You don’t have to show prices online to use Price2Book.
The customer still walks the guided questions. They still describe the job in their own words, still answer what they can see, and still send the photographs you asked for. Then it comes to you, and you set the estimate.
Go on estimates because the job needs you there — not because you needed more information.
If the customer can give you what you need to quote the work, Price2Book collects it. Review the answers and the photographs, set the estimate, and keep the truck parked. When a job genuinely needs to be seen, send someone.
- Customer calls
- You ask what you can over the phone
- You schedule an estimate
- You drive there
- You gather the information
- You drive back
- You work out the price
- Customer answers the guided questions
- They supply the details and photographs you asked for
- You review the scope
- You set the estimate
And when the work does have to be seen — a diagnosis, a condition nobody can photograph, a measurement that has to be right — that is what the visit is for.
They send what you would have driven over to look at.
A request for “a photo” collects nothing useful. The questions name the thing the office needs to see, in the words a homeowner can act on — and the estimate waits until they have sent it.
As of September 11, 2026, the catalog asks for at least 72 different photographs by name. Nothing reads them. They are collected, and a person looks at them.
A real service, its real question and the photographs it actually requires.
Is this for an attached or detached garage, or an outdoor location like a driveway?
- Panel with the door open, showing the amp rating and breakers
- Where the charger will be mounted
- Path between the panel and the charger location (for run distance)
No price is released here. The job goes to you with the answers and the photographs attached.
It arrives as a job to price, not a price to approve.
Submitted estimates land in a review queue with the customer’s answers and their photographs together in one place. You price the work. The customer sees your number and accepts it. No software decides the amount at any point.
Figures as of September 11, 2026 — a floor, not a live count; the product has never run fewer than this.
Not every job can be quoted from photographs.
A fault nobody can photograph, a condition behind a wall, a measurement that has to be right — those need somebody there, and a product that pretends otherwise hands you a number you cannot stand behind.
Guided Estimates is for the work you could quote from the desk if only you had the information. It is not an argument against site visits.
- Instant Price
- the answers establish the scope, so your approved price is released
- Guided Estimate
- the answers and photographs come to you, and you set the number
- Onsite Visit
- the work has to be seen, so it is routed to a visit
You choose which, service by service. None of the three is the advanced one.