He Spent Over a Decade Quoting Roofs the Hard Way. Then He Built QuoteCore+.

Shaun spent over a decade on the tools.

Residential roofing, New Zealand. Up early, on site, measuring, calculating, pricing jobs - and then coming home to do it all again on paper.

The quoting never stopped. Multiple quotes a day, some days. Each one the same process: measure on site, bring the numbers home, work out the pricing, write it up, file it, send it. Then hope the client hadn't already gone with someone else.

He shared the workload with another man who had his own system. Which meant two systems. Which meant no system.

The paper files were a nightmare. Jobs stacked in folders. Old quotes mixed with new ones. Details scattered across notebooks, scraps of paper, and memory.

Then a bad weather day would hit.

Jobs had to be reorganised completely. Contractors needed to be contacted. Locations, job details, site notes - all of it had to be found and pieced together from a filing system that had never really been designed to be found quickly. It was controlled chaos at the best of times. On a wet Tuesday when three jobs needed rescheduling before 9am, it was something else entirely.

Shaun knew there had to be a better way. He just couldn't find it.

The software that didn't exist

The tools available to roofing contractors weren't built for roofing contractors. They were built for "trades" in general - which meant they were built for no one in particular. Generic estimating software that didn't understand the difference between a hip and a valley. Tools so complex they needed a trained estimator to operate them. Nothing that reflected how residential roofing actually worked.

Shaun wanted something practical. Something that took his measurements and turned them into a professional quote without two hours of reformatting. Something that kept his jobs organised so that when a bad weather day hit, he wasn't hunting through folders to find out where he was supposed to be.

That software didn't exist.

So he built it.

From the tools to the keyboard

Shaun is the kind of person who, when he sees a problem that shouldn't exist, fixes it. Logical. Practical. Quietly determined. Not someone who complains about broken systems - someone who replaces them.

After roofing, he built software. He'd already spent years working with technology across different industries - understanding systems, spotting inefficiencies, figuring out what needed to be different. When he turned that lens on the roofing industry he'd spent over a decade in, the gaps were obvious.

QuoteCore+ is what happened when someone who actually knew what a roofer's day looks like decided to build the tool they'd always needed.

Why that history matters

QuoteCore+ isn't a product built by developers who interviewed a few roofers and made something. It's built by someone who lived the problem.

When the roofing quoting software workflow was designed, it was designed by someone who knows what it's like to be on a roof at 4pm with three quotes to send before tomorrow morning. When the job management flow was built, it was built by someone who remembers the chaos of a bad weather day - contractors to contact, locations to find, details to piece together from a filing system that was never fit for purpose.

Every feature in QuoteCore+ exists because Shaun spent over a decade knowing exactly what was missing.

What's actually different

Most software built for trades is generic by design. QuoteCore+ is built for one trade.

• Roofing-specific measurement types - area, linear, ridge, hip, valley, eave, barge
• Custom flashing creation - draw and save your own flashing components, reuse them across jobs
• Pricing logic that works the way a roofer thinks - component-based, with your own rates and waste factors
• Professional quote output that looks like it came from a serious business, not a spreadsheet
• Materials ordering built into the workflow - once the job is won, the quantities are already there
• Job management that keeps everything organised - so a bad weather day doesn't mean a chaotic one

No workarounds. No adapting your process to fit the software. It fits the process you already have.

The filing problem - solved

One of the things Shaun hated most about the old way was the paper. Quotes in folders. Old jobs mixed with new ones. No easy way to find what you'd quoted on a similar job six months ago - or where a job was, or who the contractor was, or what the site details were.

QuoteCore+ keeps everything in one place. Every quote, every job, every set of measurements. When a similar roof comes up, you're not digging through folders. When a job gets reorganised, the details are already there.

The filing cabinet is gone. The chaos it created is gone with it.

Built by someone who wished it existed

Shaun is now full-time on QuoteCore+. Not because it's a clever product concept - but because he spent over a decade knowing exactly what was missing and decided to be the one to build it.

If you've ever sent a quote late because the process took too long, lost a job to a competitor who moved faster, or spent a rainy Tuesday morning trying to piece together where you were supposed to be - this was built for you.