This calculator vs. JobNimbus
Two different shapes: JobNimbus is an account-based CRM and job management platform for running an exterior contractor's whole lead-to-job pipeline. This page is a free, private worksheet for one question — what should this one siding job cost, given its walls, waste, openings, and tear-off, before you send the bid.
What each tool is for
JobNimbus is a CRM and job management platform, founded in 2013 by Ben Hodson, Nick Wood, and Jason Wood, headquartered in Lehi, Utah. It is built for roofing, siding, gutter, solar, and other exterior contractors, covering lead and pipeline tracking, estimates and proposals, scheduling, job costing, and invoicing across a whole business, with a mobile app for crews in the field. It is an account-based platform: you sign up and use it as an ongoing service across a whole company, not a one-off calculator. JobNimbus's own pricing page is not reachable from this session to confirm today's exact plan names or dollar figures, so no price for it is invented here: only its well-documented identity and category — a CRM and job management platform serving exterior trades including siding, sold as a subscription account — are stated, and no dollar amount for JobNimbus appears on this page.
This calculator does none of what JobNimbus does. It does not track a lead, schedule a crew, or invoice a customer, and it stores no customer or job record on a server. It takes one job's wall area by elevation, openings, stories, and material (vinyl, fiber cement, engineered wood, or aluminum), with waste, tear-off, housewrap, linear trim, scaffold, and soffit/fascia as their own line items, plus loaded installer wage, payroll burden, travel, overhead, and target margin, and turns that into the price, the price per billable square and per net square foot, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money — plus, if you already have a price on the table, a check of whether it clears that walk-away floor, and a single printable customer proposal for that one job. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type.
| Question | Where to answer it |
|---|---|
| I run a siding company and need leads, estimates, scheduling, and invoicing tracked in one system across every crew and every job. | JobNimbus, or a comparable CRM — running the whole pipeline is not something this calculator does. |
| What should I charge for this siding job, given its walls, waste, openings, stories, and extras? | This calculator — free, instant, private, no account. |
| How much does a two-story fiber-cement tear-off with fourteen openings actually add over a one-story vinyl wrap? | This calculator's material, story, opening, and tear-off split, not a flat price per square foot. |
| Is the price I'm about to quote still above my walk-away cost for this job? | This calculator's compare-to-proposed-price check. |
| I need my whole sales and install team working the same leads and paperwork from one shared account. | JobNimbus — built as an ongoing, account-based platform for exactly that job. |
| How does the math behind a siding bid actually work? | This calculator's own pricing walkthrough. |
| Do I need to create an account or sign up to use the tool? | This calculator: no. JobNimbus is used through a subscription account. |
Most siding contractors get different value from each: JobNimbus (or a comparable CRM) for running the company's whole lead-to-job pipeline and paperwork as an ongoing subscription, and a private calculator like this one for an instant, no-login answer to what one siding job should cost from its walls, waste, and extras before a business system is involved. This page's own figures are a pricing model, not a lead record, a scheduled job, or a signed contract.
This tool needs no account and no sign-in: it is a static page, the arithmetic runs in your browser, and once it has loaded it keeps working with the connection off.
Common questions
Should I use this calculator or JobNimbus?
They do different jobs, and a siding company of any size will likely end up touching both eventually. JobNimbus, founded in 2013 by Ben Hodson, Nick Wood, and Jason Wood and headquartered in Lehi, Utah, is a CRM and job management platform built for roofing, siding, gutter, and other exterior contractors, covering lead tracking, estimates, scheduling, and invoicing across a whole business, sold as an ongoing subscription account. This calculator does one narrower thing: starting from per-elevation wall measurements, waste, stories, openings, and tear-off, with linear trim, housewrap, dumpster, and add-ons as their own line items, plus loaded installer wage, payroll burden, travel, overhead, and target margin, it turns that into the price, the price per billable square, the effective hourly rate, and the walk-away price below which the job loses money, before any of it touches a business-management system. It runs free in any browser, keeps no account, and uploads nothing you type. A siding company that already tracks leads, schedules crews, and invoices across every job is better served by JobNimbus or a comparable CRM; a contractor who wants an instant, private answer to what one siding job should cost from its walls, waste, and extras before opening a business system is in the right place here.
Is this page affiliated with JobNimbus?
No. This site is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by JobNimbus, Inc. JobNimbus is a trademark of its owner, named here only to describe what this calculator is and is not.
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