Painting business software for professionals.

Take care of your paperwork in just a few clicks with ToolTime, the job management software for your painting and decorating business.

Automatically create quotes & invoices

Always keep track of your jobs and appointments

Track work progress and hours while on-site

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Painting business software: The finishing touches your business deserves

As a painter, you often spend your time travelling and working on projects that last several days. It’s important to stay organised and on top of your admin so that you can accurately calculate quotes and plan your jobs. Easier said than done! Admin is time-consuming and takes you away from your craft. Plus, the more time you spend on your paperwork, the less time you can spend earning.

ToolTime’s software for professional painters simplifies all admin and completely removes the need for manual work planning, diaries and stacks of paperwork. Our app for web and mobile, has everything you need to manage your business: handle your quotes & invoices, scheduling, project management, finances, customer details and job tracking in one place.

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Features of our painting & decorating software

All of our features are straightforward, useful and designed with UK tradespeople in mind.

ToolTime is clean, effortless, simple and user-friendly.

Ben Tindall

Director of The Spraying Company
ToolTime customer from The Spraying Company

Save time. 
Stay organised.
Impress your customers.

As a painter decorator, you face a number of challenges on the daily grind. Most of the time, you’re juggling job schedules, appointments, projects and material lists the old-fashioned way - by hand. It’s a lot of fuss and can be a recipe for mistakes. Plus, it eats up your precious time.

That’s where ToolTime can help. Create quotes and track your team’s hours in a flash. Need to send out invoices? No problem - our built-in invoicing feature makes it simple. Plus, you can send out all those important documents via email in no time at all. Get organised with ToolTime and get back to what you do best!

Smooth processes From the first brushstroke to the final bill.

Digitise your painting business with the ToolTime software and app. A couple of clicks and you're up and running.
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Scheduling, job sheets and invoicing for professional painters and decorators

Stop putting in extra hours and manage your paperwork with one simple tool! ToolTime makes it quick and easy. Our painting software is specifically designed for tradespeople, helping you dodge the headaches that come from using pen and paper to run your business.

With ToolTime, all your business management and work processes are handled in one secure and easy-to-use platform. With a version for web and mobile, ToolTime brings together all the features you need to handle your admin tasks. Stay organised, look professional and get time back to do what you do best.

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Your working day – with and without ToolTime's painting software

Without ToolTime
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6:30 AM
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Without ToolTime
The team gathers in the office to kick things off. You’ve got to go through today’s jobs with each one of them, sorting out addresses, materials, and everything else they need. It’s time-consuming and tedious.
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All your team members get their appointments, customer details, documents, and work instructions sent straight to their smartphones - no fussing about or waiting around!
10 AM
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Without ToolTime
The phone’s ringing off the hook! One customer wants to book an appointment, another is after a third quote for their new decorating job because of a mix-up with the last one. It’s chaos!
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The phone’s ringing, but you handle new job requests quickly with the right team member for the job. Prepping the quote for a new decorating job takes just a few minutes. As soon as you hang up, it’s off to the customer for review, all thanks to ToolTime.
1 PM
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Without ToolTime
You’re on the phone, reminding the team to log their work. Pictures from the job sites are coming in all over the place via WhatsApp and other messengers. You’ve got to hunt down the signed job sheets and then sort out the receipts later on in the office.
With
Your team’s got it sorted - all their documentation is in one place in ToolTime. Photos and digital signatures from customers fly into the office in seconds, and jobs are ready to be billed straight away.
4 PM
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Without ToolTime
Time to wrestle with an Excel sheet and enter your whole team's working hours. You end up working far longer than you'd like into the evening.
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No more Excel hassles! Everything, including working hours, materials and measurements are already logged and ready to go. Easy!

Additional features of our professional painter software

With ToolTime, you can guarantee that our web and mobile apps have exactly what you need when it comes to running a painting or decorating business.

Client database

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Add new customers with their details and store your existing customer database with ToolTime. Store all the data securely and assign customers to projects and jobs in a tick.

