Branded templates
Your pages, your copy, your tiers and add-ons, kept once and reused. A new estimate starts finished rather than blank.
Live todayAll industriesContractors · roofing first · proposals engine live
The proposal that closes the roof.
Run the whole job. From one login. Measurements in, a polished signed-off proposal out — in one sitting, with your margins protected. Built hands-on with a roofing company; the proposals engine is live, and the first contractor tenants are onboarding now.
Book a demoThe estimate is the sale. So it should not take an evening.
A homeowner decides on the document you leave behind. Most contractors write it that night, in a word processor, from photos on a phone — and the price is a number they hope is right. This turns the same hour into a branded, tiered, signable proposal with the margin already checked.
Good, better, best — priced while you are still on the driveway.
Your templates hold the pages, the copy, the tiers and the add-ons. An estimate picks a template, takes the measurements and the photos from the inspection, and comes out the other side as a document you would be happy to sign yourself.
- Money is held in minor units, never in floating point. A quote does not drift by a cent between the screen, the PDF and the invoice.
- Every proposal carries your own numbering, so the third estimate this week is #0143 to you and to the homeowner — not a filename.
- The homeowner accepts a tier on the page itself. Which one they chose is recorded against the estimate, with the signature reference attached.
app.mangroveitsoftware.com/proposals/0143
MangroveEstimatesTemplatesCustomersFinance
Estimate #0143 — 14 Alder Crescent
Full tear-off & re-roof · sent 18 Aug · viewed twice
Accepted$18,400Better tier
Gross margin31.2%Checked before sending
Time to sign2 daysFrom send to signature
Choose your scope
Good — architectural shingle30-year limited · existing decking$14,200
✓Better — shingle + full deck replacementIce & water shield, new flashing, 50-yearACCEPTED · $18,400
Best — standing seam metalLifetime panel · 40-year finish warranty$31,750
Add-on — gutter & downspoutSeamless aluminium, 6 inch+$2,150
Inspection — 6 photos
North slope granule loss · valley flashing corroded · two soft spots at the chimney cricket — each photo captioned and ordered as it appears in the PDF.
Drafted for the homeowner: “The north slope has lost enough granule that patching would buy you a season, not a decade. Because the decking under the chimney is already soft, we recommend the full replacement now — doing it later means paying twice for the same tear-off.”
From the driveway to the signature.
Tiered pricing
Good, better and best on one page. Homeowners pick a scope instead of comparing you against a number they cannot judge.
Live todayInspection photos
Captioned, reordered to match your argument, and printed into the document — so the damage makes the case, not the salesmanship.
Live todayAccept and sign on the page
The homeowner chooses a tier and signs where they read it. The choice and the signature reference land on the estimate.
Live todayA recommendation, drafted
One homeowner-facing paragraph written by the model, explaining the trade-off in plain language. It is metered against your AI allowance like every other AI feature — and you edit it before it goes.
Live todayA PDF that looks like you
The same document rendered for print and email, from the same source — so the copy the homeowner keeps cannot drift from the one you sent.
Live todayThe evening you get back.
How estimates usually goOn Mangrove
Written at night in a word processor, from photos on a phone nobody else can find.Built from a template on the driveway, with the inspection photos already in it.
One price, take it or leave it — and no way to say yes to less.Three scopes on one page. The homeowner chooses instead of declining.
Margin discovered on the last invoice, when it is far too late.Margin is on the estimate before you send it, in whole cents.
“Did they sign?” answered by scrolling an inbox for an attachment.The estimate says which tier was accepted, when, and holds the signature reference.
What you get
What a contractor switches on.
Three tiers, and no surprises in the bill: what every Mangrove product comes with, what roofing, hvac, landscaping — quote-led work needs on top of that, and what else you can switch on. Mangrove for Contractors includes all of it — you never pay per tool, and there is no module you have to buy.
Comes with every Mangrove product7
HomeTeamTasksWe run itDocumentsAlertsAudit logSettings
What contractor or trade needs6
EstimatesCustomersMoneyReportsMarketingWe run itSalesWe run it
Switch on any time, at no extra cost4
Command CenterFilesScheduleInventory
Add-ons cost nothing extra. They are separate only because most businesses of this kind do not switch them on in the first week.
Need something none of these do? The studio builds it — same team, and we have done it before.
The awkward hour
The day doesn’t go to plan. It rarely does.
Software demos well on the happy path. What decides whether you keep it is the hour it goes wrong. These are four that happen to a contractor, and what happens next.
The roof is bigger than the photo suggested.
Change the measurement and the proposal, the materials and the margin all move with it — before you leave the driveway.
They want it in writing before you go.
A branded PDF comes out of the same numbers you just measured, signed in the same visit rather than emailed on Monday.
Material prices moved since you quoted.
Costs are held per material, not typed into each estimate — update once and every open quote is honest again.
The crew is booked and the paper is not.
Which proposals are out, which are signed and which have gone quiet is a board, not a memory.
Pricing
One rate, per person who logs in.
A crew is a handful of logins and a lot of jobs. This is priced per person who logs in, not per job, not per proposal, and with no setup quoted on top of it.
$450per user, per yearThe subscription for Mangrove for Contractors. One rate for everyone who logs in, billed annually.
What it covers
- Everything described on this page
- Every module listed, switched on or off as you like
- Support 12 hours a day, 5 days a week
- Setup, updates and hosting of the software itself
- No implementation project — you are running the week you sign
Extras, only if you ask
- 24/7 support — $1,500 a year
- The AI tier — $2,500 a year
Not included
- Card processing — your processor’s own rate, paid to them
- Hardware — this runs on ordinary ~$170 tablets you can buy anywhere
Buy a year at a time and renew, or buy several years up front — renewal pricing is confirmed with you at renewal. The 24/7 option is the service previously called Premium, not a second charge on top of it. Your data exports whenever you want it.
What it’s worth
The price is the easy part.
What software like this is worth is not a number we get to invent. Below is what other people measured, with the source on every one — set against a $450 bill.
$450per user, per year — everything on this page
- $1.23a day, per user
- 41venti caramel macchiatos, spread across twelve months
- $0to set up, and no implementation project to schedule
$7.23returned for every dollar spent on business systems — measured on software that bills per user and quotes the setup on top. Ours does neither.Nucleus Research, 2014 — five years of their own ROI case studies ↗36%of the average founder’s week goes on small administrative tasks — invoicing, data entry, chasing paper.Time Etc, 2023 — 251 US entrepreneurs, reported in Forbes ↗45%of small business owners lose a full day a week or more to people paperwork alone.Oasis, a Paychex company, 2019 — study of nearly 300 US businesses ↗
Read those as figures for this kind of software, published by other people — not as measurements of Mangrove for Contractors. Two of the three come from companies that sell a remedy for the problem they measured; we have named all three, and dated them, so you can weigh that yourself.
$7.23 back on a dollar is a ratio, and the dollars underneath it were much larger dollars. Mainstream software at a typical $35 per user per month is about $420 a year for each person who logs in, and quotes the setup on top of that. We are not going to pretend the ratio multiplies cleanly onto a smaller bill; nobody has measured that. What we can say is which half of it we control. Per person, we made the denominator $450 — and there is no setup line under it.
Where the hours actually come back
The proposal follows the measurement.Change a number on site and the materials, the price and the margin all move with it before you leave.
Signed the same visit.A branded PDF out of the numbers you just took, rather than an email on Monday that goes cold.
Material costs update once.Held per material, not typed into each estimate — so every open quote is honest again in one edit.
Everything above · every crew · $450 per user / year · no implementation project