Can you separate residential and commercial work?

Yes. Each gets its own income and cost lines, so your monthly numbers show the margin on each side of the business.

How do you handle customer deposits?

We record deposits as a liability when they come in and move them to income when the job is done, so your monthly profit reflects finished work.

We use subcontract painters. Will you handle their 1099s?

We track contractor payments all year, so the totals for their 1099s are ready in January. Ask about 1099 filing on your profit call.

Can you help us plan for winter?

Yes. Your specialist plans cash with you before the weather turns, using revenue by season from your own books, so you know what to set aside in September.

Painting books and coaching

Keep more of every square foot.

Crew hours and paint make the margin, and the weather makes the year. We do the books, taxes and payroll and coach you on all of it.

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Cost of goods

Painting

Take these out of revenue and what's left is your gross margin.

Paint and coatings
Supplies and sundries
Field labor
Subcontract painters
Lift and equipment rental

Free · 30 minutes

Book your profit call

Thirty minutes on how the business runs. You'll leave knowing what your books need and what it costs.

On the call, we'll cover:

How the business runs today: trucks, crews, software
What your numbers are telling you, and what they aren't
Which plan fits, with the price before you decide

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The problem

Crew hours make or break the bid.

A bid that runs two days long and a wet October hit the same account, and the bank balance shows both of them last.

Jobs that run long
When a 3-day job takes 5, the extra 2 days come out of your pocket.
Paint store accounts with no job attached
A charge account makes it easy to buy and hard to see where the paint went.
Deposits and slow winters
A deposit isn't income until the work is done, and exterior work stops when the weather turns.
W-2 crews and 1099 painters
Plenty of shops use both, and a misclassified painter is an expensive thing to find in an audit.

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The big questions

Did that job run long?
Where's all the paint going?
Will cash last till spring?
Should I hire for next season?
Are we priced right per foot?

Coaching

We look at crew hours before the paint.

Your specialist compares crew hours with the estimate on every job, so the next bid covers the hours the work takes.

Pricing: Your price per square foot, checked against the hours jobs take.
Labor: Crew hours by job and by painter, so you see who runs long.
Materials: Paint and sundries tied to the jobs that used them.
Marketing: Where your best repaint customers come from, and what each lead cost.
Overhead: Vans, insurance and estimating software, compared with other painting companies.

Software we work in: Jobber · Housecall Pro · QuickBooks Online · Gusto

Numbers to watch

Painting

Gross margin by job: Shows which jobs and customers to chase.
Labor as a share of revenue: The first number to slip when estimates run long.
Customer deposits held: Cash you've received for work not done yet.
Revenue by season: Plans hiring and cash around the weather.

How it starts

3 steps to more profit per crew.

30 minutes · Free
Book a profit call
Tell us how the business runs and what you want to know. You'll leave knowing what your books need and what it costs.
About 2 weeks
We clean up and connect
We catch up your books and connect your bank, payroll, field software and marketing numbers. Your six-week course starts in your inbox.
Ongoing
Get your coaching
Your specialist walks you through the numbers and tells you what to change. Your first action plan lands inside 30 days.