Kitchen cabinet painting at £650Your services, priced and timed
Interior painting (per room), wallpapering (per room) and kitchen cabinet painting each carry a price, a length and a category, ready to book online.
Painter and decorator booking software: 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.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p on standard UK cards, only when you take a card payment.
What painters and decorators see in Youzse
Real screens from Precision Decorating, our demo decorating firm, with the numbers it shows today.
Kitchen cabinet painting at £650
Replied to from the appReviews that name the work
Every review names who it was with and what was booked, this one for interior painting (per room). Reply from the same screen.
£480, 55 days overdueKnow who to chase first
Overdue invoices line up by what is owed, £858 across 2 clients here, with how late each one is.
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.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
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.
2.5% plus 35p on standard UK cards, with the platform fee inside it.
Rooms get redecorated
Decorating comes round again. 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.
Unlimited customers on every plan.
Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.
Running a painting and decorating business
Decorating is judged entirely on a finish and priced almost entirely on preparation. 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. 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. 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
Built for painters and decorators
Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.
Enquiry form and inbox
Customers send room details and photos through your enquiry form, all in one inbox.
Branded online quotes
Quote by room with materials and labour and the customer accepts it online.
Deposits and card payments
A deposit by payment link to secure the start date and card payment when the job is signed off.
Job scheduling
Plan each job into the week and move it by dragging when the weather or drying times change.
Balance invoicing
Convert the quote to the invoice and let the payment reminders do the chasing.
Automated reminders
Customers are reminded before you arrive, so furniture is moved and rooms are clear.
Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
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Yes. Send a branded quote from your phone and let customers approve it online.
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