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Painting and decorating software that shows what the job really took

Quote on site with photos of the room, then watch hours and materials land against that job as it runs. The next quote is based on what happened, not on what you hoped.

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The OlasBoard job pipeline as painting and decorating businesses use it: leads, booked jobs, work in progress and done, each with the client, the date and the price
  • Quote from site with photos
  • Quoted hours against actual hours
  • Crew included in the plan
  • Invoice from the finished job

Where a decorating job loses its margin

“I quoted three days and it took five. Again.”

Actual hours land against the job next to what you quoted. After a dozen jobs you are pricing from your own history rather than from optimism.

“Extras get agreed on site and never reach the invoice.”

Add them to the job from the phone as they happen. The invoice is built from what was actually done, not from what somebody recalls a fortnight later.

“Three jobs running at once and I lose track of which needs what.”

All of them on one board with their stage, their client and their money. What is waiting on you is visible instead of remembered.

“The customer says the prep was not done.”

Before-and-after photos on the job with the time and the person. Prep is the thing nobody photographs and everybody argues about.

“Materials get bought across five trips and never reconciled.”

Photograph the receipt when you buy. It files against the job and the category, so the margin at the end is real.

“Bringing in a second pair of hands means another licence.”

Seats come with the plan. Subcontracting a week of spraying does not change the bill.

A job, quote to paid

  1. MondayQuote on site with photos of every room and your line items.
  2. WednesdayAccepted. It becomes a booked job with the dates on it.
  3. Next MondayWork starts. Hours go on as they happen; receipts get photographed at the merchant.
  4. ThursdayCustomer asks for an extra room. It goes on the job in ten seconds.
  5. FridayInvoice from the job, extras included, photos attached.
  6. LaterQuoted three days, took four and a half. The next quote knows that.

The real problem is not knowing what is going on in your own business

Everything else follows from that. If you cannot see it, you cannot price it, chase it, or tell who is carrying the work.

Do you actually know what you made last month?
Not turnover — what was left. Income, costs and the margin on every job in one place, so the answer is a screen rather than an evening with a bank statement.
You pay a manager. Can you see what they did?
Leads handled, how fast they answered, what converted. From the record, not from their summary of it.
Which of your clients are still short?
One definition of unpaid across every screen, and the late ones chased on a schedule with the message already written.
Did anybody actually go to that job?
When it was taken, when it started, when it finished, and the photos from while they were there.
Are you pricing the work right?
What you quoted sits next to what it took. After a dozen jobs you are pricing from your own history instead of hoping.

Numbers from what people did, not from what they reported

Most tools tell you what somebody typed into them. These figures come off the work itself: the moment a job was taken, the moment it was started, the moment it was finished, the hours that fall out of that, and the photos attached while the person was standing there.

Nobody writes their own report card. That is the difference between a dashboard you believe and one you argue with.

Per-person performance reporting is on the Business plan. Job records, timings and photo proof are on every plan.

For anyone running a crew

Stop ringing round to fill a job

The job goes to the whole crew at once and the first person free takes it. No calls, no group chat you have to keep track of afterwards.

  1. 01

    You add the job

    Client, address, time, price. Thirty seconds, from the van.

  2. 02

    The whole crew sees it

    One offer to everyone instead of five messages sent one at a time. Their phone buzzes.

  3. 03

    The first one free takes it

    Exactly one person gets it, however many tap at once — and nobody can take a job on top of one they already have.

  4. 04

    You find out without asking

    It shows who took it. If nobody does, you hear about it in hours, not on the day.

And your crew does not cost extra

Most tools in this category price per user, and “user” means anyone with a login — your crew, your subcontractors, the person in the office. The bill grows every time you hire.

Here the seats come with the plan. €99 a month covers up to 20 people, and the price is the same whether 20 of them are working today or two.

Everything the job needs, in one app

Stop paying for five tools that do not talk to each other.

Job pipeline in OlasBoard: columns for leads, booked, in progress and done, each job a card with the client, the date and the price

Visual job pipeline

Lead → Booked → In Progress → Done → Paid. Drag a job across, and everything downstream follows.

Client list in OlasBoard showing each customer with their total spend and job history

Clients that remember

Every job, quote and invoice against the client, with what they still owe you on the same screen.

OlasBoard home screen on a phone: income, expenses and net profit tiles above a weekly cash-flow chart

Money in and money out

Income and expenses, split by job or general, receipts photographed and attached as you go.

Reports screen in OlasBoard with an accountant CSV pack, a tax report PDF and a picker for what to export to Excel

Reports your accountant can use

Tax report, profit by job and client, exported to Excel, CSV or PDF at the end of the quarter.

Analytics dashboard in OlasBoard charting revenue, expenses and profit over time

See the trend, not just today

Revenue, expenses and profit by day, week, month or year — so a bad week reads as a bad week, not a crisis.

Team screen in OlasBoard listing crew members with their roles and who is available

A crew, when you have one

Invite people, set what they can see, and let workers claim jobs, run a timer and upload proof from their own phones.

Built in, not sold separately

An assistant that has read your books

It sees your pipeline, your invoices, your expenses and your crew — and answers the questions a good business partner would.

  • “Who owes me money and how late are they?”
  • “Which of these leads should I ring first?”
  • “Am I actually making anything on recurring cleans?”
  • “Photograph this receipt and file it against yesterday's job.”

Ask by typing, by voice, or by photographing something. It advises and drafts — you stay the one who decides. Included from the €19 plan, not held back for an enterprise tier.

The OlasBoard AI assistant on a phone answering a question about unpaid invoices

Simple pricing. No surprises.

14 days free on Autopilot, no card required. Change plan or cancel any time.

Solo

Work, instead of doing paperwork

€19/mo

€16/mo billed yearly

One person

  • Clients, pipeline and calendar
  • Quotes, invoices and expenses
  • AI assistant — ask, dictate, or photograph a receipt
  • Reports and export for your accountant
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Autopilot

The app does the chasing, not you

€49/mo

€41/mo billed yearly

Up to 5 people

  • Everything in Solo
  • Chases unpaid invoices for you, on a schedule
  • Confirms tomorrow's jobs with the client
  • Pay-now link on every invoice
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Team

Keep everyone pointed the right way

€99/mo

€83/mo billed yearly

Up to 20 people

  • Everything in Autopilot
  • Worker app — claim, timer, photos
  • Permissions per person
  • Shared calendar and who is free when
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Business

See where the money leaks

€199/mo

€166/mo billed yearly

Up to 50 people

  • Everything in Team
  • Profit by service, client, worker and location
  • Manager performance — leads handled, response time, conversion
  • Worker performance — on time, complaints, rework
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painting and decorating software — questions

Can I compare what I quoted against what it took?

Yes. The quote and the actual hours and materials sit on the same job, which is the only way the next quote gets better.

Does it do colour schedules or specifications?

No. Notes and photos attach to the job, but there is no specification builder or colour library.

Can I add extras once work has started?

Yes, from the phone, and the invoice picks them up. Extras agreed verbally and never invoiced is one of the most common ways a decorating job loses money.

How do I bring in a subcontractor for a week?

Add them and give them the Worker role. It costs nothing extra — seats are included in the plan rather than billed per login.

Can I run several jobs at once?

That is the normal case. They sit on one board with their stage, client and money visible without opening each one.

Does it handle deposits and staged payments?

Yes. Invoices take part payments, so a deposit and a balance are tracked against the same invoice rather than as two unrelated ones.

Stop running the business
out of your head

14 days of the Autopilot plan, free. No card, no call, no setup project — you can have your first quote out this afternoon.

Or try the demo logins first — they run on sample data and never touch a real account.