Digital timesheets

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Our painter software's time tracking feature means that you'll be able to see and export a complete summary of your team's time entries. Perfect for easy payroll processes.

Catalogue

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ToolTime's digital catalogue makes life easy when it comes to quote, invoice and job sheet creation. Store all your materials or labour here and easily transfer them to quotes and invoices.

SMS reminders

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Automatically remind your customers about upcoming appointments with our free text reminder feature.

Digital project folders

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Create space and organisation in the office - say goodbye to piles of paperwork! In ToolTime’s digital project folders, you can store all appointments, documents and order information in one place. Your team can easily access the info they need from their phones while on the go.

Job tracking and documenting

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Instead of writing all job details down by hand, store everything you need and track job progress digitally in ToolTime’s mobile app. Record voice notes, take photos and log notes from your smartphone. Get a digital signature from your customer to confirm the job.

Everything logged on-site is immediately visible in the web version of ToolTime. Once you’ve got the signature, ToolTime will generate a professional job sheet in PDF format for you to export or send.

Financial dashboard

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In the dashboard, you can get a clear overview of your turnover for the last few months and your total income. You’ll also be able to see all unpaid invoices and finalised quotes.

Calendar management and scheduling

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Schedule your whole team’s week in a couple of clicks. Requested work can be created as projects and assigned to specific workers.

On to the next job: app users will be able to view their upcoming appointments from their phones meaning no more unnecessary trips to the office!

Stay connected with the whole team from anywhere, any device

Our real-time updates between the job site and the office ensures that your whole team is kept on-track and up-to-date. Every time a change is made it's updated across all devices. This saves you unnecessary phone calls, journeys and doubling up on work.

Plus, all your invoices, accounts, quotes, images and documents are stored securely in one place and accessible from any device. This means that nothing will get lost, even if your smartphone or computer is on the blink.

Our painter's software is compatible with all devices and you can use it on Mac, Windows, Apple and Android.

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Fast and reliable UK customer support

Got some questions about specific features or need help getting started with ToolTime? Speak to our friendly local team via the in-app live chat, on the phone or by email. We respond in minutes and are always happy to help.

In addition we also offer:

A digital help centre with how-to guides

Detailed software walkthroughs

Personalised setup and support

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See why tradespeople love ToolTime's software & app

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"This has been a great decision for my business.
Communication to help me integrate the software to my business has been so helpful.
The software is very flexible in catering to my needs.
It already looks like my best investment to date."

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"The flexibility ToolTime provides is fantastic. It's not set up with one particular trade in mind and is very adaptable. The functionality is great, very easy to use."

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"Our workflow has never been smoother. ToolTime has been a game changer for us. It has enhanced our efficiency and communication and allowed us to maintain our commitment to excellent service."

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"It’s fantastic for me to see what work and payments we have coming in via appointments and invoices, as well as the potential work in the pipeline from quotes."

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"ToolTime is clean and effortless. It's incredibly important to both me and my crew that the tool we use is simple and user-friendly. And ToolTime is just that!"

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"ToolTime makes my business’s workflows smoother and lets me focus more on making sure we’re delivering top quality work to our customers."

FAQs

Which accounting software can you use as a painter?

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ToolTime is specifically designed for tradespeople and it integrates business management with accounting features, helping you manage projects and finances all in one place. With our invoicing feature, you can create invoices and sync them automatically with your favourite accounting tool, like Xero or Quickbooks.

Why should you choose ToolTime painting software?

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ToolTime is specifically built to address the unique challenges faced by professional painters and decorators, complete with useful features and flexible to suit your business. ToolTime’s painting software is very user-friendly and makes your admin tasks simple and quick. If you do have any questions, our friendly customer support team are available to help you in the in-app chat.

Can I test ToolTime's painting software for free?

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Yes, just book a demo with one of our experts. We will show you how you can go digital with your painting business using ToolTime.

Painters! See how it can work for you with a free demo.

Unsure if our painter decorator software and app will be right for your business? Find out with a free, no commitment demo now and we’ll show you how ToolTime can work for you.
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