FeaturesReviews and referrals

Finished work becomes the next lead.

The review request goes out at the one moment it works — right after the balance clears and the customer is standing in a room they love. Then the referral prompt follows.

One askThen silence
MinutesAfter the balance clears
AutoSent when payment clears
9:41
SMSarah Miller
Today 4:26 PM
Payment received · $4,180.00
Thanks Sarah — it was a pleasure. If the rooms turned out how you hoped, a quick Google review helps a small shop like ours more than anything.
G
Review ABC Paintingg.page/abcpainting
Sent automatically 6 minutes after payment
Just left one — five stars. The cabinets are perfect.
Referral prompt queued for next week
Text Message
Sent the moment the balance clears
TimingOn payment, not a schedule
DestinationYour Google profile
Referral promptTo happy customers only
TrackedPer job and per crew

Get paid

What happens after the last coat

The part of the job that generates the next job, running without you.

See it in action

How it runs

  1. 01

    Trigger

    A cleared balance — the highest-goodwill moment — starts the ask.

  2. 02

    Ask

    One text from your number with a direct link to your Google profile.

  3. 03

    Referral loop

    Happy customers get something to forward to their neighbor.

  4. 04

    Ledger

    Reviews and referral sources file back onto the customer card.

What you get

  • Review request on payment

    Fires minutes after the balance clears, when goodwill is at its absolute peak and the rooms still smell like fresh paint.

  • Straight to your Google profile

    One tap to the place reviews actually matter for local search. No intermediate form to abandon.

  • Referral prompts, targeted

    Sent a week later, only to customers who responded well — the people most likely to have a neighbor asking.

  • Reputation per job

    See which crews, job types and neighborhoods generate reviews, and which quietly do not.

  • One ask, not a campaign

    A single request and a single nudge. Nobody gets hounded for a favor.

  • Photos worth sharing

    Crew before-and-after photos stay on the card, ready to become the next post or portfolio page.

The long version

Reviews are the cheapest lead source a painting business has and the one small shops neglect most, for an entirely understandable reason: asking feels like begging, and the moment when asking works — the hour the job finishes — is the exact moment you are packing a truck.

PainterOS asks for you, and it asks at the right time. When the final payment clears, a short, human message goes out thanking them and linking straight to your Google profile. No form, no login, no three-step funnel. Because it fires on payment rather than on a schedule, it only ever reaches customers who were satisfied enough to pay you.

Referrals work the same way, one step later. A customer who left a five-star review a week ago is the most likely person on earth to send you their neighbor, so that is who gets the referral prompt — with something concrete to forward. Reputation is tracked per job, so you can see which crews, which job types and which neighborhoods actually generate the reviews that bring work back.

In practice

The week after a job closes

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

Timeline

● You● PainterOS

Day 0 · 4:20pFinal payment clears on the driveway
Day 0 · 4:26pReview request sent with a direct Google link
Day 0 · 8:11pFive-star review posted
Day 3Review shows on your job card and reputation view
Day 7Referral prompt sent to a demonstrably happy customer
Day 12Neighbor prices their hallway on your website

Reviews per 10 completed jobs

1–2

Doing it by hand

6–7

With PainterOS

Asked at the one moment it lands

Asking at the right minute beats asking twice at the wrong one.

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

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Your side of the same moment

You read one line, not a thread.

The ask went out at the right hour, the review landed on your profile, and the referral credit is already attached to the next job.

Walk the whole job · 2 min
9:41
ReputationThis month
New reviews7
Referral leads3
Miller5★ — 'crew was spotless'
HillAsk sent, 2 days agoAuto
AndersonReferred a neighbor
You asked no one. It asked everyone, once.
Your phone, end of month

Honest scope

What it will and won't do

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

It does

Asking every paying customer, once, at the best possible moment
Sending them straight to your Google profile
Referral prompts aimed at customers who already responded well
Per-job and per-crew reputation reporting

It doesn't

Filtering or gating negative reviews — that violates platform rules
Buying, incentivizing or writing reviews for you
Removing a bad review from Google
Managing paid advertising or social campaigns

Questions

Reviews and referrals, answered plainly.

What painters actually ask on the first call.

Does it screen out unhappy customers first?

No, and it should not — review gating violates Google's policies and can get your profile penalized. What it does is time the ask to right after a customer paid you willingly, which naturally skews toward people who were happy.

What if someone leaves a bad review?

It lands on the job card with the job's full history attached — messages, photos, change orders — so you can respond publicly with facts instead of memory. We cannot remove reviews and neither can anyone who says they can.

Can I change the wording?

Yes. The default text is deliberately short and plain, but you write your own at setup. It goes out from your number, so it should sound like you.

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