Painting software · Texas

The painting CRM built for
Texas contractors.

Texas leads the country in hail and wind claims and takes Gulf hurricanes on the coast. Insurance roofing runs year-round, and supplement work is a core revenue line.

Estimate, quote, and run the whole build on one platform. Client-facing estimates, e-sign contracts, change orders, progress billing, and a job pipeline that shows exactly where every project stands.

No credit card Serving contractors across Texas

Built for how painters actually work in Texas

Whether you run out of Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Austin, and El Paso, or a small town nobody outside the county has heard of, the job is the same: win the work, do it right, and get paid without chasing it. TradeForge runs that whole thing on one platform, so you stop paying for five tools that don't talk to each other.

Texas leads the country in hail and wind claims and takes Gulf hurricanes on the coast. Insurance roofing runs year-round, and supplement work is a core revenue line. That is exactly the kind of work TradeForge was built for, by a contractor who has stood on the roof and sat across the kitchen table.

What Texas painters get

Square-Foot Estimating

Per-room sq ft × your material + labor rates. Saved line-item library for prep, primer, paint, trim. Storyline estimate covers the scope, line items cover the math.

Color + Finish Tracking

Every customer's job stores the Sherwin-Williams or Benjamin Moore codes, sheen, brand. Customer calls in two years for a touch-up? You know the exact spec without digging.

Before/After Photo Booth

Document every wall before, every wall after. Build a portfolio per customer. Use the photo report as your sales tool for the next bid.

On-Truck Invoicing

Final walkthrough complete? Invoice on the phone, card-on-file via Stripe, customer keeps the receipt before you load the ladders back on.

Common questions from Texas painters

Can I save different rate tables for interior vs exterior?

Yes. Saved line-item library lets you group by category, interior prep, interior paint, exterior pressure wash, exterior paint, each with its own per-sq-ft rate.

What about commercial bid jobs?

Storyline estimates handle the narrative scope (room-by-room, building-by-building). Multi-property clients with shared billing supported.

Does it track Sherwin-Williams or BM color codes?

Color codes save as customer-level notes. Pull up the customer years later, the codes are there, no more digging through old paperwork.

Run your Texas painting business from one place.

Leads, estimates, contracts, invoicing, and AI that does the back office while you're on the truck. 14 days free, no card.

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