SmartBuild, connected

Shops already running SmartBuild keep running on it — jobs, estimates, drawings, colours, doors and pricing all reachable from inside the platform.

What it is

A server-side proxy and client library over the SmartBuild API covering project lists, estimates, job data, output documents, colours, the door and window catalogue, material pricing, starting models, panel groups and cupolas — plus job creation and updates.

Also called: SmartBuild · post frame estimating software · SmartBuild API · existing estimating tool

See it
SmartBuild, connected
Area
Integrations
Group
Estimating
System
SmartBuild Integration
Solves
2 named problems
01All traffic goes through a Next.js proxy route to avoid CORS and to keep credentials server-side.
02Transient failures are retried once with backoff and a hard timeout, so a hung upstream cannot spin the caller.
03The proxy passes bodies through regardless of status because SmartBuild returns useful JSON on some non-2xx codes, and logs upstream errors rather than translating them.
Estimates surface showing SmartBuild jobs with their estimate totals, and the Integrations settings row where SmartBuild is connected. Sample data — no customer information appears here.
How it works
  1. 1All traffic goes through a Next.js proxy route to avoid CORS and to keep credentials server-side.
  2. 2Transient failures are retried once with backoff and a hard timeout, so a hung upstream cannot spin the caller.
  3. 3The proxy passes bodies through regardless of status because SmartBuild returns useful JSON on some non-2xx codes, and logs upstream errors rather than translating them.
  4. 4Binary responses (PDFs, ZIPs, images) come back as raw responses so a document download works unchanged.
  5. 5Downloads use a hidden anchor rather than window.open, to avoid popup blockers.
Why we built it

SmartBuild is the estimating engine most real post-frame shops already run on, and their existing quotes, jobs and customers live inside it. A shop can pull those into the platform and keep working rather than choose between the tool they know and the one they are evaluating. The connection retries and times out instead of blocking, so if SmartBuild is slow or down the dashboard still loads — the rest of a builder's day does not stop for an integration.

The problem
  • SmartBuild work living outside the CRM that runs the business.
  • Switching platforms meaning abandoning an existing estimating tool.
Sound familiar?
What you get
SmartBuild jobs, estimates and documents are reachable from the CRM.
The path back to SmartBuild is never gated.
Failures degrade instead of blocking.
What's inside
Each shop uses its own SmartBuild login
SmartBuild is connected per organisation from Settings, tokens are cached per credential, and a shop without a connection sees nothing rather than someone else's jobs.
SmartBuild job details, parsed
A SmartBuild job is read into the things the platform needs: dimensions, roof style and slope, contact and delivery details, opening counts, attached structures, material totals and the viewer link.
Porches and attached buildings counted correctly
Every porch, lean-to and attached building on a SmartBuild job is parsed with its own dimensions, and an enclosed attached building counts as building square footage rather than porch area.
Customer-readable spec rows from a SmartBuild job
SmartBuild answers are turned into plain spec lines a customer can read — dimensions, roofing, siding, support structure, foundation, openings — with post-frame and stud-frame variants.
Never print 'undefined' to a customer
A material SmartBuild could not resolve is dropped from the customer-facing list and falls back to an honest count, instead of printing an error message dressed as a product.
Steel gauge read from the panels actually ordered
The roofing and siding gauge on a proposal comes from the panels on the material list, not from a template default.
SmartBuild drawings and documents
Generate and download the job's SmartBuild output documents, and carry its 3D viewer link through to the customer.
SmartBuild colours, doors, pricing and starting models
The colour chart, the door and window catalogue, the material price list, the starting models, panel groups and cupola options are all readable — and pricing is writable.

See it on your own jobs

Twenty minutes, your numbers, no slide deck. We’ll build one of your real buildings in front of you and send you the estimate link at the end — yours to keep either way.

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