What is an estimate?
An Estimate in Hover (known in the code as a production list) is a structured breakdown of a job’s materials, and related costs. Estimates are tied to jobs, and leverage job data, like measurements, to determine quantities of materials and other items on the Estimate. The API exposes the Estimate so clients can retrieve Estimate data like line items, totals, and context (e.g. templates) in one place.
Why people use Estimates
Teams use Estimates to quote and plan work from the same data they already trust in Hover. Quantities, SKUs, costs, and more generate without re-keying from PDFs or spreadsheets. Estimates support clear handoffs between sales teams and homeowners, to production teams and suppliers while keeping numbers aligned to the underlying job and model (structure).
Why you’d want it in your CRM
Pulling estimates into a CRM lets you keep scope and pricing data on the Estimate inside a lead or opportunity recrod that lives in your CRM: one source of truth for what was quoted, and which job it belongs to all syncing automatically with no pesky data entry.