beside other exterior work. General home service software covers leads, quotes, scheduling and payments well. The gaps show up in three places.

• Measuring. Wall area, gables, openings and trim lengths drive the price. If the software only understands a roof report or a single line item, somebody retypes numbers on every job.
• Bundled jobs. A storm job can be roof, siding, gutters and windows on one house. Each part has its own price, deposit and invoice, and the owner wants to see what each trade made.
• Hidden work. House wrap, flashing at the windows and fastener spacing get covered the same day. If nobody photographs them, you have nothing to show a homeowner, a manufacturer or an adjuster later.

Our broader guide to choosing a CRM for contractors covers the general questions. This page stays on the siding specific ones.

Siding software prices side by side

Here is what each company published on October 13, 2026 and the one siding question to ask before you buy.

Sources, all read October 13, 2026: the JobNimbus pricing page and its siding software page, the QuoteIQ pricing page and its siding CRM page, the AccuLynx pricing request form and features page, the Jobber pricing page, and our own Cedar House pricing page.

The checklist: ten things to test on a real siding job

Run each point on a job you sold last month, with its real measurements and real prices. A demo house always looks good. Your own job is what shows the gaps.

1. Can it build an estimate from wall measurements?

The software should turn siding squares, openings, starter, corners and trim lengths into quantities without anybody retyping them. Ask where the numbers come from: typed by hand, read from a measurement report you already bought, or measured inside the product.

2. Do the prices come from your book, not the vendor's?

Your material and labor numbers are yours. A good system multiplies measured quantities by your own price book rows and flags anything it cannot price, instead of filling a blank with a default.

3. Can you show good, better and best on one estimate?

Homeowners choose between vinyl, a premium vinyl and fiber cement far more easily when the three sit side by side over the same measurements. Check that the homeowner can pick a tier and sign on their own phone.

4. Can siding be its own project on a roof job?

When siding sells with a roof, it should carry its own estimate, deposit, schedule and invoice under the one customer, so the owner can see what the siding side of the business actually earned.

5. Does production follow how siding goes up?

Material and color confirmed, permit pulled, old siding off, sheathing and wrap inspected, siding on, trim and caulk, walkthrough, final invoice. If the production steps read like a roof, crews will ignore them.

6. Does it ask for the photos that matter?

Wrap and flashing at the openings, the starter strip, fastener spacing and the corners are the shots that answer a warranty question years later. The best tools prompt the crew for each one before the job can close.

7. Can the crew use it in their own language?

Many siding crews work in Spanish. Check whether checklists and photo prompts appear in Spanish for the people holding the nail gun.

8. Can it handle a storm claim?

After hail or wind, siding is often part of an insurance job. Look for claim and supplement tracking on the job, and, if you knock doors after a storm, hail history on a map.

9. Can it take a deposit and progress payments?

Siding orders are material heavy. A deposit at signing and a payment schedule tied to the job protect your cash before the bundles land on the driveway.

10. Can you see what each job made?

Job costing from real labor hours and material costs tells you whether fiber cement is worth quoting at your current price. Check which plan includes it, because several products reserve it for upper tiers.

JobNimbus: a roofing and exterior CRM with a siding page

JobNimbus is a strong fit for an exterior contractor that wants boards, automations and supplier ordering, and it markets itself to siding companies directly. Its siding software page lists inspection scheduling, job photos with photo reports, estimates from your measurements, proposals, boards for production, work orders for crews and subcontractors, and material ordering from QXO and SRS's Roof Hub.

The same page lists texting, automated review requests, JobNimbus Payments with financing, and a two way QuickBooks sync, plus integrations including EagleView and CompanyCam. Pricing is not published. The four plans are sized by users (3, 10, 19 and 20 or more) and every one says request pricing, with a 14 day free trial. Ask the sales rep to show a siding estimate built from wall measurements, not a roof. If you are already on JobNimbus and thinking of leaving, our JobNimbus alternatives guide covers the move.

QuoteIQ: published prices and satellite wall measuring

QuoteIQ is the most siding specific of the general home service tools here, and every price is on its site. Its plans on October 13, 2026 were Essentials at $29.99 a month for 1 user, Beginner at $99.99 for 2, Pro at $199.99 for 4, Elite at $299.99 for 10 and Max at $699.99 for 20, billed monthly, with extra users at $25 a month and two months free on yearly billing.

Its siding page lists good, better and best estimates on every plan, package estimates for soffit, fascia and trim, satellite wall measurement from the Beginner plan up, and job costing from the Pro plan up. Plans also carry a monthly allowance of credits for its automated features, and payment processing is separate. Count the plan you would really need: a four person shop that wants job costing is on Pro, not Essentials. QuoteIQ does not list insurance supplement tracking on the pages we read, so a storm restoration company should test a claim job in the trial.

AccuLynx: deep roofing production, priced by form

AccuLynx suits a larger roofing company that also sells siding and wants measurement and material ordering inside the job. Its features page lists ordering EagleView, Hover, Geospan and GAF QuickMeasure roof measurement reports from inside AccuLynx, with the numbers filling the estimate, plus live ABC Supply, SRS and QXO catalogs at your own pricing.

It also tracks permits, supplements and mortgage checks in the job file and lists job costing, a commission module and a QuickBooks integration. Two things to check for siding. The features page talks about roof reports, so ask to see wall measurements reach a siding estimate. And there is no published price, only a request form. Our AccuLynx alternatives page compares it in more depth.

