Questions about Jawad Zafar Estimates

A WordPress plugin for builders, contractors and trades. You price jobs from your own cost library, send a branded proposal, your client signs it on their phone, and you collect the deposit by card or bank transfer. Everything runs inside your own WordPress site.

The free version has unlimited estimates and proposals, e-signature, deposits, payment schedules, branded emails and the cost library. Pro adds card payments with Stripe, PDF copies, automatic follow-ups, estimate templates, photos and documents, and more designs and fonts. Compare every feature.

No. Pro is $499 one-time. There are no per-proposal or per-user charges, and Jawad Zafar Estimates takes no cut of your payments.

Yes. When you install Pro, the free version switches off by itself and Pro carries on with all your estimates, clients, prices and settings. Nothing needs to be exported or imported.

A WordPress website (version 6.0 or newer) on hosting with PHP 7.4 or newer, which almost every host has. For card payments you also need a free Stripe account and an https (SSL) address.

Yes. You work in the WordPress admin, and the proposal your client opens is its own clean page with your logo and colours, so it looks the same whatever theme your site uses.

The setup wizard has presets for 16 countries, including the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, The Bahamas and other Caribbean islands, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, India and Pakistan. They set the currency, VAT, GST or sales tax, and metric or imperial units. Any other country can be set up by hand.

Yes. With Pro + Setup ($599 one-time), I install Jawad Zafar Estimates on your site and set up your logo and colours, tax, email delivery, Stripe card payments and your price list. Message me on WhatsApp to get started.

No. Each proposal has its own private link that works on any phone, tablet or computer. You can send it by email from Jawad Zafar Estimates or share the link on WhatsApp.

Your client signs with a finger or mouse, or types their name, and ticks to accept. Jawad Zafar Estimates records their name, signature, the date and time, their IP address, the options they chose and the total, and emails them a signed copy. Electronic signatures are widely used for business agreements, but rules differ between countries and contract types, so check with a local adviser if you are unsure.

No. Your direct costs, markup and margin are only shown to you in the admin. The client page only ever receives the selling prices.

Jawad Zafar Estimates includes SMTP settings with presets for Gmail, Microsoft 365, Zoho, Brevo, SendGrid, Mailgun, Amazon SES and common hosts, plus an inbox check that tells you what to fix. Every email is logged, with a one-click resend.

In Pro, your client clicks "Pay by card" on the signed proposal and pays on Stripe's secure page. The money goes straight to your own Stripe account, minus Stripe's standard fees. Card details never touch your website. You can also show bank transfer, cheque or cash instructions, in Free and Pro.

In your own WordPress database, on your own hosting. Nothing is sent to the plugin author. If you uninstall the plugin, your data is kept unless you tick "Delete all data on uninstall" in the settings.

Site administrators can use Jawad Zafar Estimates straight away. To let other staff in without full admin rights, give their role the "estprop_manage" capability with any role editor plugin.