The painting business app for interior and exterior work
Interior and exterior repaints, new homes, doors and trims, fences and decks: quote it properly, keep the client in the loop, and get paid.
What the Painter trade includes
Interior and exterior painting.
Services you start with
Rename them, switch them off or add your own.
- Interior repaint
- Exterior repaint
- New home painting
- Doors, trims and skirting
- Fence and deck staining
- Feature walls
- Paint repairs and touch-ups
Features for painters
- Interior and exterior painting work with its starter services
- The painting take-off: rooms and surfaces measured on site, priced at your rates, with the paint and prep order in whole tins, the colour schedule and the painter's job card
- Safe work method statements for painting: ladders, scaffold, elevating work platforms, spraying and lead paint
- A warranty for painting work
How it works for painters
The Painter trade covers interior and exterior painting. Its starting services include interior and exterior repaints, new home painting, doors, trims and skirting, fence and deck staining, feature walls, and repairs and touch-ups.
Professional adds two-way texting, calls from a business number, running-late texts and review requests, so clients hear from you before they have to chase you. On-my-way texts and booking reminders are there from Starter.
Painting sections of builders' take-offs are coming soon with the Builder job board. Turn bid requests on, set your travel radius, and bid on the work near you.
Shared by every trade
- Clients and properties, with every call, text, email and visit on one timeline
- Site inspections booked without double-booking, done on the phone
- Quotes the client accepts and signs online, becoming a written contract
- Scheduling, with reminders and on-my-way texts to clients
- Field mode on the crew's phones, working without signal
- Variations agreed in writing before the work is done
- Invoices with card payments through your own Stripe or Square account
- Asbestos disposal records and the job's compliance record
- Trade Assured AI, typed or hands-free
What it costs painters
Your main trade is included on every plan. Start on Starter at $59 a month before GST and move up as the business grows.
Add up to two more trades for one flat $49 a month before GST (three trades in all). More than three needs the Builder plan, which includes every trade.
The AI receptionist comes with Complete, Elite and Builder: 200 minutes a month on Complete, then 50c a minute; 400 minutes a month on Elite and Builder, then 45c a minute, before GST.
| Plan | A month, before GST | For |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $59 | The everyday business |
| Team | $159 | A growing crew |
| Professional | $299 | Winning more work |
| Complete | $499 | The whole operation |
| Elite | $799 | The work done for you |
| Builder | $1,499 | Builders and main contractors |
Builders' jobs, sent to you Coming soon
Builders on the Builder plan will upload a plan set, get a take-off of every trade's section, and send each section to the businesses in that trade whose area covers the site. You bid on the work near you.
- Any business on a paid plan can receive builders' bid requests, from Starter up.
- Each business sets a travel radius from its base; a job goes to the businesses in the right trade whose radius covers the site.
- Bids are sealed: only the builder sees every bid, and each business sees only its own and whether it won.
- Leads and bid requests are separate switches: receive either, both or neither.
- Builders can block a business, which then never receives that builder's jobs.
The job board is built straight after launch. It is not available yet.
Questions from painters
Does it cover both interior and exterior painting?
Yes. The Painter trade covers interior and exterior painting. Rendering, plastering and texture coating are a separate trade you can add.
Can it text clients when I'm running late?
Yes, on Professional and above. From field mode, choose the appointment and when you'll arrive, or let the driving time say it, and the client is texted. If the delay carries through, the next client is told too.
Can I ask happy clients for reviews?
Yes, on Professional and above, with a review request sent only to clients who agreed to hear from you.
Other trades
Trade Assured also covers roofers, roof carpenters, carpenters, bricklayers, tilers and renderers and plasterers, or builders with every trade.
Set up your painter business
Register with your email, choose Painter as your main trade, pick a plan, and you're in.