Aerys vs PaintScout
This is not the comparison the rest of this section runs. PaintScout was built for painting companies by people who know the trade — it carries production rates, it prices the way you sell, and the usual argument on these pages, that the other product has to serve every trade at once, simply does not apply. The honest difference is where each product stops. PaintScout's center of gravity is pricing the job and presenting it well. Aerys is built around what the accepted estimate turns into: the work items your painters read on site, the hours against those work items, and cost against the bid while the job is still running.
Choose PaintScout if…
- Pricing and presenting the job is the problem you are solving, and what happens after acceptance is already working
- You want a long-established, painting-specific estimating tool with years in the trade behind it
- You are content running costing, dispatch and invoicing in separate places and would rather each be chosen on its own merits
Choose Aerys if…
- You want the accepted estimate to become the job itself — site access, work items at the service grain, planned hours — without anyone retyping the scope
- You want quoted against actual by service while the job is running, fed from the painters' own clock rather than reconstructed on Friday
- You want your painters reading that scope in their own language, off the same estimate you already wrote
- You want the approval and the invoice to come off the quote as one link rather than three steps
Both products carry production rates and both price the way painting is actually sold, so the estimate is not where this is decided. Check their current feature set and pricing yourself — ours is on the pricing page and theirs is on theirs.
We compare on who each product is built for, not on a feature table — prices and features change, and a table that is out of date is worse than no table. For PaintScout's current details, check their site.
What Aerys does
Estimate from your own production rates, send a quote the customer accepts themselves — which hands them straight to the payment page — schedule the crew, and track cost against the bid while the job is running.
Questions
Is PaintScout a bad product?
No. PaintScout is a serious product and for some companies it is the right answer — the list above says which ones. The difference is who it was built for.
Can I move my data across?
Yes. Importing customers, properties and your service catalog is part of onboarding.
How current is this comparison?
It compares positioning rather than feature lists or prices, because those change and a stale table would mislead you. For PaintScout's current pricing and features, check their site directly.