For Painters & Decorators
Job management for painters and decorators who work for themselves.
Keep customers, quotes, jobs, your diary and invoices in one simple app. Sole Trader Pal helps self-employed decorators stay organised without paying for or learning a system designed around a team.
PAL remembers, so you don't have to.
The decorating is only half the job.
When you're the person doing the work, you're also the person answering enquiries, quoting, scheduling and invoicing.
Customers message while you're working. Site visits and quotes need writing up. You have to remember which jobs have been accepted, fit them into the diary, and keep customer addresses somewhere sensible.
By the time you get home, trying to turn completed work into invoices and tracking what has actually been paid can feel like starting a second job.
Sole Trader Pal keeps all of this in one straightforward place, so your business stays organised alongside the decorating.
From first enquiry to getting paid.
Information stays connected so you are not repeatedly recreating customer and job details at every step.
- Customer
- Quote
- Schedule
- Job
- Invoice
- Paid
Create a quote, and when the customer accepts, that information is already there to help you schedule the work and eventually raise the invoice.
Built for one-person businesses, not office teams.
Many job management systems are designed to support growing teams, staff allocation, timesheets, fleet management, and complex reporting. That is great if you run a large company, but for a solo decorator, it just gets in the way.
You likely just want your customers organised, quotes sent, jobs booked, your diary clear, and your invoices tracked.
Sole Trader Pal keeps the focus on the everyday admin a business of one actually needs.
If it's just you running the business, your software should feel like it too.
Built by someone who has run a business of one.
Sole Trader Pal came from first-hand experience of running a one-person exterior cleaning business and handling the customers, quotes, scheduling and invoicing alongside the work itself.
It was created to sit between scattered notes and complicated systems built for larger companies. You get the everyday business admin you need, without pretending you have an office team behind you.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sole Trader Pal suitable for self-employed painters and decorators?
- Yes. Sole Trader Pal is designed specifically for sole traders and small business owners who do the work themselves and need a simple way to manage customers, quotes, jobs, and invoices.
- Can I create quotes for decorating jobs?
- Yes. You can create professional quotes for your painting and decorating work, and keep them connected to the relevant customer.
- Can I schedule decorating jobs in my diary?
- Yes. You can schedule work and see your upcoming jobs in a straightforward diary layout.
- Can I create invoices from my phone?
- Yes. When the job is done, you can create and send an invoice right from your phone, without needing to re-enter all the customer details.
- Do I need to have employees to use Sole Trader Pal?
- No. In fact, Sole Trader Pal is built deliberately for businesses of one, rather than trying to provide complicated software for managing large teams and fleets.
- Is Sole Trader Pal accounting software?
- No. Sole Trader Pal handles your day-to-day job management: customers, quotes, jobs, and invoices. It is not full accounting software for doing your tax return.
- How much does Sole Trader Pal cost?
- You can use Sole Trader Pal for free for up to 10 stored customers, with unlimited jobs and quotes for those customers. When you need more room, PAL Unlimited removes the customer limit.