Some Features of
The Paint Estimator Software
Brief Summary
On The Paint Estimator Details
This program was written or aimed for the Painting Contractor who is a Owner / Operator. This means that you run the business and also work on the jobs along side with your employees. This program also assumes that you as the contractor have an general idea on how long it should take to complete the tasks that you are estimating on. If you have never painted before and decided to become a painting contractor then I'm not sure this program is for you. You can always download the trial version and try it out for 5 days to help with your decision.
Below you will find some random features of this program. They are in no specific order. It's just a little idea on what this software can do. To view a larger image, just click on the image you want to see. If you ever have any questions, please let me know at: support@thepaintestimator.com
Please Remember this only works for Microsoft Windows
Estimating Methods
Unlike other estimating programs out there this program has 5 different methods to estimate jobs, For more Info on these methods, click any of the buttons below to learn more on that type of estimating method.
- By the Item: Example: It should take 2 guys 2 days to prep and paint the stucco
- By the Day: Example: Day 1: Prepare and patch stucco. Day 2: Spray stucco. Day 3: Finish up.
- Time and Materials: Where you do not give a direct cost up front - great for wallpaper jobs or customers who trust you and just want the work done.
- Historical Production Rates: Where you price items by the Sq-Ft, Ln-Ft, or per item. Also this program comes with a unique method for you to record your own rates. For example: you have 35 windows to paint. At the end of the day you open up the Add rates form and enter how many you did, how many guys, materials costs and it will record your rates for these windows for future jobs.
- Kitchen Cabinets: Where you can estimate cabinets by the number of boxes, doors, drawer fronts and so on.
Nice Looking Proposals
The way these were designed was to present simple understanding descriptions that the customers can easily understand. You will get complimented on the details and the professionalism of the way these proposals look.
You can print proposals directly or export them to PDF, RTF, Word Document and Apache OpenOffice files. You can also send them as an attachment to your default email editor like Microsoft Outlook. "Requires Outlook or something similar. You can add your own logo.
Nice Looking Invoices
Simple to create. Just like the proposals and all other reports, you can print them, export to PDF for easy emailing or export to Microsoft Word for additional editing.
No Subscriptions. No Monthly or Yearly Fees.
I know this is mentioned throughout the site, but I think it’s worth mentioning again. There is just a one-time purchase for The Paint Estimator that includes up to two licenses. For this one-time purchase you will receive lifetime updates. There’s NO monthly or yearly fees. Almost everything out there these days you either must pay monthly, yearly or you only get the first year of updates included. Not with The Paint Estimator…
Print Time Sheets, Job Details, Work Orders and Change Orders.
Once you start the job, just enter the hours for each employee, this takes only minutes and you can print time sheets for the job. This is good to keep in the customers work folder. Also you can print reports that will show where you stand based on your progress. Create Work Orders for your crew, print change orders for the extra items the customers decided to add.
Your Overhead will be Calculated for You.
Simply enter all your expenses, enter the number of hours you hope or plan to work for the next year. Decide whether you want to give your employees a few perks like paid sick and holidays and the program will break it all down and add the amount to all active workers hourly wage.
Keep Time Stamped Notes on your Employees.
This comes in handy to decide on whether you should give them a raise or let them go. Each time the employee does something good or bad, you can open up their file and make notes.
Production Rate Recorder
Some people just don't have a list of historical production rates. This program comes with a real easy to use live recorder that will make it easy to get rates.
Say you have 2100 sq-ft of stucco to paint. Just write down the starting time, start painting and when you done write down the finish time. Enter these numbers in the rate recorder along with how much materials you used. Click Add Rate and that's it.
Job & Appointment Scheduler
Comes with a real nice calendar to schedule all your jobs, appointments and what ever else you might have going on.
You can sync this calendar with your Google calendar. This is nice as you can set reminders where you will get notifications on your phone while you are out in the field.
Expense Register
Keep track of all job expenses, outside expenses, payroll, overhead and everything else you spend on for your company. Easily see how much is going where, few different charts to see your monthly & Yearly breakdowns, Profit & Loss reports and more.
Monthly Income
See a simple breakdown of your montly income, labor, net profit, overhead and materials purchased.
Closing Rates
See how you are doing with your closing rates. This can be helpful to see if you need to increase your prices. If you are closing just about everything your are bidding on, then it might be a good time to increase your prices.
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