Cabinet refinishing jobs are won or lost on the proposal. We compared ten tools on pricing, finish-tier quoting, e-signatures, deposits, and photos, so you can send a clear, signable proposal the same day you walk the kitchen.
The best proposal software for cabinet refinishing businesses in 2026 is QuoteIQ. It builds good-better-best finish options, branded proposals with photos, e-signatures, deposit requests, and customer financing into the same estimate workflow, starting at $29.99 per month. PaintScout and DripJobs are the strongest painting-specific alternatives, while Jobber and Housecall Pro suit shops that want a general field service platform. PandaDoc and Proposify are document tools for teams that only need proposals, and ServiceTitan is built for much larger operations. Every price below was checked against vendor pages on October 4, 2026.
| Rank | Platform | Starting Price | Best For | Standout Proposal Feature |
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| #1 | QuoteIQ | $29.99/mo | Solo refinishers through growing crews | Options estimates, Proposal+, e-signature, and financing in one flow |
| #2 | PaintScout | $99/mo (annual) | Painting-first shops | Interactive proposals with optional upgrades |
| #3 | DripJobs | $97/mo | Sales-driven painting crews | Good/Better/Best package pricing on the Advanced plan |
| #4 | Jobber | $29/mo (annual) | General service shops | Optional line items and upsells from the Grow plan |
| #5 | Housecall Pro | $59/mo (annual) | Shops running a full field service platform | Sales Proposal Tool on the MAX plan |
| #6 | Joist | $10/mo | Solo operators on a budget | Low-cost estimates with deposits and e-signatures |
| #7 | PandaDoc | Free; $19/seat paid | Document-first teams | Template library and e-signature on every plan |
| #8 | Proposify | $19/user/mo (annual) | Design-forward proposal documents | Branded proposal design with e-signature on all plans |
| #9 | Builder Prime | $300/mo + $60/core user | Cabinet shops and refacing companies | Cabinet-contractor CRM with proposals and e-signature |
| #10 | ServiceTitan | Custom: contact sales | Large multi-technician operations | Per-technician enterprise platform |
Prices were verified against each vendor’s own pricing page on October 4, 2026. Vendors change prices often, so confirm on their site before you buy.
We’re QuoteIQ. We made this list. We also picked our own platform as #1, and here’s exactly why, along with the trade-offs every tool on this list brings. Cabinet refinishing is a proposal-heavy trade: the customer is comparing you against other painters, a refacing company, and sometimes a full replacement quote, so the document you send does a lot of the selling. Five criteria drove every ranking decision:
Two limits to be upfront about. We did not pull Capterra or G2 scores for the competitors on this list, and we have not hands-on tested every tool. Competitor feature claims below are limited to what each vendor’s own pricing page states, so a feature we don’t mention may exist on a higher tier or in a demo.
“The contractor who sends an estimate first anchors the customer’s comparison. By the time the second contractor responds, the customer is already evaluating them against the benchmark the first contractor set.”
— Justin Rogers, Co-Founder of QuoteIQ
QuoteIQ is the platform we built because nothing else handled the whole job, from first estimate to paid invoice, without bolting on extra tools. For cabinet refinishing, the proposal lives inside the estimate workflow instead of in a separate document app. The line items you price, the photos you took, the finish options you offer, and the signature you collect are one record. When the customer says yes, that same record becomes a deposit request, a scheduled job, and an invoice.
Cabinet jobs are tiered by nature. Brush or spray, two coats or three, original hardware or new, existing doors or replacements: nearly every kitchen is a good-better-best decision. QuoteIQ’s Options estimates present those tiers side by side so the homeowner picks one on their phone, and Package estimates let you bundle repeat combinations, such as doors, drawer fronts, and boxes, into a single reusable line.
When you want more than a priced quote, Proposal+ turns the estimate into a branded document that reads as one scrolling page with a side menu that jumps to each section. The customer signs it online, and the activity log shows when it was sent, viewed, changed, and accepted. That matters in a trade where the homeowner is often holding a refacing or replacement quote and needs to see what refinishing includes, step by step, before they trust a lower number.
Best for: Solo refinishers through growing crews who want the proposal, signature, deposit, and invoice in one workflow instead of a stack of tools.
