Invoicing for painters
The work is easy to describe and hard to price on paper: the customer sees paint, you see two days of filling and sanding before any of it goes on. An invoice that shows the prep is an invoice that does not get argued with.
The work is easy to describe and hard to price on paper: the customer sees paint, you see two days of filling and sanding before any of it goes on. An invoice that shows the prep is an invoice that does not get argued with.
These go in your price book once, with your own prices against them. After that a line is one tap: the item, the description, the unit and the price fill themselves, and the totals resolve underneath.
| Line | Unit |
|---|---|
| Decorating day rate | days |
| Preparation: fill, sand and caulk | room |
| Undercoat and primer | room |
| Topcoat, two coats | room |
| Paint and materials | job |
| Wallpaper, hang | roll |
Prices are yours. Invoice Koi ships a handful of round placeholder lines to start from and never fills your book with figures you did not set.
Give preparation a heading and a subtotal of its own. The two days before any paint went on stop being invisible.
Each price-book line keeps its own unit, so a room rate, a day rate and a per-roll rate all sit in the same book and go on the same invoice.
Photograph it as you leave. Merchant, amount, tax and category are read off it, and the picture is kept against the job either way.
Yes. A price-book line can carry any unit you like, including "room". Keep a room rate and a day rate and use whichever the job wants.
Group the lines under your own headings with subtotals. Preparation reads as its own figure rather than disappearing into the total.
Yes. Your logo, your accent color and any of the nine templates, all free. The preview you see is the PDF the customer gets.
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