PaintClarity

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1.2.078

• Added: a review card at the foot of Checkup, for administrators, with a link to leave an honest WordPress.org review and the two steps to get a free WordPress.org account. It appears once the site has completed three jobs or used PaintClarity for a month; “I already reviewed” hides it for good, “Maybe later” for sixty days. Reviews are never paid or rewarded.
• Changed: the link at the foot of the menu that read “WP Admin” is now “Settings” and opens PaintClarity > Settings. Administrators only, as before.
• Added: Help now opens with “Watch the walkthrough”, a link to the five-minute video tour in the Help Center, with chapter links to jump to any part of the app.
• Fixed: the Jobs rows keep their layout when the browser translates the page. The Actions toggle used to grow across the Job Value figure, crew initials were translated and spilled out of their circles, and the “Job Value” header, the section counts and “Tomorrow” stayed English. The toggle is now capped to its column, initials and crew names are left alone, and the labels, counts and “Tomorrow” translate. Lead rows pin the contact and the received date the same way.
• Fixed: on Production Rates, “Add area” on a completed job that has no paintable area now opens a one-field Save form right in the row, the same form the completion confirmation uses, and the job’s rate appears as soon as it is saved. It used to send you to Edit Job.
• Fixed: “Add hours” on Production Rates now opens the job’s Hours page, where hours are entered. It used to open Job Pulse, which only shows them.
• Fixed: new jobs, quotes and invoices are stamped with the site’s own date and time. They used to take the database server’s clock (UTC on most hosts), so on a US site a quote or invoice created in the evening carried the next day’s date, and an invoice’s balance could read low for a few hours after another invoice on the same job was marked paid. Records created before this update keep their original stamp.

1.2.077

• Improved: PaintClarity now works cleanly with your browser’s translation (Chrome, Safari, Edge) and with front-end translation plugins. Customer names, addresses, phone numbers and emails, job numbers, amounts, dates, paint colour names and codes, and the PaintClarity name are marked so translators leave them exactly as they are, while labels and sentences translate. This covers the Jobs rows and board, the job page, Customers, Profits, Business, Pulse, Payments, the quote document, the online quote and invoice pages, and the Visualizer colour picker.
• Fixed: the public quote, detail and payment pages, the invoice page and the printable reports declared English regardless of the site’s language. They now declare the site language, so browsers detect it correctly and offer translation when it applies.

1.2.076

• Changed: calculator measurements start blank. Interior square feet, baseboard length, exterior perimeter, wall area, cabinet counts, trim length and the Labor Days area no longer open with an example size filled in; the example shows as grey placeholder text instead. A section you never touch adds nothing to the quote or to the job’s paintable area. Rates, ceiling height, coats and coverage keep their starting values.
• Added: when a calculator’s line looks like one already on the quote (a paint line you typed by hand, say), “Add These Numbers to Quote” asks whether to add it as a new line or replace the existing one, then lists exactly what was added or replaced and highlights the changed rows. Nothing gets counted twice by accident.
• Changed: the Business page tile “Total Deductions” is now “Materials, Vehicle and Overhead”, with a note that crew wages are not in it and that the Financial Report adds them. The arithmetic is unchanged.
• Added: marking a job completed that has no paintable area shows “Paintable area is missing” in the confirmation, with a show/hide holding one field and a Save button, so the number can be added right there and the job counts in Production Rates. Completion itself stays one tap. The Jobs rows view now also prints the confirmation sentence for any stage move; it used to show nothing.
• Changed: after “Note added” on Notes & Photos, the log opens with the new entry on top, marked “Just added”, so the text, time and author can be checked at once.
• Changed: an interior-only job (Interior ticked, Exterior not) no longer pre-fills the “Weather (exterior work)” clause, even when that clause is on by default. The quote document’s “What’s Next?” and the online detail page now both point to accepting online; the “reply with I accept” wording is gone.
• Changed: inside a job, “Customer History” is now “Communication History”. The customer’s work history stays under Customers.

1.2.075

• Fixed: the Resources list’s stylesheet and script loaded on every page of the site and every wp-admin screen, whether or not a resource list was on it. They now load only where a list renders (the app’s Resources page and pages using the [paintops_resources] shortcode). The small Pro-unlicensed upgrade-button script was scoped the same way. Ordinary pages of the site carry no PaintClarity assets at all.
• Changed: the PaintClarity app page is no longer added to a menu that has “Automatically add new top-level pages” turned on, and it stays out of a theme’s automatic page lists (the no-menu fallback and the Page List block). It still shows under Pages and in the menu editor, so adding it to a menu on purpose works as before.

