SmartBuild for Metal Panel Manufacturers
Give Your Contractor Network the Tool That Wins More Jobs
The Problem SmartBuild Solves
When you’re supplying 25, 30, even 50 contractors, keeping up with quote requests is nearly impossible. Your contractors are in the field with customers who want answers now. Every hour they spend waiting on a quote is an hour your competitor has to step in.
SmartBuild puts the quoting tool directly in your contractors’ hands — so they can design, price, and present a complete bid on-site, while they’re still sitting with the customer.
As William at AW Metal put it: “It made sense to give it to them. They can quote it in the field while they’re with their customer — and that translates to customer service for them.”
How It Works for Metal Panel Manufacturers
Set Up Your Materials and Pricing
Set up your materials and pricing in SmartBuild Your products, your pricing, your brand. We walk you through the setup process step by step.
License SmartBuild to your contractors Offer SmartBuild to your contractor network in exchange for purchasing commitments. Every day we connect with contractors actively looking for suppliers already set up with SmartBuild — because it saves them time and simplifies their sales process.
Your contractors quote in the field They design the building, generate the material list, and present a complete proposal on-site — with your materials and pricing built in. When they win the job, they order from you.
Everyone wins Your contractors close more deals. They keep the markup on materials. You move more product. As William put it — “it’s a win-win right through and through.”
Add a 3D Building Configurator to Your Website
Consumers and contractors increasingly start their search online. With the Smartbuild/IdeaRoom integration on your website, visitors can design their own building, submit it, and SmartBuild instantly generates accurate pricing, material lists, and construction-ready documents — with your materials and brand throughout.
No phone tag. No manual re-entry. Just qualified leads with complete designs ready to quote.
Grow Your Roofing Sales With SmartBuild RF
Most of the metal you rollform ends up on a roof. SmartBuild RF is your automated roofing platform — built specifically for metal panel manufacturers who want to grow their roofing business without growing their workload.
Instead of rough square-foot pricing, SmartBuild RF delivers:
- Exact panel layouts for any roof type or length
- Precise material lists generated automatically
- Detailed bids priced in minutes
- Accepts XML files from Eagleview, Hover, or GeoSpan for fast roof data import
Getting a roofing bid back to a customer the same day — especially for storm damage jobs — is a competitive advantage most contractors don’t have. SmartBuild RF gives your network that edge.