Jobber: simple and cheap for repair work

Jobber fits a small company that mostly does siding repairs, panel replacements and small re-sides. For one user it costs $29 (Core), $99 (Connect) or $149 (Grow) a month billed annually, or $49, $139 and $199 billed monthly.

Connect adds checklists, automatic payment collection and QuickBooks Online sync. Grow adds optional line items for upsells and job costing. Jobber is general home service software. The industries listed on its pricing page include roofing, painting and construction, but not siding, and the page does not list measurement reports or insurance claim tracking. For a two panel repair that is fine. For a full re-side priced by the square, test a real one first.

Cedar House Stack: walls, projects and close out photos

Cedar House Stack is our product, a CRM for roofing and exterior companies that want the lead, the estimate, the build and the payment on one record. Here is how it answers the checklist.

• Points 1 and 2. Each job has an Exterior tab. Type in siding squares, openings, starter, trim and corners, or upload a Hover or EagleView exterior report file you already have. Your formulas turn them into quantities, prices come only from your own siding book, and any line without a price is flagged amber and the estimate will not send until a person prices it.
• Point 3. Good, better and best on one estimate, signed on the homeowner's phone.
• Point 4. Up to eight projects on a job, such as roof, gutters and siding, each with its own estimate, deposit, schedule, invoices and financials.
• Points 5 to 7. A siding production checklist, and a close out photo checklist that asks for wrap and flashing, the starter course, fastener spacing, and corners and trim, with prompts in English and Spanish. It can block close out until the photos are in, with a manager override that writes its reason on the job. Once the job is complete, the homeowner's page shows those photos under "How your siding went on".
• Points 8 to 10. Insurance claim and supplement tracking, storm maps with hail history, deposits and progress payments, and payroll and commissions worked out from the jobs. Crew members who only clock in and out are free.

What it costs. $99 per user a month for up to 5 users, then one flat price for your size: $599 a month for 6 to 10 users, $999 for 11 to 20, $1,299 for 21 to 30 and $1,999 for 31 to 50. Cedar House Field, the canvassing app, is $25 per rep a month. These are founding prices for the first 50 companies, and the trial is 30 days with every feature and no card. Details are on the pricing page, and the roofing and exterior page shows the product.

What it does not do yet. Ordering measurement reports from inside a job is listed as coming soon on our pricing page, so today you upload a report you bought elsewhere or type the numbers in. QuoteIQ measures walls from satellite inside the product and AccuLynx orders reports inside the job. If that matters most to you, weigh it.

When a siding company should pick something else

Pick a different product if one of these describes you, and say so to yourself before any demo.

• You are a one person repair shop. Jobber Core or QuoteIQ Essentials costs far less than a per user CRM built for a sales team.
• You want to measure walls from satellite without leaving the estimate. QuoteIQ lists that from its Beginner plan.
• Your office orders reports and materials all day. AccuLynx or JobNimbus, both of which list supplier ordering, will save more clicks.
• Your team already lives in another system and the complaint is small. Fixing one workflow beats moving every job.

If roofing is the bigger half of your business, start with our roofing CRM comparison instead, then come back to this list for the siding side.

How to run this checklist in a two week trial

Pick two products, take three jobs you sold last month, and run all ten points on each job in both trials. One job should be a straight re-side, one a roof and siding bundle, and one a storm claim if you do insurance work.

1. Day 1 to 2. Load your siding price book and your formulas for waste, starter and corners.
2. Day 3 to 5. Build the three estimates from real measurements and send one to your own phone to sign.
3. Day 6 to 10. Walk one job through production with a crew lead taking the close out photos.
4. Day 11 to 14. Take a test payment, close the job and read the job costing. Then decide.

Score each point yes, partly or no. The product with the most yes answers on your own jobs is the right one for your company, whatever any list says, including this one.

Siding company software questions, answered

What is the best CRM for a small siding company?

It depends on the work. A one or two person shop doing repairs can start on Jobber Core at $29 a month billed annually, or QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99 a month, both as published October 13, 2026. A crew that sells full re-sides, often beside roofs and gutters, needs wall measurements, your own price book and separate projects on one job, so test JobNimbus, QuoteIQ and Cedar House Stack on a real job.

Can a CRM measure siding from a satellite image?

Some can. On October 13, 2026 QuoteIQ listed satellite wall measurement on its Beginner plan and above, and AccuLynx listed ordering roof measurement reports from EagleView, Hover, Geospan and GAF QuickMeasure. Cedar House Stack reads a Hover or EagleView exterior report file you upload, or numbers typed in by hand; ordering reports from inside a job is coming soon.

How should siding be priced in a CRM?

Price siding from measured quantities multiplied by your own rates: squares of siding after openings, starter, inside and outside corners, trim around openings, wrap, and a waste factor you set. Keep labor and material as separate rows so job costing works later. The software should never fill a missing price with a default, it should stop and ask.

Should roofing and siding be separate jobs in my CRM?

Keep one customer and one job, with the roof and the siding as separate projects inside it. That way each has its own estimate, deposit, schedule and invoice, the homeowner sees one company and one record, and you can still see what siding earned on its own. Two unrelated jobs for one house make follow up and reporting harder.

What photos should a siding crew take on every job?

Take the shots that get covered the same day: house wrap and the flashing or tape at each window and door, the starter strip with the first course locked in, a panel showing nails in the slots before the next row covers it, and the outside corners and trim. Add before and after shots of each wall and the cleaned up site.