Painters: quote visits and colour choices

Before any painting job, you visit to see the rooms, and clients want help choosing colours. Fixing those visits by phone during the day pulls you off the ladder. With Book, clients book a visit or a colour session on your own booking page at times you choose, and you book the work days from your list once they go ahead.

On Book, each service has a name, a price and an optional description, all shown on your public page. Each slot belongs to one service, sits within one day and has its own capacity.

Durations and prices are examples. Leave the price empty on work services; an empty price is hidden.

Create a visit service per area and open slots at the end of your work days there. Slots repeat weekly on the weekdays you choose until an end date. Each online booking takes one place, and a booked visit leaves your page.

The booking form takes first name, last name, email and phone, plus an optional note that reaches you in the new booking email. Ask for the address, the rooms, ceiling height and wall condition. Ask for photos by email so you arrive knowing the job.

A colour session is a separate service, with its own price and length. Say in the description what you bring, such as colour charts or sample pots, and that seeing colours in the room's own light helps. Clients who've chosen colours before the work starts don't hold up the job.

Don't open public slots for painting days. When the client agrees, book each day from your bookings list. First and last name are enough; with their email, the client gets a confirmation with a calendar file for each day.

Clients can't move or cancel online: they contact you, and you move the booking from your list. Book doesn't email clients about changes, so tell them yourself. Your bookings sync with Google, iPhone or Mac calendars.

Book doesn't write estimates, issue invoices, take payments or send reminders. One booking page per business, no staff field: with a team, create services per painter. See the guide on painting occupied homes. Book costs €5/month, everything included: unlimited services and bookings, no commission, no contract.