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When a roofing project involves different materials or areas of work, you may need to estimate each section separately. For example, a property may have asphalt shingles on the main roof and metal roofing on the porch. Split Measurement in Zuper allows you to divide a completed roof measurement into separate measurement reports, each containing the quantities needed for its specific scope of work. Instead of manually calculating measurements for each roof section, you can allocate values from the original report, manage different waste factors, and use the resulting measurements when preparing proposals.

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Before you begin

Make sure the following conditions are met:
  • The original measurement has a Completed status.
  • The associated job is not closed or canceled.
  • The measurement was not itself created from another split.
  • Your device has an active internet connection.
You can create up to four splits from a measurement in a single split operation.

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How Split Measurement works

Each measurement contains values called tokens, such as Total Roof Area, Total Ridges Length, or Suggested Waste Percentage. When splitting a measurement, Zuper handles these values in two ways.
  1. Splittable tokens: Values that can be distributed between roof sections, such as area, length, or count.
  2. Non-splittable tokens: Values that must be defined independently for each section, such as waste percentages.
For example, consider a roof with a total area of 3,000 SQFT. The main roof requires asphalt shingles, while the porch requires metal roofing. The roof area and ridge length are distributed between the two splits. However, the waste percentage is entered independently because each material may require a different allowance.

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Split a measurement

  1. Open the job and navigate to the Measurements tab.
  2. On the completed measurement card, click the More options icon (⋮) and choose Split Measurement.
    Measurements tab of a roof replacement job with the EagleView report card's More options menu open and Split Measurement highlighted
  3. In the Split Measurement panel, rename Split 1 and Split 2 based on the roofing material or scope. Select Add split to create additional splits, up to four.
  4. Choose whether to use Pre-fill Split 1 before entering values.
    • Enabled: Split 1 starts with the full report value and automatically adjusts as values are entered for the other splits.
    • Disabled: Enter the values for every split manually.
    Split Measurement panel with splits named Shingles - Main Roof and Metal - Front Porch, the Add split button, and the Pre-fill Split 1 toggle highlighted
    If you manually update Split 1 for a token, automatic adjustment stops for that token. Pre-fill cannot be changed after you start entering values.
  5. Enter each split’s values in the corresponding token columns.
    Enable Show only tokens with values to focus on populated tokens, or search for a specific token. To clear a token’s values across all splits, point to its row and select Clear.
  6. Review the Diff column for differences between the original report and the combined split values:
    • Under by: The combined values are less than the original report.
    • Over by: The combined values exceed the original report.
    These indicators are informational and do not prevent you from creating splits.
    Split values entered for each token, with the Diff column showing Under by 15 for Total Valleys Length and Over by 6 for Total Eaves Length
  7. Under Non-splittable tokens, enter separate values for each split, such as waste percentages. Pre-fill does not apply to these tokens.
    Non-splittable tokens section with Suggested Waste Percentage set to 10 for Shingles - Main Roof and 15 for Metal - Front Porch
  8. Ensure each split contains at least one value greater than zero, then select Create Splits.
    Bottom of the Split Measurement panel with the Create Splits button highlighted
Your new measurements appear on the Measurements tab, ready to use.
Measurements tab showing the new Metal - Front Porch and Shingles - Main Roof split cards linked to the EagleView report, which shows a Split · 2 badge
To split a measurement from the field, see Split a measurement in the Zuper Field Service app.

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FAQs

The option appears only on a Completed measurement that isn’t itself a split, on a job that isn’t Closed or Canceled. If all of that is true and you still don’t see it, ask your admin whether your role has access to measurements on jobs.
Each split needs a name that no other measurement on the job uses. The panel always starts with Split 1 and Split 2, so if you split this measurement before and kept those names, rename your new splits.
With Pre-fill on, the first split keeps only what’s left of the report value. If your other splits already use the full value or more, nothing is left, so it shows 0.
You can change Pre-fill only before you enter your first value. To start over with a different setting, select Cancel and open Split Measurement again.
Your admin has turned that token off in measurement settings, so it doesn’t appear when you split. Turning a token off only hides it, so ask your admin to turn it back on if you need it. See Measurement token settings.
Zuper shows an error and keeps your values so you can try again. Check your connection and make sure each split name is unique on the job, and contact Zuper Support if it keeps failing.