QuoteIQ Review 2026: AI Estimator and Call Team for Electrical Service Shops

Updated November 8, 2026 – Tested Intelligence

Quick verdict: QuoteIQ is an all-in-one app for electrical service contractors that leads with AI: an AI Estimator that drafts a priced, line-item estimate from job photos or a short description, and an AI Virtual Call Team that answers the phone 24/7 while you are in a panel. Every plan includes the AI tools, but the team features most multi-truck shops need — assigning jobs, QuickBooks Online sync and automations — only start on Pro at $199.99 a month.

What it is

QuoteIQ runs an electrical service business end to end in one app on iPhone, Android and the web: estimates, the calendar, invoicing, payments and a client database, built by contractors Mike Vidan and Justin Rogers for home-service trades. The vendor says more than 40,000 contractors use it across 50-plus trades, and its electrician page is written around service work: panel upgrades, EV charger installs, generators, surge protection, new circuits and troubleshooting calls.

The electrical workflow is flat-rate by design. You build a price book once, then send panel work as good, better and best options on one estimate — the panel alone, the panel with surge protection, the panel with an EV charger circuit — and the customer picks and e-signs on their phone. The deposit for the equipment is collected at acceptance, the job lands on one drag-and-drop calendar, techs work from the same inspection checklist, photos of the open panel go on the job with QuoteIQ Cam, and QuickPay takes the balance by QR code before you pack up.

What the pricing page doesn’t make obvious is how much of the multi-truck workflow sits above the entry tiers. The AI headline is real — the Estimator, the Virtual Call Team and the MCP connector for ChatGPT and Claude are on every plan — but assigning jobs to team members, QuickBooks Online, email and text automation and the Hourly Rate Calculator are Pro and up, and inspection forms and QuoteIQ Cam start at Beginner. A solo electrician gets full value at $29.99; a four-tech shop is really a $199.99 customer. Extra users are $25 per user per month on every plan, up to 100, and starting the 14-day trial requires a card.

Key features

• AI Estimator: a job photo or a short description becomes a priced, line-item estimate for your local market, with AI CoPilot editing it by voice or text
• AI Virtual Call Team: 24/7 AI call answering on every plan, taught your service call fee, service area and hours, with a summary and transcript after every call
• Options estimates: good, better and best on one estimate with e-signatures and equipment deposits collected at acceptance, on every plan
• MCP connector: ChatGPT, Claude and other assistants can read your account and draft estimates, invoices, jobs and tasks, with approval required before anything goes through
• Inspection forms and QuoteIQ Cam: your own safety checklist with mandatory points, plus before-cover photos and markups kept on the job (Beginner and up)
• QuickPay and invoicing: QR-code and payment-link payment on site, review requests after payment, and QuickBooks Online sync on Pro and up

Pricing

Five published plans, all with a 14-day free trial and month-to-month billing with no contract. Essentials is $29.99 a month for 1 user; Beginner is $99.99 for 2 users, adding inspection forms, QuoteIQ Cam and Google Calendar sync; Pro is $199.99 for 4 users, adding job assignment, QuickBooks Online, automations and the Hourly Rate Calculator; Elite is $299.99 for 10 users with online booking and route optimization; Max is $699.99 for 20 users with a dedicated account manager. Annual billing costs ten times the monthly price, so two months are free, and extra users are $25 per user per month up to 100. For context: G2 lists QuoteIQ at 4.6 stars from 21 reviews, against the vendor’s own 4.7 from 3,401 App Store ratings — a smaller but independent sample that still rates it well.

Who it’s for

Residential and light-commercial electrical service shops — solo electricians through roughly twenty users — that quote from a flat-rate price book and lose work when nobody answers the phone. It fits best when panel upgrades, EV chargers and generators are a growing share of the board, because the options estimate plus deposit flow is built exactly for that ticket.

Who should skip it

Construction electricians bidding plan work should skip it — there is no drawing takeoff here; Quotr.ai, PataBid Quantify or Trimble Accubid Anywhere are the bid-day tools. Large shops that need deep dispatch, call-center and marketing machinery should compare ServiceTitan, accepting that its pricing is by quote rather than published.

Pros

• AI Estimator and 24/7 AI call answering are included on every plan, including the $29.99 tier
• Published prices with named user counts — no sales call needed to budget it
• Options estimates with e-sign and deposits match how panel and charger work is actually sold
• MCP connector lets ChatGPT or Claude work in your account with an approval step before anything sends
• Inspection checklists and panel photos stay on the job, which is the documentation that matters when a callback lands

Cons

• Job assignment, QuickBooks Online and automations are Pro-only, so growing crews outgrow the cheap tiers fast
• Per-user math adds up: extra users are $25 each per month beyond the included seats
• The free trial requires a credit or debit card up front
• Service-work only: no plan takeoff or bid management for construction estimating

FAQ

How does the AI Estimator work?

You give it job photos or a short description of the work. It asks follow-up questions for that job type and drafts a priced estimate with line items for your local market. AI CoPilot then edits the estimate when you type or speak a change, and you review everything before it goes to the customer.

Does the AI really answer my phones?

The AI Virtual Call Team answers calls 24/7 on every plan. You teach it a knowledge source with your service call fee, service area, hours and the work you do and do not take, and after each call you get a notification with the summary and transcript, so a no-power emergency reads differently from a quote request.

What plan does a small electrical crew actually need?

A solo electrician is covered by Essentials at $29.99. As soon as you need to assign jobs to techs, sync QuickBooks Online or automate estimate follow-ups, the vendor’s own plan grid puts you on Pro at $199.99 a month for four users — budget for that tier, not the headline price.

Bottom line

QuoteIQ is the strongest fit we have covered for electrical service shops that win or lose work at the quote and the phone call: it prices the job from a photo, answers while you are on a ladder, and collects the equipment deposit in the same motion. Run the trial with your real price book and your busiest call week, and judge it on whether the Pro tier’s assignment and books sync earn their step up from $29.99.