Building Painting Management - Dolibarr

1. Overview

Building Painting Management turns Dolibarr into a complete, industry-specific ERP & CRM for building painting contractors. It covers the full operational cycle of a painting business — from prospecting and quotation to site execution, quality reception, warranty and after-sales service — while remaining fully integrated with Dolibarr's native modules (Third parties, Products, Stocks, Projects, Contracts, Proposals, Orders, Invoices, Interventions, Agenda and the Document management system).

The module ships with a premium dashboard, a decision-oriented reporting centre, a REST API, an alert engine, granular permissions, five interface languages and a one-click demonstration dataset, so it is fully functional and meaningful the moment it is enabled.

·       Business scope: prospects, clients, sites, buildings, worksites (chantiers), measurements (metres), studies & estimates, painting works, paints & colour charts, teams & painters, subcontractors, materials, equipment & rentals, hours, costs, profitability, contracts, receptions, reserves, SAV and warranties.

·       Architecture: 54 object types, object-oriented PHP, a self-healing SQL schema, hooks/triggers/rights, extrafields-ready, multi-company / multi-entity aware.

·       Standards: built to official Dolibarr conventions for maintainability and forward compatibility.

2. Premium Dashboard

A next-generation control centre using the colour codes of the painting trade (blue, white, grey, safety orange, site yellow, validation green), with modern KPI cards, a zoned layout and interactive charts.

Key performance indicators

·       Quotes issued, quote amount, quotes won / lost, win rate, forecast turnover, achieved turnover.

·       Worksites: total, in preparation, in progress, suspended, completed, received, late; average progress rate.

·       Profitability: average profitability, gross margin, net margin.

·       Costs: paint cost, labour cost, material cost, rental cost, subcontracting cost.

·       Production: planned vs. actual hours, productivity, measured surfaces, painted surface (m2), paint consumption (L).

·       Quality & after-sales: open / lifted reserves, SAV interventions, open claims, active contracts, active warranties, safety alerts, critical stock.

·       Top lists: top clients, top painters, top teams, top suppliers, most-used paints.

Interactive charts

·       Monthly and annual turnover, cost breakdown, profitability per worksite.

·       Worksite status distribution and progress, planned vs. actual hours.

·       Paint family / surface-type distribution, materials consumption.

·       Quotes, orders, invoices and payments evolution; worksite map and intervention heatmap.

3. Worksite (Chantier) Management

Each worksite is described in depth and drives the whole operational and financial flow.

·       Client, address, GPS coordinates, photos, plans, PDF documents.

·       Site manager (chef de chantier), works supervisor, team and subcontractors.

·       Planning, budget (initial / revised), dates, status, progress, margin.

·       Full history and activity journal, linked Dolibarr project, quotes and invoices.

4. Measurements (Metres) & Studies

·       Metres: wall, ceiling, facade, woodwork, ironwork and floor surfaces; automatic developed-surface, unit, coats, spreading rate and required paint (litres) calculation.

·       Studies / estimates: preparation level (NF DTU 59.1 A/B/C), number of coats, estimated litres, hours and cost, margin, revision index and win/lost tracking.

5. Paints, Supports & Colour Charts

Paint catalogue

·       Manufacturers, ranges, references, types (acrylic, glycero, alkyd, epoxy, polyurethane, siloxane, mineral, lime...).

·       Finishes (matt, velvet, eggshell, satin, semi-gloss, gloss), spreading rate, coats, drying and re-coat time, VOC, packaging, price per litre.

·       Safety data sheet (SDS) flag, linked Dolibarr product and supplier.

Colour charts (nuanciers)

·       RAL, NCS, Pantone and manufacturer colour references with hex value, colour family and gloss level.

·       Tintable-at-the-machine flag and linked paint / manufacturer.

Supports & works

·       Supports: concrete, render, plaster, plasterboard, brick, wood, metal, galvanised steel, aluminium, PVC, facade, screed...

·       Works phases: protection, washing, stripping, sanding, filling, smoothing, priming, undercoat, finish coats, varnishing, glazing, damp/mould treatment, decorative coatings, wallpapering, resin application.

6. Teams, Painters & Subcontractors

·       Painters, decorators, facade specialists, foremen, works supervisors and estimators with trade and specialty.

·       Skills and certifications with expiry tracking, availability, planning, on-call, hours and productivity.

·       Teams and subcontractors, linked to native third parties.

7. Materials, Equipment & Rentals

·       Materials & consumables: paints, fillers, tapes, protective sheeting, brushes, rollers, poles, spatulas; stock, entries, exits, inventory, minimum-stock alerts.

·       Equipment & machines: scaffolding, mobile towers, scissor/boom lifts, airless stations, sanders, compressors, with working height, capacity, flow rate, pressure and a life-log.

·       Rentals: scaffolding, aerial platforms and machines rented from suppliers, with daily rate, period, deposit and billed rental periods.

8. Interventions, Reception, Reserves & SAV

·       Interventions and work orders with planning, technicians, before/after photos, checklists, signature, QR code and reports.

·       Hours logging and consumption tracking per worksite.

·       Receptions (provisional / definitive), reserves and non-conformities, quality and safety controls, site incidents.

·       After-sales service (SAV): claims, warranties, interventions, photos, resolution and full history.

9. Contracts & Warranties

·       Maintenance / upkeep contracts, contract templates, amendments, renewals and invoicing schedules.

·       Service-level commitments and warranties (including decennial) with expiry monitoring.

10. Reporting Centre

A dedicated reporting menu with dozens of professional reports, each printable and exportable to PDF, Excel, CSV and Word:

·       Quotes, invoices, orders, worksites, profitability, margins, teams, painters, hours.

·       Materials, consumption, suppliers, SAV, warranties, safety, stock.

·       Financial, annual, monthly and daily reports.

11. Search, Alerts, Multilingual & Configuration

·       Global search: multi-criteria search across all module data.

·       Alert centre: low stock, delays, expired warranties/contracts, late worksites, missing documents, unpaid invoices, urgent interventions.

·       Multilingual: French, English, German, Spanish and Italian — all strings externalised in Dolibarr language files.

·       Configuration: general parameters, numbering, permissions, business options, colours, units, spreading rates, VAT, documents, notifications, dashboard, reporting, printing, QR codes and signatures.

·       Demo data: one-click "Install demonstration data" and "Remove demonstration data" actions that create and cleanly remove a complete, realistic painting dataset without touching real records.

12. Native Dolibarr Integration

The module links natively with Third parties & CRM, Agenda, Products & Services, Shipments & Receptions, Stocks, Purchases and Supplier/Customer orders, Commercial proposals, Invoices & Payments, Banks, Accounting, Projects, Interventions, Contracts, Tickets, Resources, HR, Expense reports, the Document management system (GED), Emails, Workflows, Hooks, Triggers, Extrafields, Categories and multi-entity.

13. Security & Quality

·       Complete permission set (16 right groups, read/write/delete plus sensitive cost/admin rights) and user profiles.

·       Logging, history, audit trail, CSRF protection and form validation.

·       Documented, PHPDoc-annotated, PSR-oriented code; optimised SQL, memory and performance.

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