1.2.074

• Added: Business Notes has an “Add a Note to a Job” accordion. Pick an open request or job, write the note, and it lands on that job’s Notes & Photos log with the time and your name, without leaving the page.
• Added: “Preview Online Quote” on the quote screen opens the page the customer will see, in a new tab. Opening it while logged in as staff never counts as a customer view: no “Viewed by customer” badge, no owner notification, no history line, and the quote is not marked sent.
• Changed: on the Free plan the Visualizer opens on the Manual tab, where the working tool is. The AI tab is still one tap away with its upgrade details. Pro is unchanged.

1.2.073

• Changed: the crew initials on a Jobs row are the whole control; the “Show names” / “Hide names” text is gone. Click or tap the initials to list the full names, again, outside, or Escape to collapse. Screen readers hear “Show crew names” / “Hide crew names”.

1.2.072

• Improved: one name for new work. The Jobs page button reads “+ New”, and the menu item, the New Customer page buttons and the form heading all read “New Request / Job”. The Quote / Estimate / Bid / Job pills and the remembered choice are unchanged.
• Fixed: after creating a job the cleared form still carried the paintable square feet and the “Exclude this job from financial reports” box. Both now clear, with the exclusion back to off.
• Improved: crew names on a Jobs row. The initials sit in a plain control with a “Show names” label beside them; a click, tap, Enter or Space lists every crew member’s full name on its own line underneath and the label reads “Hide names”. Clicking again or outside collapses it. Hover titles on desktop stay, and the row’s Actions menu and links are untouched.
• Improved: the amount column on the owner’s Jobs rows is labeled “Job Value”. The painter view is unchanged.

1.2.071

• Fixed: on the quote screen, pressing “Save … as this job’s paintable area” re-rendered the calculator from its starter values (1,500 sq ft, 600 ft of baseboard) while still showing them as results, so a room entered as 224 sq ft with no baseboards offered Interior Painting at 1,239 sq ft and $1,290 of baseboards to the quote. The typed values now survive that press.
• Changed: each calculator’s green button adds only that calculator’s numbers to the quote (“Add These Numbers to Quote”). It used to add every calculator on the page at once, including one calculated earlier with its starter values and never touched again.
• Fixed: Job Pulse compared payroll with the “labor rate” setting divided by this job’s observed hours per day, which on a short day turned a $575 day into $172.50 an hour and reported more “charged” than the whole job. It now holds payroll against the quote’s own labor line; when the quote has none, the setting is named as a suggestion, per standard day, never as what the quote charged. Settings calls it “Suggested labor cost” throughout.
• Fixed: on Profits, “Profit By Job Classification” and “Profit by Crew / Worker” covered every job ever, including upcoming and Not Won, under a “year to date” heading. They now cover the same jobs as the year’s totals (that year, started, not Not Won) and say so.
• Improved: the Profits year block says how many jobs have no hours or expenses logged yet and how much of their revenue is counted as profit only because no costs are on the books.
• New: the manual Visualizer tab offers the job’s existing photos as thumbnails, the same strip the AI tab has, so an original never has to be uploaded twice; the job stays attached when switching tabs. Thumbnails on both tabs carry a caption (the photo’s note, or Before / After / Photo with the day and time).
• New: on the manual Visualizer, a “Next tap on the photo” switch (New surface, Add to it, Take away) replaces having to know Shift-click and Alt-drag, so a selection that spread onto the floor can be corrected by touch. Undo now reverses the last tap rather than removing the whole surface.
• Changed: colors spotted in the AI Visualizer notes are shown as suggestions with an “Add to a surface” action, and only colors on a surface reach the render. A sentence that says what to keep, leave or not paint is never read as a color to use, and a plain color word such as “white” is not matched to a catalog color unless its brand or code is beside it.
• Fixed: after saving an AI preview to a job, “Open job photos” pointed at a WordPress admin address; it now opens the job’s Notes & Photos inside the app.
• Improved: Before / After pairing on Notes & Photos picks from thumbnails with captions and ids instead of “Photo #12, timestamp” dropdowns, so two photos from the same minute can be told apart.
• Improved: a Cloudflare Turnstile key pair that cannot work now shows on the Quote Request Form summary line (“Turnstile NOT WORKING, requests filed under Spam”) and as its own row on the Setup Health board, instead of only inside the section. Saving a bad pair has been refused since 1.2.066.
• Fixed: the Appearance summary line described the app bar and mobile display while the sidebar layout was on, which replaces both. It now states the effective layout, and the overridden controls say “Not in effect”.
• Fixed: a job marked completed before its scheduled start still showed “Arrive in N days” on the job page. A completed job shows “Completed “.
• Improved: more than 16 hours for one person on one date (usually a double entry) is called out on Job Pulse and badged on the job’s Hours page and on the Financials hours editor, rather than carried into the per-day figures without comment.
• Fixed: a whole-dollar total that the arithmetic left a hair under the whole number (14,689.999…) printed as $14,690.00 on the dashboard tiles, where cents are shown only when there are cents.