Plans at a glance: Essentials $29.99/mo (1 user), Beginner $74.99/mo (2 users), Pro $149.99/mo (4 users), Elite $299/mo (10 users), and Max $699/mo (20 users). Any paid plan can add seats for $25 per person per month, annual billing is two months free, and every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. The pricing page has the full feature matrix.
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“The quotes that actually win jobs show the customer that you paid attention — you reference their specific situation, you break down what you’re doing, you give them a clear picture of what they’re getting.”
— Mike Vidan, Co-Founder of QuoteIQ
Verdict: If you quote cabinet refinishing in tiers and want the proposal, signature, deposit, and invoice to live in one workflow, QuoteIQ is the pick. Solo refinishers can start on Essentials at $29.99/mo. A crew that wants organized photos, before-and-after documentation, and follow-up automation will likely look at Pro at $149.99/mo, and Elite at $299/mo includes Proposal+ at no credit cost and adds InstaQuote customer self-quoting.
PaintScout is a proposal-first product built around painting contractors, and it is the closest like-for-like competitor to QuoteIQ’s proposal workflow on this list. Its pricing page describes interactive proposals with branded presentations, photo uploads, optional upgrades, and delivery by email or text, which maps well onto a cabinet refinishing sales process where the customer chooses among finish options.
Both plans include e-signature collection, and both support collecting deposits and final payments online (ACH is supported), with a Wisetack financing integration for larger jobs. The Sales plan covers estimating and proposals; a separate Operations add-on extends it. If you want help getting started, PaintScout also sells done-for-you Success Packages priced from $999 to $1,999.
Seats cost $20 per user per month on top of the base price. Sales plus Operations plus one added seat works out to $198 per month on annual billing, before payment processing fees.
Best for: Painting-first shops where the proposal is the center of the sales process and a specialist tool matters more than an all-in-one platform.
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Verdict: The strongest dedicated painting proposal tool on this list. QuoteIQ costs less at the entry level and keeps the proposal, signature, deposit, and invoice inside a general platform. PaintScout is the better fit if you want a painting-only specialist and are comfortable paying for the Operations add-on and extra seats.
DripJobs is built around the sales side of painting and remodeling work: proposals, follow-up, and payment. Every plan includes proposals with e-signatures and online payments, including ACH, and the Pro plan ships with more than 40 done-for-you follow-up messages for email.
Good/Better/Best package pricing is a feature of the Advanced plan ($147/mo), not Pro ($97/mo), so a cabinet refinisher who wants tiered finish options needs Advanced. Two-way texting (DripJobs Chat) is a $25/mo add-on, Production Rates is $99/mo, and Job Costing is $49/mo. The Growth plan is custom-priced and starts at five users.
Two policies are worth knowing before you commit. DripJobs does not offer a free trial, and it bills month to month with no contracts. Pro and Advanced each include one admin user, and additional users are priced by contacting DripJobs.
Best for: Painters who live in the proposal-to-payment loop and want a ready-made follow-up message library.
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Verdict: A sales-focused option with real follow-up automation. Once you add Advanced, texting, and job costing, the monthly total reaches $221 compared with $149.99 for QuoteIQ Pro, which includes ClientHub texting, job costing, and automation alongside Options estimates and Proposal+.
Jobber is a general-purpose field service platform with a polished client experience, and it handles quoting on every plan. Its pricing page lists professional quotes with online client approval across Core, Connect, Grow, and Plus.
For cabinet refinishing, the gating that matters sits on the Grow plan: optional line items and upsells, plus quote customization with richer visuals and customer reviews (the review content requires a separate Reviews add-on). Tiered finish options are not a listed feature on the lower plans, and automated quote follow-ups start on Connect.
Core, Connect, and Grow each include one user, Plus starts at five, and additional users are $29 per month on every tier. A three-person crew on Grow pays about $207 per month on annual billing ($149 plus two extra users at $29).
Best for: Shops that want a general service platform with a clean client experience and are comfortable paying for the Grow plan.
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Verdict: A strong all-rounder if you want a general platform. For tiered cabinet proposals you’ll want Grow, at which point QuoteIQ Pro ($149.99/mo, four users) includes Options estimates on every plan, even Essentials, with Proposal+ available on all paid plans.
Housecall Pro is a field service platform built primarily for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other home service businesses. Its pricing page lists quotes on every plan, with scheduling, dispatch, and payments around them.
