Zaras for Painting
Exterior season, interior repaints, and change orders that don't get lost.
The book fills from April through September and thins hard in January — painting swings harder than roofing does, and interior work becomes a bigger share of a smaller winter, not a second season that replaces the first. Commercial repaint is the steadiest line in it.
What carries season to season: colour and product records the punch list the repaint cycle.
An exterior repaint mid-run, a change order priced before the crew touches it, and a punch-list walkthrough that closes the job — three different jobs, one operating record.
Change order mid-job
Added trim and a second coat priced and approved before the crew does the work — not after, when it’s a fight over the invoice.
Walkthrough and punch list
Punch items photographed against the job, the final invoice released the moment they close — not chased down a week later.
Painting money comes from two engines — the short exterior season that has to be scheduled tight, and the commercial repaint work that runs steady underneath it. Zaras runs both from the same record.
April to September is the year — the season is short and the schedule is the constraint, not the sales pipeline.
Commercial repaint — offices, retail, apartment turns — is the steadiest work in the trade, running through every season.
The record, not the folder — every job from the estimate to paid, with nothing re-keyed into a second system.
Detailed estimates with surfaces, colours, and coats — priced before the crew rolls, not adjusted on site.
Colour and product records — the exact colour, sheen, and product on every job, findable months later.
Crew and day scheduling — the exterior season's short calendar, not a whiteboard.
Change orders priced mid-job — added trim, a second coat, or a colour swap — approved before the crew does the work.
Punch-list walkthroughs with photos — punch items photographed against the job, closed off the same record.
Commercial repaint and turn accounts — unit-by-unit records that survive a property manager change.
Deposits and progress billing — collected on approval, drawn against longer jobs.
Invoicing, payments, QuickBooks sync — billing runs from the same record the estimate opened.
Estimate → schedule → paint → punch → paid — every job, one record.
Plans and prices are public on the pricing page — no sales call to get a number.
Yes. Invoices and payments flow straight into QuickBooks — no double entry, no bookkeeper fights.
It’s yours, both directions. Customers, colour and product records, and open estimates come in with you when you join — and everything exports, any time.
Yes — property-management turn work and commercial repaint accounts with per-unit records and NET-terms billing live on the same record as your residential book.
Painting contractors running 1–40 crews — from an owner-operator to a multi-truck shop.
We onboard a limited number of shops at a time. Request an invite, fit is reviewed within 24 hours with a reply either way, and accepted shops get guided onboarding — pricebook and customer list loaded with you, not dumped on you.
Private beta
Every plan runs the full operating system for Painting — estimates, colour records, change orders, punch lists, invoicing, payments. Pick the size that fits the crews you run today.
$49/ month
One estimator, one crew. Price the job, track the colour, close the punch list — the record keeps the change orders straight.
from$149/ month
The exterior book and the repaint account, run from one board. Every crew walking in with the job’s own colour history.
Free trial first, month-to-month after — cancel anytime. Full plan detail on the pricing page.
