FeaturesSelf-quoting website

Your website prices the job while you're on a ladder.

A homeowner answers a handful of questions about their rooms and sees a real price range built from your numbers — then books the on-site visit and puts $25 down. No callback, no dead lead.

6 answersTo a priced range
24/7Answers while you work
$25Deposit at booking
abcpainting.com/quote
Here's your price range, SarahReady in 38s

Living room, 2 bedrooms + cabinets · interior

$4,200–$5,600
Most 3-room repaints near you land in this range.
Timeline3–4 days
Earliest visitTue, 9am
Book your on-site visit
$25 deposit · credited to your job
What the homeowner sees
Answer timeUnder 60 seconds
Runs onYour own domain
Job typesInterior · exterior · cabinets
Cost1% when you get paid

Win the work

What the page actually does

Everything between a stranger landing on your site and a booked visit on your calendar.

See it in action

How it runs

  1. 01

    Intake

    Six plain-language questions replace the measure-and-callback loop.

  2. 02

    Pricing engine

    Your rate card, material math and margin resolve to a defensible range.

  3. 03

    Calendar write

    The chosen slot is held against your real availability and buffer days.

  4. 04

    Job record

    Deposit captured, job card opened, deposit credited to the balance.

What you get

  • Room-by-room questionnaire

    Size, coats, finish, condition and trim, asked in plain language a homeowner can answer without a tape measure.

  • Real price range, instantly

    Built from your loaded labor rate, your material math and your target margin — not a national average.

  • Interior, exterior and cabinets

    Separate question sets and separate formulas, because a cabinet job prices nothing like a two-story exterior.

  • Books into open slots

    The customer picks from your real availability, with your buffer days respected. It lands on the crew calendar.

  • $25 deposit at booking

    Credited to the job. It costs almost nothing and it removes almost every no-show.

  • Your brand, end to end

    Your domain, logo, palette and photos. Nothing on the page tells the customer you are using software.

The long version

Most painting leads are lost in the gap between the form submission and the callback. The homeowner filled out three contractors' forms in the same twenty minutes; whoever answers with a number first usually wins. You cannot answer first while you are cutting in a ceiling, so your site answers for you.

The quoting flow lives on your own domain with your logo, your colors and your photos — abcpainting.com/quote, not a portal with someone else's brand on it. It walks the homeowner room by room: what rooms, roughly what size, walls or walls-plus-trim, one coat or two, existing condition, cabinets or not. Each answer feeds the pricing engine you configured, and the range that comes out is one you would have quoted yourself.

The range is deliberately a range, not a hard number. It ends in the same place every good job ends — with you standing in the room. What changes is that by the time you get there, the customer has already seen a price they are comfortable with, chosen a visit slot from your real calendar, and paid a deposit that is credited to their job. Tire-kickers screen themselves out before they cost you a Saturday.

In practice

One overnight lead, hour by hour

Blue rows are automatic. Only two rows need you — both after the job is booked.

Timeline

● You● PainterOS

10:52pSarah finds your site, answers six questions
10:54pRange shown: $4,200–$5,600, timeline 3–4 days
10:56pTuesday 9am visit booked, $25 deposit taken
10:56pJob card created, deposit credited
6:40aYou read one line: visit booked for Tuesday
Tue 9:00aYou walk the rooms and confirm the number

Time from first click to a booked visit

1–3 days

Doing it by hand

4 minutes

With PainterOS

Answered while you are on a ladder

The competitor who calls back Thursday is quoting a job that is already sold.

Illustration of how the software works, not a promise of results.

Get started

Your side of the same moment

You read one line, not a thread.

One line to read with coffee: the range went out, the visit is on the calendar, the deposit cleared. Nothing was waiting for you.

Walk the whole job · 2 min
9:41
Today6:40a
1 new booking overnight
Sarah MillerInterior · 3 rooms + cabinets
Range shown$4,200–$5,600
Visit bookedTue 9:00a
Deposit taken$25 credited
Confirm on siteNeeds youYou
You read one line. The night did the rest.
Your phone, 6:40am

Honest scope

What it will and won't do

What the software handles, and what still needs you in the room.

It does

Residential repaints — interior, exterior, cabinets
Price ranges you can stand behind without seeing the room
Booking, deposits and reminders with no human in the loop
Working in any phone browser, with no app for the customer to install

It doesn't

Replacing the on-site visit — the final number is still yours
Quoting commercial specs, bid packages or prevailing-wage work
Estimating from a photo or a lidar scan
Guessing at lead paint, rot or substrate repair sight unseen

Questions

Self-quoting website, answered plainly.

What painters actually ask on the first call.

Will an instant price undercut me?

Only if you configure it to. The range is generated from your loaded labor rate, your material math and the margin you set — the same numbers you would use at the kitchen table. Most owners find the opposite happens: the range anchors higher than the number they used to blurt out on the phone, because the software never discounts to fill a slow week.

Do customers trust a price from a website?

They trust a range with reasoning behind it more than a callback three days later. The page shows what the range covers, what the timeline is, and that the on-site visit confirms it. In practice a fast, specific range is the single strongest trust signal a small shop can send.

Can I turn instant pricing off for certain jobs?

Yes. You can route job types that never price well from a form — historic exteriors, fire restoration, anything over a size threshold you set — to a contact step instead of a number, so those leads still reach you but never get a price you would not honor.

Does it work on my existing website?

Yes. You can run the quoting flow as a page on your current site, or use the hosted site we set up on your domain. Either way it is your brand and your domain in the address bar.

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No monthly fee

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