1. An estimate compliance system to specify estimate compliance criteria for a vehicle repair estimate, comprising: a processor; a memory connected to the processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions embedded therein, the instructions configured to implement the functionality of: obtaining an estimate compliance rule defining a third party payor requirement for a type of vehicle remedial activity, the rule comprising: vehicle criteria; and parts criteria based on the vehicle criteria, wherein the parts criteria comprises: identifying a part; and specifying a part grade; and transmitting the estimate compliance rule to an estimator; wherein the estimate compliance rule is associated with a non-compliance message, and wherein the non-compliance message and rule requirements of the estimate compliance rule are displayed to a user when the user selects the rule.