Estimating & Job Costing Software for Painters

Painting estimating software: set what a room or a square foot takes once, quote at your margin, take the deposit, and keep the color and sheen on the record.

Starts with your Google account, or an email link if you would rather. That's the whole signup.

No password to make up. We email you a link and it signs you in.

HomeServicesIT gives a painting business one place to price a job off gallons and hours, schedule the crew across multi-day work, and turn the before-and-after into the next job. From your phone, between walkthroughs. No enterprise setup, no per-painter fees.

Where the day actually breaks down

The three things that cost painting companies the most time and money - and why the usual way of handling them doesn't cut it.

1

Every quote gets rebuilt from scratch, standing in someone's living room.

Today: Pricing from feel works until it does not. Two rooms that take the same gallons and the same hours go out at different numbers depending on the week you are having, and neither number came from your actual costs.

2

The best marketing you own dies in a camera roll.

Today: Before-and-afters are the whole pitch in this trade, and most of them sit on a crew member's phone with nothing tying them to the customer, the color, or the job. You cannot show a prospect the room you did down the street if you cannot find it.

3

A three-day job wraps and the invoice sits unwritten for a week.

Today: Nobody wants to rebuild a week of labor hours from memory at nine at night, so it waits. The jobs you are too tired to invoice are the ones that quietly never get invoiced.

How HomeServicesIT fixes each one

Same three problems, handled by design instead of by hand.

Fixes problem 1

Set what a room takes once

Tell it the gallons, the coats, the prep hours and the labor for one room, then type how many. Every quote after that prices itself off your real costs with the margin showing before you say a number out loud.

Fixes problem 2

Offer good, better and best on one quote

One coat or two, builder-grade or premium, trim included or not, each option priced separately with its own margin. Over a season you find out which tier people actually buy instead of guessing at it.

Fixes problem 3

Every finished room, filed where you can find it

Before-and-after photos attach to the job and the property, timestamped, and show up in the customer's portal. The record doubles as the portfolio, and it is searchable by address rather than by scrolling.

A day in the life

Tomas, painter with a three-person crew

Tomas built one assembly for a standard bedroom: gallons, two coats, prep hours, cleanup. Now a walkthrough is counting rooms. He quotes a four-bedroom interior in the driveway, offers the homeowner a one-coat and a two-coat version side by side, and sees his own margin on both before either number is spoken.

The homeowner takes the two-coat option. The crew works Tuesday through Thursday, tagging each room complete as it dries, and the before-and-afters land against the job as they go. Thursday afternoon Tomas builds the invoice from the finished job instead of reconstructing three days from memory, and sends it from the truck.

In the spring the neighbor two doors down asks what he charges. Tomas pulls up the job from that street, shows the actual rooms, and quotes off the same assembly in about a minute. He also knows the two-coat option has won eleven of his last fourteen bids, which is why he stopped leading with the cheap one.

Assembly-based room pricingGood/better/best optionsBefore/after photo proofMulti-day crew schedulingInvoice from the job site

Everything else built for painting companies

Field service management sized for crews of one to five. Customer records, property history, quotes and invoicing from the driveway live in one place, which covers the CRM half of the job without a second app.

Price from gallons and hours, not gut feel

Set what one room or one square takes once, then every quote after that prices itself and shows you the margin.

Skip the trip back to the paint store

Gallons and primer are already counted on the estimate. Pull them onto one page instead of recounting at checkout.

Before/after photos that double as marketing

Every transformation is documented and shows up automatically in the customer portal.

Multi-day jobs on one clear schedule

Track prep, coats, and touch-ups across the whole crew without losing track.

Invoice the moment the job wraps

Send the invoice from the site, with the rooms and coats still fresh, instead of writing it days later.

Color and sheen per surface, on the visit record

Product, color and sheen for each room go on the visit as it's done. Two years later the touch-up call is answered from the record, not from the painter who moved to Tucson.

Deposit up front, balance at the walkthrough

Twenty or thirty percent at signing in one tap, and the final invoice already knows what was paid. No double-billing a whole-house exterior.

Your lead-safe certification on the estimate

Set the firm certificate once and it prints with your license under your address. On a pre-1978 house that's the line the customer's inspector looks for.

Customer and property history in one place

Know what colors, finishes, and rooms were done last time before you quote again.

Route optimization for multi-property days

Cut down on drive time between smaller jobs scattered across town.

Manage multiple crews without paying per crew member

Assign jobs across teams without paying more per painter added.

Try it free for 30 days

No credit card required. See your whole schedule, customers, and invoices in one place from day one.

Starts with your Google account. That's the whole signup.

Want the long version first? See how it works.

What markup do you need for a 30% margin? Work it out on the markup vs margin calculator before your next quote.

Questions painting companies ask

Can I keep the color and sheen we used on each room?

Yes. The visit record on each job takes a line per surface: the product, the color, the sheen and how much went on. It stays with the property, and the customer can see it in their portal. When they call two years later about a scuff in the hallway, the answer is on the record, not in somebody's memory.

Can I quote by the room?

Yes. Set what one room takes in gallons, coats, prep and labor hours, then count rooms. A four-bedroom interior gets quoted in the driveway with your margin visible before you say the number, instead of being priced by feel and coming out different depending on the week you are having.

Can I show a one-coat and a two-coat price on the same quote?

Up to six options on one quote, each priced separately with its own margin. The customer picks one and the app remembers which, so after a season you know which version actually wins and can stop leading with the cheap one.

What happens to the before-and-after photos?

They attach to the job and the property, timestamped, and appear in the customer's portal. Because they are filed against an address rather than sitting in a camera roll, you can pull up the job down the street while you are standing in the next prospect's hallway.

Same software, other trades