The dedicated Sales Proposal Tool is listed under the MAX plan, which is $299 per month on annual billing ($329 monthly) and includes eight users, with additional users at $35 each. Basic includes one user and Essentials includes five. That puts the polished-proposal feature at the top of the plan ladder, well above the entry price in the table.
For a cabinet refinisher, that means paying for the largest plan to get the proposal presentation, and the pricing page lists no painting or cabinet-specific tools.
Best for: Shops that already want a full field service platform for several trades and plan to run on its top tier.
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Verdict: A solid general platform, but the proposal tool sits at the top of the price ladder. Cabinet refinishers who mainly need tiered, signable proposals get more for less on QuoteIQ, where Options estimates are on every plan and Proposal+ is on every paid plan.
Joist is a lightweight estimating and invoicing app aimed at solo contractors and very small crews. Its pricing page lists estimates on every plan (up to five per month on Basics, unlimited from Pro), with digital signatures, deposit payments, and online payments across the lineup. Annual billing adds two free months.
Change orders arrive on Elite ($32/mo) and Run, which is handy when a customer adds drawer fronts or a pantry after you have started. For a refinisher sending a handful of estimates a month, the price is hard to beat.
What you give up is breadth. The pricing page we reviewed does not list good-better-best options, a multi-section branded proposal document, photo galleries, or financing, so tiered finish options become separate estimates or line items you build yourself.
Best for: Solo operators who send a few estimates a month and want deposits and signatures at the lowest possible price.
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Verdict: Hard to beat on price for a solo refinisher. A refinisher quoting finish tiers and wanting a branded proposal will outgrow it, and QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99/mo adds Options and Package estimates, Proposal+, scheduling, and invoicing.
PandaDoc is a document-automation tool rather than a field service platform. It earns a spot on a proposal list because it turns a template into a polished, trackable, e-signed document, and it is widely used for exactly that.
Per its pricing page, e-signatures are included from the Free plan up, and the Free and Starter plans cap you at five templates. Custom quotes and sales agreements arrive on the Business plan ($49 per seat), along with unlimited templates and payment collection. Enterprise adds CPQ and is custom-priced. The Free plan lets a team create five documents per month.
For a cabinet refinisher, PandaDoc can produce a handsome proposal, but it sits outside your scheduling, invoicing, and customer records. You would copy job details between systems unless you wire up an integration, and under a per-seat model each person who sends a document is a paid seat.
Best for: Teams that already run jobs and invoices in another system and only want a better proposal document.
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Verdict: Worth it if you already run another system and only need a better proposal document. If you would rather not manage two tools, QuoteIQ keeps the proposal, signature, and invoice in one place.
Proposify is a design-forward proposal tool with unlimited templates and drag-and-drop customization on every plan, and e-signatures on all plans.
Sending is metered. Basic includes 10 document sends a month ($0.50 for each extra), Team includes 30 ($0.30 each beyond that), and Business includes 75 ($0.75 over). Basic includes one seat, Team three, and Business five. CRM integrations start on Team, and Business adds premium options such as Salesforce and Aspire as a $9-per-user-per-month add-on.
The pricing page does not list native payment processing, so a deposit has to be collected somewhere else. For a refinisher, that means a second tool for the deposit and the invoice.
Best for: Businesses that put document design first and already have a system for jobs and payments.
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Verdict: Built more for agencies and B2B sales teams than for a refinisher quoting residential kitchens, but a fit if document design is the priority and you already have a way to run jobs and collect deposits.
Builder Prime markets itself as the all-in-one CRM platform for modern cabinet contractors, and its cabinet page speaks to cabinet replacement contractors, custom cabinet shops, and cabinet refacing companies. It is the only tool here positioned at the cabinet trade itself.
Pricing is published and usage-based: a $300 monthly platform fee, $60 per month for each core (office, admin, and sales) user, and $10 per month for each field user. The example on its pricing page, three core users and no field users, comes to $480 per month. Every tier includes a CRM, estimates and proposals, digital contracts and e-signature, real-time job costing, work orders, production scheduling, and invoicing with payment processing. Annual billing saves up to 17%.
Two cautions for refinishers. The cabinet page we reviewed does not mention refinishing or painting, so the workflow is built around replacement, custom, and refacing jobs. And the $300 platform fee puts the starting price well above the tools aimed at painters. SMS is an add-on at $200 per month plus $0.03 per message, and pricing for 50-plus-user enterprise accounts is custom.
