EverLights Dealer Software: Quotes, Boosters and Crews

Where does dealer software sit next to the EverLights App?#

Before the lights and after them, never inside them. The EverLights App is the homeowner's remote: colours, 200+ patterns and presets, scheduling and scenes. It does not measure a roofline, price a peak or take a deposit.

In GlowBid the split looks like this. The address search shows a live Street View preview so you recognise the house, and that preview is display only, never stored and never measured. The measuring happens on a photo you or the homeowner own. You draw each run by type (roofline, ridge line, peak, jump), set the scale from a known length, and the footage, bill of materials and price all come from that one drawing. The quote PDF carries the drawing, footage by run, line items and a scope block. The homeowner signs on their phone and pays the deposit by card through Stripe. The free roofline measuring tool shows the drawing step with no login until export.

How do you count boosters, receivers and buffers from the drawing?#

From lit footage and from how the strands are wired. EverLights' installation page gives three rules a quote has to respect:

• Power boosters. "A power booster is required every 75 feet," and each one is good for 75 total feet of lights.
• Receivers. Up to 20 wireless receivers per bridge, and receivers should never be wired into the same strand.
• Data buffers. Needed on a Y-split leg with more than 5 feet of unlit wire, or where the wire from the receiver to the first light runs 5 feet or more.

GlowBid does not count any of these for you. It gives you lit footage from the drawing, with jumps listed apart because they carry no lights, and you add boosters, receivers and buffers as their own add-on lines at your price. Long unlit jumps are where buffers hide, so look at every jump over 5 ft before you send the quote, and confirm the rule with EverLights for the strand layout you plan.

Worked example: a 180 ft ranch with two gables#

A one-storey ranch with 150 ft of roofline, two gables with 30 ft of peaks, and two unlit jumps of 8 ft each across the garage and the entry. That is 180 lit feet, measured from the homeowner's photo with the 16 ft garage door as the reference. GlowBid's default track line, US dollars before tax. Installers set their own rates; these are the starting numbers every new account gets. You can price this house in the free tool.

Three boosters, because 180 lit feet is past 150. Without the controller, the runs work out to $27.27 per lit foot. The kit reference is $16.75 a foot for product alone, so the gap is labour, the boosters, your warranty and the business behind it, and the quote shows each piece on its own line.

Order 200 ft. Lit footage plus a 10 percent buffer is 198 ft, and EverLights' page says unused material comes back only in 25 ft lengths, with a 20 percent restocking fee. Round up to the next 25 ft and a return stays possible.

Which warranty goes on your quote?#

The one EverLights confirms to you in writing, plus your own labour term. EverLights' pages do not say the same thing in every place:

• The warranty page says lights are covered "1 to 10 years," depending on product and installation method, and that it covers no labour for installation or otherwise. It advises homeowners to get a labour warranty from the installer plus a maintenance contract.
• The installation page says colour-changing lights installed by a third party carry a one year product warranty, while EverLights Classic carries 15 years whoever installs it.
• The home page lists 1 year labour and 5 years parts under ClickLights features.

Two more lines matter to a dealer. On a product bought from a third party, the warranty starts at app activation, so activate on install day, not later. And the warranty can be void if non-EverLights components are used or the install is improper, so the parts list on the work order is your evidence.

Put the term in the agreement, not in a conversation. GlowBid's permanent one-time agreement type carries your own clauses, and our permanent lighting installation agreement template has warranty and controller handover wording. Set your call-out fee with service call and repair pricing.

What happens at handover?#

You wire the bridge, pair the receivers, activate the app and set the schedule, because the support pages are written for a homeowner troubleshooting alone. The bridge plugs into the router's Ethernet port. EverLights' support page says a healthy bridge flashes teal, then goes red or dark for a few minutes, then turns blue, and each zone in the app should read "CONNECTED" in green.

On GlowBid Ultimate the work order carries a photo-gated checklist, so the installer cannot mark the job done without photos of the bridge, each receiver and the app showing connected zones. GlowBid stores those photos on the job. It does not read or change anything in the EverLights App.

Crews and the office#

On Ultimate, jobs move across a production board (Signed, Booked, In Progress, Finished), you assign installers, and the homeowner signs off at the end. Crew members never see prices or customer personal details. Texting covers appointment reminders and on-the-way messages, with opt-out handling and consent. On Pro, the pipeline board, automated quote follow-ups and quote-view tracking keep leads warm while the homeowner weighs your quote against the kit.

What GlowBid does not do for an EverLights dealer#

• No connection to the EverLights App, the bridge, the receivers or the dealer portal.
• No EverLights product catalogue or part numbers. You name your lines and set your prices.
• No automatic booster, receiver or buffer count. It shows lit footage and jumps; you apply EverLights' rules.
• No offline mode. GlowBid runs as an installable web app, not an app store download, so the truck needs a signal.

Mistakes EverLights dealers make on quotes#

• Hiding the boosters in the per-foot rate. A 70 ft house and a 160 ft house need 1 and 3. Own line, counted from the drawing.
• Ignoring the kit price. The homeowner may have seen $1,675. Show footage, parts and labour so the gap explains itself.
• Ordering odd lengths. Returns come back in 25 ft lengths only, less 20 percent. Order in 25 ft steps.
• Quoting a warranty off one page. Three EverLights pages give three framings. Your written term decides.
• Two receivers on one strand. EverLights says never. Plan strands before you count receivers.
• Cutting channel to the photo. A photo measurement is an estimate. Walk the eaves with a tape before you cut, and keep a materials buffer (GlowBid defaults to 10 percent, and you can change it).

For homeowners getting an EverLights quote#

Outside EverLights' own five markets, an independent dealer sets the price. When you compare a dealer quote with the DIY kit, ask for footage by run, the number of power boosters, the controller as its own line, which EverLights warranty applies to your install, and how long the dealer's own labour warranty runs. The kit price is lights; the quote is lights on your house.

Where to go from here#

The permanent lighting dealer software hub covers what five manufacturers give their dealers, and EverLights cost per foot breaks the kit prices down further. GlowBid plans are Core at $69, Pro at $119 and Ultimate at $169 a month, or $299, $499 and $699 a year, and a yearly price holds as long as you stay subscribed without a break. Try it for 7 days with no card; if you pay yearly and it is wrong for you in the first 30 days, you get your money back. A deposit collected through GlowBid carries Stripe's processing plus a GlowBid margin under 1 percent, and both are shown before you connect Stripe. The plans are on the GlowBid pricing page. The quicker test is the free roofline measuring tool below: draw one EverLights house and read the lit footage off it.