Quoting Software for Painters & Decorators

Quoting is the moment a potential customer decides whether to trust you with their home or business. A clear, professional, accurate quote wins the work. A slow, vague or handwritten quote loses it to the decorator who looks more organised.

Trade Assist is quoting software built specifically for UK painters and decorators. It understands rooms, surfaces, paint coverage and labour — not generic line items — so you can produce a professional, branded quote in minutes, on site, from your phone.

Create Professional Decorating Quotes in Minutes

Add each room with its dimensions, choose the surface type and condition, set the number of coats, and Trade Assist calculates wall and ceiling areas, paint quantities and labour costs automatically. You stay in control of the price; the software does the maths.

Use simple mode for a quick room-and-price quote, or switch to advanced mode for full paint and labour calculations. Save your default rates and coverage figures so every quote is priced consistently.

Paint and Material Calculations Built In

Working out how much paint you need by hand is slow and easy to get wrong. Trade Assist calculates litres required from the room area, your paint coverage rate and the number of coats, then costs it from your price per litre.

Add fillers, primers, masking tape and rollers with quantities and unit prices. Everything is totalled automatically, so your material costs are accurate and your profit margin is protected.

Branded Proposals That Win Work

Every quote becomes a branded PDF proposal with your logo, business details, scope of work and room-by-room breakdown. Choose from clean, premium, commercial or simple templates to suit the job and the client.

A professional proposal builds trust before you ever pick up a brush. Clients see a decorator who runs their business properly — and that confidence wins the job.

Online Client Approvals and Follow-Up

Send quotes via a shareable online portal. Your client views the full proposal in their browser and approves with one click. You are notified the moment they view or accept, so you can follow up at exactly the right moment.

Track every quote through Draft, Sent, Viewed, Accepted and Invoiced, so no quote slips through the cracks and no follow-up is forgotten.

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