Painting contractor 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 contractor software is asked for in one of two situations: the estimates have outgrown a notes app, or the invoices have outgrown a memory. What a painting business actually needs from it is narrower than a field-service suite and wider than a quote template, and it is worth being clear about which parts earn their keep before paying for any of it. What follows is the shape of the job, the order the pieces usually matter in, and what a record has to hold once more than one crew is out.
Open the Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room Free to use. No account, no card, no trial clock.
Start from the estimate, because that is where the money is decided
A painting estimate is area, coats, a production rate and prep hours, and every dollar of the job is settled the moment those four numbers are chosen. Software that does not price from them is asking you to do the arithmetic elsewhere and then type the answer in.
Carry the estimate into the invoice without retyping it
The extra coat, the added closet and the agreed discount go missing at exactly one point: the moment somebody rekeys a quote into a bill. Carrying the lines forward is not a convenience feature, it is the difference between billing what was agreed and billing what was remembered.
Keep the job after it is paid
Most painting work is repeat and referral, so the second call to the same street is priced from the first job's area, hours and final price. A record that survives the invoice makes that a search; a phone gallery makes it a guess.
Painting contractor software: common questions
How is this different from a general trades suite?
A general suite is built for dispatch, fleets and several trades at once, and prices per user. This is built around the painting estimate itself, the invoice it becomes and the job record behind both, for one price covering the whole crew.
Do I need it if I am a single painter?
Only if the paperwork is costing you jobs. A single painter with a steady book and a spreadsheet that works is not the buyer here. The worksheets on this site are free either way, and they will price a room before you decide.
Does it find me painting work?
No, and deliberately. This hub sells no leads, no advertising and no directory placement, and never passes your details to anybody who does. It prices the work you already have in front of you.
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 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, a 12 by 12 room of 448 square feet at two coats, a production rate of 180 square feet an hour a coat and two prep hours comes to 6.98 labour hours and $265.16 of labour at a fully loaded $38 an hour, from the figures entered and the method stated beside them.
Labor cost to paint a 12x12 room (Labour cost for the room): $265.16, Topcoatly, worked example.
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