Painting contractor software that protects your margin
Estimate by surface area, track crew hours against the hours you quoted and see the real margin on every finished job.
Estimating
Build the quote from the surface, not from memory
A 2,400 square foot exterior is siding, trim, doors and two coats. Price every line with your own rates, send it, and let the customer accept it online.
Your rates saved as line items
Keep your square foot prices, primers and coatings as products. Drop them into an estimate and the totals add up on their own.
An accepted quote becomes an invoice
The customer approves from the link you sent. One click turns the accepted quote into an invoice with the same lines.
Production rate
The hours you quoted next to the hours you burned
Every repaint is a project with a budget in hours and material. Painters log time against it, so after ten jobs you know your real production rate instead of guessing it.
Crews log hours on the job
Prep, cutting in, spraying: each block of time lands on the job it belongs to, logged the same day from the phone.
Quoted against actual, while it still matters
Watch hours and material spend rise against the estimate. Two days over shows up on day two, not on the final invoice.
Change orders and margin
The bedroom they added on day three still gets billed
Send the extra scope as its own quote before the roller touches it. Paint receipts, crew hours and subcontracted labor all sit on the same job.
Extra scope, priced in writing
Quote the added room separately, get it accepted, then bill it on the same invoice as the original walkthrough.
The margin on a finished job
One report per job: what the $9,800 repaint invoiced, what the paint and the hours cost, and what was left over.
Built for the way you already work
Free tools and plain definitions for the numbers and paperwork this trade runs on.
Free calculators
Frequently asked questions
Save your rates as products: price per square foot for siding, trim and doors, plus primers and coatings. Drop them into an estimate with the measured quantities and the totals add themselves. A 2,400 square foot exterior comes out as separate lines the customer can read, and accept online.
Open the repaint as a project with a budget in hours. Painters log prep, cutting in and spraying against it from the phone the same day, and the project shows logged hours against budgeted hours while the job is still open. Two days over shows up on day two, not on the final invoice.
Quote the extra scope on its own before anyone opens a can. Send it as a separate estimate, get it accepted in writing, then bill it on the same invoice as the original walkthrough or on its own. The added hours and paint land on the same job, so the change order does not eat the margin quietly.
One report per job. Holded sets what the job invoiced against what it cost: paint and sundries from the receipts, crew hours logged against it, and any subcontracted labor billed to it. After ten repaints the pattern is clear and you stop guessing your production rate on the next quote.
No. Holded does not calculate or pay payroll, so you keep the service you use. The hours your crew logs on a job are there for costing, to tell you what that job burned, not to pay anyone. The payroll cost enters Holded as an expense, so the books and the job margins still line up.