1.2.070

• Improved: the Jobs page reads the same in row view and board view. The row view’s “Quotes Out” is now “Requests”, matching the board’s first column, and a collapsed “Completed” section joins it below Upcoming, with the same count and the same “N unpaid, $X outstanding” note the board shows. Finished jobs with a balance read “Balance due” with a Collect link; the Actions menu offers the same moves as the board.
• Improved: Production Rates shows each job’s Started date instead of Completed. A scheduled job always has a start date, while the completed date is only stamped by Mark Completed, so most rows read “No date”.
• Fixed: a job marked “exclude from financial reports” was left off the Production Rates list. That flag is about money; a production rate is hours over area, so every completed job now counts.
• Fixed: in the sidebar layout, hovering WP Admin or Sign out turned the text dark against the dark rail; a theme’s own link hover was winning.
• Removed: the “Waiting on payment” list on the Jobs row view. The Completed section now carries the unpaid count and total with a Collect link per job, and Needs Your Attention lists the same balances with Mark As Paid and Record Payment, so a third list with no actions was clutter.

1.2.069

• Fixed: the last wide accent bars are gone: the Business Checkup summary box, Job Pulse tiles, calendar entries, the form section labels, the About panel on Business, the admin-only note above the profit summary and the vivid theme’s extra-wide label edge. Where a colour carried meaning (red for attention, green for clean, tile tone) it now colours the box’s regular 1px border instead.

1.2.068

• Fixed: AI Visualizer renders came back zoomed in, with the ceiling and floor cut off. The photo is fitted to the model’s frame by extending its edges; the flat grey bars used for that read as letterboxing to the model, which zoomed the photo to fill them. The extension is now a mirrored copy of the photo’s own edges, so there is nothing to fill in and the render lands back on the real photo.
• Fixed: the render on the right showed larger than the photo on the left. Both are now capped at the same height so they sit side by side at one size.
• Fixed: a plugin that queues a script late in the page (an SEO toolbar, for one) could still reach the app page past the “other plugins” setting. The check now runs as each tag is printed, whenever it was queued.

1.2.067

• New: Payments on the Free plan. Every job has a Payments page for anyone who can see money: record cash, check or in-person card payments and refunds, remove a mistake, and see Billed, Paid and Still owed. Payments recorded here flip the job’s invoices to paid when they cover the job, the same as on Pro. On Pro the Payments action opens the Financials payments drawer.
• New: invoicing more than the job is billing now asks first. An invoice above what is left to invoice comes back as a question with the numbers; confirm it and the invoice is created and Billable on the job is raised to match, with a line in Customer History saying so.
• New: the year-end report adds “tax to remit, by filing period”: one table per tax label and rate, by quarter, with a by-month view for monthly filers. Cash basis, following the payment date.
• New: the quote form holds its Request a Quote button until Cloudflare Turnstile hands over a token, so a person cannot send the form before the check passes.
• New: quote form submissions that are plainly automated (the hidden field filled in, or no Turnstile token while Turnstile is on) are dropped without creating a row. The Leads screen shows one line, “N automated submissions dropped in the last 30 days”, instead of a Spam tab full of them. Softer rejections keep their rows so Not spam stays possible.
• New: a pattern check on the quote form for sites without Turnstile: first name equal to last name (or names with digits and underscores), a message mostly in non-Latin script on a US, CA, GB, AU, NZ or IE business, and links in the message. Two of the three together flag a request as spam; one alone never does.
• Improved: a Financials save no longer restamps every payment with the person saving and the current time; a payment that did not change keeps who recorded it and when.
• Improved: the AI photo estimate shows metres, square metres and litres on a business set to metric, and the write-up is asked for in metric too.
• Fixed: the AI Visualizer’s result box scrolled under the sticky header when a render started, cutting the progress spinner in half.
• New: other plugins’ scripts and styles stay off the app page. SEO toolbars, chat widgets, cookie banners and page-builder bundles have no job on the private app screens and can make them jump (Rank Math’s Frontend Stats Bar inserted and removed a bar on every screen). Your theme, WordPress itself and anything loaded from another site are not affected, and the rest of your site is untouched. Settings > Appearance > Navigation has the switch and an exceptions box by plugin folder.

