CompanyCam does one thing: it stores your job photos. That's it. You pay $79 to $199 per month — with a 3-user minimum — for a tool that puts your photos in folders and lets your team view them. That's the whole product.
Roofing OS does that too. And it's free for your first 5 jobs, then $69 per month for unlimited jobs. The difference is what happens with those photos after you take them.
The entry plan is $79/month. That's the 3-user plan. If you have a project manager, an office manager, and yourself, you're already paying for all three whether you want to or not. Add a fourth user and you move up to the next tier. Most mid-size contractors land at $99–$149/month.
At $149/month, you're spending $1,788/year just so your crew can take photos that get stored in a folder. Your homeowners never see those photos unless you screenshot them and text them over manually. Your insurance adjuster never sees them inside the tool. The portal you want to give homeowners — the one that shows claim status, timeline, Aria chat, documents — CompanyCam doesn't have that. It was never designed for that.
| Feature | CompanyCam | Roofing OS |
|---|---|---|
| Job photo storage | Yes | Yes (free) |
| Phase tagging (before/during/after/damage) | Basic labels | Built-in phase selector |
| Homeowner portal with live photo access | No | Yes — homeowner sees photos as you upload them |
| Claim status visible to homeowner | No | Yes — live status in homeowner portal |
| Insurance documents in portal | No | Yes — upload once, homeowner sees immediately |
| Homeowner chat (Aria AI) | No | Yes — AI answers questions 24/7 |
| Job timeline visible to homeowner | No | Yes |
| Per-user pricing | Yes — 3-user minimum | No — flat monthly rate |
| Starting price | $79/month | $0 (free up to 5 jobs) |
When you upload a damage photo in Roofing OS, your homeowner gets a notification. They open their portal on their phone and see the photo tagged under "Damage" alongside every other photo you've taken on their job. They can see you're working. They feel informed. They stop calling.
CompanyCam has no homeowner-facing component. It is a tool for your team only. That means every time a homeowner wants to see the damage photos, you have to send them manually — screenshot, text, hope the resolution holds. Or you walk them through your own CompanyCam account, which they can't access themselves.
With Roofing OS, the homeowner gets login credentials the moment you create the job. From that point on, they have 24/7 access to:
If you've been on CompanyCam for years and your whole team is trained on it, you don't have to stop using it on day one. Roofing OS has a CompanyCam integration that pulls your photos across automatically. You can run both tools in parallel while your team transitions. Most contractors fully switch within 30 days once they see the homeowner portal in action.
If you're paying CompanyCam and still getting 3–5 homeowner status calls per active job per week, the math is already done for you. You're paying a premium for internal photo storage while burning time on calls that a homeowner portal would have eliminated. Roofing OS Portal Pro is $69/month — $10–$130/month less than what you're paying CompanyCam right now, with a homeowner-facing portal that CompanyCam will never have.
Sign up free, create one job, send the homeowner their portal link. See what happens to your call volume. You won't go back.
Free up to 5 jobs. Portal Pro is $69/month — unlimited jobs, no per-user fees.
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