ClaimFileHQ compared with a general-purpose CRM.
General CRMs organize around a contact and a deal. A claims management CRM organizes around the file: the assignment, the inspection, the estimate, the position, the umpire, and the final package all belong to one record — and so does everyone who touches it.
| Capability | General-purpose CRM | ClaimFileHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Contacts and companies with notes and activity | Yes | Yes |
| Email captured on a record | Yes | Yes |
| Tasks and reminders with an owner and a due date | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting across records | Yes | Yes |
| The claim file as the record, not a contact and a deal | No | Yes |
| Appraisal stages built in: opposing appraiser, umpire, award, final package | No | Yes |
| A separate workflow per client type: carrier, Public Adjuster referral, homeowner | No | Yes |
| Photo storage linked to the claim | No | Yes |
| Dispatch and review across a partner network, with per-document visibility | No | Yes |
| Inspections tracked against the property on the claim | No | Yes |
| Invoices raised per file or per assignment, tracked through closeout | No | Yes |
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What a sales CRM is built for
A general-purpose CRM is very good at the thing it is built for: a contact at a company, a deal moving through a pipeline, and the activity that gets it to close. Contacts, email logging, tasks and reporting are all there, and configured carefully it can be made to hold a claim.
The shape is the problem. A deal closes. A claim file goes through assignment, inspection, estimate and position, the opposing appraiser, the umpire, the award and the final package, and every one of those stages produces documents, photographs and correspondence that belong to the file rather than to the contact.
The record is the claim file
Email, documents, photos, tasks, billing, and status stay on the file instead of beside it.
Nothing has to be rebuilt at the next stage because nothing was ever anywhere else: the checklist runs against the record, the invoice goes out against the assignment, and the history closes with the file.
A workflow per client type, not one pipeline
A carrier assignment, a Public Adjuster referral, and a homeowner file each get their own stages and rules.
Each client workflow carries its own statuses, templates and automation rules, and reporting reads across all of them even when each runs its own stages.
Dispatch and review, with the privacy the work needs
Dispatch across partner companies, 1099 contractors, and employees, with per-record visibility over what the network sees.
Everything dispatch sends out is visible to every party on the file. The assigned professional's own photographs and email correspondence stay private, and each document they upload carries its own visibility switch. A Reviewer / Quality Assurance Analyst approves a submission or sends it back for revision without taking on assignment authority.
What every plan includes
The core CRM is the same on every plan: claim-file crm, clients & workflow management, documents & claim photo storage, notes & activity history, tasks & reminders, email on the claim file, automations, appointment & inspection tracking, reporting, billing & invoicing. Schedule Engine and Photo Engine are the only capabilities priced separately.
Run claims on a record shaped like a claim.
More comparisons
- ClaimFileHQ compared with spreadsheets, folders and inboxes.The setup most offices start with: a status sheet, a folder per claim, and the correspondence in whoever's inbox it landed in.
- ClaimFileHQ Photo Engine compared with a standalone photo app.A field-photo app organizes photographs around a job. Photo Engine captures them against the claim file, where the rest of the record already is.