Prep work doesn’t show. The price still has to cover it.
A freshly painted room looks simple, but before the first coat there was patching, taping every edge, caulking the trim, and sometimes a full coat of primer over bare drywall. Quote by the hour and the customer watches the clock run during the part of the job that looks like nothing is happening. A flat price takes the stopwatch out of the room — the number is set before you open a can, so working carefully doesn’t cost the customer extra.
Painters who go looking for flat-rate software mostly find tools built for a multi-crew shop, not a solo operator. ServiceTitan’s price book sits behind a sales demo and lands around $245+ per technician per month. Profit Rhino runs $39–59 per tech monthly on paper, then adds a separate $1,499 “Success Coaching & Implementation” package on its Pro tier. Neither is built to be opened by one painter pricing one job. QuoteIron is.
ServiceTitan price book · servicetitan.com/features/pro/pricebook · Profit Rhino pricing as of July 2026 · profitrhino.com/pricing/smartprice
QuoteIron’s 50 painting templates don’t hand you a “market price” for a bedroom repaint and ask you to trust it. Each one carries a typical labor-hour range and a mid-grade materials cost, structure only. Your rate and markup do the actual pricing, and you can override any single row without touching the rest of the book.
The book, one row at a time.
This is what a flat-rate price book for painters actually looks like — a row per job, typical hours, what’s included, and a price. These nine come straight from the QuoteIron painting catalog.
These prices are examples. Every row below is priced at a sample rate of $95/hr labor + 30% materials markup, rounded to $5 — the book-builder’s defaults, not market rates. In the builder you set your own three numbers and every row reprices in one second. Some folks call it painting flat rate pricing; others want a painter price list template. Same thing — a book of firm prices, built off your own numbers, that you own outright.
| Job (what a book row looks like) | Typical hours | Parts (mid-grade) | Example price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painting estimate & color consultWalk the job, measure the surfaces, and talk through colors and sheens; written quote follows. | 1 h | $0 | $95 |
| Paint interior door & framePrep, prime as needed, and paint one door slab, jamb, and casing. | 1.5 h | $25 | $175 |
| Patch & prime wall repairs before paintFill dings, nail pops, and small holes, then spot-prime so the finish coat lies flat. | 2 h | $20 | $220 |
| Repaint bedroom walls, up to 12x12Two coats on the walls of a standard bedroom, including patching, cutting in, and cleanup. | 5 h | $85 | $590 |
| Stain & seal wood deck, up to 200 sq ftClean, sand rough spots, and apply two coats of semi-transparent stain to a small deck. | 6 h | $75 | $670 |
| Paint one exterior siding elevationWash, scrape, prime bare spots, and roll two coats on one side of the house. | 6 h | $120 | $730 |
| Scrape popcorn ceiling & repaint, one roomScrape off popcorn texture, skim it smooth, and paint a flat ceiling in one room. | 8 h | $70 | $855 |
| Epoxy-coat garage floor, single bayEtch, patch, and roll a two-part epoxy coating with flakes on a one-car garage floor. | 8 h | $190 | $1,010 |
| Refinish kitchen cabinets, doors & framesClean, sand, prime, and finish standard kitchen cabinet doors and face frames in two coats of cabinet enamel; hardware removed and reset. | 20 h | $260 | $2,240 |
Templates carry structure — typical hours and mid-grade parts cost. Your rate and markup do the pricing; every number is editable in the builder and the app.
Three numbers.
Your whole book prices itself.
Pick the trade
Open the builder and tap Painting. You get real residential painting jobs — bedroom and living-room repaints, cabinet refinishing, exterior siding and trim, deck staining, popcorn-ceiling removal — the jobs you quote every week.
Set three numbers
Your labor rate, your materials markup, your rounding. The sample reprices in one second. The example rows here use $95/hr and 30% — swap in yours and watch every price change.
Print it or quote it
Print the sample as a paper book for the truck, or open the QuoteIron app to quote a live painting job in about 90 seconds — then turn the quote into an invoice with one tap.
Not your trade? Pick it.
Every trade below has its own flat-rate book in QuoteIron — real residential jobs, priced from your numbers. There’s also the multi-trade book builder and the main QuoteIron page.
Fair questions.
Can I edit every price?
Yes — every number. The 50 painting templates carry structure only: typical hours and mid-grade materials cost. Your rate and markup do the pricing, and you can override any single row. QuoteIron never ships “market prices” it can’t stand behind.
Does it work offline?
The book-builder runs right in your browser. The full QuoteIron app installs to your phone’s home screen and works with no signal at all — vacant flips with the power off, new-construction sites with no service yet. It’s an app that lives on your phone, not a website that dies with the bars.
What does it cost after the free sample?
The sample book is free, no signup. The full app — the whole 50-job book, editing, 90-second quoting, invoices, e-signatures, and follow-ups — is $14 a month flat, or $140 a year. Fourteen-day trial, no card up front, and you cancel online in one click.
What about a whole-house exterior repaint or new construction?
Those are custom, and QuoteIron treats them that way. Add your own line and price the big jobs your way. The book handles the repeat work — the bedroom repaint, the cabinet refinish, the trim — quoted in about 90 seconds so the whole-house jobs get your full attention.
Do I have to build the whole book myself before I can start quoting?
No. Choosing Painting during onboarding seeds your book with the full 50 painting templates already in it. Set your labor rate, materials markup, and rounding once, and every row prices itself — you add custom lines only for the jobs that don’t fit a template.
Does the book handle lead-safe practices or HOA color approval?
No. Lead-safe (RRP) work practices on pre-1978 homes, and any HOA or historic-district color approval, stay yours to handle, same as always. The book prices labor and materials structure for the paint job — it doesn’t do the compliance work.
Your book. Your prices.
Built in about a minute.
Start free — pick the trade, punch in three numbers, and watch the book price itself. No signup for the sample; the full 50-job book, editing, and 90-second quoting live in the $14/mo app.
Want the method behind these painting numbers? Read how to build a flat-rate price book →
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