Renovate

A quote engine in place of the contact form

Renovate's vendor description does not treat the estimate as an afterthought. The theme ships with the Cost Calculator for WordPress plugin, which the vendor values at $59, and the marketplace summary frames it as a quick way to get cost estimates for construction or remodeling services. Fence construction, paver walkways, interior remodeling and home renovation are the examples named.

That choice shapes the site. A visitor comparing contractors usually has no idea what to type in a message box; a visitor who has set a slider to 40 linear metres and picked a material has a number to react to. The rest of the theme's content types — services, projects, team members — exist to make that number credible.

Everything below comes from the vendor's feature description rather than from running the theme. Treat the specifics as claims to confirm on a staging install.

Building a quote form without touching code

Forms are assembled in the plugin's own drag-and-drop builder. The component list is concrete: dropdown boxes, slider boxes, input boxes (text, number, email, hidden, submit), a date picker, checkboxes, radio buttons, switch boxes, a summary box and a contact details box. Rows can be unlimited and split into columns, and a single form can hold more than one calculation summary field.

A practical fencing form might use a slider for length, a dropdown for material, a number input for gate count, and a summary box that totals them. Currency symbols and units can be placed before or after a value, and the plugin supports a terms and conditions checkbox plus reCAPTCHA — both sensible when the form collects a name, email and phone number.

Elementor users get the form as eight dedicated widgets: Cost Calculator, Form Container, Dropdown Box, Slider Box, Input Box, Switch Box, Summary Box and Contact Box. The form is then built inside the same editor as the rest of the page rather than in a separate admin screen.

Where a submitted calculation actually ends up

A quote form is only useful if the numbers reach someone. The vendor says calculations and submitted forms are stored in the database and readable from the WordPress admin, and that a calculation can also be sent by email. Email templates exist for both the client and the site admin, with editable recipients.

That gives you two records of the same enquiry: a permanent entry in the dashboard and a message in an inbox. For a business that quotes from a price list, the stored calculation is the more valuable of the two, because it shows exactly which options the visitor selected rather than just the total.

The vendor also lists predefined skin templates and a built-in font configurator for the calculator, so the form does not have to look like a generic plugin panel dropped into a themed page.

Stripe inside the form, including subscriptions

The payment layer is more developed than a typical booking button. Stripe is integrated into calculator forms and handles one-time payments and subscriptions, with recurring periods of daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, plus custom intervals such as every two weeks.

Two settings control how much the visitor decides. With dynamic controls enabled, the person filling the form picks the payment period and interval; otherwise you fix those in the form. You can also choose between sending the visitor straight to checkout or emailing a payment link. Each form carries its own payment mode and recurring settings, and the currency is configurable, which matters if you quote across borders.

Success, cancel and subscription pages are editable, and payments are tracked. Subscriptions are the option most construction sites will never need — unless the business sells maintenance contracts, recurring inspections or a service plan. In that case, quoting and charging happen in one flow instead of a handoff to a separate shop checkout.

Elementor or WPBakery: the import decides it

The one-click demo importer pulls pages, posts, sliders and widgets from the Theme Options panel. The line worth reading twice is that you can choose demo content for either Elementor or WPBakery Page Builder. The import is a fork in the road, not a step you undo afterwards.

The two builders receive different things. The vendor calls Elementor integration full and names the eight calculator widgets only for Elementor. WPBakery ships with 30+ custom Renovate components, and the wider element inventory is described as 50+ page builder components, including cost calculator, service, project and team elements. The calculator plugin is listed as integrating with WPBakery and the Gutenberg editor too, so the form is reachable on both paths — but the named widget set points to Elementor if the quote form is the centre of your pages.

Either way you inherit a starting structure. Keep the service and project templates, drop the blog columns, and expect to replace the renovation photography with your own work.

Layout controls that matter on a long service page

Smart sticky columns let a column stay put while the visitor scrolls. On a page listing a dozen services with a project gallery, a sidebar holding the estimate prompt or a phone number remains visible while the main column moves. For a quote-driven site, that does more than another homepage variation.

Theme-wide settings live in the Theme Options panel under Appearance: a colour picker that changes the whole scheme, a wide or boxed layout choice, Google Fonts selection, logo and footer editing, and switches for sticky menus and responsive mode. The responsive mode can be turned off, which exists for fixed-width desktop designs — leave it on for a normal build.

Predefined templates cover two homepages, two service layouts plus a single service page, projects and single project, team and single team member, a Cost Calculator page, the shop, three blog layouts, post, search, two contact styles and a 404. RTL support and WPML compatibility are both listed, and .po/.mo files allow translation without WPML.

The eleven demo calculators are examples, not a content plan

Demo content includes eleven ready-made forms: renovation, cleaning, car service, LPG savings, mortgage, BMI, web hosting, web design, calorie, bookkeeping and loan. Only a couple relate to construction; the rest show the plugin's range.

Read as templates, that is genuinely useful — each is a working arrangement of dropdowns, sliders and summary fields you can duplicate and relabel against your own price list. Read as a feature count, it misleads, because no flooring contractor needs a BMI calculator on a public page. Plan on one or two real forms built from your own rates and leave the rest alone. The plugin provides fields and arithmetic; the pricing logic stays yours.

Declared compatibility and the plugins bundled alongside

Marketplace attributes observed on 3 November 2026 declare support from WordPress 4.9.x through 7.0.x, WooCommerce 5.x through 10.x, WPML, Elementor, Elementor Pro and WPBakery, with Gutenberg Optimized marked yes. The browser list still includes IE9, IE10 and IE11 next to current browsers, which looks like an attribute carried forward rather than reviewed.

Bundled plugins account for a large part of what you maintain. Slider Revolution, WPBakery, the Cost Calculator plugin and a premium icon font are all supplied with the theme according to the vendor, who says components are kept updated regularly. Their versions arrive tied to the theme package, so how bundled plugins are updated independently is a question for the author before you rely on it. PSD source files are offered free on request rather than as an automatic download, which matters if a designer needs the layered files.

None of this is a substitute for installing the theme against your own PHP version and plugin set on staging.

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