Best for: Businesses that also sell, build, or install new or refaced cabinets and want production tracking next to proposals.
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Verdict: Consider it if your business also sells or installs new or refaced cabinets and you want production tracking. A pure refinishing shop will pay for more platform than it needs, and QuoteIQ covers the proposal and the job at a fraction of the starting price.
ServiceTitan is an enterprise field service platform best known in HVAC, plumbing, and electrical. Its pricing page does not publish prices. It uses a per-technician model and a request-pricing flow, with three packages named Starter, Essentials, and The Works that layer on dispatching, scheduling, call booking, invoicing, a pricebook, mobile estimates, payroll management, and reporting.
On the pricing page we did not find e-signature or sales-proposal features called out, although the broader site references mobile estimates and a pricebook. Plan on a sales conversation to learn what any of it costs, and on a longer onboarding than a lightweight app.
ServiceTitan makes sense when you run many technicians across trades and need dispatch, a call center, and reporting at scale. For a cabinet refinishing crew, most of that depth goes unused.
Best for: Large, multi-technician operations that need enterprise dispatch, call handling, and reporting.
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Verdict: Right for a large multi-trade operator and wrong-sized for most cabinet refinishers. QuoteIQ gives a small crew the proposal, signature, deposit, and invoice workflow at published prices.
The federal government does not track cabinet refinishing as its own industry, so the closest official data is for painters in general. Paired with cabinet-market and pricing data, it shows a trade that sells into a large remodeling market and that homeowners price very differently.
These numbers explain why the proposal carries so much weight. Remodeling drives about four of every five dollars of cabinet demand, so a refinishing quote is routinely compared with refacing or replacement. Published cost guides also disagree widely: Angi reports that most homeowners pay around $942 for professional cabinet painting, while 10 Percent Cabinetry’s 2026 guide lists $1,500 to $3,500 of professional labor for a 10×10 kitchen and $4,000 to $7,500 for basic refacing. A customer holding numbers that far apart needs a proposal that explains scope, not just a total.
Two compliance points belong in the same conversation. The EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting rule requires anyone paid to perform work that disturbs painted surfaces in homes built before 1978 to be certified, so check whether your cabinet prep falls under it and say how you handle it. And the FTC’s Cooling-Off Rule gives a homeowner until midnight of the third business day to cancel a sale signed at their home, so your agreement should address it. Your state may add rules of its own.
Software only helps if the document it produces answers the questions a homeowner is silently asking while comparing quotes. Before you judge any tool on this list, check whether it lets you build a proposal that covers the following. Use it as a test during a free trial or demo: build one real kitchen in each tool you are considering and see how many of these items you can include without a workaround.
State exactly what is being refinished: how many doors, drawer fronts, and cabinet boxes, which rooms, and whether the interior of the boxes is included. A homeowner comparing two quotes is usually comparing scope without realizing it, and the quote with the vaguest scope looks cheaper until the surprise charges arrive.
Describe cleaning, degreasing, sanding, priming, the type of finish system, and the number of coats. This is the part of the job the customer cannot see once the cabinets are done, so the proposal is where you show the work that justifies your price. Tools with line-item descriptions or sub-items let you write this once and reuse it.
Offer two or three versions of the same job, such as a standard finish, a premium finish with new hardware, and a package that adds replacement doors. Giving the customer a choice between tiers moves the conversation from whether to hire you to which option to pick. This is the capability that separates a proposal tool from a plain estimate, and it is the first feature to test.
Attach pictures of the cabinets as they are before work begins, including existing damage, worn edges, and any areas you will not be repairing. Photos set expectations at the proposal stage and give you a record if a finish is questioned later.
Tell the homeowner how many days the kitchen will be without doors, when the work starts, and when it finishes. Cabinet refinishing disrupts a household in a way that painting a bedroom does not, so a clear schedule is part of the sale.
Show what is due to book the job, what is due at completion, and how each payment can be made. A deposit link next to the signature line turns an approval into a booked job on the spot, and a financing option can make the premium tier affordable.
List what is not included, such as repairing damaged doors or changing the layout, and what you guarantee about the finish. If you sell to homeowners at their home, also review the FTC’s Cooling-Off Rule and your state’s requirements so your agreement includes the right notice. For homes built before 1978, note how you handle lead-safe work under the EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting rule.
