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- Flooring is priced from a seam plan, not a square footage. A 12 by 12 room takes 16 square yards of carpet off a 12-foot roll in one piece. Make it 14 feet wide and the same roll needs a seam plus the strip it wastes.
- Flooring-specific takeoff: MeasureSquare Mobile Retail $54 a month or $540 a year, MeasureSquare 8 Commercial $197 or $1,970. It is the only flooring takeoff vendor we read that prints a price.
- Dealer systems: QFloors, RFMS, Broadlume, Roomvo and Comp-U-Floor print no price. Zero of five, every one sold on a demo.
- Field apps for in-home quotes: Joist from $12, Jobber from $29, Housecall Pro from $59, and ArcSite Takeoff at $99 if you want to draw the room on a tablet.
- Plan-set takeoff: PlanSwift $2,000 a year plus a $149 Flooring Starter Pack, STACK and Togal $299 a user a month, Kreo from $100. STACK's flooring page says Omega Floors runs takeoffs 75 percent faster on it.
- ChatGPT cannot plan a seam. OpenAI's own documentation says its counts from images are approximate. Use it for the scope letter and keep the yardage in a tool you can edit.
Carpet comes on a 12-foot roll, and a 12 by 12 room takes 16 square yards of it in one piece.
Make the room 14 feet wide and the same roll needs a seam. The strip left over is waste, and the customer pays for it. That seam is the arithmetic every flooring estimate turns on, and it is what separates the tools below.
We build websites and run marketing for contractors. We do not sell estimating software for flooring contractors, and nothing below pays us. Every price was read on the vendor's own page on November 5, 2026.
The parent post, best estimating software for contractors, covers every trade. This is the flooring cut, grouped by how a flooring contractor actually quotes:
- flooring-specific takeoff and seam planning
- dealer and store systems
- general field apps for the in-home quote
- plan-set takeoff for the sub who bids from drawings
Flooring is priced from a seam plan, and a flat percentage misses it
A takeoff is the count of materials measured off a drawing or a room. For a tile setter that is square feet of floor plus the trim pieces. For carpet and sheet vinyl it is a seam plan, meaning the drawing of where each cut of roll goods lands and which way the pile runs.
The unit changes too. Hard surface is priced by the square foot. Broadloom carpet is sold by the square yard, which is nine square feet, and the roll width decides how many of them you buy.
Most general tools handle this with a waste factor, a percentage added to the measured area to cover cuts and seams. Houzz Pro's flooring takeoff page tells users to "Add a percentage for waste, typically 5-10%." That is the rule of thumb that quietly loses money on roll goods.
A flooring guide dated last year works the 12 by 12 room both ways. Plain carpet with 5 percent waste rounds to 17 yards.
With a pattern repeat or a directional nap, "plan for 18-19 yards," because "Pattern repeats can force installers to align seams, sometimes adding up to 15% waste." The difference is a fifth of the material, and a flat percentage picked before the seam plan is drawn will land on the wrong side of it half the time.
square yards of carpet for the same 12 by 12 room: the measured area in one piece off a 12-foot roll, versus the yardage a patterned carpet with matched seams can take (flooringclarity.com, September 7, 2025)
Four things a flat percentage cannot see, and the thing a flooring estimator checks on every job:
- the roll width against the room width, which decides whether there is a seam at all
- the direction of the pile or the plank, which decides where the seam can go
- the pattern repeat, which decides how much of each cut is thrown away to match
- the transitions, meaning the strips and reducers where one floor meets another, which are counted by the piece
Togal's flooring page puts the division of labor well. Its software "measures floor areas, counts rooms, and quantifies patterns and transitions directly from your drawings." Then "The estimator sets the scale, classifies the finishes, and reviews the quantities before pricing." Hold that second sentence. Every tool below lands somewhere on it.
Flooring-specific takeoff: MeasureSquare is the only one that prints a price
Three vendors sell software built around the seam plan. One of them publishes a price list. The other two redirect to a demo form, and one of them redirects twice.
