Hover 3D roof measurements now flow straight into Trussi roofing estimates

Shamrock Roofing and Construction and Trussi, the roofing software first built inside Shamrock, have partnered with Hover to bring Hover's 3D property measurements straight into Trussi job records. A contractor photographs a property with a smartphone in Hover, Hover builds a 3D model and measurements, and the completed data flows into the matching Trussi job record, ready for estimates and material lists.

That kills a chore every estimator knows: reading quantities off one screen and typing them into another. The more useful details are in the fine print. Who bills for what, how many trades one capture can cover, and what stays attached to the job after the contract is signed.

What one phone capture carries

The roof data is granular. Hover's help center article on the integration says Trussi imports total roof area and squares, per-facet measurements, pitch, and linear footage for ridges, hips, valleys, rakes and eaves. Those values feed the estimate and materials list inside Trussi, and they can be reused for revisions and later material orders without remeasuring.

Hover measures the walls too. Trussi's integration page lists siding, window, door and trim quantities among the values that come across. It also makes the case that one inspection can support both a roof quote and an exterior quote without a second trip.

For a contractor that only sells roofs, the exterior quantities are a nice extra. For one that also quotes siding, windows or trim, they're the reason to care. The same driveway visit produces the takeoff for a second line of business.

Hover's own pitch explains why those wall numbers exist in the first place. In a product video posted in January 2026, Hover says its data set is built for mixed materials, multi-trade work and complex exterior geometry, and that its app lets users pull custom measurements by drawing a line segment, edit and save designs, and download a detailed PDF. The Hover app can already turn a design into an estimate by itself. That suggests the integration's real value is less about estimating and more about landing the numbers in the system where the contractor also orders materials and collects payment.

The office gets visibility as well. According to Trussi's FAQ, the rep or inspector shoots the photos in Hover's mobile capture flow during the inspection, and Trussi tracks that capture against the project. The job record shows whether a capture is pending, processing or complete. For whoever is chasing a stalled quote, that answers the first question without a phone call to the field: is the measurement back yet?

Two bills, and no markup on reports

The pricing is refreshingly plain. Trussi's announcement, distributed through EIN Presswire on October 26, 2026, says the Hover connection is available now to all Trussi accounts and comes with Trussi's only plan: $40 per user per month, month-to-month, onboarding included. Contractors connect their own Hover account, and every measurement report bills to that account at whatever the contractor already pays Hover. Trussi says it doesn't resell reports or take a markup.

Hover's help article tells the same story from its end: the integration is part of standard Trussi platform access, with no add-on to buy. That leaves two predictable bills, a per-seat software fee and per-report measurement charges, with no third party in the middle of either.

Trussi started inside a roofing company, not a software firm. In the announcement, founder Garen Armstrong said Shamrock never set out to write software. It paid a premium for a well-known CRM that wasn't designed around roofing, watched the cost keep rising while field crews still lacked what they needed, and then built its own. Armstrong called Hover's research and development the most advanced technology he has seen, and said it was built the same way Trussi is.

What came out of that is broader than an estimating tool. Trussi bills itself as a patented "Revenue Operating System" (U.S. Patent No. 12,131,277 B2), headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas, running CRM, pipeline management, estimating, materials ordering, payments, QuickBooks Online sync and live reporting on one platform. That scope is why the measurement handoff matters. The quantities that fill the estimate are the same ones the materials order draws on, and Roofing Contractor's coverage describes the goal as moving projects faster from measurement to estimating and material ordering.

The PDFs are still on file

The announcement promised no portal logins, no PDFs and no retyping. On the workflow, that holds up: measurements fill estimate fields without anyone opening a report. The documents haven't gone anywhere, though. According to Hover's help article, each property's Files section in Trussi has a Documents tab for viewing and downloading Hover measurement PDFs, a Photos tab where each capture photo can be viewed, marked up and downloaded, and a Dimensions tab listing every roof measurement.

The data also outlives the sale. Hover's article says Trussi stores the imported measurements on both the lead and the job record, and the announcement says every report stays attached to the project for the life of the job. Trussi's integration page adds that the 3D model stays linked too, so production, the office or a supplement writer opening the job later is working from the same source of truth the estimate was built from.

Keeping them around is useful. For contractors working insurance claims, a shared project record could cut the hunt for documentation when a supplement gets written. Hover describes its platform as used by both contractors and insurance professionals across North America, which suggests the model behind a supplement comes from a tool the claims side already knows.

Setup comes down to one test job

Hover published its help article on the integration on August 7, 2026, and Trussi's integration page carries its own version. Between them, setup runs five steps:

1. Open Settings and select Hover (Trussi's page says Integrations; Hover's article says Add-ons).
2. Authorize with Hover account credentials through OAuth.
3. Map Hover measurement fields to the line items in estimate templates.
4. Set which project stages can request a capture.
5. Run one capture end to end and confirm the numbers land where expected.

The mapping step deserves the most care. If ridge footage lands in the wrong line item, the estimate comes out fast and wrong, which is presumably why Trussi's last step is a test capture.

Ordering gets set up in the same place. Once the account is connected, Hover's article says ordering settings are configured and saved on that page, and Trussi's page says teams pick the default deliverable they order and can request reports without leaving the project. Because every report bills to the contractor's own Hover account, that default deliverable is a spending decision as much as a workflow one.

Trussi's help copy lists two prerequisites: an active Hover account and at least one completed Hover measurement job for the property. If a job isn't finished, finish it in Hover first, then import it. Once that's done, the imported data shows up in the measurements section of the lead or job record.

Both agree on where the line sits. The scan happens in Hover's mobile app, and Trussi doesn't create or alter the measurements; it shows them exactly as Hover produces them. An admin can disconnect at any time without losing the job history already stored in Trussi.

Phone capture versus aerial reports

Trussi's own FAQ points out that Hover is not the only way to measure a roof. It says the answer to whether Hover can stand in for an aerial report varies from job to job. A crew captures Hover data in person at the property, and it takes in the entire exterior. An aerial report, by contrast, is ordered from off site and concentrates on the roof alone. Many contractors rely on both, and Trussi will build an estimate from either one.

That puts limits on the payoff. A roof-only replacement priced from a desk before anyone visits gets less from a phone capture than a multi-trade job where the rep is already standing on the property. The integration is likely to matter most where inspections happen anyway and the contractor sells more than one exterior trade.

Trussi also isn't Hover's only partner. Hover's help center lists it next to integrations with Roof Hub, Bolster, Contractor+ and SmartRoofing.ai, so for contractors already on Hover, choosing a CRM is partly a matter of checking where their measurements will end up.

Competitors are making the opposite pitch. QuoteIQ, on a Hover-alternative comparison page updated in September 2026, argues that roofing crews typically pair Hover with a separate CRM such as AccuLynx or JobNimbus. It sells its Elite plan at $299 a month for up to 10 users, with unlimited satellite measurement and no per-scan fees.

On price alone, ten Trussi seats come to $400 a month before any Hover reports. But this isn't a like-for-like comparison. QuoteIQ's bundled measurement works remotely from satellite imagery, which puts it on the aerial side of the split in Trussi's FAQ, while the Hover route pays per report for an on-site capture of the full exterior. Even QuoteIQ concedes that roofers who rely on Hover's 3D rendering to close premium jobs may want to keep it as a presentation layer. For those contractors, a Hover feed that lands directly in the CRM is the thing worth paying for.