Free online booking for house painters
What you see. A sample dashboard, shown with a cleaning business's bookings.
What your clients see. The house painting starter page, before you change anything.
Painters price on wall area, ceiling height and how much prep there is. 1MinuteBooking asks for all three, with photos, so you know which jobs need a visit first.
Customers pick inside, outside, both, kitchen cabinets or a deck or fence, and how big the job is - from touch-ups to the whole house. How quote requests work
Optional questions cover which surfaces, how high the ceilings are, peeling paint, holes, wallpaper to remove, a big color change and whether the rooms will be empty. See the quote form
Send your price in a ready-made email with a link to the quote. The customer can save it as a PDF and pay a deposit or the full amount by card. How payment links work
No add-ons to buy and no per-feature upgrades. Pro, at $10 a month, only adds your branding, your own domain, Excel export and analytics.
Price a request and email a link to pay a deposit or the full amount by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, straight into your own Stripe account. How it works
Once you set the date, clients get the date, time and address by email 24 hours before, or when you choose. How it works
Every job you schedule shows up in Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar, and moves and cancellations update by themselves. How it works
A captcha, connection checks and your own filters send fake requests to a Spam folder, away from your real ones. How it works
Turn a regular customer into a schedule: repeat a job every 1-4 weeks, up to 26 visits, each with its own reminder. How it works
Percent or flat-amount codes for referrals, slow seasons or returning customers, with an optional expiry. How it works
Paste one line of code, and clients request a quote right on your site.
Square, Calendly and BookingKoala, side by side, for one person running their own business.
| 1MinuteBooking | Square Appointments | Calendly | BookingKoala | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost for one person | $0, with no time limit. Pro is an optional $10 a month | Free for one location. Plus is $49 a month per location (Oct 2026) | Free for one event type. $10 to $12 a month for more (Oct 2026) | From $27 a month, after a 14-day trial (Oct 2026) |
| Prices built from the job | Hours, quantities, sizes, add-ons and travel fees | Service variations | One event, one length | Pricing parameters for cleaning-style forms |
| Card deposits as they book | On the free plan, into your own Stripe account. 2% plus Stripe's fee | Through Square payments | On paid plans | Through its payment gateway |
| Quote requests with photos | Yes, with your own questions and up to 5 photos | Estimates in Square Invoices, not on the booking page | No | A lead form |
| Travel fees and drive time | A fee and drive time for each distance | Not a built-in setting | No | Pricing by location |
| Setup | Minutes. Your trade's services, prices and questions start filled in | Build your services in the Square dashboard | Build your event types | Pick an industry, then set up forms and providers |
Last updated . From each company's pricing page and help center. Plans change, so check theirs before you decide. Full comparisons: Square Appointments · Calendly · BookingKoala
Painting contractors looking at software mostly find estimating and project tools built for crews. A solo painter mostly needs the rooms, the ceilings and the prep before deciding whether to quote from photos or visit first.
If you run several crews, a project platform fits better. For one painter, 1MinuteBooking takes the request with photos and the address, and you reply with a price. It's free, with no time limit.
Your booking page with 5 photos of your work, client reviews, bookings and quote requests.
Your logo, your own photos and colors, your own domain, Excel export and analytics, and no "Made with 1MinuteBooking" line.
Contractors with crews use estimating and project tools. A solo painter mostly needs the job size, ceilings, prep and photos before quoting - 1MinuteBooking does that for free.
Not for small jobs - photos and the answers are often enough. For bigger ones, reply to set up a visit, and you arrive already knowing the rooms, ceilings and condition.
Yes - it's one of the questions: standard, high or vaulted. Pages in Europe give the heights in metres.
Yes. The condition question covers small holes or cracks, peeling paint, water stains, wallpaper to remove and a big color change.
Yes. Add, edit or remove questions in Settings > Quote requests - up to 25.
When you send your price, the email can include a link to pay a deposit or the full amount by card, straight into your own Stripe account (2% plus Stripe's fee). Cash, e-transfer and anything else you take still work.
Sign up free with House Painting already selected. You can change anything later.