PaintClarity turns your WordPress site into the back office for your painting business. (PaintClarity was formerly known as PaintOps. Same plugin, same team, same data.) Build professional quotes, send them to customers who can view, e-sign, and pay a deposit online, schedule crews on a calendar, track every job from lead to invoice, and, on Pro, see your real profit per job, per crew, and per worker.
It was built by a painter, for painters. The quote builder understands painting scope: interior/exterior components, standard inclusions and exclusions, and the disclaimer language that keeps you out of disputes. Your data lives in your own WordPress database, not locked inside someone else's SaaS.
Quote to invoice, start to finish
- Quotes, estimates & bids: a scope-aware builder with reusable inclusions/exclusions, itemized or lump-sum pricing, printable output, and email delivery.
- A professional customer page: your customer opens a clean, branded page (your logo, your terms & conditions) and accepts by typing their name, an e-signature-grade record with timestamp. They can also decline with a reason, or ask a question, and you're notified either way.
- Acceptance converts the quote to a job automatically, whether they paid a deposit online or you shook hands, and a "Mark as Won" button covers the phone call.
- Invoices: numbered invoices for the balance (full or partial), emailed or shared by link, payable online (Pro + Stripe) or marked paid for check/cash, with the payment logged so balances always agree.
- Receivables at a glance: unpaid invoices surface on your dashboard with amounts and age.
Running the work
- Scheduling calendar with crew filtering, worker badges, time-off, and a subscribe link for Google/Apple/Outlook. Add your own recurring holiday labels.
- Crews: group your painters into named, colored crews; staff a job with one tap and filter the calendar and reports by crew.
- Job board / pipeline: Quote → Active → Completed, plus a lost-leads drawer with the customer's decline reason so you can revive the ones worth re-working.
- A real app for your painters: install-to-home-screen (PWA), a "My Jobs" home, one-tap directions (Google/Apple/Waze), per-job check-in/out that works offline and syncs, photo/receipt/note logging, a "My Hours" view of their own time and pay, and a "Mark Job Complete" button that notifies the office. Workers see only what their permissions allow, never your numbers.
- Customers: a directory with contact details, lifetime value, job history, and multiple service addresses per customer, built for landlords, realtors, property managers, and GCs whose one account means a dozen properties.
- Before/After photos with camera alignment overlay and a compare slider.
- Color Visualizer: load a photo of the house or the room, select the surface, and turn a color wheel until it is the color you are proposing. The wall changes color and keeps its own shading, grain and texture. Select by fill, by matching color, or by dragging a box over a big flat wall. Handles stucco, siding, brick, concrete block and interior drywall, takes the Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore number alongside it, and prints or saves the render for the customer. Runs entirely in your browser: no photo is uploaded anywhere.
- Trade calculators, paint-color tracking, and resource links.
- A choice of visual themes (light, dark, industrial, and more) with a modern app-style navigation bar on desktop and phone.
What Pro adds
- Job financials & profitability: costs, materials, labor hours; gross, expenses, profit, and margin per job; a Profits dashboard with profit-by-classification, profit-per-hour rankings, and profit by crew and by worker (allocated by logged hours).
- Expenses & receipts against any job, plus business-level and vehicle expense tracking for tax time.
- Online payments: deposits on quote acceptance and invoice balances through Stripe Checkout, recorded automatically.
- AI tools (bring your own OpenAI key): estimate dimensions, gallons, and a Description of Work from a photo; scan receipts to auto-fill expenses; get feedback on or a rewrite of your quote wording.
Pro is a paid upgrade handled through Freemius. The free plugin is fully functional on its own; Pro is optional.