Quodex: Cost & Margin Calc

Quodex helps painting contractors estimate jobs, set a customer price, and track costs through invoicing. Build a quote around the surfaces you will paint, then follow the job as materials, labor, and customer payments are recorded. For an interior job, add rooms and their dimensions. For an exterior, use building dimensions, or add custom surfaces such as a fence or deck. Choose the walls, ceilings, trim, and doors included in the quote and set the coats for each surface. Illustrated views help you review the scope while the estimate updates as you make changes. Quodex calculates painted area, estimated labor hours, and paint quantities, including whole gallons to buy. The cost breakdown brings together paint, supplies, labor, equipment, transport, and contingency so you can check what sits behind the customer price. Your hourly labor rate, paint price, coverage, allowances, and target margin shape each quote. Set defaults for your business and adjust them for a particular job. Compare your price with the suggested price and break-even point before saving the estimate. An extra workday or a discount can change what a job leaves you. Move the price slider and see the estimated margin change, then try higher labor or paint costs and a customer discount. Experiments stay separate from the estimate; applying a simulation saves the resulting customer price. As work progresses, log paint purchases, supplies, labor, equipment, and transport against a project, or record a cost as business overhead. Compare spending with the original budget and see which categories are running over. Open projects show projected profit; completed jobs use the expenses you have recorded to show the final cost result. Create a customer estimate from the saved project price, edit line descriptions, quantities, and unit prices, and add a discount or sales tax where needed. Preview the document with your business details and share it as a PDF. Mark the estimate as sent and convert it into an invoice when approved. Record payments you have received and keep the remaining invoice balance in view. Quodex records those payments manually; it does not collect money or transfer funds. Project status and next-step prompts help you follow work from a quote through completion and payment. Review the business across jobs. The dashboard shows invoice-based revenue, logged expenses, and calculated margin for the selected period. Insights compare estimated and projected results and put jobs with cost overruns first. Keep site photos with a project so the scope and its visual record are together. Project records and added photos are stored on your device. You choose when to share a customer document. Measurements use feet and square feet, paint uses gallons, and monetary values are shown in US dollars. Calculations use your entries and built-in planning assumptions; review them against the actual site and your working methods before agreeing a price. Estimated margins are planning figures, not guaranteed results.