Estimate a jobroom by room.At your rates.In minutes.
Your estimate, priced off a real paint and materials catalogue, becomes a quote customers accept online, then runs through to paid: schedule, invoice, VAT and CIS done right. Built by a working decorating firm.
3-bed semi, Wandsworth
Sound familiar?
Quotes at 9pm.
You measure up in the day and lose your evening turning scribbles into something a customer can say yes to.
Invoices that undersell you.
Your work is worth four figures. A homemade invoice makes every job look worth less than it is.
Chasing money by text.
The job is done. Getting paid should not be a second job.
The estimator is the difference.
Most trade apps hand you a blank line-item box and call it estimating. BrushDesk prices a job the way you price one: room by room, with paint and materials from a real catalogue and labour at your rates. Have a go.
Rooms, not line items.
Walls, ceilings, woodwork and exteriors, priced room by room with prep where the job needs it.
Materials done for you.
Paint and sundries come off a real catalogue, so the quote covers what the job actually uses.
Estimate to quote in one tap.
The numbers you build here become the quote your customer accepts online.
Illustrative rates from BrushDesk defaults. In the app these are your rates, your spread rates and your paint catalogue — the same engine, priced to your business.
One job, one thread, start to finish.
Estimate
Build it room by room. Paint and materials come from a real catalogue, so the numbers hold up.
Quote
Send a professional quote in minutes. Your customer accepts online, no PDF tennis.
Run the job
Team, timeline, photos and variations in one place, on every phone on site.
Get paid
Invoices with VAT and CIS done right, paid online by card through your own Stripe account.
Built for the trade, down to the deductions.
Generic job software treats VAT and CIS as someone else's problem. BrushDesk treats them as the job.
VAT, properly.
20% default, per-line rates and reverse charge where it applies. The invoice maths is never your problem again.
CIS without the spreadsheet.
Gross, net and unregistered rates handled on contractor payments, and never charged to your customer by mistake.
A back office that fits in a van.
Designed for a phone on site: big targets, fast pages, works in daylight.
Your customers see a clean, branded page.
Quotes to approve and invoices to pay by card. No app for them to download, no account for them to create.
11/06/2026
Pay securely by card
What your customer sees when it is time to pay.
Hi, I’m Ryan. I built this for my own firm.
I run Holland Decorating and I’m on the tools every week. I got sick of quoting jobs at 9pm in Word, and chasing money like it’s a second job. Every app I tried was useless at the bit that actually matters — estimating a decorating job, room by room.
So we built our own. It runs our whole firm now, and it’s built for the trade, by the trade.
One price. Everything in. Pay for who’s using it.
An office seat for whoever runs the work, and a cheaper seat for each of the team on site. No tiers, no add-ons. You just choose how many of each.
Work out your price
or £690 a year, two months free
Add or remove seats any time.
Field seats are read-only on the money side: no quotes, invoices or payments.
Every firm starts with 14 days free · no card · cancel anytime · pay yearly, two months free
Questions, answered straight.
How is it different from Tradify or Jobber?
Those are generic trade apps: estimating is a blank line-item box, and UK VAT and CIS are afterthoughts. BrushDesk prices a job the way a decorator does, room by room, with paint and materials from a real catalogue and labour at your rates. VAT and CIS are built in, the whole job runs in one thread from estimate to paid, and it is built by a working decorating firm that uses it on real jobs every day.
Do I have to price room by room?
No. Room-by-room is where the estimator shines, but it also prices jobs by day rate, fixed price or per square metre. Whichever way you price, it ends in the same quote your customer can accept online.
Whose rates does it price with?
Yours. You set your labour rates and your paint and materials prices in your own catalogue, and every estimate is built from them. Sensible UK defaults get you going on day one, then you make them your own.
How much does it cost?
One plan, everything included: £39 a month per office seat, plus £10 a month for each of the team on site. No VAT is currently charged. Every firm starts with 14 days free, no card, and you can pay yearly for two months free.
What is the difference between an office seat and a field seat?
An office seat runs the whole back office: estimating, quotes, invoicing, VAT and CIS, payments and scheduling. A cheaper field seat is for the team on site, with their jobs, hours, photos and progress. Field seats are read-only on the money side.
Do I have to pay anything up front?
No. Every firm starts with 14 days free, full access, no card. You only pay when you choose to subscribe.
Will it work on my phone on site?
Yes. BrushDesk is built phone-first because that is where the work is. Estimates, job updates and invoices all work one-handed on a mobile.
Do my customers need an app?
No. Your customer gets a link to a clean page with your name on it, where they can read the quote, accept it and pay by card. No app, no account, no login.
I use subcontractors. Does it handle CIS?
Yes, natively. Contractor payments apply the right deduction (0%, 20% or 30%), CIS never leaks onto customer invoices, and your returns are a report, not a weekend.
When can I get in?
Sign up and we will be in touch to get you set up. We onboard firms personally so every firm starts off right.