| Tool | Price as printed (November 5, 2026) | What it does for flooring | Trial, term, extras |
|---|---|---|---|
| MeasureSquare Mobile (iOS and Android) | Retail $54 a month or $540 a year for 1 user; Multi-family $87 a month or $870 a year | On-site measuring, estimating and quoting; "Generate seam diagrams, tile layouts, & 3D models automatically" | "Fully functional, no credit card required" trial; "There is no contract or setup fee"; the FAQ says annual "already includes a 20% discount," though $540 against twelve months of $54 is 17 percent |
| MeasureSquare 8 (Windows desktop) | Retail $54 a month or $540 a year; Multi-family $164 or $1,640; Commercial $197 or $1,970, marked "Most Popular"; all for 1 user | Takeoff for floors, walls and ceilings; reports, bids, purchase orders and work orders; a separate Stone & Tile edition does slab optimization, vein matching and tile pattern design | Same trial and no-contract terms; Onboarding Starter Kit $400 "with assigned implementation trainer"; classroom training $199 a person a day, minimum two people; free self-paced Udemy classes |
| MeasureSquare CRM (web) | Sales Essential $69 a month or $690 a year; Contractor Pro $99 or $990; Contractor Complete $149 or $1,490; per user | Pulls project data from the takeoff diagrams into bidding, job costing, schedules and schedule-of-values tracking | Same trial; the piece the search snippets credit for turning MeasureSquare into a whole-job tool |
| JobRunner, formerly Pacific Solutions FloorRight (Cyncly) | No price printed; floorright.com redirects to pacific-solutions.com, which redirects to a Cyncly page titled "JobRunner: Commercial Flooring Project Management" | Commercial flooring project management on an account subscription; the page we reached describes no takeoff, seam or cut-sheet feature | "Request a demo"; the footer's "Credit Card Update" and "Bank Draft Update" links are the only sign of how it bills |
| The EDGE (Estimating Edge) | No price printed | Takeoff that measures "incremental area by tile size" and by ceramic, VCT, wood and resilient systems; square feet for flooring, linear feet for base, counts for corners; adhesive and grout calculated from conditions set once | "SCHEDULE A DEMO," with a popup promising "No Credit Card Required" for the demo; seams, waste and roll cuts are not mentioned on the page |
| Verdict | MeasureSquare Mobile Retail at $540 a year for the retail-install shop that measures in the house and wants the seam diagram on the spot. MeasureSquare 8 Commercial at $1,970 for the sub bidding from drawings, with the $400 onboarding kit if nobody on staff has run it. The EDGE and JobRunner only once a dedicated commercial estimator is on payroll, because neither will tell you the price before the call. | ||
MeasureSquare's pricing pages are a small lesson in reading a vendor site. The main pricing page did not render a plan price for us at all, only a dollar sign and an "Add to Cart" button. The per-product pages underneath it print every figure above.
The one feature on any page in this post that does the flooring-specific job is the Mobile line about seam diagrams and tile layouts. It is the thing a general app cannot do, and MeasureSquare does not call it AI.
Google ranks two r/estimators threads near the top for this search. Both of their snippets are a plug for a tool called HomeArize, and Reddit refused every read we attempted, so we cannot tell you what the working estimators in those threads said. We can tell you what the vendor pages say, which is above.
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Dealer and store systems: five vendors, zero printed prices
A dealer system is the back-office software a flooring store runs on. It tracks inventory by roll and dye lot, raises purchase orders to the mill, schedules installers and posts the invoice, and the customer's quote is one screen inside it.
If you run a showroom you will be sold one. If you are a subcontractor installing for builders, you will not need one, and the table is here so you can say so with the vendor's own words.
| System | Price as printed (November 5, 2026) | What the page sells | How it is sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| QFloors | No price printed; the only pricing text on the site is a June 2022 post reading "QFloors software prices will be increasing by 20% starting Aug 1, 2022" | QFloors, QFloors Enterprise and "QFloors + Roomvo Bundles"; the Roomvo site calls it "ERP software that runs your flooring business end-to-end" | "Request demo" and a sales email |
| RFMS Core (Cyncly) | No price printed; rfms.com now redirects to a Cyncly product page | Flooring ERP with add-ons, mobile apps, integrations and a separate Measure Desktop product the page does not describe | "Request a demo" |
| Broadlume | No price printed | Websites, "Flooring Software" and a "Retail Selling System" | "GET DEMO" |
| Roomvo | No price printed; Roomvo Assistant is listed as a "Free visualizer for independent retailers" | Room visualizer, retailer websites, a digital catalog, a showroom kiosk and a PRO CRM; no measuring or quoting feature described | "Book a demo" |
| Comp-U-Floor | No price printed; the FAQ says cost "varies based on features, user count, and customization needs" | Cloud dealer software covering estimating and quoting, inventory, installer scheduling by mobile app, invoicing, purchase orders and CRM; promises "Minimal Up-Front Commitment" | "Book A Demo" or "Schedule A Call" |
| Verdict | None for a subcontractor. For a store, go into the demo with three questions written down: the annual figure for your user count, the setup and data-conversion fee, and whether the quote screen draws a seam plan or imports one from MeasureSquare. Get the answers in writing before the second call. | ||
Two of the five, QFloors and Roomvo, are now one company, and RFMS and the old FloorRight both sit inside Cyncly. The flooring back office is consolidating into two or three owners, and none of them prints a number.
