Garage door estimates and invoices, from the broken spring to the new door.

Repair or replace, priced so the homeowner can decide.

Garage door software earns its keep on the question every service call starts with: is this a spring I can replace, or does the whole door need to go? Answer it with an estimate that shows both. The repair: the service call, a pair of springs (replace both, not one), cables and drums if they are worn, new rollers. The replacement: the door, the tracks, the seals and the install. The homeowner picks with the numbers in front of them.

In Jobkore every line has its own unit. Springs, rollers and openers are each, labor is by the hour, and the trip is a visit. If you credit the service call fee when the customer books the repair, show it as a discount so the math is on the page.

Load the Windows, Doors & Garage trade pack and your catalog starts with single and double garage doors, opener installs, spring replacement and weatherstripping. Change the national-average prices to yours once and every estimate starts from your numbers.

A new door is more than the door.

The lines that separate a good door install from a cheap one are the ones the cheap bid leaves off. Removal and haul-off of the old door, tracks and opener. The finished opening measured, not the rough opening, along with headroom, side room and backroom. Torsion or extension springs chosen for the headroom and the door weight, with a low-headroom kit where the ceiling is tight.

New tracks, because track and hinge spacing varies by brand and reusing old ones is a callback waiting to happen. New bottom, side and header seals. Cables, drums and rollers sized to the door's weight class. An opener with enough power for an insulated steel door, a keypad and at least two remotes. And the balance test at the end: the door should hold at waist height on spring tension alone.

Each of those is a line, so the homeowner sees why your number is higher and what they get for it.

The safety items are federal, and some are state.

Automatic residential garage door openers are covered by a federal safety standard. Under 16 CFR 1211, openers need entrapment protection, including an external device such as photo eyes or an edge sensor that the opener monitors, so the door reverses instead of closing on someone. Put the sensors on the estimate as part of any opener install, and note it when an old door is running without them.

Some states go further. California requires a battery backup on new residential openers, so a California opener quote without one is a code problem. Check your state before you quote.

Photos back you up: up to 20 on the document and 6 on a single line. A photo of the frayed cable or the missing photo eyes beside the line that fixes it is the clearest explanation you can give.

Service calls paid the same visit, new doors with a deposit.

A broken spring is an urgent call, and it should be paid when it is done. Turn the estimate into an invoice, send it with a payment link, and the homeowner pays by card or bank transfer on their own phone. Stripe charges its standard rate and Jobkore adds nothing on top.

New doors, especially special-order colors and sizes, usually take a deposit at order and the balance at install. Put both on one invoice with a payment schedule, each row named and dated. Payments fill the rows in order and the last row is always the balance, and late payments get reminders at 1, 7 and 14 days.

Invoices and payments sync one way to QuickBooks Online. More on taking card payments without losing margin.

Hank knows the garage door traps.

Jobkore includes Hank AI™, an assistant that knows the trade you picked at signup. Tell him the job by typing or with a voice memo: 16 by 7 insulated steel door, 11 inches of headroom, replace the old extension springs and the 20-year-old opener, house in California. He drafts the estimate with the door, hardware, opener and install lines, priced from your catalog first.

Turn on a review before sending and he checks it against a garage door list: measured off the rough opening, a spring job that ignores worn cables and drums, reused tracks on a new door, no low-headroom kit on a tight ceiling, no battery backup where the state requires it. He can add the missing line and never changes your prices in a review.

If the tear-out turns up a rotted jamb or header, add a change order to the invoice. The homeowner signs it online and the total moves to include it.

What Jobkore is for a garage door shop.

Jobkore does not do dispatch, GPS, parts inventory, pricebook subscriptions or maintenance-plan billing. It does the estimate, the change orders, the invoice and the payments, for a shop with one to a few techs, on your phone, in English or Spanish. It is built for the paperwork between the service call and the paid invoice.

Your license number, entered once, prints on every estimate and invoice, which matters in states that license garage door work. Where a state requires a license for this work, a homeowner checking yours finds it right there on the estimate.

Related trades: windows and doors, electrical and handyman. The price is on the pricing page: one plan, every feature.