Most homeowners read a proposal on their phone, often at night after a day of comparing quotes. An e-signature that works in a mobile browser, with a record of when the document was sent, viewed, and signed, closes the loop without a second visit.
Several of these items come built into the QuoteIQ proposals feature, and the rest depend on how you write your templates. In every tool, the time you save comes from building your standard scope language once and reusing it on every kitchen.
Pick QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99/mo for Options and Package estimates, e-signatures, deposits, invoicing, and scheduling in one app. If all you need is a simple estimate with a deposit and a signature, Joist starts at $10/mo and is the cheapest tool on this list.
QuoteIQ Beginner ($74.99/mo, two users) adds QuoteIQ Cam for organized job photos and a before-and-after editor, and Pro ($149.99/mo, four users) adds follow-up automation and job costing. Photos of the existing condition, taken before the doors come off, protect you if a customer later disputes the finish.
PaintScout and DripJobs Advanced are built around the sales conversation. DripJobs includes a library of follow-up messages, and QuoteIQ Pro includes email and text automation, so compare what each costs once the add-ons you actually need are included.
PandaDoc or Proposify can upgrade the proposal document without changing the rest of your stack. Remember that both sit outside scheduling and invoicing, so job details get re-entered unless you connect them.
Builder Prime is positioned at the cabinet trade, with job costing and production scheduling in every tier. Pair that against QuoteIQ Pro or Elite if refinishing is still the core of the business and you want published, lower entry pricing.
QuoteIQ Elite ($299/mo, ten users) and Max ($699/mo, twenty users) cover multi-crew shops, Housecall Pro MAX ($299/mo annual, eight users) is comparable on price, and ServiceTitan is the enterprise option with custom pricing. Get demos of the ones you are serious about.
QuoteIQ offers Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay at online checkout on every plan, and PaintScout lists a Wisetack financing integration. Either one lets a customer choose the premium finish tier without paying it all up front.
Starting prices tell you very little. A cabinet refinisher with an owner, a sprayer, and a helper needs three logins, a tiered proposal, e-signatures, and ideally deposits. The table below prices that setup using the published numbers we verified on October 4, 2026, with the billing basis noted on each row. It is a rough guide, not a quote, and it does not include payment processing fees, taxes, or optional add-ons unless listed.
| Platform | Plan used | Approx. monthly cost | What to know |
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| QuoteIQ | Beginner plus one extra seat | $99.99 (monthly billing) | Two users included, one extra seat at $25. Options estimates are on every plan. Annual billing is two months free. |
| PaintScout | Sales plus Operations | $178 plus $20 per added seat (annual billing) | Seat count and add-ons change the total, so confirm how many users the base price covers. |
| DripJobs | Advanced plus Chat and Job Costing | $221 for the plan and two add-ons (monthly billing) | Good/Better/Best needs Advanced. Additional users are priced through DripJobs. |
| Jobber | Grow with two extra users | $207 (annual billing) | $149 for one user plus two added users at $29 each. |
| Housecall Pro | MAX | $299 (annual billing) | Eight users included. The Sales Proposal Tool is listed on this plan. |
| Proposify | Team | $123 (annual billing) | Three seats included at $41 per user. Sends are metered at 30 per month. |
| PandaDoc | Business, three seats | $147 | $49 per seat. Custom quotes and payments are on this plan. |
| Builder Prime | Three core users | $480 | Published example from its pricing page: a $300 platform fee plus $60 per core user. |
Joist and ServiceTitan are left out of the table on purpose. Joist’s low entry prices are hard to compare without knowing how many users and estimates you need, and ServiceTitan does not publish its pricing.
Two takeaways. First, the gap between the lowest and highest rows is several hundred dollars a month for a shop of the same size, so the plan you need matters more than the plan you start on. Second, the cheapest proposal document is not always the cheapest solution. PandaDoc and Proposify handle the proposal, but you still pay for scheduling, invoicing, and payment collection elsewhere. Add that second tool to the total before you compare.
We searched for proposal software for painters, cabinet painters, and cabinet refinishers, then added the general field service tools these contractors commonly compare. We kept only tools whose vendor pricing pages we could load and read on the day we checked.
For vendors without published pricing, such as ServiceTitan, we list Custom: contact sales instead of repeating third-party estimates that conflict with each other.
