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Field Stash vs just using QuickBooks

QuickBooks is where a lot of painting businesses live - invoices, payments, and the books. But QuickBooks is an accounting tool, not a way to run painting sales and jobs: there's no pipeline, no proposals, no scheduling, no estimating built for painting, and no way to answer a call or capture a lead. Field Stash runs all of that and syncs to QuickBooks - so you keep your books where they are and stop running the rest of the business on spreadsheets.

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Feature by feature

Feature
Field Stash
QuickBooks
Sales & lead capture
Sales pipeline / CRM
✓
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AI phone attendant (answers + books calls)
✓
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Self-serve instant quote for homeowners
✓
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Two-way texting with customers
✓
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Color visualizer
✓
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Estimating & scheduling
Painting production-rate estimating
QuickBooks estimates are generic line items
✓
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Good / better / best proposals
✓
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Drive-time booking + crew scheduling
✓
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Field / work-order mobile app
QuickBooks mobile is for invoicing, not field work
✓
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Money & books
Invoicing + online payments
✓
✓
Full accounting / bookkeeping
Field Stash syncs to QuickBooks instead of replacing it
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✓
Two-way QuickBooks sync
✓
✓
✓ included~ limited / paid add-on- not offered

Where QuickBooks has the edge

  • It's a full accounting system - the system of record for your books, taxes, and financial reporting.
  • Deep bookkeeping and reporting no CRM should try to replicate - which is why Field Stash syncs to it instead of replacing it.

The pricing difference

Field Stash
One flat plan, unlimited users, everything to run painting sales and jobs - and it syncs invoices and payments to your QuickBooks.
QuickBooks
QuickBooks is priced for accounting and does that job well. But running your pipeline, proposals, scheduling, and field work on top of it means spreadsheets and manual re-entry - or a second tool. Field Stash is that tool, and it feeds QuickBooks automatically.

Field Stash complements QuickBooks - keep your books where they are and add the CRM, estimating, and field tools QuickBooks doesn't provide.

Questions

No. Keep QuickBooks for your accounting. Field Stash runs your sales, proposals, scheduling, and field work, and syncs invoices and payments to QuickBooks so your books stay current.
QuickBooks handles invoicing and the books, but it has no pipeline, proposals, painting estimating, scheduling, or phone and lead capture. That's the gap painters fill with spreadsheets - and what Field Stash replaces.
Yes. Invoices and payments sync to QuickBooks, so you get the CRM and field tools without re-entering numbers into your accounting.
No. Your accounting stays in QuickBooks. Field Stash sits in front of it, running everything from the first call to the signed job, and passes the money side through to your books.

Keep the books, run the business

Start a free trial or book a demo and see everything QuickBooks can't do for a painting business - synced right back to your QuickBooks.

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