Paint Portal vs DripJobs
DripJobs is built around one conviction: the contractor who follows up first wins the job. Paint Portal is built around another: the job isn't done until you know what it made. Both are true — here's which one your shop needs more.
Paint Portal is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to DripJobs. DripJobs is a trademark of its owner. Every claim below is sourced from DripJobs' public website as of June 12, 2026 — their pricing and features may change, so check their site for current details.
The short version
Both are real tools used by working contractors. The fit depends on where your money leaks.
DripJobs fits better when…
- Leads go cold because nobody follows up — their automated drips are the best in this space
- You want two-way texting from a dedicated business number, inside the CRM
- You sell across home services, not just painting
Paint Portal fits better when…
- The leak is on the job, not the lead — hours burning past the estimate with nobody noticing
- You want crew clock-ins, production tracking, and job costing included, not priced as add-ons
- Your painters need a real app in the field, with GPS-verified time and photos
- You want to start at $39 and try it on a free tier first
Feature by feature, with sources
“Not advertised” means their public pages don't mention it as ofJune 12, 2026 — nothing more. We compare what each company tells the public, not rumors.
| Feature | DripJobs | Paint Portal |
|---|---|---|
| Win jobs | ||
| Automated follow-ups | Its specialty — 40+ done-for-you text and email drips, triggered by pipeline stage | Automatic email follow-up on unanswered quotes (add-on); no text drips |
| Two-way texting | DripJobs Chat add-on, $25/mo, with a dedicated business number | Not offered |
| Sales pipeline | Visual drag-and-drop deal pipeline | Job statuses on every project — no drag-and-drop pipeline board |
| Proposals & e-signatures | Branded proposals with e-sign; package pricing on Advanced | Room-by-room quotes with live margin warnings; clients e-sign from any device |
| Run crews | ||
| Scheduling | Dual calendars for estimates and jobs, crew dispatch, work orders | Drag-and-drop crew calendar with double-booking warnings |
| Crew time clock | Not advertised | GPS-verified clock-in, automatic overtime |
| Production progress tracking | Not advertised | Prep / prime / paint sliders for each job, updated from the field |
| Jobsite photos | CompanyCam integration | Built-in gallery with GPS pins and timestamps |
| Equipment tracking | Not advertised | QR tags on sprayers, ladders, and tools — scan to check out |
| Know your numbers | ||
| Job costing | Add-on, $49/mo | Included — live hours and materials against the estimate while the job runs |
| Production-rate estimating | Add-on, $99/mo | Quote builder included; surface-based paint calculator |
| A/R aging | Not advertised | Overdue buckets 0–90+ days with pre-written payment reminders |
| Payroll math | Not advertised | Approved hours roll into gross pay with overtime, exportable |
| Get paid | ||
| Invoicing & online payments | Included — Stripe payments, and you can pass card fees to the customer | Included — cards and ACH through Stripe, straight from the client portal |
| Client experience after the deposit | Automatic status updates as the deal moves stages | Client portal — clients watch progress, photos, and invoices without calling you |
| Platform | ||
| QuickBooks | Integration available | Yes: invoices, expenses and payments sync with QuickBooks Online |
| Other integrations | Stripe, Google Calendar, Zapier, CompanyCam | Data import from Jobber, Monday.com, CSV |
| Mobile | Mobile apps not mentioned on their public pages | Web app that works on any phone, tablet or computer |
| Try before you buy | No free trial; month-to-month, no contracts | Free tier with real jobs in it — no timed paid-plan trial |
| Extra users | 1 admin included on Pro and Advanced; additional-user pricing is contact-for-pricing | Starter includes 1 full user + 2 crew-only users at $39; Pro includes 5 users, $10 per extra |
Where DripJobs is genuinely ahead
Credit where it's due — these are real advantages, not straw men.
Follow-up automation
Forty-plus pre-written drip sequences that fire by pipeline stage, over text and email. If estimates die in your outbox, this is the single feature most likely to pay for the subscription — ours follows up on unanswered quotes by email, without a drip library.
Texting built in
A dedicated business phone number with two-way texting inside the CRM ($25/mo add-on). Homeowners answer texts; Paint Portal has no texting today.
Marketing reach
Email blast campaigns, appointment reminders, a custom email domain on Advanced, and Zapier to wire in everything else. Their marketing toolbox is wider than ours.
Where Paint Portal pulls ahead
Booking the job is half the fight. The other half is the two weeks your crew spends on it.
The field side is built in
GPS-verified clock-ins, prep/prime/paint sliders, jobsite photos with location pins, and equipment QR tags — none of it advertised on their pages, all of it standard in ours.
The numbers are included, not add-ons
On DripJobs, job costing is $49/mo extra and production-rate estimating is $99/mo extra. We sell add-ons too — but live job costing, A/R aging, and payroll math ship inside Paint Portal's plans, because for a painting business they're the point.
Try it for free, with your crew on it
DripJobs doesn't offer a free trial, and extra users are contact-for-pricing. Paint Portal has a free tier and published per-user prices all the way up.
The monthly bill for a 3-person crew
An owner and two painters, priced on each platform's own published monthly rates as of June 12, 2026.
| Setup | How it adds up | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| DripJobs Pro, as published | $97 includes 1 admin user; pricing to add the two painters isn't published | $97+ |
| DripJobs Pro, with the numbers tools | $97 + Job Costing $49 + Production Rates $99 (+ Chat texting $25 if you want it) | $245–$270+ |
| Paint Portal, Starter | Starter: $39 for 1 full user + 2 crew-only users, 25 active projects and unlimited quotes, signatures and invoices | $39 |
| Paint Portal, Pro | $99 includes 5 users with unlimited quotes and invoices — payments, GPS verification, live job costing, A/R | $99 |
Plan and add-on prices, the one-admin allowance and contact-for-pricing additional users were rechecked onDripJobs' pricing pageSeptember 13, 2026. Other feature descriptions retain the review date below. Fair notes: if all you want is CRM and follow-up automation, DripJobs Pro at $97 flat is a competitive price and the add-ons are optional — the stacked figure only applies if you want the job-numbers tools too. Our $39 Starter includes 1 full user + 2 crew-only users and 25 active projects; a second office user requires Pro at $99. Paint Portal is free during the beta, and these plans start at launch. Full breakdown onour pricing page.
Sources: dripjobs.com and dripjobs.com/pricing, retrieved June 12, 2026, using monthly billing. Paint Portal figures are our own published pricing on the same date.
DripJobs is a trademark of its respective owner. Paint Portal is an independent product with no affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement relationship with DripJobs. If anything above is out of date,tell us and we'll fix it.
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