Painting & Specialty Finish Contractors
Fifty store runs a week. Which job did each one hit?
Paint-store charge accounts fill with small tickets across every crew and every job — and on a labor-heavy trade, one mis-coded materials invoice visibly distorts job profit. CheckIT ties every charge to the right job and verifies it against what you were quoted.
Where the money goes
Four ways profit leaves a painting job.
Store-run reconciliation
Dozens of Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore charge-account tickets a week across crews. Matching each to a job is the whole materials-accounting problem in this trade — and it usually doesn't happen.
Discovered scope mid-job
Dry rot and substrate repair found after the job starts means unplanned material buys that must land on a billable change order — not quietly eat the margin.
Mis-coded costs on labor-heavy jobs
Materials run ~15% of cost, so a single invoice on the wrong job visibly distorts profit — and undermines cost-plus and T&M billing when the customer asks for backup.
Sundries and equipment creep
Sprayer rentals, masking, abrasives — small recurring charges that drift above quoted rates and never get a second look.
How CheckIT fits the painting workflow
Tools for a trade that lives on charge accounts.
CheckIT Invoice — the live tool — sits between when a supplier statement arrives and when you pay it. Drop the invoices and the quotes in. The engine flags every line that doesn't match and codes every ticket to its job. Every stage answers one of the three money questions on the job — what will it cost, what should you pay, and what did you actually pay versus what you agreed.
Pre-Con
CheckIT Estimate
DESIGN PARTNERS FORMING — 2027estimate against your own historical cost reality.
Procurement
CheckIT RFQ
BETA — Q3 2026supplier and sub quotes leveled at line-item scope. Now taking pilot customers — 90 days free at sign-up.
Execution
CheckIT Invoice
LIVE TODAYevery material and sub invoice verified against the quote before payment.
Scope
CheckIT Change Order
NEXT — H2 2027change orders validated against the approved scope and markup.
Painting & Finishes-specific features
- Charge-account ticket coding to the right job, automatically
- Invoice-vs-quote verification on coatings, sundries, and rentals
- Discovered-scope purchases flagged for change-order billing
- Receipt-backed materials ledger for cost-plus and T&M jobs
- Cumulative job tracking — total billed vs. quoted
- One-click dispute emails with line-item evidence
Your store account has a ticket on the wrong job right now.
Drop a recent statement and the quotes behind it. We'll show you every mismatch in under 5 minutes. Free.