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# Publishing to Xactimate

> Publish an insurance claim and get the .ESX file, Xactimate PDF, and web proposal

## Publishing to Xactimate

When an insurance project's scope is built in Xactimate format, publishing produces a **.ESX project file** you can open, edit, and submit in Xactimate, alongside the carrier-friendly PDF and a web link. It runs through the same [publish wizard](/features/publishing-your-proposal) every proposal uses; this page covers what's specific to the Xactimate output.

### 1. What you get, and when

| Deliverable              | What it's for                                                                                                                                              |
| ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **.ESX project file**    | Opens directly in Xactimate with the full scope, folder structure, and claim header — your working file for supplementing or finishing claims in Xactimate |
| **Xactimate-format PDF** | The estimate cut the way carriers read it, ready to attach to correspondence                                                                               |
| **Full proposal PDF**    | The complete XBuild proposal, photos and all                                                                                                               |
| **Shareable web link**   | The published claim as a web page                                                                                                                          |

Allow **up to 10 minutes** ([Processing times](/features/processing-times)). The publishing screen shows the link immediately; a snagged export retries automatically, and the screen says so once the usual window passes. Finished documents are **emailed to you** and filed into the project panel's **Documents** section (folder icon).

### 2. What it costs

The first Xactimate publish on a project costs **40 tokens** at the wizard's checkout step; later Xactimate publishes on that project are free and skip checkout, and switching to Symbility is charged at that format's own first-publish rate — see [How tokens work](/plans-billing/how-tokens-work). The publish charge is separate from the chat tokens spent building the scope.

### 3. Confirm the claim header before you publish

The Xactimate documents print the claim info on the proposal — insured name, property address, carrier, claim and policy numbers, date and type of loss. The wizard confirms name and address (ZIP required); check the rest in the claim info section, in chat or [manual edit mode](/features/editing-estimates-and-proposals). A wrong header after publishing: fix it, save, republish — same format, no extra charge.

### 4. After publishing

* Edits create a new draft; republishing in Xactimate is free and refreshes the link, PDFs, and .ESX.
* Send the .ESX or Xactimate PDF to the carrier yourself, or click **Submit to insurance** and let XBuild's supplementing team work the claim ([insurance supplement flow](/features/insurance-supplement-flow)).
* Need Symbility instead? Ask in chat to switch. The scope is rebuilt in the Symbility catalog — re-expressed, not converted one-to-one — and publishing it is a first publish in that format ([Publishing to Symbility](/features/publishing-symbility)).

### 5. Troubleshooting common issues

* **It's been more than 10 minutes.** Still working — documents arrive by email and in Documents whether or not the wizard is open. Nothing well past the window: contact XBuild Support.
* **I can't find the .ESX file.** Check the completion email and the project panel's **Documents** section.
* **I published Xactimate again — was I charged again?** No. Only the first Xactimate publish on a project carries the charge.

For further assistance, contact XBuild Support at [support@x.build](mailto:support@x.build).