Painting Contractor Estimate Template | Job Costing Bid Calculator (Excel Spreadsheet)

Stop guessing your bids. This is the complete money system for a painting business — estimate, track, and protect your margin in one Excel file.

Built for residential and commercial painters who are great on the wall and tired of the office side. Enter your rates once; every calculator uses them.

WHAT'S INSIDE (7 tabs):

★ ESTIMATE CALCULATOR — enter rooms and surfaces, get gallons, labor hours, materials, and a recommended bid built from YOUR labor rate, overhead, and target margin (not someone else's averages)

★ JOB PIPELINE — every job from lead to paid, with bids-out, invoiced, collected, and outstanding totals computed at the top

★ JOB COSTING — estimate vs. actual when the job closes; see exactly where money leaked

★ CHANGE ORDER LOG — price the extra BEFORE you paint it; running total of approved-but-uninvoiced work (this tab pays for the template)

★ COI TRACKER — insurance certs with days-to-expiry; never lose a commercial job to a lapsed cert

★ SETTINGS — your labor rate, overhead, margin, paint price, coverage, and production rate — set once

★ START HERE — 5-minute setup guide

DETAILS: Instant digital download (no physical item ships). Excel 2016 or newer; Google Sheets version coming. Blue cells = you type, white cells = calculated. Single-business license.

Designed by Opsmith with AI-assisted production; every formula human-reviewed and audit-tested. This is an operational template, not accounting, tax, or legal advice.