Painting business management software
- Labour cost for the room
- $265.16
- Painting hours
- 4.977777777777778
- Total labour hours including prep
- 6.977777777777778
Every figure here comes from the numbers you enter and the method stated beside it: your own wall area, your own coats, your own crew's production rate, your own fully loaded labour cost. This site publishes no book rate for painting and no price list. What a job should sell for in your town is your figure, not ours.
Painting business management software is what gets searched for once the estimating is solved and the business itself is the problem: which jobs are actually booked, what is out unpaid, and whether last month made money. Those are three different records and most small painting businesses keep them in three different places. What follows is what each one has to hold, and the order they are usually worth putting in place.
Open the Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Get the pipeline onto one screen
Estimated, booked, on site, finished, invoiced, lost. Six states cover almost every painting job, and the value of writing them down is not tidiness, it is that the question of what is happening this week stops requiring a phone call to the crew.
Make the unpaid list a list, not a feeling
An invoice you sent and an invoice you were paid for look identical in a sent-items folder. Marking payment against the job is a few seconds that converts a nagging worry into a number you can act on before it is ninety days old.
Compare what you quoted with what it took
The estimate said hours; the job took hours. Recording both turns your production rate from a setting into a measurement, and a business that corrects its rate once a quarter prices better every quarter after.
Painting business management software: common questions
Does this replace my accounting software?
No. Books, payroll and tax stay with QuickBooks, Xero or your accountant. This holds the estimates, the jobs and the invoices, and pushes what you billed across rather than trying to be a ledger.
Can my crew see it?
Yes, and the price does not change when they do. It is one price for the whole business rather than per user, precisely because the office manager and the lead painter both need to see the same job.
What about scheduling and routing?
There is no dispatch board and no GPS tracking here. A crew of fifteen painting houses does not route like a fleet of service vans, and if you need that, a general field-service suite is the honest answer.
Topcoatly Pro
Keeping what you make
The worksheets are free. Pro is what happens after the customer says yes: the estimate becomes a job, the job becomes an invoice, and next spring you can still see what you charged this street and what it actually took you.
- Send the estimate from inside the record rather than from your phone
- Take the deposit without leaving the job
- Connect QuickBooks or Xero to your account
$49per month, whole crew
Start Topcoatly Pro PricingTopcoatly Pro is $49 per month for the whole crew, billed monthly, and renews each month at that price until you cancel. The price and renewal terms are shown again before checkout.
Will it do what you need for Painting business management software?
Tell us how you run your painting business today and what keeps going missing between the estimate and the invoice.
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On the worked example, an exterior of 1,800 square feet costs $1,526.86 in labour and paint and prices at $2,349.01 at a 35% margin, so eight prep hours mis-estimated at your own $38 an hour move the job's whole margin by roughly a fifth of that gap.
Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room (Labour cost for the room): $265.16, Topcoatly, worked example.
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