Painting Pricing Calculator

Pro

Welcome to Pro

Five steps from an empty workspace to your first issued estimate. Everything below runs and saves locally in your browser — no account, no setup on our end.

  1. 1

    Add your paint products

    Open Paint catalog and add each paint you actually buy — name, price per gallon, coverage, and sheen. Every estimate and every Price Book Health service draws from this list, so it's the one thing you need before anything else will work.

  2. 2

    Check your business settings

    Business settings holds your loaded hourly rate, overhead, target margin, and production throughputs. Sensible defaults are already filled in — adjust them to match your real numbers now, since a project only picks up new rates when you explicitly refresh it.

  3. 3

    Create your first project

    Go to Projects and click "+ New project." Fill in your business and customer info, then add each room (length, width, height, and any doors/windows to deduct) or a standalone trim/door surface.

  4. 4

    Review the estimate summary

    As you add rooms, the Estimate summary fills in live — materials, labor, overhead, job cost, and a suggested price with your target margin. Switch to a custom price any time; "Save draft" works even if the estimate isn't finished yet.

  5. 5

    Issue it to your customer

    Once the estimate is complete, click "Issue estimate." That freezes this revision and produces a clean customer-facing document — with no cost, overhead, or margin figures on it — ready to print or save as a PDF.

Your dashboard, at a glance

Pro is one workspace with six tabs along the top. Here's what each one is for.

Business settings
Your rates and defaults, set once and reused by every estimate.
Paint catalog
The paint products every estimate and service draws from.
Projects
Where you build, save, and issue estimates for real jobs.
Price Book Health
Sanity-check your standing menu prices against their real modeled cost.
Actual review
Compare what a job actually cost against what you quoted.
Backup
Export everything to a file, or restore/import from one.