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Your roofing software works. The handoffs around it don't.
You may like the software you already have and still have no confidence that a lead, completed job, invoice, payment, and accounting record are making it cleanly from one system to the next.
Does this sound like your week?
- A Google Local Services Ads lead comes in while you're on a roof. By lunch, the office says somebody called it, but nobody can show you who, when, or what happened next.
- A homeowner asked for a repair, the job record was created under the wrong service or rate, and the estimate is being built from bad intake before anyone catches it.
- The crew finishes the job, but the photos stay on a crew member's phone and never reach CompanyCam or the job record.
- The job is complete and ready to bill, but the invoice does not go out because the person who sends it thought somebody else already did.
- A customer pays through Stripe. QuickBooks shows the money, but the job record still looks open, so the office is chasing a balance that was already paid.
- An EagleView report is sitting in one inbox, the estimate is somewhere else, and somebody retypes the same property or job information because the systems do not pass it through.
- You spend the day on roofs and get back to the office knowing jobs moved, money moved, and leads came in — but you cannot tell which steps actually happened without asking three people.
None of that means your software is bad. The problems show up when a job moves from one person or system to the next: from a lead source to the CRM, from measurement to estimate and approval, from the field to billing, from billing to accounting, or from payment back to the job record.
CIRRIUS traces that whole path, finds where information stops moving or gets retyped, and fixes those connections so the next person has what they need and the job record shows what actually happened.
Where roofing jobs and money fall between systems
A roofing job rarely lives in one place from first call to final payment. A lead may begin in Google Local Services Ads, Angi, Google Business Profile, or a website form. The job may then move through a CRM, phone system, measurement tool, field documentation app, accounting system, and payment processor.
Each system can be doing its own job correctly while the handoff between two systems is still broken.
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Lead source → CRM
The first question is simple: was the lead actually answered, and can you prove what happened after it came in?
A paid lead from Google Local Services Ads or Angi may arrive by phone, form, text, or email. If the source record does not connect cleanly to the customer and job record, you can end up paying for the lead without being able to tell whether it was called, quoted, won, lost, or ignored.
This is also where phone systems matter. The useful question is not whether Quo, RingCentral, or another phone platform can take a call. It is whether the call, caller, notes, and next step make it back to the record your office actually uses. You should be able to trace where your local leads actually come from and whether you're answering the calls you're already paying for.
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Measurement → estimate → approval
The estimate is where the scope, the price, and the homeowner's approval have to agree.
Measurements may begin in EagleView or Hover, move into the CRM or estimating tool, pick up pricing, and then go out for e-signature. Insurance supplements can create another version of the scope. Every one of those moves is a chance for an address, roof section, waste factor, price, or revision to be copied incorrectly or attached to the wrong job.
The handoff is complete when the measurement, estimate, any supplement, and signed approval all point to the same job, scope, price, and version. CIRRIUS traces where those records move, where information is retyped, and which approved estimate the office and production team actually use.
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Field completion → invoice
A job can be complete in the field and still sit unbilled.
The crew may have marked the work complete. Photos may be in CompanyCam. Measurements or reports may be in EagleView. The CRM may show a finished job. But if the next step is still “someone in the office remembers to open another screen and send the invoice,” there is a gap.
CIRRIUS traces that exact step: what marks the job complete, what information billing needs, what event should move the job forward, and what happens when the expected information is missing.
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Invoice → accounting
The invoice exists. Now somebody has to make sure the accounting system agrees with it.
When job data is re-keyed into QuickBooks, the risk is not abstract. A customer name can be different. A job number can be missing. A payment can be applied to the wrong record. An invoice can exist in one system and not the other.
The objective is getting job data into QuickBooks without re-keying it wherever the systems and available connections allow it, then validating that the records match.
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Payment → job record
Taking payment is not the same as closing the loop.
A customer may pay through Stripe or another processor, while the CRM, invoice record, or office task still says money is due. That creates duplicate follow-up, bad reporting, and an owner who cannot trust the screen in front of him.
The handoff is not complete until the payment, invoice, and job record agree. Taking payment at the moment the job closes only helps if every system that needs the result receives it.
- Lead source
- CRM
- Measurement
- Estimate
- Approval
- Field completion
- Invoice
- Accounting
- Payment
- Job record
What we fix
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Migration and data rescue
If you are moving away from an old system, the first job is protecting what you already own.
We inventory the records that matter — customers, jobs, notes, invoices, attachments, photos, inspection images, identifiers, and historical files — then determine what can actually be exported and in what form. The move is mapped and validated before the old source is treated as disposable. The goal is to move the usable history without turning the switch into a scavenger hunt six months later.
