Send a $9,800 exterior repaint bid from the customer's driveway. Lock in the deposit before you back out. Know which Austin neighborhood pays your premium tier.
$1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. Card required. Cancel any time.
The $1 trial is Starter. Dispatch, two-way texting and job costing are on Crew ($39/mo).
From $19/mo, users included. Verified competitor prices·CSV import from Housecall Pro, Jobber and ServiceTitan·No per-seat fees, ever
Features painting shops use
Built for painting contractors
The 5 things that decide whether your bid sits in their inbox or you start prep on Monday. Good/Better/Best proposals at three paint grades, on-site digital signature, photo galleries that prove your color-match work, crew management that keeps your lead painter accountable, and a seasonal pipeline that fills your exterior season before April. All in one app. Built for the tech who's cut in 700 feet of crown at the end of a 12-hour Friday.
Good/Better/Best BidsCrew
Three tiers: contractor-grade, mid-grade, premium grade, paint, prep depth, warranty length, all priced. Give the customer a middle option to compare against and she's choosing a tier instead of shopping your price against two more bids.
On-Site Digital Signature and DepositStarter
Bid on the customer's phone. They tap Better, sign, pay 25% deposit through Stripe. You drive away with the job booked, the deposit in your bank, and the prep date on Monday's calendar, not driving home to type up an estimate that sits in their inbox for a week.
Photo Galleries Per JobCrew
Before / prep / cut-in / first coat / final, saved to the address. You email the customer the full photo timeline as a report. Mrs. Reed asks her neighbor for a painter recommendation. Her neighbor sees your gallery on her phone before they hang up.
Crew Management and RolesCrew
Lead painter sees the day's job, paint specs, prep depth, hours quoted. Helpers see their assignments. Owner sees job costing once hours and materials are logged. The lead painter knows he has 6.5 hours quoted on the Pemberton Heights job, and you can both check progress against that number instead of finding out in February when you reconcile the books.
Sales Pipeline for BidsStarter
The pipeline tracks every bid through its stage: walked, sent, follow-up sent, won, lost. Tag exterior bids yourself as you send them. For example, by February you might see 47 exterior bids out and 22 closed, with a good chunk of April-June revenue already on the calendar.
Starter is $19/mo. Texting, AI and dispatch start on Crew at $39. The phone line and AI receptionist are on Business at $79.
Why painters switch
Why painting contractors choose Claver
Painting is a bid game
Painting is a bid game. The job that pays your mortgage isn't the one you finished, it's the one you bid yesterday and locked in before they got two more quotes. The painters who win run a tight bid-to-close cycle. The ones who lose send a number, drive home, and never hear back.
Claver closes the bid-to-close gap. You bid on-site from your phone. The customer signs and pays a deposit before you back out of the driveway. No "let me email it tonight." No "call you Monday." No two-week gap where they're collecting bids from your competitors.
Good/Better/Best is the move that wins the bid game.
Quote one number and the customer thinks: "Let me see two more bids and pick the cheapest." Quote three options and the customer thinks: "Which one fits my budget?" The conversation moves from price to value. A 3-bedroom interior repaint becomes: contractor-grade Behr at $4,200 (5-year warranty), Sherwin-Williams Cashmere at $5,800 (8-year), Sherwin-Williams Emerald at $7,400 (12-year). Give her a middle option to compare against and she's choosing a tier, not shopping your number against two more bids.
The deposit clears at signing
Once the customer signs, the deposit clears Stripe before you back out of the driveway. 25% deposit on a $5,800 interior is $1,450 in your bank tonight. The job is on Monday's calendar. Your lead painter sees it on his phone before he goes to bed, paint specs, prep depth, scope, hours quoted, contact name and gate code.
Crew management is where most painting companies leak the most money. Without it, you don't know your lead painter spent 11 hours on a job you bid for 7. You find out when you reconcile the books in February and discover you lost $8,000 in 2025 to slow prep. Claver logs hours per job as your lead painter clocks in and out. Check the Pemberton Heights job against its 6.5-hour estimate any time during the day, and if the prep is running long, you make the call: send a helper, accept the overage, or push the next job.
Photo galleries and the next job
Photo galleries close the loop with the customer, and bring you the next 3 jobs. Every step gets photographed: the brick that needed primer, the cut-in around the casement windows, the wet-edge on the south wall, the dried final. You email the Westlake homeowner the photo report. Her neighbor asks who painted it. She forwards the report. That's how one interior repaint turns into referral work.
And the sales pipeline keeps your exterior season full before April. For example, a February dashboard might show 47 exterior bids out and 22 closed, with a good chunk of April-June revenue already locked. Unsigned bids get automatic follow-up texts so they don't go cold. Your March doesn't start with a panicked phone-bashing campaign, it starts with crews already loaded out and the calendar filling in.
Cancel anytime. 20-minute migration from your current tool.
Pricing
Pricing that works for painting shops
$19/mo to start. $39/mo for growing teams. $79/mo for the full toolkit. AI summaries, app phone line, Good/Better/Best bids, crew hour tracking, and the sales pipeline. Same plans as every Claver page, no painting upsell.
Simple pricing, users included
Every plan includes unlimited jobs, quotes, invoices, and Stripe payments. Texting, AI, dispatch and job costing start on Crew. The phone system and full back office are on Business.
Starter: $1 for 14 days, then $19/mo. · Cancel anytime · Your data exports as CSV
Common questions
Common painting software questions
No marketing dance. The questions painting owners ask before they sign up.
Does Claver build Good/Better/Best bids on-site?+
Yes. Build the bid in 4-6 minutes on the customer's phone. Three tiers, contractor-grade paint (Behr/Valspar), mid-grade (Sherwin-Williams Cashmere/SuperPaint), premium (Sherwin-Williams Emerald), with prep depth, warranty length, and price for each tier. Customer signs digitally and pays the deposit through Stripe before you back out of the driveway. Giving her a middle option to compare against usually beats a single number and a maybe.
Can I import customers from PaintScout, JobNimbus, or Estimate Rocket?+
Yes. Export your customer list as CSV from your current tool. PaintScout, JobNimbus, Estimate Rocket, ServiceTitan, and upload it to Claver. The wizard maps the columns. Most painting shops finish the migration in 20-30 minutes. We'll personally help if anything looks off, email [email protected].
Does it track hours per job for the crew?+
Yes, once logged. Lead painter clocks in on his phone when he arrives at the job. Hours log against the job so you can check them against the original estimate any time. Claver doesn't push an automatic alert when a job crosses a threshold, but pulling up the job tells you where it stands, so you can send a helper, accept the overage, or push the next job, instead of finding out in February when you reconcile the books.
Can I build a photo gallery to use for referrals?+
Yes. Every step gets photographed and saved to the job, pre-job conditions, prep, cut-in, first coat, final. Claver doesn't push the gallery to the customer automatically, but you can send her the link, and customers who love the result often forward it to a neighbor who asks who painted the house. That's a referral chain that costs you nothing in ad spend.
What does Claver cost for a painting shop?+
$19/mo for Starter (2 users), with on-site digital signature and deposits included. $39/mo for Crew (8 users) when you want texting, AI, Good/Better/Best bids, photo galleries, and crew hour tracking. $79/mo for Business with the full toolkit, including call recording, the sales pipeline, and ad tracking numbers. No contract. Cancel anytime.