That is not a reason to avoid them. It is a reason to price the rest of your stack first, so you know what the dealer system is competing with when the quote arrives.
Most in-home quotes come from a general field app, from $12 a month
Most flooring installers under ten people are not on anything above. They measure with a laser, keep the price per square foot in their head or a spreadsheet, and write the quote in the app that also schedules the crew and sends the invoice.
Annual-billing prices come first where the vendor prints both. The Jobber, Housecall Pro, Joist and Houzz Pro figures match what we recorded for the painting and remodeling posts earlier this week, so those reads were reused.
| App | Price as printed | What it does for a flooring quote | Trial and term |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArcSite | Draw Basic $10 a month billed yearly ($14.99 monthly); Draw Pro $30 ($34.99); Takeoff $99 ($119.99); Estimates $129 ($159.99); Enterprise custom | Draw the room on a phone or tablet on site, with an AR Room Scanner on LiDAR iPhones and iPads and a laser-measure link; Takeoff links the drawing to a material list; Estimates turns it into a proposal with approvals and payments | 14-day trial "with full features"; "no long-term contract"; no seat count printed |
| Joist | Basics $12, Pro $17, Elite $32 a month; Run $100, or $70 on an introductory annual rate | Estimates to invoices; line items and photos on Pro; change orders on Elite; five documents a month on Basics | 14 days, no card |
| Jobber | Core $29 a month billed annually ($49 with no commitment), 1 user; Connect $99; Grow $149; extra users $29 | Quotes on Core, optional line items on Grow for good-better-best; no square-yard conversion, no seam plan. See the Jobber pricing guide | No card; length not printed |
| Housecall Pro | Basic $59 a month billed annually ($79 monthly), 1 user; Essentials $149, 5 users; Max $299, 8 users; $35 per extra user | Price book on every plan, good-better-best proposals on Max; built for service calls rather than a three-day install. See the Housecall Pro pricing guide | 14 days, no card |
| Houzz Pro | Free plan with estimates, a 3D floor planner and invoicing; Pro $199 a month, 1 user, on an annual subscription; Teams "Starting at $399/mo," 5 users; extra users $50 | A flooring takeoff page: "Upload plans or input measurements," mark them up on screen, "Go from takeoff to estimate in a click"; Demo Takeoffs with no login; waste is a manual percentage | 30-day trial, then the annual subscription |
| Contractor Foreman | Basic $49 a month billed annually only, 1 user; Standard $105 or $139 monthly, 3 users; Plus $166 or $199, 8 users; Pro $221 or $279, 15 users; Unlimited $332 or $399 | Estimates on every plan, takeoffs "using the built-in AI," an AI Estimator marked "Preview"; Basic and Standard do not include the material database's local pricing | 30-day trial; 100-day money-back on annual Plus and up |
| Verdict | Joist Pro at $17 or Jobber Core at $29 for the installer who prices by the square foot and needs a signed quote and an invoice. ArcSite Takeoff at $99 once the quote depends on a drawing of the room, because it is the only app in this table that makes one. Housecall Pro Essentials at $149 when five people need logins. Add MeasureSquare Mobile the day a carpet or sheet-vinyl seam costs you a job. | ||
The gap in every row but one is the seam. Jobber will hold a price per square yard if you type it in, and it will not tell you that the 14-foot room needs 18 yards instead of 16. ArcSite draws the room, which is halfway there, and then hands you a material list to apply the waste to yourself.
That is still the right starting point for most one-truck installers. The quote that loses a job is the one that arrives a day late, and a $17 app that sends a signed PDF from the driveway fixes that before any seam planner earns its keep.
The chart is one person on the cheapest plan that does the job named beside it, which is the honest comparison and the unflattering one for PlanSwift. The MeasureSquare onboarding kit would add $400 to either MeasureSquare bar, and most first-time buyers will want it.
