PaintScout vs PaintWiser

PaintScout is a web sales and estimating platform built for painting contractors. Its Sales offering includes production-rate estimating, interactive proposals, customer chat, e-signatures, and estimate follow-ups. It supports deposits and final payments through ACH, credit cards, payment links, and Wisetack financing. The company says estimates can be created and sent from phones, tablets, or desktops, including at a job site. An Operations add-on adds job management, scheduling, drag-and-drop pipelines, and team task management. Integrations listed include CompanyCam, QuickBooks Online, Zapier, Wisetack, Pipeline, Stripe, Monday, HubSpot, Airtable, Pipedrive, GoHighLevel, Workglue, Google Calendar, Jobber, Google Sheets, HeyPros, and Dropbox. Live chat and email support run Monday through Friday, with onboarding included. A 14-day trial needs no credit card. Sales costs $119 a month or $99 a year; Operations costs $99 a month or $79 a year.

PaintWiser brings estimating, booking, invoicing and customer follow-up tools together for painting contractors. For interior jobs, it uses room measurements and a contractor’s own rates, paint systems and target margin to calculate surface area, labor hours, paint gallons and job prices. Exterior estimates use area entered from a map measurement, linear feet for eaves and trim, and counts of doors and windows. Contractors can send branded PDF quotes with optional add-ons for approval online, then turn approved estimates into invoices and track deposits and partial payments against the job balance. A pipeline links customers, properties, quotes, jobs and invoices, records lead sources and supplies follow-up reminders. Customers can book available estimate slots through a branded link, with a code confirming each booking before it becomes a lead. The free plan allows 20 quotes per month; Solo is $19/mo and Crew is $49/mo. The app works on Android, iOS and the web, and supports offline updates after opening the app.