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Change orders that get signed before the work starts.

"While you're here, could you also…" is where renovation margin goes to die. Estiquik's change order is priced like an invoice, emailed with a Review and sign button, and approved the moment the client signs it from their phone. It then counts toward the revised contract value, so the final invoice is never a surprise to either side.

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The Estiquik change orders list showing three numbered change orders with their client, status and amount — two approved, one sent

Change orders in the live demo

Priced, sent, signed, counted

What the change orders do

A change order in Estiquik is a document with a number, a link to the estimate it amends, priced lines, a schedule impact and a signature.

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Numbered and linked

New change order takes the next CO number automatically. Link the estimate it amends and the client and tax rate fill in from the job.

CO-2026-003 · amends EST-2026-003

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Priced like an invoice

Describe the change and add priced line items the same way you build an invoice — quantity, unit, rate, category. Note the schedule impact in days.

Contingency and markup stay yours

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Signed from a phone

Email it with a Review and sign button. The client signing it approves it automatically. Prefer paper? Print it, get the wet signature, attach the signed copy and mark it approved.

Name, time, IP, document fingerprint

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Deductive change orders

The client took the second vanity out of scope? Enter negative rates and the change order is a credit that subtracts from the revised contract value — and is just as worth signing.

A record of what came out

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The revised contract value

Approved change orders count toward the revised contract value on the job. Draft, Sent, Rejected and Void keep the history without counting.

What was proposed, not just what stuck

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A free template if you are not on Pro

The same structure as a downloadable change order in PDF and Word, with a signature block, at no cost and no email gate.

Free change order template →

Request to signature

How a change order gets approved

The point is the order of operations: price it, sign it, then do the work.

STEP 1

Price it

Open Change orders, press New change order, link the estimate. Add the lines — the extra pot lights, the gas line relocation — with quantities and rates, and the days it adds to the schedule.

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Send it

Email it with a Review and sign button. The client opens it on their phone, sees the price and the schedule impact, and signs. Or print it for a wet signature on site.

STEP 3

It approves itself

An e-signature flips the status to Approved on its own, with the signer's name, the time, their IP address and a fingerprint of the document as signed. A paper signature you mark approved yourself.

STEP 4

It rolls into the job

The approved amount joins the revised contract value. The final invoice, job costing and the client's expectations all agree.

The estimate itself is signed the same way, and so are contracts on Pro — one signing flow for the three documents that change the price.

The signature

What is recorded when a client signs

A change order is only useful if it holds up later. Each e-signed document keeps its own audit record.

Who and whenThe signer's typed name and the exact time of signing, on the document and in the record.

From whereThe IP address the signature came from, so a later 'I never saw that' has an answer.

What they signedA fingerprint of the document as it stood at signing. Change a line afterwards and the fingerprint no longer matches — the signed version is the signed version.

Filed with the jobThe signed change order sits with the estimate, the contract and the invoices on the client's record, and the client gets their copy by email.

Change order software pricing

What it costs next to the apps small contractors already use

Change orders are on Pro. Vendor facts below were read from their own pricing and help pages on 3 September 2026, in US dollars.

Product	Monthly	What that buys
Estiquik Pro	$29.99	CA$34.99 · change orders, contracts, e-signature, plan takeoff, expenses, job costing, QuickBooks. Annual $299.99 / CA$349.99.
Joist	Elite, $32	Change orders on invoices only, not on estimates; on the top tier. Pro at $17 does not include them.
Jobber	—	Not a dedicated tool. Jobber's own guidance is a downloadable template, then edit the job or issue a new quote.
Houzz Pro	Quote-based	Change orders within its project tools. Houzz publishes no price list; Capterra lists Pro at $399 a month.

The Joist, Jobber and Houzz Pro comparison pages carry the full tier tables and their dates.

Where it stops

What a change order in Estiquik is

Pick Estiquik if you…

Do fixed-price renovation workWhere every extra either gets signed or gets eaten.
Want the client to sign before you open the wallThe Review and sign email is the whole workflow; no printing unless you want it.
Need the deductive ones on record tooA credit you can point to when the client asks where the vanity went.
Already estimate and invoice in EstiquikThe change order links to the estimate and shows up on the job's revised value automatically.

Pick a builder's project-management suite if you need…

Multi-party approval chainsOwner, architect and general contractor each signing in sequence. Estiquik has one signer per document — the client.
Time-and-materials tracking against each change orderEstiquik prices the change order; it does not clock hours or purchase orders against it.
Change orders that automatically re-cut the progress scheduleApproved change orders adjust the revised contract value; the payment schedule's stages are set on the estimate and edited there.
Commercial RFI and submittal workflowsResidential renovation is the design point.

A priced, numbered, signed record of a scope change on a residential job. It is built for the extra pot lights and the hidden rot behind the tub, not for a commercial contract's formal change directive process. The signature record is kept for your protection; whether a signed change order is enforceable in a given dispute is a legal question, and this page is not legal advice.

Change orders need Pro. On Starter you can see the page and the free downloadable template covers the paper version.

Before you ask

Questions contractors ask

What is a change order, and when should I use one?

A signed record of work that was not in the original estimate — the mid-job additions and the surprises behind a wall. Use one whenever the scope, price or schedule changes after the client agreed to the estimate, even for small amounts. It is the small ones that get forgotten and eaten.

How do I create one?

Open Change orders in the sidebar and press New change order. It gets the next CO number; link the estimate and the client and tax rate fill in. Describe the change, add priced line items, note any schedule impact in days, and email it with a Review and sign button — or print it for a wet signature and attach the signed copy.

Can a change order subtract money?

Yes. Enter negative rates and it becomes a deductive change order — a credit that reduces the revised contract value. It is just as worth getting signed.

What do the statuses mean?

Draft is your working copy. Emailing flips it to Sent. An e-signature flips it to Approved on its own; after a paper signature you mark it Approved. Rejected and Void keep the record without counting it toward the contract value.

Is the e-signature legally binding?

Electronic signatures are recognised under Canadian and US law for ordinary commercial documents, and Estiquik records the signer's name, the time, the IP address and a fingerprint of the signed document. Whether a given signature holds in a given dispute depends on the facts; this is not legal advice.

Which plan are change orders on?

Pro, at $29.99 a month or $299.99 a year (CA$34.99 / CA$349.99), together with contracts, plan takeoff, expenses, job costing and the QuickBooks sync. The 14-day trial is Pro and needs no card.