"Make Paint Cost Estimating Productive and Fun"

Painting estimating can be tough and time consuming. If not done properly, it can be inaccurate, too. As a painting contractor, homeowner or real estate finance company you want to know the accurate cost of painting work in a project.

The world's best way to create office productivity is now the easiest way to build accurate painting cost estimates. You can now work in a single MS Excel environment to quickly create, build, and manage your estimates. Experience the built-in Space Calculator. Figure Material and Labor prices. Utilize built-in reporting or use Excel's reporting functions. It's all in one complete, integrated solution - PaintCOST Estimator for Excel.

Space Calculator - A Tool Within a Tool

PaintCOST Estimator's Space Calculator quickly figures out areas including cutoffs and addons such as doors, windows, closets. It does the mundane work so you don't have to. With that, you can use or easily override suggested calculations. A logical approach to a tedious problem.

Ultimate in Spreadsheet Estimating

Designed for Microsoft Excel and improving on its capabilities, PaintCOST Estimator is contained completely within an Excel (.xls) file with several worksheets. All you have to do is to open your MS Excel program, then open the PaintCOST Estimator Excel file. Create your estimate then print reports. It¡¯s that easy.

Because it's easy-to-use and intuitive, you can can generate a complete estimate within minutes. An estimate that accurately includes walls, ceiling, floors, trims, baseboards, doors, windows, special items and more.

Material and Labor Reporting

PaintCOST Estimator computes material and labor costs and allows for user entries such as job and billing information, progress payment schedule, included and excluded work. Additionally, all cost data is user modifiable, too.

PaintCOST Estimator generates instant, on-screen reports including estimate summary, estimate detail, estimate labor hours and bid quotation which is a formal document suitable for sending to customer for signup. That's real convenience. Click a button to print or format as you would format any MS Excel spreadsheet file. You can use Excel's powerful data saving and exporting tools for managing and distributing your estimates in electronic format as email attachment.

PaintCOST Estimator for Excel Key Benefits:

• MS Excel based estimating
• Customizable, built-in unit cost data for material and labor
• Built-in Space Calculator
• Local cost data updated periodically
• Computes Material and Labor costs
• Estimate Labor manhour report for easy scheduling
• Formal bid quotation generated automatically
• Incorporates user-defined progress payment schedules
• No initial training necessary... you already know how to use it
• Comprehensive Online Help system
• Free software updates... no recurring costs... ever

PaintCOST Estimator for Excel System Requirements:

• Personal computer running under Windows
• Microsoft Excel 97-2000 or above
• Laser or inkjet compatible printer