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Quote and invoice app for painters and decorators in Ireland
Price the job room by room or by the square metre, with prep and coats on lines the customer can read. When they add the hall halfway through, it goes on the job and onto the invoice. Free up to 20 jobs a month.
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Key takeaways
- Each room, surface and coat on its own line, priced per square metre, per item or as a fixed price, with VAT worked out.
- Prep, paint and sundries quoted separately, so the customer sees why cracked plaster costs more than sound walls.
- Extra rooms agreed on site go on the job and carry onto the invoice.
- Exterior jobs booked a day at a time. When it rains, drag the day to the next dry one.
How a painting job runs in Chippie#
Three bedrooms in Cork: measured, quoted, painted, invoiced and paid. The quote shows the prep, and the invoice catches the hall added halfway.
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Measure and itemise
Walls and ceilings by the square metre, doors by the item, prep as its own line, and paint and sundries beside them.
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Send the quote
Niamh opens it from the email and accepts it there, with no account. Acceptance turns it into a job.
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Book the days, add the hall
A visit on the calendar for each day the job needs. When she asks for the hall too, it goes on the job as new lines, with a photo of the wall before you start.
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Invoice from the job
Complete the job and the invoice is ready from its lines, hall included, with your IBAN on it.
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Paid
She taps "I've paid this invoice" on the link, and you confirm it when the money arrives.
Quote #21Job #18Invoice #18
Niamh O'Sullivan
College Road, Cork
Pending quote Accepted Ready In progress Pending Sent Paid
Description
Interior repaint, three bedrooms. Fill cracks, sand and spot-prime the walls, then two coats on 96 square metres of walls and 36 square metres of ceilings. Five doors and frames in satinwood. Furniture moved and covered, floors protected with dust sheets throughout.
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Line items
- Prep, fill, sand and spot-prime walls€476.70
- Walls, 96 square metres, two coats€980.64
- Ceilings, 36 square metres, two coats€408.60
- Doors and frames, 5€340.50
- Paint and sundries€431.30
Total€2,637.74
Synced to Xero
Extra rooms are where painting jobs lose money: the hall agreed at the door on day two is the one missing from the invoice. Putting it on the job the moment it is agreed is what gets it paid.
What Chippie does for painters and decorators#
- Quote by the room or the square metre. Each line has a quantity, a unit and a price, so 96 square metres of walls at two coats, the ceilings, five doors and the paint itself all read as separate lines. Show the customer every line, or only the total.
- Extra rooms on the job, not in your head. Customers add rooms once they see the first one done. Put the extra work on the job as its own lines when it is agreed, and the invoice arrives with everything on it.
- Exteriors that move with the weather. Book each day of an exterior as its own visit on the same job. When the forecast turns, drag the visit and the crew sees the new day.
- Before and after, on the job. Photos of the cracked render, the peeling fascia and the finished wall save against the job with captions, so a row about what was there starts with evidence.
What changes when the paperwork moves to the phone#
| The old way | With Chippie | |
|---|---|---|
| Quoting | A lump sum said at the door | Rooms, surfaces, coats and paint priced line by line |
| Extra rooms | Agreed at the door, forgotten by invoice time | Added to the job and carried onto the invoice |
| Exterior days | A morning of calls every time it rains | The day's visit dragged to the next dry one |
| Proof of condition | Photos lost in the camera roll | Captioned photos saved against the job |
| Invoicing | Typed up at the weekend from the quote | Raised from the job, extra rooms included |
An interior repaint, line by line#
Three bedrooms, walls and ceilings in two coats, with five doors and frames, from a painter registered for VAT at 13.5%. The figures are an example, not a price guide; your rates and your paint supplier decide yours.
| Prep, fill, sand and spot-prime walls | €420.00 |
|---|---|
| Walls, 96 square metres, two coats at €9.00 | €864.00 |
| Ceilings, 36 square metres, two coats at €10.00 | €360.00 |
| Doors and frames, 5 at €60.00 | €300.00 |
| Paint and sundries | €380.00 |
| Subtotal, ex VAT | €2,324.00 |
| VAT at 13.5% | €313.74 |
| Quoted total | €2,637.74 |
Prep on its own line shows the customer why their walls cost more than the neighbour's, and paint on its own line is the one you change when the supplier's price moves before they accept.
Painters and decorators: your questions#
Can I quote painting at 13.5% VAT?
Can I quote painting by the square metre?
How do I handle a customer who adds a room halfway through?
How do customers pay a painting invoice?
Does Chippie handle Irish VAT?
Does Chippie work with Xero?
Does Chippie work with no signal?
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