Finish-tier proposals, signature and deposit flow, pricing transparency, cabinet-job fit, and total cost for a one-to-five-person shop. For competitors, we noted only what each vendor’s pricing page states.
For QuoteIQ, we used our internal product documentation (version 3.4, updated September 2026) and published feature pages, and we flagged where a feature depends on the plan or on IQ Credits.
Mike and Justin co-founded QuoteIQ in 2022 after running service businesses. Their published answers on quoting speed and specificity shaped what we looked for in a proposal.
“Great app made is super easy to give quotes.”
“This app is great for all home service businesses since it is so easy to create estimates, invoices, schedule work and many more features.”
“We will recommend QuoteIQ to all business owner we work closely with or encounter.”
A note on these reviews: QuoteIQ’s review database has no reviews tagged specifically to cabinet refinishing. These three are 5-star reviews from painting and refinishing businesses instead, judging by the reviewers’ own business names and tags, and are quoted exactly as written.
Mike co-founded QuoteIQ in 2022 after running service businesses. His YouTube channel (580,000+ subscribers) covers field service operations, pricing, and contractor business strategy. Asked how long it should take to send a quote after talking to a customer, his answer was short: “Same day. Not tomorrow morning — same day.”
Read Mike’s insights →Justin co-founded QuoteIQ alongside Mike. He has built and scaled service businesses across multiple verticals, and his published writing on estimates focuses on response speed, pricing discipline, and the systems that keep a business running without the owner in every job.
Read Justin’s insights →QuoteIQ is the best proposal software for most cabinet refinishing businesses in 2026. Options estimates present good-better-best finish tiers, Proposal+ adds a branded document with photos and reviews, and e-signatures, deposit requests, and financing sit in the same workflow, from $29.99 per month. PaintScout and DripJobs are the strongest painting-specific alternatives.
Prices range from free (PandaDoc’s Free plan) and $10 per month (Joist Basics) to $29.99-$699 per month across QuoteIQ’s five plans. On annual billing, PaintScout starts at $99 per month, Jobber at $29, and Housecall Pro at $59, while DripJobs starts at $97 per month. Builder Prime starts with a $300 platform fee, and ServiceTitan is custom-quoted. Prices were verified on October 4, 2026.
There is no full-featured free option built for cabinet refinishing. PandaDoc has a free plan with e-signatures, limited to five documents per month and five templates, and its quotes and payments need the $49-per-seat Business plan. QuoteIQ offers a 14-day free trial on every plan but no permanent free tier, and plans start at $29.99 per month.
A cabinet refinishing proposal should state the scope (doors, drawer fronts, boxes, and any repairs), the finish system and number of coats, the color and sheen, how hardware is handled, prep and protection, the timeline, the price and payment schedule, warranty terms, and photos of the existing condition. Offering two or three finish tiers lets the customer choose instead of only comparing your total with another painter’s.
Both are common. Angi’s September 2026 cost guide says most painters charge $30 to $60 per linear foot or $100 to $250 per door. Whichever unit you use, build it once as a price book item and reuse it. In QuoteIQ, sub-items let you show doors, drawer fronts, and boxes as separate lines under one parent.
Yes. QuoteIQ’s Options estimates are on every plan and show tiers side by side so the customer picks one. DripJobs offers Good/Better/Best package pricing on its $147 Advanced plan, and Jobber offers optional line items on its Grow plan. PaintScout lists optional upgrades in its proposals.
Yes. QuoteIQ, PaintScout, DripJobs, Jobber, Joist, PandaDoc, Proposify, and Builder Prime all list online approval or e-signature. In QuoteIQ, customers approve and sign online on every plan, and editing an estimate after it is sent voids the outstanding signature request, so nobody signs an outdated price.
In the United States, generally yes. The federal ESIGN Act says a signature, contract, or other record relating to a transaction in interstate or foreign commerce may not be denied legal effect, validity, or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form (15 U.S.C. § 7001). Some documents and states have extra rules, so ask a local attorney about your contract language. This is general information, not legal advice.
Yes, with most tools here. QuoteIQ lets an estimate require a deposit and collects it through online payments, PaintScout collects deposits and final payments online, and Joist lists deposit payments on every plan. DripJobs lists online payments, including ACH. Proposify’s pricing page lists no native payment processing, so a deposit would be collected elsewhere.
