Get a Quote From a Jobsite Photo, With Shappy on WhatsApp
The photo goes out on WhatsApp, the app already open on the job. Shappy drafts the quote from your prices. You review it, then you send it.
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Four shots of a kitchen wall are in the camera roll, taken while the homeowner was talking, and the truck is in the driveway. Shappy drafts that quote inside WhatsApp, the app the crew already uses on site, in any country, from the prices on your own list. The review stays with you, then the send, and voice notes or typed messages, for work the camera never catches, are on the WhatsApp quote.
How do you get a quote from a jobsite photo?
Yes. You take a photo of the job, send it to Shappy on WhatsApp, the app you already use on site, and Shappy drafts the quote from your prices. You check the lines, fix a quantity or a tax rate if you need to, and the quote goes out when you approve it.
Shappy is the AI assistant in SHAPP, the construction software. It reads what the photo shows, pulls prices from your library, and applies tax according to your company’s country settings. A short voice note or a one-line scope helps catch work the camera cannot see.
The quote is still yours. A photo is a strong first draft, not a tape measure. You confirm the areas, you add what is hidden, and Shappy stays in the same chat for the follow-up, the schedule, or an order. If a field or a step is missing, you tell Shappy and Shappy adds it.
Say you are pricing this kitchen, a backsplash plus one open wall, and the dollars below are the numbers you would actually use. The bathroom quote template already holds the lines you repeat, and the rest of the trades sit with the quote templates.
What Shappy reads in a jobsite photo
The photos show the old tile, the outlet in the middle of the wall, the cabinet run, and how far the backsplash climbs toward the hood, and Shappy takes the visible work, a first read on the material, and a first pass at the square feet.
What the camera misses, you add. A 20 second voice note, or one line under the photo, covers thinset over painted drywall, the row that stops at the window, and the work you are leaving out, the floor and the pantry. Behind the refrigerator the photo is blank, and if you leave that unsaid the line never appears, then you eat the labor on install day.
Send the note in the same minute as the photos, because by morning the grout color is fuzzy and the homeowner remembers the sentence you said next to the stove. The same assistant also answers on Telegram, in Grok Bot, ChatGPT, Claude, Slack, and inside SHAPP.
From a WhatsApp photo to a quote you can send
The move stays in the chat you already have open. Measuring on site, tape in hand, is in how to estimate on site from your phone.
1. You send the photo
A wide shot, a shot of the outlet, and a close shot of the old tile are enough, plus a line of scope. "Kitchen wall tile, backsplash to the window, tear out the old tile, floor stays, pantry stays." If a quantity is still open, say so in that same line, and the square feet get fixed on the quote.
A voice note works while the truck door is still open, and how that note becomes a quote is in AI estimates from a voice note.
2. Shappy drafts the lines from your prices
The lines come back with an item, a quantity, a unit, and a price from your library. On this kitchen, say 96 sq ft of wall tile at $15 a sq ft installed, tear-out at $240, and edge trim at $120. The tile is $1,440. The 3 lines together are $1,800. Tax on each line follows the rates in your company settings.
| Item | Qty | Unit | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wall tile, installed | 96 | sq ft | $15 |
| Tear-out of old backsplash | 1 | lump sum | $240 |
| Edge trim | 1 | lump sum | $120 |
Leave the trim as an option if the homeowner is unsure, and a discount, if you are giving one, is a line. A 30% deposit to order the tile is $540 on this $1,800.
3. You review it, then the quote goes out
Areas first. A photo from the doorway stretches the wall, and 96 sq ft called in the driveway can be 80 once the tape is out, so the line gets fixed before the tax, the option, the date, and how long the price holds.
When the review looks right, the quote goes out as a PDF, a link, or an email from your company address. The customer signs on the screen, and every revision stays dated.
Your prices, and the taxes in your settings
The $15 a sq ft comes from the library you filled with your own items, and if this kitchen wants a different number you change the line, then the library can keep it for the next house.
Tax, or VAT where your company uses it, is set line by line from the country settings on the account, and one quote can carry 2 rates when the items are not the same kind of work. The rate you pick is the one that goes out, after a call with your accountant on a borderline job.
The deposit invoice, the progress bill, and the final invoice are created from the quote inside SHAPP Construction, and Peppol e-invoicing is included. Retainage, if the contract has it, stays on the file until you release it. Shappy drafts the quote, and the invoices come out of that quote in the software once the customer has accepted it.
What to check before you send it
I would check the areas first. At $15 a sq ft, 16 sq ft too many is $240 the homeowner can sign without noticing, and you will still set that tile.
- Areas, measured, because a photo from the doorway stretches a wall.
- Hidden work: thinset over paint, the row that stops at the window, anything behind the refrigerator.
- Extra lines that came off a template and were never said on the walkthrough.
- Missing lines, especially protection for the counters and the cleanup.
- The tax rate on each line, the one in your company settings.
- Options the homeowner should be able to keep or drop.
Cleanup gets skipped because every kitchen has it and nobody says it, and at $75 the total moves from $1,800 to $1,875, so the homeowner sees the line instead of meeting it on the last day. The on-screen signature comes after that read.
Shappy stays in the chat after the quote
If the homeowner goes quiet, the follow-up is drafted in their chat and leaves after you have read it. The timing and the messages are in follow up a quote on WhatsApp. On Monday, "Put Karim in Tacoma on Thursday" updates the schedule, and "Order 20 bags of thinset" goes to the supplier after you approve it. "Which invoices are late?" belongs in the same thread, between two jobs.
Job photos sent during the work get filed on the job by Shappy, and if a field is missing, or a step for the thinset, or a tool to track leftover tile, you say so and Shappy adds it. Permissions follow each person’s role, the history keeps every action, the data stays in Europe, and the setup is on Security.
ArtisanPilot, SnapDevis, BatiTech, and Aegis turn a photo into a quote inside their own app. SimplyWise, QuoteIQ, and Hover show up on American lists. IAMAN, Qenn, and Nexley already take the photo on WhatsApp and carry it to a draft. SHAPP, the jobsite software with Shappy, the AI assistant on WhatsApp, keeps going in that same thread after the draft. The brand pages are on the comparison hub.
Common questions
How do you get a quote from a jobsite photo?
Yes. One or more shots go to Shappy on WhatsApp with a line of scope, and SHAPP comes back with lines priced from your library. On the kitchen, 96 sq ft called from the doorway gets corrected if the tape disagrees, and the PDF, the link, or the email leaves once you approve it.
Do the prices on a photo quote come from a market database?
Your prices. They come from the library you keep, item by item. If wall tile is not in the library yet, you type your number before the send, and the next kitchen finds it there.
How is tax set on a quote prepared from a photo?
From the tax rates in your company settings, line by line. One quote can carry 2 rates when the items are not the same kind of work, and the rate that goes out is the one you approved. On a borderline job, a call with your accountant beats a percentage copied off an ad.
Do you still review a quote made from a photo?
Every time. Areas, hidden work, extra lines, protection, cleanup, tax, and options get checked before the customer sees the PDF. An area that runs long still gets installed, and you still own the number.
Can you send the photo in WhatsApp?
Yes. WhatsApp is enough for the photo and for the line of scope that goes with it, and SHAPP drafts the quote in that thread. After the send, the follow-up, the schedule, and the job photos stay in the same chat, filed on the job.