OwnDesk Paint

$ 49.00

Painting business software for a painting contractor or small painting company: a room-by-room paint estimator with gallons and crew hours, a color schedule, job costing, lead-safe records and invoicing in one offline file. No subscription, no account.

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Description

What it does

A room-by-room Paint Estimator

Type the length, width and height of each room, the doors and windows, whether the ceiling and trim are in, the coats and a prep level. It shows wall, ceiling and trim paint separately, the gallons you need and the whole gallons to buy, crew hours, your cost, your markup and the price, with the price per square foot. One click turns it into a quote.

A color schedule the client signs

Every color on a job in one list: room, surface, color name and code, brand and product, sheen and gallons, with a color chip. Each line moves from Proposed to Approved to Ordered to Applied, the dashboard lists approved colors ready to order, and the printed schedule has a client approval line.

Quotes, work orders and invoices in one file

Quotes print on your letterhead with a signature line, an accepted quote becomes a project in one click, the crew gets a work order the client signs on screen, and invoices (deposit, progress, final, variation, credit note) work out Paid, Partial and Overdue for you.

Real margin on every job

Job price plus approved change orders, minus expenses and painter hours at their rate. It is calculated from the records you already entered, so the margin on each job cannot go stale, and a job spending faster than it is being painted shows up early.

What you get

  • One HTML file that opens in your browser, with a sample painting company already loaded so every screen can be seen full
  • More than twenty-five modules: dashboard, calendar, reports, leads, Paint Estimator, quotes, clients, projects, color schedule, tasks, work orders, site diary, change orders, permits and lead-safe records, safety, punch lists, client approvals, employees, subcontractors, suppliers, equipment and vehicles, paint stock, invoices, purchase orders, expenses and timesheets
  • Printable quotes, color schedules, work orders, change orders, punch lists and invoices on your own letterhead, CSV export of every list, JSON backup and restore, and an optional automatic backup file
  • English and Spanish in the same file, and light and dark themes
  • A quick-start guide and licence included in the download

Before you buy

What is painting business software, and what does this one do?
It is the tool a painting company runs its estimates, jobs, crews and invoices in. This one covers those for a painting contractor or small painting company in one offline file, and adds the parts that are specific to painting: a room-by-room Paint Estimator with gallons and crew hours, and a color schedule the client approves.
Is it painting business management software for a small company?
Yes. It is built for a painting contractor with a small crew: leads, estimates, quotes, projects, a color schedule, work orders, a site diary, change orders, permits and lead-safe records, punch lists, subcontractors, suppliers, paint stock, purchase orders, expenses, timesheets and invoices in one file. There are no user accounts, so it is a one-person-at-a-time office tool.
Does it measure rooms from photos or plans?
No. The Paint Estimator works from the sizes you type and from the coverage and painter speed you set in Settings. It has no paint-brand color database either: you type the color name and code yourself.
Is it accounting software for a painting business?
No. It records invoices, payments, expenses, purchase orders and timesheets and shows the margin per job, and it exports CSV for your accountant, but it has no general ledger, bank feeds, tax filing or payroll.
Does it send review requests or collect testimonials?
No. Nothing is sent from the app: there are no texts or emails, no customer portal and no review requests.
Can it take card payments or file payroll?
No. It records payments against an invoice and shows what is still owed. The money moves through the terminal or app you already use, and payroll stays with your payroll provider. The lead-safe module keeps records; it is not legal or regulatory advice.
Can several people use it at the same time?
No, and it is worth knowing before you buy. There is no cloud sync and no shared database, so it is one computer at a time. A second computer can work from a copy by restoring a backup file, but the two copies do not merge.
Is there a subscription?
No. One payment for the file, no account, no server and no monthly fee. Your records stay in your own browser and nothing is uploaded anywhere, so keep a backup file somewhere else.