What They See: one panel for all four customer screens

One set of switches covering the quote, the details form, the agreement and the dashboard — down to each line of the building description — changeable at any time, even days after the estimate went out.

The operating system for post-frame and barndominium builders.

Part of The Living Quote
What it is

Four tabs of switches over every block those pages can render. Everything is on by default, so a builder who never opens the panel gets the full page. A switch never appears for content this quote does not have — and what this quote does have gets one: every service line, and every line of Your Custom Building, shown in the customer's exact words. You can also drag the quote's sections into the order you sell in. One system for the whole post-frame sale, so the customer's four screens are run from one place instead of four.

Also called: hide sections from the customer · customise the client portal · portal sections · what the client sees

See it, piece by piece
01

One panel decides what the customer sees on all four screens

Try it

Quote, details form, agreement and dashboard — each a tab of switches over every block those pages can render. Everything defaults on, so a builder who never opens the panel gets the full page. Before this, only the quote had controls, they lived inside a Send Estimate window, and half of them were duplicated by a second set that wrote somewhere else entirely.

Portal what they see

The quote they approve, and the page around it. Untouched rows follow Settings → Client Portal.

Override
Estimate, Project Info, Contract, Dashboard — one tab each, every block a switch. Real screen · sample data.
Without it

You switch a section off and watch nothing change, because the switch you found wrote somewhere the customer's page never reads.

Why we built it

A builder trusts a control that does what it says the first time. One panel over all four screens, with nothing duplicated, means a switch you flip is the switch the customer's page obeys.

Sound familiar?“I turned a section off in settings and it still shows”
02

Change it days after the estimate went out

Try it

The live setting beats the frozen copy, so switching a section on or off reaches a quote already sitting in a customer's inbox. No resend. No new link. No explaining why they have two. Before, a section switched off at send time was off forever, and the controls silently did nothing about it.

What they see live
What They See
Miller Road 40×60 Shop · every stage of their funnel, changeable any time

The quote they approve, and the page around it. Untouched rows follow Settings → Client Portal.

Applies to the estimate they already have. Same link, no resend.
The same switches, still live after the quote has gone out. Real screen · sample data.
Without it

You realise on Thursday that Monday's quote is showing the labour line, and the only fix you know is to send a second link and explain why.

Why we built it

Everybody makes a visibility mistake eventually — the fix shouldn't cost you face. The live setting wins over the frozen copy, so a change lands on the quote already in their inbox with nothing to explain.

Sound familiar?“I need to change what the customer sees after I already sent it”
03

Hide your labour line without changing what they owe

Every row in Your Investment has its own switch, and hiding one only stops itemising it — the total does not move. If your labour is bundled into a square-foot rate, showing a labour line starts an argument you already priced around. If you sell on transparency, leave every row on. That call is yours, per quote, not the software's for everybody.

Your Investment

Your Investment

Materials$55,177.74
Labor$9,870.99
Services & Add-Ons$28,299.77
Concrete Pad$19,275.55
Site Prep & Grading$3,157.20
Seamless Gutters$1,768.03
Custom Garage Door — 9′ × 8′ (2)$4,098.99
Customer Total$93,348.50
As low as $1,915.24/month (60-month estimate at 8.5% APR)
Illustrative only — based on a 8.5% APR over 60 months. Actual financing terms vary by lender and credit profile. We are not a lender and do not provide financing.
Any of these rows can come off without moving the total. Real screen · sample data.
Without it

You bundle labour into a square-foot rate, the quote prints a labour line anyway, and the next call is about why the crew costs that much.

Why we built it

Customers argue with the line items they can see. Hiding a row only stops itemising it — the total never moves — so you choose the conversation without accidentally discounting the job.

Sound familiar?“there are two places to toggle the same thing”
04

Show the garage door and the price, not the count and the rate

Try it

Each add-on has three levels: show the line, show its measurement (336 sq ft), show its unit price ($13/sq ft). The two extra switches are labelled with the words your own catalog uses for that service — a square-foot service reads Square footage and $ per sq ft — and the customer's line prints its math cleanly, 1 × $4,756.08 each. Picking that wording by hand is how Versetta Stone ends up billed as a per-item line in front of a customer.

