Every roofing job starts with somebody going and looking. Picktime puts that inspection on a page a homeowner can book from at nine at night, takes the address with the booking, and confirms the time in writing so the survey you agreed on Tuesday is still a survey on Friday.
Blu RoofingBook online
Roof inspection45m · Two storeyFree
Leak call-out1h · Same week$120.00
Pre-purchase report1h 30m · DroneBook
Next free8:00 AM11:30 AM2:00 PM
Booked online
10:15 PM
The evening the leak was found
Deposit
$30.00
25% of the leak call-out
Surveyor and drone
Both free
Or the slot is not offered
One short visit at an address, agreed in writing, with a link the client can move it from if the week changes.
A leak gets noticed in the evening and the search happens the same evening. A page that takes the booking then is the difference between the job being yours and the job being whoever answered first.
How many storeys, what the covering is, whether there is scaffold access, whether it is an insurance claim. On the paid plans these are your own questions, so the answers arrive with the appointment.
A survey that needs the drone or a tower is only offered on a day the kit is free, and it stays held against that appointment rather than being promised to two addresses.
A confirmation the moment it is booked, carrying the address and a link to move it, with a reminder the evening before on the paid plans. Nobody is out when you arrive because nobody forgot.
The person who goes up a ladder with a camera on Monday is not necessarily on the roof on Tuesday. Give each surveyor and each fitter their own working hours, their own days off and only the services they carry out, and the booking page stops offering an inspection on a morning the only surveyor is on a job. Everything anybody is booked into sits on one colour-coded calendar, so a week that is genuinely full looks full before anybody promises a Thursday.
You cannot survey a roof in horizontal rain, and a wet Wednesday sometimes has to move in one go. Drag the bookings to a new day and every homeowner is told automatically; or let them move it from the link in their own confirmation when it is their side that changed. Either way the slot goes back onto your availability, where one of the callbacks from the storm week can take it rather than waiting until you get round to ringing.
Five to five on the Wednesday after a fortnight of rain. Fourteen names on a list on the passenger seat, every one of them wanting somebody to come and look, and you have been on a roof since half seven so you have rung none of them back. Two have already found somebody else. One is a two-storey slate you would have wanted, and you will not know that until you get there.
Picktime turns the callback list into a booking page. People take the inspection slots you actually have, tell you what they have got before you drive out, and get a confirmation in writing rather than a promise nobody wrote down.
A roof inspection, a leak call-out, a gutter survey, a pre-purchase report. Give each a length and say it happens at the client’s address so the page asks for one.
Each person with their own week and the services they carry out; the drone or the tower scaffold as bookable resources so a survey that needs one is only offered when it is free.
Storeys, covering, access, whether it is an insurance claim, whether there is scaffolding up already. On the paid plans the answers arrive attached to the appointment.
The days a roofer’s phone rings hardest are the days a roofer is least able to reach it. The Picktime AI receptionist answers on a number of its own, around the clock and on several calls at once, so a whole afternoon of leak calls is spoken to rather than left in a voicemail box. It captures the caller’s name, number and address, guides them through what you offer, books the inspection into your calendar and transfers to you when somebody wants a person. Every call is transcribed, so the description of where the water is coming in is written down instead of half remembered at nine at night.
The free plan has no end date and no card behind it. The pricing page lists what sits on each plan; the free plan itself does not expire.
An inspection lands in the Google or Outlook calendar the office already runs on, and on the paid plans the sync runs both ways, so a Thursday held there for a scaffold erection is never offered to a homeowner. A charge for a pre-purchase report can be taken through PayPal at the point of booking, or through Stripe or Square on the paid plans.
Picktime opens in a browser on a phone as well as a laptop, and there are iOS and Android apps, so the next address and what the homeowner said about it are in a pocket rather than on a list in the cab.
Yes. Picktime has a free forever plan with no card and no end date: your own booking page, an online calendar, homeowners booking and moving their own inspections, and email notifications. You pay when there are more people on the account.
Yes. An inspection is a short appointment at an address, so it books like any other. They take one of the slots you have left open, give you the address, and the confirmation goes out immediately.
For a roofing contractor it turns on one question: can the homeowner see, confirm and move the appointment without ringing you? Picktime does that, and the free plan costs nothing to find out with. If you want job costing, materials and invoicing chained to the same record, a full contractor platform is the other kind of answer. And if the problem is three of you writing in the same diary rather than roofing in particular, scheduling for a small contracting crew is the page written round that.
Yes, on the paid plans. Write your own booking questions (storeys, covering, access, whether it is an insurance claim), and the answers arrive attached to the appointment rather than in a separate inbox.
Yes. Connect PayPal on the free plan, or Stripe or Square on the paid ones, and a survey or report fee can be charged at the moment the booking is made rather than chased afterwards.
You can move each booking on the calendar and everybody affected is told, or the homeowner can move their own from the link in their confirmation. The slot you free up goes straight back on sale.
It is built for the appointments in a roofing week (the inspection, the leak call-out, the pre-purchase report), booked on your own page, held on one calendar and confirmed in writing. If that is where your evenings go, it fits.
Roofers are usually buying two different things and calling them one. Measuring and estimating off aerial imagery is its own category with its own price, and nothing here replaces it. The other half is the diary: getting the survey booked, the address and the roof type taken with it, and a rained-off Tuesday moved with everybody told. Picktime is that half, and the free plan is enough to find out whether it is the half that hurts.
Ask a roofer what is on their phone and three things come back: something to measure a roof off aerial imagery, a camera roll of the last four jobs, and whatever holds the diary. Picktime is the third of those. The iOS and Android apps show the week, the address and what the homeowner said when they booked, so a survey that came in while you were on a roof is readable from the ladder rather than back at a laptop. Whatever you measure with stays what you already pay for.
It is a building-code question rather than a scheduling one, and the answer is set locally. Broadly, several jurisdictions say that once you repair or replace more than a quarter of a roof section inside a given period, the whole roof has to come up to current code, which turns a patch into a re-roof and changes the quote entirely. The threshold, the period, and whether it applies where you work all differ, and they get amended, so confirm it with the authority that issues your permits rather than with any website.
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