Plan-set takeoff is for the sub who bids from drawings
A commercial flooring sub bidding a school or a 30-story tower never sees the room. The quantities come off a PDF, and the general takeoff tools do that for every trade. The full comparison with each AI claim traced is in the AI estimating software post. This is the flooring cut.
| Tool | Price as printed (November 5, 2026) | Flooring specifics | Trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| PlanSwift | Essential $2,000, Core $3,000 a year per seat; Flooring Starter Pack $149 a year on top | The pack is "Over 700 starter templates, parts, and assemblies for Flooring Professionals" that "Covers material types, waste factors, and install breakdowns right out of the box"; the 2018 flooring post describes layout grids you rotate "to find the most efficient cuts" | 14 days of everything, no card; the pack's trial is by phone |
| STACK Takeoff & Estimate | Premium $299, Pro $349 a user a month billed annually; free tier after 7 days of Pro | Flooring page names wood, tile, vinyl, stone, laminate, linoleum, cork and carpet; assemblies add crew labor as you measure; waste is added at the proposal stage | Free version; "All Takeoff & Estimate subscriptions are 12-month terms" |
| Togal.AI | Growth $299 a user a month billed yearly; Business custom at 4+ users | Auto-detects floor areas, rooms, patterns and transitions; claims takeoffs "up to 4X faster" and a 30-story tower takeoff in 48 hours; full read in the Togal review | No trial; demo |
| Kreo | Essential $100, Pro $175, Business $250 a user a month billed annually | AI room and area detection on Pro, with cost estimates in the same tool | 7 days |
| Bluebeam | Basics $260, Core $330, Complete $440, Max $590 a user a year | The markup tool GCs send drawings in; area and length measurement with an Excel export, no flooring assemblies | 14 days of Max |
| On-Screen Takeoff (On Center, ConstructConnect) | No price printed; oncenter.com has no pricing page and the site prints no figure | The desktop takeoff many commercial flooring estimators learned on; its 2018 flooring trade paper still ranks for this search | "Request a Free Trial" with "No download required | Free web preview"; demo for Quick Bid |
| Buildxact | Foundation $169 a month billed annually ($2,030) or $199 monthly, unlimited users | Takeoff and estimating in one flat-priced plan, which beats every per-seat tool here from the second estimator on | 14 days; 12-month commitment on annual |
| Verdict | PlanSwift Essential with the $149 flooring pack for a one-estimator sub, because the waste factors ship in the box. MeasureSquare 8 Commercial at $1,970 instead if seam diagrams matter more than assemblies, which for carpet and sheet goods they do. STACK or Togal at $299 a month only with a full-time estimator bidding weekly. Bluebeam Basics at $260 a year for the installer who gets a drawing set a few times a quarter. | ||
STACK's flooring page carries the two customer numbers in this group. Omega Floors "performs their takeoffs 75% faster with STACK," and Crossman Flooring is "able to do twice as many estimates as I did before." Both are the vendor's own case studies, so read them as a ceiling.
Togal's page is the most honest about where the software stops. "The software measures, and the estimator reads the plans for what is missing," it says, and "Experience still decides the bid." The waste factor and the seam are not mentioned anywhere on it.
Buildxact belongs in this table for the seat math alone. Every other paid tool here charges per user, so a shop where the owner and a foreman both measure pays twice. Buildxact's unlimited users at $169 a month is cheaper than two STACK seats from the first month, and the takeoff ships in the same plan.
On-Screen Takeoff is the surprise. It has been the commercial flooring estimator's tool for two decades, its flooring trade paper is still on the first page for this search, and the site that hosts it will not print a price. The third-party listings we found quote figures that contradict each other, so none of them are in this table.
Can ChatGPT estimate a flooring job?
Google appends this question to the search, and the honest answer is in OpenAI's own documentation. Its image guide says "the model may give approximate counts for objects in images" and that it "struggles with tasks requiring precise spatial localization." A seam plan is spatial localization. A transition count is a count of small objects.
Four places a chatbot estimate fails on a floor, each one a line on the seam plan:
- Waste. It will apply the 10 percent it read on a retailer's page. It does not know your roll width, your room width or whether the carpet has a repeat.
- Seams. It cannot tell you that the 14-foot room needs a seam and where the seam should fall relative to the doorway and the window light.
- Direction. Plank direction and pile direction change the cut list and the waste, and a photo does not carry either.
- Transitions. Reducers, T-moldings and thresholds are counted by the piece at each doorway, and that is the count OpenAI says is approximate.
What it is good at is the paperwork. Paste the measure sheet in and ask for a line-item scope letter. Ask it to check that 1,440 square feet is 160 square yards. Ask it to draft the change order when the subfloor needs leveling. Keep the yardage in a tool you can edit.
