Book the job, brush aside the admin
Send quotes, confirm with a deposit and invoice on completion, so you spend your time on the walls not the paperwork.
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Quote the room, confirm the date
Capture enquiries, send a clear quote and lock in the date with a deposit. Schedule the job, keep the customer updated and invoice the balance when the last coat is dry.
No commission on new customers. No per job charges.
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Paint bought, deposit taken
Twenty litres of a mixed colour is spent money the moment it is tinted. Take a deposit that covers materials, quote the preparation separately and invoice room by room on a long job.
Overdue invoices chase themselves.
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Rooms get redecorated
Decorating comes round again, and the decorator the customer already trusts gets the call. Keep the colours and finishes you used so the touch-up in two years is an easy yes rather than a colour-matching exercise.
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Running a painters and decorators business
Decorating is judged entirely on a finish and priced almost entirely on preparation, and the customer can only see one of those two things. That mismatch is where every awkward conversation in the trade begins.
The wall sets the price, not the room
Two identical bedrooms can be a day apart. One has sound plaster and takes a mist coat and two of emulsion. The other carries forty years of vinyl paper, three filled cracks, a bad patch behind a radiator and a ceiling somebody has already had a go at with a roller.
A flat room rate flattens that difference and the bad rooms end up paid for by the good ones. Survey the surface and put the making good on the quote as a line the customer can read, because preparation that appears in writing stops being assumed to be free.
It is also the only defence when a wall turns out worse than it looked. A written allowance for making good turns extra hours into an agreed variation rather than a conversation on a Friday afternoon.
What has to be settled before a tin is opened
- Whether the house is occupied, and who is moving the furniture
- Colour, brand, finish and sheen, room by room, chosen rather than discussed
- Who is supplying the materials, which changes the number substantially either way
- How many coats are included, and what happens if the colour will not cover in that many
- Filling, stripping and making good, priced as their own line
- Access and equipment for stairwells, landings and anything above a stepladder
- For exterior work, what happens to the week if it rains for four days of it
A decorating job by the day it is on
| Day | What is actually happening | What the customer sees |
|---|---|---|
| Day one | Stripping, masking, filling and sanding | Nothing has been painted |
| Day two | More filling, caulking, mist coat on new plaster | Nothing has been painted |
| Day three | Ceilings and first coats | It looks patchy and worse than before you came |
| Day four | Second coats, woodwork and cutting in | It suddenly looks finished |
Three quarters of the labour happens before anything looks any different. Saying so on the morning of day one costs a sentence and saves the whole conversation on day two.
Bill as the rooms close
A three week job invoiced at the end is three weeks of wages, paint and travel funded out of your own account. Nobody in this trade set out to lend money and a great many people in it are doing exactly that.
Invoice as each room completes. Customers almost never object, because the thing they are paying for is standing finished in front of them, and it turns one uncomfortable request at the end into three straightforward ones along the way.
Take enough at the start to cover the paint. Twenty litres tinted to a specific colour is spent money the second the mixing machine stops, and no merchant is taking it back.
What should be on file for every house you paint
- The colour, the brand, the code and the sheen, room by room
- How many coats went on and what they went over, because a dark red under a pale grey is next year's problem
- Which surfaces were oil based and which were water based, which nobody alive remembers five years later
- What the walls were like underneath, with photographs of anything genuinely bad
- Who chose the colour, since touch ups are always requested by whoever hated it
- The date it was done, because a rented hallway comes round again and the landlord uses whoever rings first
One platform, every tool you need
The essentials sit together: bookings, payments, records, reminders and follow-up. No patchwork of apps, no per-client tax.
- 01Enquiry and lead pipeline
- 02Branded online quotes
- 03Deposits and card payments
- 04Job scheduling
- 05Balance invoicing
- 06Automated reminders
Enquiry and lead pipeline
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Branded online quotes
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Deposits and card payments
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Job scheduling
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Balance invoicing
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Automated reminders
Built in and ready on every plan, so this workflow lives with the rest of your business.
Included on every plan. No add ons, no client limits, no setup fees.
- Runs from the same dashboard
- Included without add-ons
- Connected to customer history
Simple pricing. Fast setup.
No new-client fees, a 30 day trial and one clear card rate when customers pay online.
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Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
Yes. Send a branded quote from your phone and let customers approve it online.