Estimates
Several estimates on one job
Keep water mitigation, mold, repairs and contents together on one job. Each estimate has its own scope, total and approval timeline, so you can send the water estimate on Tuesday while the mold scope is still a draft.
A single loss often needs more than one estimate. A Category 3 water job can need water mitigation, mold remediation and a contents pack-out, and each is approved on its own timeline by its own person. Wave keeps every estimate for a loss together on one job. Use the Estimates on this job switcher to move between them.
Each estimate covers one kind of work
Water mitigation, fire mitigation, mold and asbestos remediation, repairs and contents are different trades with different approvers and approval dates, so separate estimates let you send the water estimate on Tuesday while the mold scope is still a draft, or price the fire rebuild after the mitigation is approved.
What the job shares, and what each estimate owns
These belong to the job, so you enter or fix them once:
- Customer, address and claim details: carrier, claim number, cause of loss and water category live on the job's Overview. Every estimate reads them from there.
- Files: photos, videos and PDFs live on the job's Files tab.
- Drying log: the job has one drying log, shared by its estimates. Wave generates sample dry logs based on what real drying science would be, to help anyone on your team who is new to drying understand drying goals for the job.
- Your Wave conversation: it stays with you across the job's tabs and estimates. When you move to Home or another job, the earlier messages fold into the history chip, and New chat starts fresh any time. If Wave was waiting on an answer about an estimate, Pick up takes you back to it.
- Status: the job's status on the Jobs board. Starting the job's first estimate moves it along.
Each estimate has its own rooms, line items, prices and total, its own lock, and its own change history. Comments from adjusters live on the share page for the link you sent them.
Adding another estimate
Add an estimate whenever the loss needs one. You decide when. Two ways to start:
- Tap Wave's offer. When an estimate finishes, Wave may offer the next one the loss usually needs, with a button such as Start the Repairs estimate.
- Just ask Wave. "Make a mold estimate for this job too."
Either way, the new estimate uses one estimate credit. A tap on Wave's offer starts it right away, and Wave tells you when it has started. Your conversation keeps going, and the scope you already have stays as it is.
Moving between them
With two or more estimates on a job, a small strip of dots floats at the bottom of the Estimates tab. The one you are on expands to show its name, such as Mold. Click another dot to switch. The strip appears once the job has two estimates.
When a message in chat could apply to more than one estimate, Wave asks Which estimate is this about? before it changes anything.
Exporting or sharing several at once
- One PDF packet. In the Export dialog, under Include in PDF, each of the job's other estimates appears as Another estimate on this job. Tick the ones you want in the packet.
- One link. Open Export from the Estimates tab, choose Share link, then tick the estimates you want under Estimates on this job.
Only the estimate you are on is included by default. Tick others when you're ready, so a draft mold scope goes out only when you choose.
Two sharing details:
- A link's set of estimates is set when you create it. An estimate you add to the job next week joins a new link or a replaced link.
- Each estimate shows its own total, named after itself, so a mitigation total is easy to tell apart from the value of the whole loss.
See Share an estimate for how the audiences work.
On the Jobs board
The Jobs board shows one card per job, and the card sits in the job's status column. See The Jobs board.
Limits
- Five estimates per job. Duplicates count toward the five.
- Each new estimate uses one credit. Jobs themselves do not use estimate credits. If the job already has five estimates or you're out of credits, Wave tells you before anything is charged.
- Duplicating uses no credit. A copy made from Job actions (⋮) > Duplicate stays on the same job. Duplicate is available on paid plans. See Duplicate an estimate.
- Your estimates stay visible. If your plan changes, you can still view every estimate you built.
During the free trial, a company can create up to 3 jobs. See The free trial.