1.2.066

• Fixed: on the Quote Request Form settings, a browser’s password manager could fill the Cloudflare Turnstile fields with your WordPress username and password when you pressed Save, because a text field followed by a password field looks like a login form. The widget then failed on every visit and every real request was filed under Spam without a word. Secret fields across the plugin (Turnstile, Stripe, OpenAI) are now masked text fields that password managers leave alone, and a Turnstile key that is not a key is refused at save with a message naming the field.
• Fixed: a Turnstile widget that cannot complete no longer fails silently. Two requests in a row arriving without a Turnstile token put a warning at the top of Leads and on the settings page, saying what usually causes it and how to turn Turnstile off; administrators viewing the form also see a note under the widget when Cloudflare reports it did not load. A saved key that is not a Turnstile key is called out the same way.
• Improved: the quote form’s validation messages are plain: “Some fields are missing or need a correction” and “First name is required”, instead of “A few fields need a moment”.
• Improved: the City, State and Zip fields on the quote form no longer show example values.
• Improved: notices and banners across the app lose their thick left accent bar and keep an ordinary border (the same rule that took the top rule off the stat tiles).

1.2.064

• New: Message History is now Customer History. One timeline per job, newest first: the quote request, the quote going out, opened, signed or declined, invoices raised, sent and paid, every payment and refund, the job finishing, and every call, text, email and note in between, with a funnel strip across the top that shows which stage the customer has reached and what has not happened yet. Same page, same link.
• New: painters can reach the office from a job. Call, Text and Email pills to the company phone and email on the painter’s job page and Customer History, with the job already named, logged as “Called the office”. A contact a painter records from the field is now emailed to the office, which the form always said and never did.
• New: the AI Visualizer can save a render when it was opened without a job: pick the job from a list. When it was opened from a job, the job’s actions bar sits above the tabs so the rest of the job is one tap away.
• Improved: the AI Visualizer no longer comes back cropped or reframed. The model only draws on three fixed canvases, so a phone photo was being recomposed to fill one; the photo is now placed on the right canvas with flat bars, the model paints it as-is, and the bars are trimmed off the result, so the render has exactly the photo’s own edges. The model is also told not to write any text, labels or swatches into the picture, and to keep each wall one uniform color from floor to ceiling, after real renders came back with a caption strip and a lighter band under the ceiling.
• Improved: the AI Visualizer’s result bar is Download and Save; the original photo already sits beside the result, so Hold to compare and Render again are gone, replaced by a note on how to re-render. While a render is in flight the result box itself shows Rendering with a spinner and the status, so the wait is visible without looking down at the Render button.
• Improved: the standard mileage rate is per tax year (2025 = 70 cents, 2026 = 72.5 cents built in), each trip is valued at the rate of the year it was driven, and typing this year’s rate no longer restates last year’s report.
• Improved: outside the US the vehicle and vendor screens stop talking about the IRS, 1099s and miles: a Canadian company sees CRA, T4A and kilometres, a British one HMRC and miles, and Colour is spelled the local way.
• Improved: the calendar feed has an option to leave customer names, street addresses and phone numbers out, for a calendar the whole crew can see.
• Improved: deleting a job that carries payments or paid invoices now says how much money leaves the books before you confirm.
• Fixed: a fourth real quote request from the same address inside the window no longer lands in Spam because bot submissions were being counted toward the cap.
• Fixed: the card processing fee and its sentence on the quote only apply where a card can actually be taken online; Free and Pro-without-Stripe sites no longer disclose a fee nobody can pay. The card fee and 1099 settings are Pro-only on the settings page.
• Fixed: Job Pulse honours the licence, so a lapsed Pro build locks it with the rest.
• Fixed: Profits no longer counts a job moved to Not Won, or a job whose start date is still ahead, as the year’s revenue; the Profit per Hour denominator follows the same rule.
• Fixed: the review request greets the customer by first name; {customer_full_name} is available for the body.
• Fixed: PHP notices on document upload, on CSV import under PHP 8.4, and when the Email Quote page is opened with a stale id (it now says the quote was not found).
• Fixed: the AI Visualizer’s monthly cap message named the wrong feature, the renders-used line did not move until a reload, and the void-invoice prompt now says the reason is shown to the customer.
• New: Hours on the Free plan. Every job has an Hours page (staff only): one row per person per day with a note, each row removable on its own. Hours logged on Free feed Profit per Hour and the labor lines the moment Pro is turned on, because they go in the same table with the worker’s rate stamped at save. On Pro the Hours action still opens the Financials hours editor.
• New: quotes carry cents. A quote total, its tax and an accepted upsell are stored to the cent instead of being rounded to whole dollars, so a $1,847.50 itemized quote no longer reads $1,848 on the customer’s page and the invoice. Existing figures are untouched; the columns are widened on upgrade.
• New: a printable letterhead on the quote. The company name, address, phone and email print across the top of the customer’s quote and the printable version, only the lines you have filled in.
• New: a subcontractor pay run on the Business page. Pick a through date and the date you paid, and every unpaid subcontractor hour up to that date is stamped with the pay date. The year report and the vendor report then follow the money: labor counts in the year it was paid (cash basis, what the 1099 or T4A asks for), with hours that have no pay date yet shown by work date and called out as such.
• New: payee details per vendor and subcontractor (legal name, entity type, address, last four of the tax id, how they are paid) on the Business page, carried onto the vendor report and its CSV, so the January forms can be filled from one screen.
• Improved: money on the dashboards drops the “.00” (a $1,800 job reads $1,800, a $1,847.50 one keeps its cents) on the Profits tiles, the rankings cards, the Financials summary and the Waiting on payment drawer. Lists, invoices and anything a customer sees keep two decimals.
• Improved: one date format everywhere. Every date the app shows follows the site’s Settings > General date and time format instead of three different built-in styles.
• Improved: the dark theme covers the classic layout as well as the app shell, and the app area on a classic page sits in its own panel so the theme does not bleed into the rest of the site.
• Improved: an expired quote or invoice link counts its privacy window from the last time the document was sent, not from the day it was created, so “send it again” makes the link work again. The expired page says so.
• Improved: the year report splits “Labor, employees” from “Contract labor” and adds a “tax collected, by rate” table on a cash basis, next to the accrual “Tax Billed” tile, with a note saying which is which.
• Improved: the browser tab is titled after the screen (“Customer History #10, Acme Painting”) instead of the page name, on every layout.
• Improved: a painter adding a receipt sees the amount of their own earlier receipts on the job and not a colleague’s.
• Improved: on an iPhone the install hint says where Add to Home Screen lives, and going offline no longer stacks a second banner on top of the first.
• Fixed: the job-start reminder read “begins tomorrow, the 30th at .” when the job had no start time.
• Fixed: a stray table cell on the vehicle settings page.
• Fixed: the data export now includes a painters CSV, and the quote and invoice files no longer carry the customers’ public link tokens.
• Fixed: two upgrade steps read a column’s type through information_schema, which answers nothing on some MySQL 8 hosts, so the step was skipped there without a word: the photo attachment column could stay NOT NULL (every AI render save would then fail), and this version’s quote-cents widening would not have run. Both now read the type with SHOW COLUMNS, the same way the rest of the upgrader does.

