How the estimate gets written
Three routes. No recommendation.
When a job can legitimately go more than one way, the Quoter drafts every route and hands them to you as peers — then gets out of the way. Picking one is a judgement about this car, this customer and this insurer, and that judgement is yours.
Read this before you judge it
Most of an estimate isn't a choice at all. On the job below — a rear hit that moved the quarter — eleven lines get written, and eight of them are identical whichever route you take. The bumper still comes off. The body panel still gets pulled. The scan still happens. Only three lines actually change.
Any tool that presents a repair as three wildly different worlds is selling you drama. The honest version is narrower, and less impressive-looking, and true.
The Quoter · the job on the bench
Rear hit, offside. Bumper cover scuffed, tail lamp cracked, rear body panel moved, and the quarter panel creased above the wheel arch. The quarter is where the routes split.
Tap a route to see its estimate. There's no recommended one — that call belongs to the shop.
Why we don't tell you which one
We can't see the car
A photo shows the cover. How far the crease traveled, how the metal behaves under a hammer — that's your tech with his hands on it.
We don't know the deal
Whose claim it is, what the customer wants, what this insurer has been doing lately, how loaded your bench is this week. All of it changes the answer.
It's your name on it
The shop carries the repair, the warranty and the liability. A tool that picks for you is a tool taking a decision it can't stand behind.
What the Quoter does do
It drafts every route in full, puts the not-included operations on each one so nothing quietly falls off the ticket, and makes sure the eight lines that don't change are right on all three. Then a person at your shop taps Approve — and only then does anything reach the customer. The bots draft. You decide. That's the whole rule.
The estimate above is an illustration of how routes are presented — a sample job with sample operations, not a quote, a price list, or advice about how to write or bill an estimate. Your estimator writes your estimates.
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