The AutoEstimatePro estimate widget is photo estimating software that embeds directly on your body shop website, so customers can get an instant, preliminary repair estimate without leaving your site. They snap photos of the damage, enter their vehicle info, and receive an emailed and texted estimate range in about 60 seconds — while your shop captures a qualified lead with the full damage breakdown attached.
How the Widget Works
- Your website visitor uploads damage photos and vehicle info in under a minute.
- AutoEstimatePro analyzes the damage and generates a preliminary repair estimate range.
- The estimate is emailed and texted to the customer — and delivered to your shop as a hot lead.
What You Get
- Embeddable photo-estimate widget for your existing website
- Instant preliminary repair estimate range for every customer
- Qualified leads with damage photos, vehicle details, and line-item costs
- Automatic email and SMS delivery to customers and your shop
- Insurance claim intake with carrier and drivability details
Widget Pricing — $99.99/month
The Body Shop plan is $99.99/month (was $299/month), billed monthly with no contract and no setup fee. It includes 100 customer estimates per month; past that, additional estimates are $14.99 each. Every plan includes the embeddable widget, unlimited website placements, lead delivery by email and SMS, and the shop dashboard at /bodyshop where you copy your embed code and review incoming leads.
- $99.99/mo — no contract, cancel anytime from the shop dashboard
- 100 customer estimates included each month
- $14.99 per estimate beyond the monthly allowance
- Setup fee: Free — embed the widget the same day you sign up
What the Shop Receives
When an estimate finishes, the widget sends two notifications at once. The customer gets an email and a text message with their estimate range and a link to the full breakdown. Your shop gets its own email and text containing the customer's name, phone, and email, the estimate range, and a direct link to the same report — so the person who calls them back is already looking at the damage, the parts list, and the numbers the customer just saw.
Leads carry attribution. If you run the widget from more than one location page or campaign, each submission records the shop name, city, and state it came from, so a multi-location operator can tell which storefront produced which lead instead of guessing from timestamps.
Why Photo Estimating Changes the First Call
The conventional intake is a phone call where the customer describes damage they cannot see properly and the shop quotes a range wide enough to be meaningless. Both sides then wait for an in-person appointment before anything real happens. A photo estimate inverts that: the damage is documented, itemized, and priced before the first conversation, so the call becomes a scheduling conversation rather than a discovery one. Shops that capture the estimate on their own site also capture the lead there — before the customer opens three more tabs.
Do customers need to install anything?
No. The widget runs in the browser on your existing website. Customers upload photos from the phone they are already holding — no app, no account, and no sign-up before they see their estimate.
How accurate is a preliminary photo estimate?
It is a preliminary range built from the photos submitted, not a final repair order. Damage hidden behind a bumper cover or inside a quarter panel cannot be priced from an exterior photo, so the estimate flags likely related damage rather than pricing it. Treat it as a qualified starting point that gets the customer in the door with realistic expectations.
Does it work for insurance jobs?
Yes. The intake captures the carrier, deductible, and whether the vehicle is drivable alongside the damage photos, so your estimator opens the claim conversation with the vehicle, the damage, and the insurance context already documented.
Can I use it on more than one location's website?
Yes. The same widget can be embedded across multiple location pages or sites, and each lead records which one it came from so you can attribute volume per storefront.
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