When a vendor limits exports, the work becomes more deliberate: identify available reports, file downloads, APIs, attachment exports, and manual recovery paths; separate what can be migrated cleanly from what must be archived; and document the gaps before anything is shut off.
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Completed jobs that actually reach billing
We trace what happens from the moment the field says “done” to the moment the customer receives an invoice.
That can mean connecting a completion status to the billing process, carrying the right customer and job data forward, creating checks for missing information, and removing steps that exist only because one employee has learned to remember them.
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Paid lead sources reconciled against real jobs
You should be able to start with a lead you paid for and follow it far enough to answer basic questions: Was it answered? Did it become an estimate? Did it become a job? Was the source captured correctly?
We connect the source data that is available, the phone or form record, and the customer/job record so the office can reconcile what was purchased against what actually happened.
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CRM, accounting, and payment records that agree
If the CRM says one thing, QuickBooks says another, and the payment processor says a third, the owner becomes the reconciliation system.
We map the records and identifiers that should match, remove avoidable re-entry, connect systems where supported, and add validation around the places where a sync can fail or leave a record half-finished.
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A stalled rollout cleaned up without starting over
Sometimes the software is fine and the rollout simply stopped halfway.
There may be duplicate records, half-used stages, old forms still feeding the wrong place, a phone system that never got connected, or a spreadsheet that survived because one critical handoff was never solved. We identify what is working, keep it, and repair the unfinished connections around it instead of using “replace everything” as the default answer.
What we don't do
AccuLynx and JobNimbus include onboarding for their own products, and their teams do that work well. CIRRIUS does not replace that onboarding or configure those platforms internally. We work on what no single vendor covers end to end: what happens between its system and everything else — your accounting, your phone, your field app, and your lead sources.
We don't sell you the software, so we have no reason to tell you to switch platforms just to create a project.
We don't buy your leads or coach your closers. We do make sure the leads you buy get answered, tracked, and reconciled to real jobs, and we train your people on the systems and handoffs we fix. If your problem is sales coaching, estimating technique, production management, or buying more leads, you should hire someone who does that work.
And if we trace the handoffs and the answer is that your current setup is fine, that is an acceptable outcome of the call. Not every diagnostic needs to become a project.
How a roofing systems project works
The CRM Strategy Call comes first. If we find a problem worth solving, we agree on the scope and price, make sure the required access is in place, and schedule the project kickoff. The four-week project begins at kickoff.
From there, the work is finite: find the breaks, fix the agreed connections, test them with real scenarios, and hand the system back with documentation your team can use.
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Week 1 — Find the leaks
We start with the systems you already use and a small set of real examples.
We trace a lead from its source into the customer record. We follow a job through completion and invoicing. We compare the invoice to QuickBooks. We follow a payment back to the job. We look at where phones, forms, field records, photos, and measurement files enter the process.
The output is a written map of what is happening now, where information stops, where people are re-entering it, and which failures are worth fixing first.
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Weeks 2–3 — Close them
We work through the agreed scope in priority order.
That may include moving or rescuing data, connecting lead-source records to the job record, reducing manual re-entry into accounting, closing the gap between job completion and invoicing, or making sure payment status returns to the place the office relies on.
Each change is tested against actual scenarios. A connection is not considered fixed because a setting exists or a screen says “connected.” We verify what enters, what comes out, and what happens when required information is missing.
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Week 4 — Hand it back, documented
The last week is for verification, cleanup, and handoff.
We retest the agreed paths, document what changed, record any limits imposed by the software vendors or available APIs, and show the people responsible for the back office how the repaired handoffs are supposed to work.
You are not left with a mystery that only CIRRIUS understands.
Each project is fixed scope, quoted per project, and priced before work starts.
We do not bill hourly and we do not require an open-ended retainer.
If something important is discovered outside the agreed scope, it becomes a separate decision before more work is added. You know what is being fixed and what the project covers before the work begins.
Why a systems firm, and not a roofing consultant
CIRRIUS is not going to pretend that ten years working on digital systems equals ten years running a roofing company. It does not.
CIRRIUS founder Shane Kelly spent a decade working on the systems behind a multi-brand eCommerce operation, including Homedics.com and sister brands. That work required customer data, websites, order systems, payments, analytics, third-party services, internal teams, and business records to keep agreeing with each other even when no single vendor owned the whole chain.
That is the same class of systems problem this page is about.
A roofing consultant should know roofing production, estimating, supplements, sales management, crews, and the economics of the trade. If that is the problem you need solved, hire that person.
