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Construction · Software for painting contractors

Measure and quote room by room, and track paint, coats and wages per site.

A painting contractor measures walls and quotes by the square foot. Paint is bought by shade code on the dealer’s credit, and the foreman’s gang is paid by the day. The painting contractor software measures and quotes room by room, tracks tins issued against each site, and works out wages from attendance. Snags close before the final bill. Recording shade codes per wall is custom work added for you.

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At a glance

Painting looks simple and leaks money in the details: an extra putty coat nobody quoted, a shade changed after the first wall, and buckets that never came back from site.

Job tracking for painting contractors is a small thing done properly: the measurement, the paint issued, the wages and the snag list. Send us your rate card for walls, ceilings and exteriors, and the first jobs are costed from it.

How the work runs today

A homeowner, a housing association or an office calls for a repaint. You visit, measure walls, ceilings, doors, windows and grills, check dampness and cracks, and quote per square foot for scraping, putty, primer and two or three coats. Interior emulsion, exterior finish, wood polish and metal enamel each carry a different rate. The customer picks shades from a fan deck, then changes one after seeing it on an actual wall.

Paint comes from the dealer on credit, tinted to a shade code. A foreman runs the gang for days or weeks, paid daily or by contract, counting heads each morning with advances already taken. Then the client walks through and calls out patches, room by room. A year later somebody asks for a touch-up in a shade nobody wrote down.

Where it breaks

What goes wrong for painting contractors without a proper system.

Paint runs out mid-job

The estimate missed a putty coat, and a gang of six stops for half a day while somebody rides to the dealer. The whole day is lost.

Nobody recorded the shade code

The customer wants a touch-up after a leak repair, and the colour is now a guess with a fan deck. Nobody enjoys that call.

Wages and days do not add up

The supervisor’s attendance and the foreman’s count differ every week, and the difference always runs in the same direction. The gap is never explained.

The final bill waits on the snag list

Patches called out at the walk-through live on one supervisor’s phone, so nobody can say which rooms are still open.

A housing committee has twelve decision-makers

The committee changes the shade in a meeting you were not at, and nobody records who approved it. The dispute reaches you later.

What the software does

What we would build for painting contractors.

Named the way your team already talks about the work. We start with whichever part the audit shows is costing you most.

Room-wise measurement sheet

Record rooms, walls, ceilings, doors, windows and grills with their sizes, and work out paintable area by surface, because a stairwell is not a bedroom.

Quotes by surface and coat

Price interior, exterior, wood and metal work from your own rate card, by area and by coat, with the prep work written into the scope.

Shade and product record

A record of brand, product and shade code for every wall, kept against the customer, is a custom addition.

Dealer account and site stock

Record dealer purchases, tins sent to each site, tins returned and the balance owed to each dealer, set beside what the quote expected for that area.

Foreman, painter attendance and wages

Mark daily attendance by site for painters, helpers and the foreman, with advances given and the balance due. Wages come from days worked or area painted.

Snag list and shade handover

List the walk-through points room by room, assign each to a painter, and close them before the final bill. A shade handover sheet can be added as an extra.

Before you talk to a supplier

A requirements checklist for painting contractors.

What to cover, which reports to ask for and what to put to every vendor, ready to print or save as a PDF.

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Ready product

A product already built for painting contractors.

It is adapted to how your business works before it goes live, and anything your trade needs that it lacks is added then.

Painting Contractor Management Software

Site measurements, quotations, paint and material estimates, crew allocation, coat-by-coat progress, stage billing and painter wages for painting contractors.

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Solutions inside

The business modules painting contractors use most.

Each one is also available on its own, or inside a system built for you.

All solutions by area

AI by department

Where AI can help painting contractors.

Each one reads records you already keep, and a person approves every decision.

Worldwide

Where we work with painting contractors.

Services

The services behind it.

Business Process Automation

Approvals, reminders, follow-ups and reports that run on their own instead of on someone remembering.

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Web and Mobile Application Development

Web and mobile apps for customers, field staff and dealers, built to work on ordinary phones.

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ERP, CRM and Business Software Implementation

One record of stock, orders, customers and accounts, set up so your team opens it every day.

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All our other services

Guides

Written for painting contractors.

Practical notes on running the business, not product marketing.

What a Painting Contractor Should Track Every Month

Five monthly checks for painting contractors: quotes won, paint used against plan, painter days and wages, dealer balances, unpaid stage bills and snags.

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How it works

How the work runs from Bengaluru for your city.

  1. 1

    The audit, by call

    A screen-share and a look at the sheets, accounting reports and WhatsApp groups your team uses. No travel needed.

  2. 2

    A written proposal

    Scope, what we build first and the cost, agreed in writing before anything starts.

  3. 3

    Build in short rounds

    Working screens shared every few weeks. Your team tests them from your own office.

  4. 4

    Go-live, in person when it helps

    For data migration and training we can come to your city. Travel is agreed in advance.

  5. 5

    Support online

    Fixes, changes and hosting handled remotely by the same team that built it.

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The work we have published.

We only name clients whose work is published. None of them is in this trade; they show how the team works, not that it has built for this trade.

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Common questions

Questions painting contractors ask before they call.

Can dealer bills go to our accounting system?

Not built in. Dealer purchases and customer bills are recorded here. Exporting them in your package’s format is optional work, quoted on its own.

Will it work for housing complex jobs?

Partly. Snag lists and running bills against measured work are covered. Block-wise tracking and a record of committee approvals are extra work we scope with you.

Do we need software, or an app?

If you do three homes a month, a simple quoting app and a notebook are enough. Several gangs on several sites is where a real system starts to pay.

Can it work out paint quantity?

Yes. Measured area, coats and each product’s coverage give putty, primer, paint and thinner per site, and tins issued are set against it. A site using far more stands out on the site report.

How is a painting contractor system priced?

Sites running together, foremen, gangs and shade records all add up. Matching dealer bills and working out wages from attendance are separate parts. A real house is quoted room by room on screen first. Then comes the itemised list for the build.

What should the contractor bring?

A measured room sheet, a quotation with surface rates, a dealer bill, the gang attendance register and a snag list. Let one foreman and one estimator try early screens. Plain feedback helps most.

Do site and shade records stay ours?

They do, together with the programme. Measurements, quotes, attendance and snags come out as open worksheets on request. Whoever built it fixes faults, and we host unless you would rather not.

What happens after I share my requirements?

An engineer reads what you send and replies within one business day. We then look at the software, spreadsheets and WhatsApp groups your business runs on today and write down what works, what slows your team down and what is missing. A demo login, a screen-share or a few screenshots are enough. You get a short written summary ordered by priority, with no obligation to hire us afterwards.

How much will the software cost?

We don’t publish a price, because it depends on what the system has to do. That first review settles the scope, and the cost goes into a written proposal before any work starts.

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Talk to us

Tell us how your business runs today.

A few lines on your spreadsheets, software and WhatsApp groups is enough. We reply the same working day.

What happens after you share your requirements

  1. A senior engineer reads your answers. Nobody phones first.
  2. Within one business day you get a written note: what we understood, what we would start with, and the questions we still have.
  3. If it fits, a proposal follows with the order of work, what we need from you and what you receive at each step.
  4. No call is booked and nothing is paid until you have read the note. Your details stay with us.

Start with your requirements

Seven short steps that tell us what you need. A senior engineer reads them before anyone gets in touch.

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