1.2.063

• Fixed: on a site that installed PaintClarity fresh from 1.2.059 on, business expenses and vehicle trips were reported as saved and were not. Two of the plugin’s tables were never created because a note inside their definition contained a semicolon. The tables are created on upgrade, and a save that fails now says so instead of showing a green notice.
• Fixed: an invoice raised for the remaining balance was shown to the customer with the job’s earlier payments subtracted a second time, so a $2,493 invoice after a $1,000 deposit read “Balance Due $1,493.00” and the online payment charged that. An invoice now remembers what had been paid when it was raised, and only money received after that reduces it. A second invoice on a job keeps its own amount after the first one is paid.
• Fixed: editing a job and saving without touching the tax box could quietly move it to today’s default rate when the rate it was stamped with had been changed or retired, which restated a quote that was already out. A stamped job keeps its rate unless you pick a different one; the form now shows a rate that is no longer offered and says so.
• Fixed: a painter given “view financials” could open the Business page, the Checkup, the Expenses page, the year-end reports and any job’s profit coversheet, including the hourly rates of the whole crew. That permission now covers the painter’s own jobs only; the office pages and reports are for staff.
• Fixed: a check-in or check-out saved on the phone while out of signal could be dropped without a word if the app had been open more than a day. Saved punches are now kept until they send, the app fetches a fresh key before sending, and it tells the painter when something is still waiting.
• Fixed: when a customer signed a quote and the online deposit could not start, they were shown a technical error and the same form again while their signature and any add-on they ticked were already recorded. The acceptance is now completed the same way an offline acceptance is, the customer is thanked and told you will arrange the deposit, and your email says what went wrong on the Stripe side.
• Fixed: the itemized quote a customer signs listed an accepted add-on twice, once at its price and once at your internal cost. The cost line stays in your own costing and never prints for the customer.
• Invoices now state the tax included, the rate, and the amount before tax, matching the quote to the cent.
• The public quote says how the deposit is paid when it is not collected online, and the deposit percentage prints as the …