Coat to Close is a complete operating system for painting contractors: estimating, sales, crew scheduling, invoicing, marketing, reviews, and a branded field app in one system.
$399/month flat. Unlimited users.
A spreadsheet for estimates. A generic CRM for leads. A calendar app for the crews. QuickBooks for the money. And your own memory for the follow-up.
So leads slip. Estimates go cold in the gap after the site visit, the exact place most jobs are lost. Crews show up at the wrong address. Reviews never get asked for. Every one of those tools charges you per seat, so the bill goes up every time you hire.
Leading painting-contractor platforms charge per seat, per user, or per technician.
What a 5-person crew pays on PaintScout for estimating alone.
Most software sells you a slice of the operation. Coat to Close gives you the whole platform and the painting-specific engineering built on top of it, deployed as one system, tuned to your shop.
Lead capture, room-by-room estimating, a 14-stage painting pipeline, crew scheduling, job-cost math, review automation, and an installable branded app, engineered specifically for how a painting company actually works.
A business phone system, 2-way texting, email marketing, a unified inbox across every channel, social media management for 10 platforms, funnels and websites, invoicing with text-to-pay and e-signature, reputation management, and full marketing automation. Included. Not add-ons.
One system replaces the phone provider, the CRM, the email tool, the social scheduler, the estimating software, the scheduling app, and the review tool.
Every competitor either has painting math or has everything else. This has both. Start here.
Prices walls, ceilings, trim, and doors against your own rate card. Accurate estimates in minutes; it replaces the spreadsheet entirely.
Exterior grouped by elevation. Cabinet doors and drawer faces priced separately. All of it rolls into a single quote, one outlook, one send.
Books labor as whole painter-days, computes material, overhead, and profit, and pushes the full job-cost outlook onto the deal the moment you hit send. You see profitability before you win the job, not after.
Change category rates, fees, day rate, or the paint catalog yourself in 30 seconds. Every change versions; estimates you already sent keep their original pricing.
Upgrades auto-price at cost with a transparency pill and a per-job opt-out. 19 interior and 11 exterior paints seeded.
Load the drawing, calibrate scale, trace wall runs, convert to paintable area. Commercial bids measured off the plans, inside the same app.
A professional quote view for the client and a spreadsheet record for the shop.
Eleven systems, one deployment. All of it live today.
Business phone with IVR and call routing · call recording and AI transcription · 2-way SMS/MMS · unified inbox across SMS, email, calls, Messenger, Instagram DM, Google Business, WhatsApp · email marketing · social planner for 10 platforms · funnel and website builder · forms and surveys · online booking calendars · full CRM with smart lists and custom fields · visual pipelines · workflow automation · invoicing and estimates · text-to-pay · documents, contracts and e-signature · reputation management across 50+ platforms · reporting and attribution dashboards · memberships, courses and communities · iOS/Android mobile app.
The entire platform and the full painting build, one price, no per-seat fees. A five-painter shop pays exactly what a one-painter shop pays. Hire your whole crew onto it and the price doesn't move.
Optional: AI field assistant, available as a separate add-on as you scale.
Coat to Close lands at the market median for a five-person crew, and it's the only product in that band that doesn't get more expensive when you grow.
Estimates the job. Coat to Close runs the company that wins it. Their estimator is genuinely good, and it stops at the estimate. No phone system, no marketing, no reputation layer, priced per seat.
Mature field-service platforms with generic quoting. Neither does painting-specific room-and-elevation math, and both re-price as you hire.
The same platform underneath at a lower entry price, and it's empty. Every workflow, the estimator, the crew calendar, the app: months of build. Coat to Close is that build, already engineered and QC'd.
| Capability | Coat to Close | PaintScout | Jobber | Housecall Pro | DIY enterprise SaaS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Painting-specific estimating | Native | Native | None | Generic | None |
| CRM & sales pipeline | Native | Add-on | Native | Native | Native |
| Crew scheduling | Native | Add-on | Native | Native | Add-on |
| Invoicing, payments, e-sign | Native | Add-on | Native | Native | Native |
| Marketing automation & social | Native | None | Add-on | Native | Native |
| Reputation / reviews | Native | None | Native | Native | Native |
| Native phone / IVR | Native | None | None | Add-on | Native |
| Branded mobile app | Native | None | Native | Native | Add-on |
| QuickBooks 2-way sync | Native | Add-on | Native | Native | Add-on |
| Unlimited users, flat price | Native | None | None | None | Native |
Our customers use Coat to Close every day to run their business, manage expectations, and make sure nothing is missed. J&B Precision Painting is one of them.
40+ automated workflows running behind the scenes, from lead intake to review requests.
A custom room-and-elevation estimator, plus commercial PDF takeoff, built for how they actually bid jobs.
A crew calendar they own outright, with no third-party scheduling subscription.
Native QuickBooks and Stripe, so invoices and payments sync without re-keying.
A branded field app, installed and used daily by the crew.
We'd rather tell you than let you find out.
You own the deployment, a snapshot customized to your shop. You're not a tenant on somebody else's app.
Nothing. $399 is flat and users are unlimited. That's the entire pricing model.
No, it syncs to it, natively and two-way. Invoices and updates flow through without re-keying.
No. All three are in the platform underneath, included.
Yes. Commercial has its own pipeline, its own site-visit flow, automated bid → submitted → awarded stage moves, and a PDF takeoff tool for measuring off drawings.
$399/month, flat, unlimited users, the whole painting operation in one system.