Knowing roofing is not what fixes a paid lead that never reconciles to a job, an invoice that stops between the field and QuickBooks, or a payment that never makes it back to the customer record. Those problems require understanding what happens when several systems, several identifiers, and several people all have to agree about the same event.
CIRRIUS stays on that side of the line: the systems, the data moving between them, the points where the handoff breaks, and the documentation that lets the business keep running after the project is over.
That is also why we do not need you to throw out software you already like. If the CRM is doing its job, we leave that fact alone and work around the edges where the other systems meet it.
The same systems problem shows up differently across other trades we work with, which is why each CIRRIUS industry page starts with the actual systems and handoffs used in that trade rather than pretending one software playbook fits everyone.
Systems we work in
The list is intentionally plain. A logo wall does not prove that two systems are connected correctly.
Sales CRM
- HubSpot
- Pipedrive
Accounting and payments
- QuickBooks
- Stripe
Phone and lead capture
- Quo
- RingCentral — phone systems that log to the job record
- Google Local Services Ads
- Google Ads
- Website forms and WordPress
Field documentation and job files
- Job photos and attachments
- Inspection images
- Measurement exports
- PDFs and historical job records
Questions roofing contractors ask us
What if my old CRM vendor won't let me export my data?
You may still have recovery options, but the first step is to find out exactly what the vendor will release and in what format. We inventory available exports, reports, APIs, attachments, photos, and manual download paths before anything is shut off. If some data cannot be moved cleanly, we separate migration from archiving and document what will remain outside the new system.
Will I lose historical data when switching platforms?
Not necessarily, but historical data should be mapped and tested before you treat the old platform as disposable. We identify which customers, jobs, notes, invoices, attachments, photos, and identifiers must survive the move, then validate the destination against the source. Anything that cannot transfer cleanly should be identified in advance and preserved through an agreed archive or recovery method.
Can I export my photos and inspection images from my old CRM, or are they stuck there?
Sometimes you can export them directly, and sometimes the images have to be recovered separately from the rest of the CRM data. The answer depends on the vendor's export tools, file access, APIs, and how attachments are stored. We verify that before migration, then plan whether the files move into the new system, into an archive, or both.
How long does a roofing CRM implementation take?
There is no single implementation timeline because vendor onboarding and multi-system cleanup are different jobs. AccuLynx and JobNimbus handle their own product setup; CIRRIUS does not replace that service. For the systems work described on this page, our four-week project begins at kickoff, after the diagnostic, agreed scope and price, and required access are in place.
Why do roofing CRM implementations fail?
They fail when the software gets turned on but the real steps around it are never made dependable. A lead still has to reach the right record, field completion has to reach billing, invoices have to match accounting, and payments have to close the job. If those handoffs still depend on memory, duplicate entry, or unclear ownership, the rollout can feel unfinished even when the CRM itself works.
Does a roofing CRM integrate with QuickBooks?
Many roofing and field-service platforms can connect with QuickBooks, but the existence of a connector does not guarantee that your records will match cleanly. You still need to decide which system owns customer, job, invoice, tax, and payment data; how identifiers match; and what happens when a sync fails. CIRRIUS works on that handoff rather than configuring AccuLynx or JobNimbus internally.
Do I need technical experience to set up a roofing CRM?
No, you should not need deep technical experience just to use a roofing CRM, and vendor onboarding should handle the platform's own setup. Technical help becomes more useful when several systems must exchange data reliably — for example, when leads, phone records, invoices, QuickBooks entries, payments, photos, or website forms have to agree across separate products.
How do I vet a roofing industry consultant?
Start by asking exactly what the consultant does, what they do not do, and what evidence they can show for the work they are proposing. Be cautious if the answer is vague, if every problem leads to buying new software, or if they cannot explain exports, backups, testing, documentation, and project scope. A credible firm should also tell you when its experience does not match the problem.
How much does this cost?
CIRRIUS prices this work as a fixed-scope project quoted before work starts. We do not publish a generic package price because the scope depends on which systems, data, and handoffs are actually involved. After the diagnostic, any recommended project is defined in writing with the expected outcome and price before you approve it; there is no hourly meter or open-ended retainer attached.
Book a CRM Strategy Call
This is a diagnostic conversation, not a sales presentation.
Bring the systems you use and one or two examples of where a lead, job, invoice, or payment went sideways. We will trace the handoffs, tell you what looks broken, what looks fine, and what we would fix first. You will leave knowing where the leaks are whether or not you hire CIRRIUS.
Call: (248) 537-2481