Yes. QuoteIQ attaches photos and documents to any estimate, and Proposal+ adds a photo gallery. QuoteIQ Cam (Beginner plan and up) adds annotations and a before-and-after editor, and an AI before/after generator on every plan can preview a finished look using IQ Credits. PaintScout lists photo uploads in its proposals.
Some does. QuoteIQ includes Affirm, Klarna, and Afterpay at online checkout on every plan with no upcharge from QuoteIQ, and PaintScout lists a Wisetack financing integration. Approval is up to the lender and processing fees vary by account and provider, so check the details before you promise terms to a homeowner.
QuoteIQ Essentials at $29.99 per month is the best all-around starting point, with Options and Package estimates, e-signatures, deposits, invoicing, and scheduling in one app. Joist, from $10 per month, is the cheapest option if you only need simple estimates with deposits and signatures.
QuoteIQ Pro ($149.99 per month, four users) or Elite ($299 per month, ten users) covers most crews, adding photo documentation, follow-up automation, and job costing, plus Proposal+ at no credit cost and customer self-quoting on Elite. Housecall Pro MAX ($299 per month on annual billing, eight users) is comparable on price, and ServiceTitan is custom-quoted for larger operations.
QuoteIQ is the best PaintScout alternative for most cabinet refinishers: Options estimates, Proposal+, e-signatures, and deposits start at $29.99 per month, compared with $99 per month for PaintScout’s Sales plan on annual billing. DripJobs is the closest painting-specific alternative if you want a ready-made follow-up message library.
QuoteIQ’s Imports hub in Settings covers contacts, services, estimates, invoices, and jobs by CSV, with a dedicated path for bringing a service list over from Jobber, an import preview, and duplicate flagging. Export from Jobber, import into QuoteIQ, and run both for a week before you cut over. Optional done-for-you setup ($299.99 or $999.99, one-time) includes contact import, price book setup, and a 1-on-1 onboarding session.
Two federal rules come up often. The EPA’s Renovation, Repair and Painting rule requires anyone paid to disturb painted surfaces in homes built before 1978 to be certified, so say how you handle lead-safe work on older homes. And if the customer signs at their own home, the FTC’s Cooling-Off Rule gives them until midnight of the third business day to cancel. Your state may add more, so confirm with an attorney.
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For most cabinet refinishing businesses in 2026, QuoteIQ is the best proposal software choice. Options estimates turn finish tiers into a choice the homeowner makes on their phone, Proposal+ gives you a branded document with photos and reviews, and e-signatures, deposits, and financing sit in the same workflow as scheduling and invoicing. Plans start at $29.99 per month for a solo refinisher and scale to $699 per month for larger teams.
PaintScout and DripJobs are the strongest painting-specific alternatives, and the right pick if you want a sales-focused specialist and are comfortable with add-ons and seat fees. Jobber and Housecall Pro fit shops that want a general field service platform, though the proposal features that matter here sit on their higher plans. Joist is the budget pick for a solo operator, PandaDoc and Proposify are document tools for teams with another system running jobs, Builder Prime speaks to cabinet shops and refacing companies, and ServiceTitan is built for much larger operations.
Whatever you choose, the proposal does more of the selling in this trade than in almost any other, because the homeowner is comparing you with painters, refacers, and replacement quotes at very different prices. Send it fast, show the tiers, document the condition with photos, and make it easy to sign. The 14-day QuoteIQ trial is a low-risk way to build your first proposal and see how it reads on a phone.
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Estimates
Create and send professional estimates.
Invoicing
Send, track and collect invoices.
QuoteIQ Cam
Capture and document every job with ease.
Scheduling
Schedule jobs to your calendar in seconds.
Inspection Forms
Create and complete inspection reports.
MapMeasure Pro
Measure and price properties instantly.
Business Analytics
Real-time insight into your performance.
EmployeeHub
Assign, schedule & pay employees.
Virtual Call Team
Never miss a call with 24/7 AJ, assistant.
ClientHub
Send and keep messages inside QuoteIQ.
InstaQuote
Allow customers to create estimates themselves.
InstaSchedule
Let clients schedule appointments themselves.
Facebook User Group
Connect with and get advice from other QuoteIQ users.
Competitor Comparisons
See how QuoteIQ compares to it’s top competitors.
QuoteIQ Partners
Work with trusted partners that support your growth.
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Press & Media
Brand assets and coverage about QuoteIQ’s journey.
