Terms of Use

This part applies to everyone

By installing or using the BlueDog Qualifier app you agree to Part A, with Daruma Tech, LLC. You do not need an account, and we do not need to know who you are.

What Qualifier is — and what it is not

Qualifier is an estimating tool. It helps you scope a job and produce a budget quickly, in front of a customer, using your own pricing and the reference data BlueDog Group supplies.

The numbers it produces are budgetary estimates, not binding quotes, and not professional advice. They depend entirely on the scope you enter, the prices you configure, and the assumptions in the templates. You are the professional. Before you give a figure to a customer, sign a contract, or order equipment, it is on you to check it — and the same goes for anything a design or engineering decision rests on.

Qualifier is not a design tool, a code-compliance tool, or a substitute for a site survey.

Your licence to use it

The app is BlueDog Group’s. Daruma Tech develops, supports and maintains it, and provides it to you under this part: you get a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to install and use it on devices you own or control, for your own work. The app is licensed, not sold.

The app also carries reference data — the BlueDog catalog and estimating templates. BlueDog Group licenses that to you for pricing your own jobs inside the product, on the same terms whether you reach it offline in the app or through the cloud. Access to the catalog comes with the Teams and Enterprise plans; without one, you estimate from your own products and pricing, which the app does at no charge.

You may not copy, modify, reverse-engineer, or redistribute the app, and you may not extract, copy, or redistribute the catalog or templates as data, or use them to build a competing product.

Without an account, your work lives only on your device

This matters more than anything else in Part A. With no account, everything you create — clients, estimates, your own product list, your branding — is stored on that device and nowhere else. We do not have a copy and cannot recover it for you.

If you delete the app, lose the device, or reset it, that work is gone. Keeping a copy of anything you cannot afford to lose is your responsibility — export the PDF, or create an account so it syncs.

Sending estimates from the app

Without an account, the app sends estimates using your own device — your mail account or the share sheet. We are not in the middle of that, we never see the message, and the estimate arrives from you. Whatever you send, and to whom, is yours.

Your customers' information

When you add a client, you are entering information about someone who is not our user — their name, their phone number, the address of their home. That is information you are trusted with, and putting it into Qualifier does not change who is responsible for it.

You are. You confirm you have a proper basis for entering it and for sending proposals to the people you send them to.

Using it properly

Do not use Qualifier to:

• break the law, or help anyone else do so;
• upload anything you do not have the right to upload — floor plans and drawings included;
• probe, scrape, overload, or reverse-engineer the service, or work around the limits of your plan;
• resell, sublicense, or republish the app or the reference catalog as a product of your own.

This part starts when you create an account

Creating a BlueDog account means you agree to Part B, with BlueDog Group, LLC — who provide the service, hold your synced work, and bill for the subscription — as well as Part A with Daruma Tech. We in this part means BlueDog Group.

If you are signing up for your employer, you are agreeing on their behalf too, and confirming you are allowed to. Where these terms say your company, that is who we mean — the organization that owns the account and the work in it.

You must be at least 16 to have an account.

Your account and your seat

Give us accurate details and keep them current. Keep your password to yourself — you are responsible for what happens under your sign-in, so tell us promptly at support@bluedogqualifier.com if you think someone else has it.

A seat is for one person. Sharing a login across a team is not permitted — seats are how the Teams and Enterprise plans are counted, and how we tell your work apart from a colleague’s. An in-app purchase is not a seat: it applies to the store account that bought it.

On a company account, your company controls the account: an owner can see the work in it, manage seats, and remove people. Work you do in a company account belongs to that company, not to you personally.

What we do with your work

Your work stays yours. Estimates, client records, scope notes, pricing, branding, and your own catalog belong to you and your company. We claim no ownership. We store and process them only to run the service for you — syncing them between your devices, sharing them with your team, and sending a proposal when you ask us to.

The reference data and the software both stay BlueDog Group’s. The BlueDog catalog and estimating templates, and Qualifier itself, are licensed for use inside the product — not given to you. Use them to build and send your own estimates. Do not extract, copy, or redistribute the catalog as data, or use it to build a competing product. Product images are supplied by manufacturers and are not licensed for you to redistribute.

