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Showcase completed work
Create a professional website with images, services and project examples.
Solo industries
Solo for painters and decorators
Painter and decorator software, from site visit to invoice.
Turn a project enquiry into a site-visit request and a clear quote. Keep customer addresses, room details and colour notes organised alongside your decorating invoices.
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Your business. Connected.
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Website + Bookings + Customers + Finance
A practical guide for your trial
Connect a painting enquiry with a site visit and quote
Try a living-room repaint as your example: showcase a similar project, offer a site visit, record the room and colour notes, and prepare a quote that explains the work. Follow that enquiry through Solo before using it for your next project.
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Help the customer recognise the right service
Your Solo website can present painting and decorating services, images and project examples. Choose photographs of your own work that you have permission to publish. Explain whether each example shows an interior, exterior, wallpapering or other service you offer.
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Make the site visit easy to understand
Prospective customers can request site visits, estimates and consultations online. Consultations and site visits can be listed as bookable services. Describe the purpose of the visit so the customer understands that you are arranging a discussion or assessment of the project.
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Carry the project discussion into the quote
Solo supports branded quotes and invoices for residential and commercial decorating work. Use the site-visit discussion to describe the rooms, surfaces and preparation you are offering. Check the quote against the customer's requirements before agreeing the work and preparing the later invoice.
What to check before you commit
- Can a visitor recognise the painting or decorating service they need from your project examples?
- Is the site-visit or consultation appointment clearly described before the customer requests it?
- Can you find the address, room details and colour notes you need when following up?
- Does the sample quote explain the rooms, surfaces and preparation included in the proposed work?
Interior paintingExterior paintingWallpaper installationCommercial decoratingWoodwork paintingProperty refresh
Built around your industry
Spend less time managing disconnected tools.
Solo gives Painters and Decorators a professional customer experience and one place to manage the everyday work behind the business.
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Manage site visits
Let customers request consultations and keep their property information organised.
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Prepare clear estimates
Create branded quotes and invoices for decorating projects.
Your website included
Look professional before the customer ever contacts you.
Build a professional decorating website that showcases services, completed projects and customer contact options.
Mobile-friendly design
Industry-relevant services
Your own business images and branding
Connected booking and enquiry experience
Your painter and decorator website
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Professional local service
Your business deserves more than a social-media profile.
Publish services, images, contact details and booking options through your own business website.
One connected workspace
The core tools your business needs every day.
Bookings and appointments
Allow prospective customers to request site visits, estimates and consultations.
Customers and CRM
Keep customer addresses, room details, colour notes and project history together.
Quotes and invoices
Create professional quotes and invoices for residential and commercial decorating projects.
AI-assisted website setup
Describe your business and use Solo to help create professional website wording around your services.
Replace everyday friction
Built around the challenges Painters and Decorators face.
Solo helps turn scattered business administration into a clear, connected workflow.
Presenting previous decorating projects
Managing site-visit requests
Preparing detailed project estimates
Keeping customer and property information organised
A worked example · fictional figures
A painter's quote: separate the visit, scope and agreed price
Illustrative decorating enquiry: a customer asks for two rooms. You estimate three days of labour at £180 per day and £160 of materials after a site visit.
- Labour estimate
- 3 × £180 = £540
- Materials estimate
- £160
- Example subtotal
- £700 before any applicable tax or separately agreed charges
- Scope to record
- Rooms, surfaces, preparation, coats, materials and exclusions
Use Solo's website and appointment tools to arrange the assessment, customer notes to retain the agreed details, and quotes and invoices for the paperwork. Confirm the scope before sharing a price. If you need automatic room measurements, estimating formulas or multi-day crew scheduling, demonstrate those requirements separately.
Explore the quote-to-invoice workflowFrequently asked questions
Solo — Painters and Decorators
Can Solo create a website for my decorating business?
Yes. Solo includes a website builder for presenting your services, completed work and enquiry options.
Can customers request site visits?
Yes. Site visits and consultations can be added as services within your booking experience.
Can I send decorating quotes?
Yes. Solo includes professional quote and invoice tools.
What should I record before sending a decorating quote?
Record the property address, rooms, surfaces, preparation, agreed finish and who supplies materials. Keep exclusions and customer choices with the customer notes. Use that agreed scope when preparing your quote, and review its descriptions and amounts before sharing it. A site visit helps establish details that an initial enquiry may leave open.
Can I separate a site-visit appointment from the decorating job?
Yes. Present a survey or consultation as a bookable service, then use the visit to agree the work and prepare a quote. Make clear to the customer that booking an assessment does not confirm the whole decorating project. Check multi-day job scheduling and crew allocation separately if those are essential to your business.
How do painting quotes and invoices fit together in Solo?
Keep the quote linked to the customer so the agreed work and customer details remain together. Eligible customer-linked quotes can become invoices without re-entering their core details. Review the final scope, amounts and any changes before sending the invoice; creating an invoice does not itself confirm that a payment has been received.
What should a painter test before choosing Solo?
Use a fictional two-room enquiry to test your website, site-visit booking, customer notes, quote and invoice. Check that addresses, colour choices and exclusions are easy to find at each step. If your business needs room-measurement calculations, paint-quantity estimates or specialist job costing, ask for those requirements to be demonstrated before deciding.
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Painter and decorator quotes, site visits and invoices
What should painter and decorator software help me organise?
Start with the customer enquiry, property address and work to be assessed. Solo combines a business website, site-visit requests, customer records, quotes and invoices. For a living-room repaint, keep the room details and colour notes with the customer, arrange the assessment and prepare a quote for the work you agree. You assess the surfaces and decide the materials, preparation, labour and price.
How do I prepare a clear painting and decorating quote?
Use the site visit to agree which rooms or surfaces are included, the preparation required and the finish the customer wants. Describe those items in the quote and make exclusions or optional extras clear. Solo provides branded quote and invoice tools for decorating work. Check the proposed scope with the customer before agreeing dates; a site-visit booking alone does not confirm the project price.
How should I record changes between a decorating quote and the final invoice?
Discuss extra rooms, repairs or a different finish with the customer before doing the additional work. Keep the revised scope and price clear in the job notes and paperwork. When preparing the invoice in Solo, check it against the work agreed and completed. Updating a customer note is a record of the discussion; it does not automatically amend an accepted quote or calculate the cost of extra work.
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