
Customers book the quoting call themselves, and the redecoration goes out as three levels of prep for them to choose between.
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Share your link and they take a slot with the address and the rooms attached, so the first you hear of a three-storey return is not on the doorstep.
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Work that runs all week sits on the timeline as a single block, so nothing is sold into the days you are still filling and sanding.
Learn moreEvery repaint starts with somebody standing in the room, so the only thing your page sells outright is the visit: its own price, its own length, and the address and the room count attached before the ladders come off the rack.
Sent, opened, signed, on one list with the date beside each. So Friday's follow-up goes to the customer who read it twice on Tuesday, rather than to the eight who never opened it at all.
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The quoting call is its own service at its own price and length, so it takes a real gap in the week rather than an evening on the phone.
The job nobody prices over the phone: a site visit first, then options that separate the filling and the caulking from the coats.
A week of diary held as one job, quoted with the washing down, the repairs and the two coats itemised so the prep is not a surprise.
Slow, fiddly work priced by the window rather than by the room, and only offered to the painters who take it on.
Stripping written on its own line beside the hanging, since paper that has been on a wall since the eighties is what eats the day.
The small stuff carries a set price rather than a quote, so a stained ceiling books itself and stays a half-day.
Spraying booked as its own service with the masking-up time included, and only offered to the painters who actually spray.
A same-week repaint the agent books off your page, kept on that property so the next tenancy starts from the last shade.
Evening and weekend work booked around residents, quoted with the coats and the making good listed line by line.
A company with a book of blocks sits on one customer record, every address and its history kept separate from the others.
Put all three on one quote with your recommendation marked, and let them decide how much preparation they are paying for.
Each option itemised down to the washing down, the filling, the caulking and the number of coats, so the step up from a freshen-up to a strip-back is a number they can see.
They choose a level of prep and sign while the visit is still fresh, rather than ringing a fortnight later to ask what the middle one covered.
The signed quote becomes a job in the diary against that address, at the option they picked and for as long as you said it would take.
Put a use-by date on the price, so materials costed in spring cannot be held to that number once the merchant has moved on it.
With no dates left on your page, the customer asks for one rather than ringing the next painter on the list.
The rooms they want done and the weeks that suit them arrive in your inbox, in the same thread as everything else that customer has ever sent.
Accepting puts it in the diary and emails the confirmation. Declining is a tap as well, and they hear back without you drafting anything.
You can always drop it into a week you know is coming. The request is a way in, not a rule about your calendar.
Photos of the hallway attached. Happy to wait for a week that suits you — how far ahead are you booking at the moment?
Draw the areas you cover on a map, split them between your painters, and work you would turn down never reaches your week.
Claim areas off actual boundary lines, or take everything within a distance of a point in one go. An address is matched to the area it genuinely falls inside.
Hold as many named areas as you work, each with its own colour and its own painters, and a job is only offered to someone who covers that patch.
Keep the single rooms near home and let the full exteriors run wider, by leaving a service out of the areas you would not load the van for.
The shade, the sheen and the product that went on those walls, kept against the property rather than in your head — and against each property separately, so a manager with a book of buildings is one customer and not nine. When they ring three years later about matching the hallway, you are reading it back rather than guessing at it.
Pick the job up and put it where the forecast allows. Nothing commits until you let go, and it costs nothing to do.
Move a job to another day or another painter and the week redraws around it. This is not the part you pay for.
Turn the reschedule notice on and the new date is emailed over. Off by default, since not every move is worth a message.
A day that has gone is gone, on your page and in the diary, so a quoting call never lands in the middle of glossing a stairs.
Mark it off when the transfer clears, or take the card on the last day and let the receipt see itself out.
Record what you were paid and when, against the job, on the Free plan. Most of this trade is paid by transfer and never wanted a card reader.
Charge in full, tap the card on site, or split a whole-house redecoration into money at the start and the balance at handover.
The customer is emailed one the moment payment clears, so the management company has its paperwork without you chasing it.
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Yes. The quoting call is its own service on your booking page at its own price and length, and they take a slot you are genuinely free for, with the address attached.
Yes. Itemise the washing down, the filling, the caulking and the coats, then set the freshen-up beside the full strip and repaint on one quote with your pick marked.
As a quote off a site visit, never off a phone call. Put the washing down, the repairs and the coats on their own lines, so a customer comparing two prices can see which of you costed the prep.
Give the service its true length. Five days on the outside of a house holds five days of the diary rather than a Monday morning, so nothing else is sold over it.
Yes. One customer record holds any number of addresses with their own notes and history, so the shade used on one block stays recorded against that block.
Record cash or a bank transfer against the job on the Free plan, which is how most decorating is still settled. Card payments come with Pro, paid out to your own Stripe account.
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