If you send feedback or a feature idea to either company, it may be acted on freely and without owing you anything for it. You will not be identified as its source without being asked.

AI features

Reading a floor plan and turning it into scope is an AI feature of the Teams and Enterprise plans. It is useful and it is fallible. Treat what they produce as a first draft to check, never as an answer. A room can be misread; a dictated sentence can be misheard. Review it before it reaches a customer.

AI features are metered, and the allowance depends on what you have bought. We may adjust an allowance, and will tell you before reducing one you are relying on.

Paying for it, and cancelling

The app is free, and so is the account that saves your estimates to the cloud. What you can pay for depends on who you are, and the two work differently.

If you work on your own: an in-app purchase. Pro is bought inside the app through the App Store or Google Play. That purchase is between you and the store: it is made on your store account, at the price the store shows you, and it renews, is managed, is cancelled and is refunded under that store’s terms, in your device’s account settings. We are not the merchant of record, so we cannot refund one — a refund request goes to Apple or Google. Any introductory or trial period is set by the store, not by us.

If you are an organization: we bill you directly. The Teams and Enterprise plans are agreed with us, billed monthly to the company through Stripe, and are available only to a professional organization with a sales team — never to a solo operator, and never as an in-app purchase. Teams is $99.99 a month and covers 3 users; each user beyond that is $25 a month, and we show you what adding or removing someone changes before it changes. Enterprise is quoted to you. We never see your card details. There is no annual term. Cancel at any time and it takes effect at the end of the month you have already paid for; we do not generally refund part-used periods, but if something has gone genuinely wrong, write to us.

If we change what an Organizations plan costs we will tell you before it applies to you, and never mid-period. A pilot period runs for the length agreed when you start it, and becomes a paid plan only if you choose to go ahead.

If a purchase or plan ends

We do not hold your work hostage, and we do not delete it to make a point.

When an in-app purchase lapses or an Organizations plan ends, nothing you have made is deleted. You can still open, review, print and export it, your estimates stay saved to your free account, and the app keeps scoping and pricing jobs and saving PDFs as it always did. What stops is the functionality that was paid for — the client-facing web estimate with its feedback, approval and payment link, and on an ended plan the catalog, the web app and its AI features. Buy or renew and it picks up where it left off.

Design retainers

If you collect a design retainer from a customer through Qualifier, the payment is made directly to you, through your own connected Stripe account. You are the merchant of record.

We never hold that money. The agreement to do the design work is between you and your customer — as are the deliverables, the refunds, and any dispute about either. Stripe’s own terms apply to your connected account.

Ending it

You can stop using Qualifier at any time, and delete your account yourself — from Settings in the app, or your Account page on the web. What deletion removes →

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms, or where we are required to. Except where something serious or unlawful has happened, we will warn you first, give you a chance to put it right, and a reasonable opportunity to export your work.

Each company answers for its own part

Everything in this section applies to Daruma Tech, LLC and to BlueDog Group, LLC separately — each for its own side of Qualifier, and neither for the other’s. Below, we means whichever of them a claim concerns.

Service availability

We work to keep Qualifier running and your data safe, but we do not promise it will be uninterrupted or error-free. We may change features, and occasionally retire one — where a change is significant we will give reasonable notice.

The app and the service are provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we disclaim implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

Limits on our liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential losses, or for lost profits, lost business, or lost data — and in particular we are not liable for a job priced wrongly, a bid lost, or a contract entered into on the strength of an estimate. As above: check the numbers before you rely on them.

Each company’s total liability to you, for any claim relating to Qualifier, is limited to what you paid that company in the twelve months before the claim arose. Where you have paid it nothing — which is the case for the app itself, and for the service before you subscribe — that limit is one hundred US dollars.

Some states do not allow certain exclusions, in which case they simply do not apply to you. Nothing here limits liability for fraud, or for anything that cannot legally be limited.

Which law applies

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute about them will be heard by the state or federal courts located in Florida, and both of us agree to those courts hearing it.

If any part of these terms is unenforceable, the rest still stands.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms we will update the date at the top, and for anything significant we will tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect. Continuing to use Qualifier after that means you accept the new version.

Contact us

Questions about these terms go to support@bluedogqualifier.com.