Painting business software for NZ painters — quote prep, coats and coverage properly

Price prep separately, because that’s where the margin is

Wash-down, sand, scrape, fill, prime and undercoat are quoted as their own lines, not buried in a per-m² rate. Painting is roughly 76% labour and 24% materials in NZ, so Toolie’s estimate reflects that prep-heavy reality instead of a flat guess.

Track coats and coverage so paint cost is real

Quote interior walls, ceilings and exterior weatherboard by m² and by room, set the number of coats and the coverage rate (Resene/Dulux spread rates), and Toolie estimates paint volume and material cost properly — so you stop under-ordering and under-quoting.

Flag lead paint on pre-1980 homes

WorkSafe requires you to presume lead-based paint on buildings from the 1980s or earlier. Toolie flags pre-1980 jobs as a priced containment line and a documented control, with an SDS and hazardous-substances register for solvents and thinners under HSWA 2015.

Attach a workmanship guarantee and your insurance

Surface your accreditation, public-liability cover and a written workmanship guarantee on the quote header — the trust signals that win residential repaints.

Schedule the crew, capture timesheets, invoice to Xero

Run the crew across multiple properties in a day, capture painter hours per job, handle variations like rot or extra coats without eating the cost, and progress-claim large repaints under the CCA.

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