Garage Door Estimate Template: Free PDF Download

We’re offering a free garage door estimate template. To get your free template, fill out our form (to the right on desktop, or above on mobile) and we’ll email it to you straightaway. 

What’s Included in the Garage Door Estimate Template

Our printable estimate template includes all the essential fields for your team to fill in:

1. Company Information

• Your contact information, including, address, phone number, email, and website details

• Contractor license number

• Estimate reference number and date

• Due date and terms

2. Client Information

• Client’s name, address, phone number, and email

3. Project Description

• Space to provide a brief description of the project or services ( garage door repair, garage door installation, etc.)

4. Estimate

• Space for 10 line items with columns for service description, quantity, unit price, and total (including labor costs and markup)

• Subtotal, tax, and total cost due

5. Terms and Conditions

• Estimate expiry date

• Deposit required

• Payment terms

• Expected work start and completion dates

6. Acceptance of Estimate

• Signature and date fields for client and contractor representative

The Drawbacks of Static PDF Garage Door Estimates

PDF estimates may look professional, but they quickly become a liability as a garage door company grows. While they work for simpler jobs, static PDFs create friction, mistakes, and missed opportunities when contractors try to scale.

Here’s why:

1. Manual & Error-Prone Workflows

Every line item, total, and customer detail has to be entered manually. Copying data between PDFs, spreadsheets, and emails is time-consuming and leaves plenty of room for costly mistakes. A small error can delay jobs, hurt credibility, or lead to disputes with customers.

2. No Real-Time Updates or Pricebook Integration

A PDF is just a digital piece of paper — it doesn’t update automatically. Prices change, but your estimate won’t. Without a live connection to your pricebook, you risk using outdated numbers that shrink margins or cause inconsistencies across projects.

3. Disorganized Documentation & Lost Context

PDFs often get scattered across inboxes, desktops, or shared folders. Critical information like photos, videos, or approvals end up stored separately, making it harder to track project scope or customer decisions. The result: more admin work and higher risk of miscommunication.

4. Disconnected from Job and Project Management

Sold estimates don’t flow into your workflows. Staff must manually re-enter information to create purchase orders, invoices, or job documentation. This duplication slows down operations, increases errors, and drains profitability.

5. No Built-In Follow-Up System

Once you hit “send,” you’re in the dark. There’s no way to know if the customer viewed your estimate — or when. Without reminders or a system for tracking follow-ups, opportunities slip through the cracks, costing you jobs and revenue.

Why Settle for Outdated PDFs? ServiceTitan Solves These Pain Points

PDF garage door quote templates may be sufficient for small businesses or one-off jobs. But as a garage door business grows, relying on PDFs, Google Docs, or Excel spreadsheets can introduce avoidable inefficiencies and risks — especially when it comes to speed, accuracy, and profitability.

In the next section, we’ll explain how ServiceTitan’s garage door contractor software solves these issues by streamlining the estimating process and integrating it with key job workflows for residential and commercial jobs.

How ServiceTitan Streamlines Garage Door Estimating Across Job Types and Sizes

ServiceTitan gives contractors flexibility to create professional estimates in the way that best fits their business needs:

• For smaller residential service and replacement jobs, your techs can create Good Better Best proposals right from their tablet. 

• For larger projects or to track home builds, office staff can build detailed line-item estimates that specify exact services, equipment, and materials. 

• For complex jobs that require flexibility, you can use rough project estimates with summary totals to set budgets and track actual revenue and costs over time.

Many businesses use each of these methods across different divisions, ensuring every job type is accurately priced and managed from the start.

Good-Better-Best Proposals For Residential Service and Installation

From the field, technicians or sales staff can leverage prebuilt estimate templates, or create estimates from scratch, and combine estimates into Good-Better-Best proposals on the fly via our mobile app.

Our native pricebook functionality includes:

• Flexibility and Customization: Upload a pricebook you already use, build one from scratch, or leverage our prebuilt templates and pricebooks.

• Direct Supplier Integration: Use Pricebook Connect to integrate directly with top industry suppliers so that your estimates always reflect the most up-to-date pricing, product images, and product descriptions.

• Automated Pricing Updates: Set up rules to dynamically automate pricing updates that are reflected in estimates and proposals and across all devices (mobile, tablet or desktop). 

• Flat-Rate Pricebook: Upgrade to Pricebook Pro to save even more time and ensure that your business offers the best flat-rate services, with prices set to maximize profitability. 

Offer Financing Options to Close More Big-Ticket Jobs

ServiceTitan helps contractors close more jobs by making it easy to offer financing options directly from the field. Through integrations with trusted providers like GreenSky®, GoodLeap, Service Finance, Wells Fargo, Synchrony, Financeit, and more, technicians or sales staff can add financing plans to job estimates, manage applications, and secure approvals on the jobsite.

By giving customers flexible payment options, you not only make larger projects more affordable but also increase your average ticket size and boost conversion rates—all without adding extra friction to the sales process.

