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title: Painting estimate
customers-call-it: addition
url: /docs/features/sites/presets/painting-estimate-form
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# Painting estimate

A painting form for your website and the table its responses land in. Visitors choose interior, exterior, cabinet or commercial work and answer only that work's size questions, with photos, timing and details. Each response becomes one request you follow from new to quoted to won or lost.

## Use it when

Use it when a painter wants visitors to choose interior, exterior, cabinet or commercial work, answer only the size questions for that work and send photos, with an instant price once the business's own rates are connected. Add it from the Sites editor's Forms panel or the sidebar's Add; it creates a new Painting estimates table, or writes into one you already have when that table holds the same fields.

## Use something else when

Colour consultations are booked through Schedule as a service. A painter who prices every job after a visit can leave the calculator unconnected and price each request itself.

## What it adds or changes

- **Website**: Painting estimate form
- **App**: Painting estimates

Connect your calculator in Store before publishing

It brings these with it:

- [Painting estimates](/docs/features/data/presets/painting-estimate-requests-table)

## Settings

| Setting | What it does | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Form name | The form's title as visitors see it; every other line of wording is reworded later from the form's settings. | Request a painting estimate |
| Response workspace | Where responses are kept: a new Painting estimates table, or an existing table of this business that holds the form's fields. |  |

## How it works

It runs its own built-in automation, called Painting estimate. Tell staff about a new response: read a new response, choose the staff destinations and email its full details. Empty recipient groups send nobody.

## Example

Fresh Coat, a fictional painter, connects its painting calculator with its own rates. A visitor picks Interior rooms and House exterior, enters 3 rooms with trim and 1,200 square feet over 2 stories, and sees the business's price for both; the request lands as `new` with the estimate reference.

## Limits

Each kind of work asks only its own questions: rooms and extras for interior, wall area and stories for exterior, doors and drawers for cabinets, square feet for commercial. Every size is the visitor's estimate, checked on site. Preferred timing is free text, not a booking. No visitor gets an automatic reply. Staff notices come from the table's own automation, which starts paused until recipients are set.

## Related

- [Painting estimates](/docs/features/data/presets/painting-estimate-requests-table): Painting estimate requests, from first ask to won or lost