Services & Add-Ons — what shows
Services & Add-Ons — what shows
Per service: the line itself, its measurement, and its unit price.
ServiceShow lineMeasureUnit price
Concrete Pad
Seamless Gutters & Downspouts
Wall Insulation
Overhead Garage Doors

Hiding a line keeps its money inside the customer total — the price does not change, the breakdown does.

Two chips under each service, labelled with the words the buyer would see. Real screen · sample data.
Without it

The customer sees $13 a square foot against the stone, works out the material cost for himself, and the next meeting is about your margin instead of his building.

Why we built it

A builder decides in a second when the switch shows the customer's own words. Labels come from how the service is priced, so the wrong layout can't slip onto a page the customer is already reading.

Sound familiar?“the 3D viewer option shows up on estimates that have no model”
05

No switch for something the quote does not have

Try it

The 3D viewer switch is absent on a quote with no model, and the quote tab grows one row per add-on actually on that job. Under Your Custom Building it lists every line this building will print — size, siding, overhangs, openings, the porch — with the exact text beside each switch, worked out by the same function the customer's page uses. You can also drag the sections into the order you sell in — warranty above the price, if that is how you close. A newly added block drops into a sensible slot instead of the bottom of every layout you already saved.

Send Estimate · What They See · Your Custom Building
What They See
1Estimate12Project Info3Contract4Dashboard

The quote they approve, and the page around it. Untouched rows follow Settings → Client Portal.

Reset estimate
Trust strip
Licensed & insured, buildings completed, years in business
Your Custom Building
Size, eave, pitch, openings
Services & Add-Ons section
What each service is — descriptions, no prices
4 lines
Your Custom Building, line by line — the slab line switched off for this job. Real screen · sample data.
Without it

The rep promised boxed overhangs, the page says something else, and nobody on your side saw the wording before the customer did.

Why we built it

A customer who reads exactly what the rep told him trusts the rest of the quote. Switches only for what this job has keep the panel short, and seeing the building lines in the customer's words lets you fix one before it costs a phone call.

How it works
  1. 1Open the panel and pick the screen you want to change
  2. 2Switch any block on or off — down to a single line of the building description
  3. 3Drag the sections into the order you sell in
  4. 4Save, and the customer's open tab picks it up — no resend
  5. 5A switch for something this quote does not have never shows up
Why we built it

Only the first screen had any controls, they were buried inside a Send Estimate window, and half of them were duplicated by a second set that wrote somewhere else entirely — so a builder switching a section off watched nothing happen. Worse, a section switched off at send time stayed off forever, because the frozen copy beat the live setting. Now one panel runs all four screens, the live setting wins, and you can change any of it days after the quote went out.

The problem
  • Controls that only affected the estimate and only at send time
  • Duplicate toggle sets writing to different storage
  • Controls offered for content that does not exist on that estimate
What you get
One panel governs every customer-facing surface
Changes apply to already-sent estimates with no resend
Controls never appear for content the estimate cannot show
What's inside
Show the add-on without showing the count and the rate

Three levels per add-on: show the line at all, show its measurement (336 sq ft), show its unit price ($13/sq ft). The two extra switches sit as chips on the row, not another layer of checkboxes. Their wording comes from how you sell that service — a square-foot service reads Square footage and $ per sq ft.

Drag the quote's sections into your order

Drag to reorder, once, and every quote you send uses that order. Two blocks stay anchored on purpose: the plan set sits after your notes, and the add-on scope sits right after the building and ahead of the money.

CLIENT PORTAL

See what They See: one panel for all four customer screens
on one of your own jobs.

Twenty minutes, your building, your numbers. Bring the job where “I turned a section off in settings and it still shows” — we will show you exactly where that stops.

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