Precise Line-Item Estimates For Projects Where All Details Are Known Upfront

With ServiceTitan, contractors can build precise line-item estimates that list the exact services, materials, and equipment required for a job. Every item pulls directly from your pricebook, ensuring accuracy and consistency in pricing.

Line-item estimating is ideal for smaller, shorter-term projects where detailed scope and costs are known upfront. Estimates can also trigger purchase orders via requisitions, tying directly into purchasing and invoice closeout workflows for streamlined job costing and project management.

Rough Estimates for Complex Projects Where You Need Flexibility

ServiceTitan’s rough project estimates make it easy to build budgets for large-scale or long-term projects when every detail isn’t known upfront. Instead of listing specific equipment or materials, you can use summary tasks and revenue items to represent overall contract value and projected costs.

By setting up default project labels for pricebook items, job types, and technicians, budgets automatically populate in the Budget vs. Actual table, keeping expenses organized and easy to track. This cost-estimating method is especially useful for commercial installs, construction estimating, and early-stage bids, where flexibility is key and estimates need to be created quickly without every line item in place.

Supporting Features and Workflows 

Enable Customers to Review and Approve Estimates Online

ServiceTitan makes it easy for customers to review and approve estimates online through a secure link included in estimate emails. Customers can view the proposal, accept terms, and sign electronically from any device, creating a seamless, contactless experience that speeds up approvals and boosts close rates.

Office staff can customize email templates, set expiration dates, and schedule automatic reminders for unsold estimates. Real-time alerts notify your team when an estimate is viewed or signed, while audit trails keep a record of every interaction. By moving approvals online, ServiceTitan reduces delays, increases transparency, and helps contractors win more jobs, faster.

A System to Track and Follow Up On Unsold Estimates

ServiceTitan ensures no opportunity slips through the cracks by giving  technicians and office staff tools to track and follow up on unsold estimates. From the field, techs can flag unsold proposals so the office team knows to follow up later. In the office, staff can use the Follow-Up screen to review open opportunities, call or email customers, log follow-up notes, and set reminders—all from one place.

When a customer is ready to move forward, estimates can be quickly converted into booked jobs, with credit assigned to the right salesperson. This streamlined workflow makes it easier to re-engage leads, close more deals, and maximize revenue from every estimate created.

User-Friendly Mobile App for Technicians & Sales Staff

ServiceTitan’s mobile app offers an intuitive user experience that techs and sales staff love, beginning with the home screen dashboard, where they can quickly see the appointments or jobs they have scheduled for that day.

Field staff can access the essential tools they need throughout the lifecycle of a job. Via the left sidebar, they can view and utilize:

• Customer history: Useful for businesses that have commercial maintenance agreements, for example, service techs can see previous estimates, recurring services, previous invoices, photos and videos from previous jobs, and more.

• Job forms: Sales consultants and technicians can access job forms that require customer signatures as well as forms that foster accountability and better customer service (such as pre-sales appointment checklists, safety inspection checklists, or installation checklists).

• Invoices: Techs can easily generate service invoices and send them to customers in various ways.

• Closeout: Once they complete a job, techs can accept payments on the spot from customers via check or credit card. 

Seamless Integration with Purchasing, Job Costing, Invoicing, and More

ServiceTitan integrates line-item estimates and rough project costs into the project management process for maximum efficiency: 

• Initiate Requisition of Equipment & Materials: Once sold, all the details from the estimate are automatically integrated into the rest of the workflow so you can initiate a requisition of equipment and materials. 

• Create Purchase Orders: Line items are automatically populated from your estimate, so you can simply select your procurement sources and shipping locations for each material. Then, you can save that order to create a transaction and send those purchase orders to your vendors — without ever leaving ServiceTitan. 

• Easily Generate Payment Applications: Select the billing period and the percent of each line item you want to bill for. Then, generate a PDF payment application with the details automatically filled out, and send it to your client for review.

• Get Paid Faster and Reduce Cash Flow Issues: Subcontractors can defend pushbacks from construction companies or general contractors with ServiceTitan’s continuation sheet, which saves and organizes the payment application for easy reference and sharing.  

• Create Invoices Instantaneously: When an application is accepted, generating an invoice for the progress payment can be done in a few clicks and sent to the customer. 

• Integrate Payments with Your Accounting Software: When payments come in, you can swiftly update your accounts receivable through our Viewpoint, Sage, QuickBooks, and CSV accounting integrations.  

Streamlining all these processes takes significantly less time than having estimators or project managers calculate construction costs using PDFs or Excel templates. 

Get a Personalized Demo of ServiceTitan Garage Door Estimating Software

Using a free PDF garage door proposal template might work for small individual contractors, but these systems break down as a business grows. 

ServiceTitan has the tools to manage estimating across business divisions, job sizes, and job types. And it connects estimating seamlessly to the rest of the workflows necessary to carry out the work and get paid.