Painting contractor CRM
- 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.
A painting contractor CRM is usually wanted for one specific reason: the estimate you wrote for a customer eighteen months ago is unfindable, and they have just called back about the exterior. The contact record matters far less than the job history hanging off it. What follows is what is worth keeping against a customer, what is not, and why a painting business rarely needs the sales pipeline a CRM ships with.
Open the Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Keep the address, not just the person
Painting work attaches to a building. The same house may be sold twice while the same crew paints it three times, and a record filed under the property with the customers hanging off it answers more questions than the reverse.
Hang every estimate and invoice off the job
What was quoted, what was agreed, what was charged, and when. Almost every question a returning customer asks is answered by that list, and none of it requires a pipeline stage or a lead score.
Write down what the walls were like
Two coats over dark red, a ceiling that needed stain block, a gate that was never accessible before nine. The notes that make the second job profitable are the ones nobody thinks to record on the first.
Painting contractor CRM: common questions
Is this a sales pipeline?
Not really. A painting business wins work from referral, repeat calls and estimates it has already given, so what earns its keep is job history against a property rather than deal stages against a lead.
Does it come with customers or leads?
No. This hub sells no leads, no advertising and no directory placement, and never passes your details to anybody who does. It holds the customers you already have.
Can I get my data out?
Yes, whenever you want, in one export. The job history is the part of this that becomes more valuable each year, so it would be indefensible to hold it hostage.
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 contractor CRM?
Tell us how you run your painting business today and what keeps going missing between the estimate and the invoice.
Cite or embed this figure
On the worked example, one 12 by 12 room at two coats and 180 square feet an hour a coat is 6.98 labour hours and $265.16 at a fully loaded $38 an hour, which is the figure a returning customer's second room is priced from rather than re-estimated.
Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room (Labour cost for the room): $265.16, Topcoatly, worked example.
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