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title: "Photo quotes · BlastoClean docs"
description: "Customers send photos of their home from your link. On Starter they land in your request inbox; on Pro they are read, priced with your own rooms and rates, and waiting for you to send a firm price or a range."
url: "https://www.blastoclean.com/docs/photo-quotes"
---

# Photo quotes

Quoting · Web app · 5 min read · updated October 6, 2026

**Share your photo link and customers send photos of their home without an account; on Pro the photos are read and priced from your own library, and you send a firm price or a range, in one click when the risk is low.**

Some customers will not wait for a walkthrough, and some jobs are not worth
one. Photo quotes let a customer show you the home from their phone, and let
you answer with a price while they are still deciding who to call.

## The photo link

Photo quotes use your quote request link, one step further: if your request
page is `/r/your-link`, your photo page is `/r/your-link/photos`. Find it, copy
it and switch it on or off in **Settings > Photo quotes**. Share it on your
website, in your email signature, and in your replies to anybody who asks "how
much?" See [Quote requests from your website](/docs/quote-requests-from-your-website)
for the request link itself.

The customer:

1. Leaves a name, an email address and the address of the home. The price is
   emailed, so the email address is required. They can also add a phone
   number, the type of home, how many bedrooms and bathrooms it has, and a
   note.
2. Adds photos from their phone. The page shrinks each one before sending it,
   uploads them one at a time, and shows the rooms you ask for: the kitchen and
   every bathroom, unless you change that. Until they tap **Send**, they can
   take any photo back out, even after reloading the page.
3. Taps **Send** and gets an email saying the photos arrived and when to expect
   a price.

They never make an account or download an app. The page is in English or
Spanish, following their browser. Starter takes up to 15 photos per request,
and Pro and Business take up to 30.

## On Starter: photos in your request inbox

Each submission arrives as a quote request like any other, marked **Photo
quote**, with its photos on the card. Convert it and price it the usual way, or
with Quick Quote. Nothing reads the photos for you on Starter.

## On Pro: read, priced and waiting for you

On Pro and Business the photos are read before you see them:

- Each photo is tagged with the room it shows, how dirty it looks, and anything
  that changes the work, like a well-used oven or pets. A photo that shows a
  person or a document is kept out of everything after that, and stays blurred
  until you choose to look at it.
- The tags become rooms from **your** room library, with how many, how big and
  how dirty. Every room points at the photos it came from.
- Your pricing engine prices those rooms at your rates, exactly as if you had
  added them to a quote yourself. The AI never writes a number that becomes a
  price.
- A risk score says how much the photos leave to guesswork. See
  [Firm prices and risk](/docs/firm-prices-and-risk).

Reading uses AI credits: 3 for each batch of up to three photos, and 4 to turn
the tags into rooms, so a ten-photo home is about 16 credits. Reading sends
the photos to Anthropic, the AI service BlastoClean uses, and the upload page
tells your customer so before they add any. The photos are read only once an
owner has accepted how AI is used, in the notice the app shows. Until then, and
whenever AI is off or the month's credits are spent, the photos still reach
you, unread. Photos sent from a page that didn't say AI reads them are never
read, even once reading is on: price those yourself. See
[AI assists](/docs/ai-assists).

## The Photo quotes queue

**Quotes > Photo quotes** lists everyone waiting for a price, soonest promise
first, and refreshes on its own. Each card shows the photos, the home in one
line ("3 bedrooms · 2 bathrooms · about 1,500 to 1,800 sq ft"), the price, a
risk badge and a clock:

- **Low risk** (green): clear photos, and everything you require is there.
- **Check first** (amber): worth a look before you send.
- **High risk** (red): too uncertain for a firm price. Send a range, or ask to
  see the home.

On a **Low risk** card, **Send firm price** and **Send range** send it in one
step. Any other card is sent from its review, where you can see what made it
riskier. **Review** opens the photo quote.

## Reviewing one

The photos are on the left; tap one to see it large. On the right is what was
read: each room with how many, how big and how dirty, and the photos behind it.
Change any of those and the price and the risk are worked out again at once.
If the photos missed a room you know is there, add it from your library; if
they missed a task a room needs, like the inside of the oven, add it from that
room's own list.

Then choose one of four:

- **Send firm price.** The engine's price, with your firm-price terms.
- **Send range.** The price plus and minus your range width, confirmed when you
  arrive. Once the customer accepts, its visits are booked without a price,
  and completing one asks you for its final price.
- **Ask for more photos.** Tick what you need, add a note, and the customer
  gets an email with a link back to the same upload. You can ask twice.
- **Book a walkthrough.** The customer is told you would like to see the home
  first, and the request stays in your inbox to book the visit from.

Sending creates the customer, the property and the quote, the same way Convert
does in the request inbox, and emails the customer the quote link. On the quote
the customer reads, **Firm price** or **Price range** sits next to the number.
They accept it online like any other quote; see
[Sending a quote](/docs/sending-a-quote).

## The clock

Every photo quote carries a promise: an answer within 30 minutes during your
working hours, unless you change it in **Settings > Photo quotes**. Photos that
arrive while you are closed are due that long after you open, and the
customer's email says when that is. If the time runs out during working hours,
the customer gets one email saying their price is on its way, and you get a
notification.

## Try it on the sample house

Every plan, Free included, can open the sample house: from the card on
**Quotes**, or with **Try the sample house** on the Photo quotes queue. It is
six photos of a drawn home, read and priced with your own library and rates.
Nothing in it is a real customer, and it uses no credits.

## How long the photos are kept

Photos are deleted 90 days after the customer last sent photos, or after you last
asked them for more, together with the details they sent with them, unless the
customer accepted the quote they priced; then they stay with that quote. An
upload the customer started and never sent closes after a day, so nothing more
can be added to it, and is deleted 90 days after it was started.
