# Set Your Service Area

> Limit instant quotes to the places you serve, using regions, polygons, or radius areas on a map.

Source: https://jobwisepro.com/help/instant-quotes/set-your-service-area
Category: Instant Quotes
Updated: 2026-10-22

The service area is optional, and it limits which addresses can request an [instant quote](/help/instant-quotes/introduction-to-instant-quotes).
Draw each area on the [**Service Area**](/go/instant-quotes/service-area) page as a region, a polygon, or a radius.
With no saved area, every address can request a quote.

## Add an area to your service area

Add one area for each part of your territory you serve.

1. Open the **Service Area** page.
   - If the app has no Google Maps key set, the map does not appear and the mode selector is disabled, so no area can be drawn.
2. Under **Add to Service Area**, choose **Region**, **Polygon**, or **Radius**. Region is selected by default.
   - For a region, type a city, county, or ZIP in **Search city, county, or ZIP** and select the place. Drag **Radius (miles)** to change the size, which starts at the place's size or 10 miles when no size is available.
   - For a polygon, click each corner on the map. Drag a corner to move it.
   - For a radius, click the map to drop a pin, then drag **Radius (miles)** to set the size.
3. Click **Save area** in the **Preview** card.
   - **Save area** stays disabled until the area is valid, such as a polygon with fewer than three corners.

The new area appears under **Saved Areas** and on the map, and the mode selection clears.

> **Note:** A region saves as a center point and a radius, not as the outline of the place.

## Remove an area

Remove an area you no longer serve. Addresses that only that area covered fall outside the service area.

1. Open the **Service Area** page.
2. In **Saved Areas**, click the trash icon on the area.
   - The trash icon appears only with full access to quoting tools.
3. Click **Remove** to confirm the removal.

The area stops appearing under **Saved Areas** once the page loads again.

> **Warning:** Removing the last area lets every address request a quote.

## Who can change the service area

Your access to quoting tools decides which controls you can use on this page.

- **See the page**: needs view access to quoting tools. Without full access, the map and **Saved Areas** are read-only.
- **Save an area**: needs full access to quoting tools.
- **Remove an area**: needs full access to quoting tools.

## How addresses are checked

An address passes when it falls inside at least one saved area.

- **No saved areas**: every address passes.
- **Polygon**: the address must fall inside the outline.
- **Region or radius**: the address must lie within the radius, in miles, of the center.
- **Removed areas**: the check on the public quote page ignores them.
- **Before submitting**: the public quote page compares the confirmed address with your saved areas.
- **On submit**: the server repeats the check and saves the result on the quote request.
- **Inside an area**: the request status is **Not finished**.
- **Outside every area**: the request status is **Outside service area**, the customer sees the address as outside the area, and the **Continue** button no longer shows.
- **Staff view**: the status reads **Outside service area** on staff pages, and the leads list can filter by it.