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Wave's regional price list

Wave maintains a curated restoration price list keyed to the loss address, with US ZIP and Canadian postal code coverage. Admins can override prices and save their own custom items.

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Wave doesn't pull pricing from a third-party feed. We maintain our own restoration price list, curated by people who do restoration work, and we key it to the address of the loss so the prices match the market you're actually bidding in.

How it works

When you start an estimate, Wave asks for the property address early because the address sets the regional rate set:

  • United States: keyed by city, state, and ZIP
  • Canada: keyed by city, province, and postal code

Every line item Wave places is priced from that regional rate set, and totals recalculate live as the estimate changes. Regional pricing applies on paid plans.

Set your own prices

Regional rates are the default, not a cage. Admins can shape pricing to their shop in Settings > Pricing:

  • Price overrides: set your own price for any catalog item. Your price is used instead of the regional price on new line items. See Custom pricing.
  • Your Items: save your own custom line items (name, unit, price) once, and they autofill whenever you add a custom item later. See Your Items.

Price changes you make in chat apply to that estimate; overrides you want everywhere live in Settings > Pricing.

Why curated, not crowdsourced

Wave's price list is built and reviewed by restoration operators, not pulled from your historical estimates or anyone else's accounting data. Three reasons this matters:

  • Day-one accuracy. Wave works the same on estimate one as on estimate one thousand. There's no "your account gets better as you upload more data" period to wait through.
  • No baked-in bias. If your past estimates underpriced antimicrobial application, that bias doesn't get inherited.
  • Defensibility. When a carrier pushes back, you can point at the industry standard and the regional rate. The number isn't pulled from a black box; it's a curated rate, and your own overrides are yours on purpose.

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