Zaras for Siding

The roof got scoped. The siding got half-priced. One record holds the match.

Storm supplements, full replacements, and matching that has to be documented.

Full replacementsStorm repairsTrim & soffit

A long season with a hard February.

Crews run from June clear through December — siding does not stop for the holidays, it stops in February. Hail season loads the front half of the year, so the record has to hold a claim opened in May and the supplement it becomes, paid out in September.

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What carries season to season: elevation photos profile and color the supplement trail.

One week in June. Three jobs, one record.

An adjuster meeting, a supplement filed on a discontinued profile, and a retail replacement closing — three different jobs, one operating record.

Tue

Adjuster meeting

Test squares shot by elevation, photos filed against the claim — not a camera roll that has to be hunted down when the supplement gets challenged.

Record holdselevationsphotosclaim
Thu

Supplement filed

The discontinued profile gets documented on the record, and the matching argument — partial won’t match, full is owed — attaches to the same job the adjuster meeting opened.

Record holdssupplementmatching
Fri

Retail replacement closes

A fiber-cement estimate with color selections approved, deposit collected, and the install scheduled — a curb-appeal sale, not a failure replacement.

Record holdsselectionsdepositschedule

The supplement file and the selection desk.

Siding money comes from two engines — the storm work that rides someone else’s claim, and the retail replacements sold on their own resale value. Zaras runs both from the same record.

The supplement file

Siding storm work arrives as a supplement to a roof claim already scoped — winning it is a documentation job, not a canvass.

Per-elevation recordstest squares, photos, and damage by face
Matchingdiscontinued profiles and colors, argued from the record
Supplementsfiled, tracked, and paid against the original claim

The selection desk

The retail lane is a discretionary improvement sale — fiber-cement recoups over its cost at resale, not a failure replacement sold on urgency.

Selectionsmaterial, profile, and color on the estimate
Deposits and schedulingone estimate carries the job to the crew

What Zaras runs for siding.

The record, not the folder — every job from the claim to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.

Per-elevation damage documentationtest squares and photos filed by face, findable months later when the supplement gets challenged.

Claim and supplement trackingevery supplement tied to the original claim it rode in on, not a loose line item.

Matching and profile recordsdiscontinued colors and profiles documented once, argued from the record every time.

Retail replacement estimates with selectionsmaterial, profile, and color built into the estimate itself.

Deposits on approvalcollected the moment the estimate is signed.

Install schedulingbooked from the approved estimate, no re-entry.

Material orders tied to the jobcolor and profile selections carry straight through to the order.

Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks syncbilling runs from the same record the claim or the estimate opened.

Claim → scope → supplement → install → paid — every siding job, one record.

Straight answers.

What does it cost?

Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.

Does it work with QuickBooks?

Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.

What happens to my data?

It’s yours, both directions. Customers, elevation records, and open claims come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.

Can it run commercial work?

Yes — multi-building and property-manager work with per-building elevation records and NET-terms billing live on the same record as your residential book.

What size shop is this for?

Siding contractors running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.

What does private beta mean?

We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.

Private beta

The price is the price.

Every plan runs the full operating system for Siding — supplements, matching, estimates, scheduling, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.

Solo

$49/ month

One estimator, one truck. Document the elevation, file the supplement, close the retail estimate at the kitchen table — the record keeps the matching argument straight.

  • Per-elevation photos and test squares on every job
  • Supplements tracked against the original claim
  • Retail estimates with material and color selections
  • Deposits on approval
  • Invoices, payments, QuickBooks sync
Request Solo access

Team

from$149/ month

The supplement file and the selection desk, run from one board. Every crew walking in with the elevation’s own history.

  • Dispatch board built for adjuster meetings and installs alike
  • Roles for the office, estimators, and crews
  • Open supplements and retail estimates in one view
  • Everything in Solo, for the whole shop
Up to 5 techs$149Up to 15 techs$299Up to 40 techs$599
Request Team access

Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.

  1. Request an invite
  2. Fit reviewed within 24 hours
  3. Guided onboarding