The AI on the pricing pages in this post is narrower than the pitch, and the narrow version is the useful one:
- MeasureSquare. "Generate seam diagrams, tile layouts, & 3D models automatically." It is the one automation that does the flooring-specific job, and the word AI is not attached to it.
- PlanSwift. Auto Count, Auto Scale and Auto Bookmark on Essential, and Auto Takeoff on Core. They find areas and counts on the page, and the Flooring Starter Pack supplies the waste factors by hand.
- Togal. Automated area detection and pattern search, with the sentence that "You still set the scale and confirm the classifications before you export."
- Contractor Foreman. An AI Estimator marked "Preview."
- Houzz Pro. A flooring takeoff page that never says what the AI does.
- ArcSite, Jobber, Joist and the dealer systems. No AI claim about takeoff on the page, which is its own kind of honesty.
The one trade where AI replaces the measurement is roofing, because a satellite can see the roof. Nothing can see which way the pile will run.
Three things to skip
- A dealer system for a subcontractor. QFloors, RFMS and Comp-U-Floor are built around a showroom's inventory and purchase orders. A sub installing for builders pays for the inventory module and uses the quote screen. MeasureSquare Mobile at $540 a year plus Jobber at $29 a month covers the same quote for a known price.
- A plan-set takeoff seat for retail install work. STACK, Togal and PlanSwift Core together cost more than an installer's truck payment, and they measure a drawing a residential flooring shop never receives. The room is measured with a laser in ten minutes, and MeasureSquare Mobile draws the seams.
- ChatGPT as the seam planner. Draft the scope letter in it, paste the yardage in to check the arithmetic, and stop there. OpenAI says its counts are approximate, and every number on a seam plan is a count or a position.
The remodeling estimating post covers the tools a kitchen and bath firm uses when flooring is one line in a bigger job, and the painting estimating post shows the same stopwatch method for building your own production rates.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the best flooring estimating software?
For a retail-install shop measuring in the home, MeasureSquare Mobile Retail at $540 a year, because it draws the seam diagram and the tile layout on site. For a commercial sub bidding from drawings, MeasureSquare 8 Commercial at $1,970 a year, or PlanSwift Essential at $2,000 plus the $149 Flooring Starter Pack if assemblies matter more than seams. Prices are the vendor pages on November 5, 2026.
How much does flooring estimating software cost?
Flooring-specific takeoff runs $540 to $1,970 a year per user at MeasureSquare, and the dealer systems from QFloors, RFMS, Broadlume, Roomvo and Comp-U-Floor print no price at all. General field apps start at Joist $12, Jobber $29 and Housecall Pro $59 a month, with ArcSite Takeoff at $99. Plan-set takeoff runs $100 a user a month for Kreo to $3,000 a year for PlanSwift Core.
How much does MeasureSquare cost?
MeasureSquare Mobile is $54 a month or $540 a year for the Retail edition and $87 or $870 for Multi-family. MeasureSquare 8 for Windows is $540 a year for Retail, $1,640 for Multi-family and $1,970 for Commercial, or $54, $164 and $197 monthly. The CRM runs $69 to $149 a month. The onboarding kit is $400 and classroom training $199 a person a day, with no contract or setup fee printed.
Is there free flooring estimating software?
Houzz Pro's free plan includes estimates and a 3D floor planner, STACK keeps a permanent free tier after seven days of Pro, and Roomvo Assistant is a free room visualizer for independent retailers. MeasureSquare, ArcSite, Jobber, Housecall Pro and Joist all run trials of 14 to 30 days without a card. Nothing free draws a seam plan, which is the part worth paying for on roll goods.
Can ChatGPT estimate a flooring job?
Not the yardage. OpenAI's image documentation says the model "may give approximate counts for objects in images" and "struggles with tasks requiring precise spatial localization," and a seam plan is both. It cannot place a seam, pick a direction or count transitions from a photo. Use it to write the scope letter and check the square-foot to square-yard math, and keep the quantities in MeasureSquare or a spreadsheet you control.
Do QFloors or RFMS print a price?
No. QFloors' site offers a demo and a sales email, and its only pricing text is a June 2022 post announcing a 20 percent increase. RFMS now redirects to a Cyncly product page with a demo button and no figure. Broadlume, Roomvo and Comp-U-Floor are the same. Ask each for the annual total at your user count, the setup fee and the data-conversion fee in writing before the second call.