Invoices for builders and roofers
Big jobs get paid in stages, and every stage needs a tidy invoice. Make a branded one in a minute, with your logo, VAT worked out and your bank details under the total, then send it by email or text. You can see when it’s opened, and you mark it paid once the money arrives.
£4,850.00
Jo Morgan · due 20 Oct
How it works for builders and roofers
One invoice per stage, numbered properly
Deposit, first fix, completion: each stage goes out as its own invoice, numbered on from your old ones so nothing restarts at one. Duplicate the last invoice, change the lines, and the next stage is ready to send.
VAT done, or switched off
UK VAT is preset, any other rate works, and tax can be turned off altogether for firms that aren’t VAT registered. Lines carry a quantity and price, so materials and labour sit clearly on lines of their own.
Paid by bank transfer, marked by you
Your sort code and account number sit under the total, with the invoice number as the reference. The client’s link opens a clean page to view, print or download, and you can see when they first opened it.
Every client becomes a contact
Sending an invoice can add the client to your contacts. With automatic requests switched on, a review request follows on your usual timing as a separate message, so the final invoice and the review ask each arrive in their own good time.
Completion day at Hartsgrove Extensions
The final stage invoice, sent before leaving site
Jess at Hartsgrove Extensions splits Anita and Rob’s single-storey extension into three invoices: one at the start, one when it was watertight, and the last at completion. On the final day she duplicates the second invoice from the van, changes the lines and sends it by email with the PDF attached. That evening she can see Anita has opened it. The payment arrives by bank transfer later in the week, and Jess marks it paid. A review request follows on its usual timing.
An illustration of how it works, not a real customer.
The film
A one-minute look at LocalQuiver's invoices: add the customer, the job and the price, send a branded invoice by text or email, or download it, and let the customer view it on their phone. It works the same way for builders and roofers. Review requests follow an invoice on plans with automatic requests, when they're switched on. Regulars are asked again on later invoices until they click through.
Read the transcript
0:01Introducing invoices. Now built into LocalQuiver.
0:05Still typing invoices into Word at ten at night?
0:08Or paying for yet another system?
0:11Not any more.
0:11Add your customer, the job, and your price. LocalQuiver does the maths, the VAT, and your bank details.
0:19Every invoice is fully branded as you. Your logo, your colours, your fonts.
0:25Then send it your way. By text, straight to your customer's phone. By email, with the PDF attached. Or download it, and send it yourself.
0:34Your customer opens it online, right there on their phone.
0:37But here's the clever bit.
0:39Every invoice adds your customer straight into your contacts, and kicks off an automated review request, with follow-ups, so happy customers leave you glowing reviews.
0:49On Google. And on Facebook, Tripadvisor, Trustpilot, and Checkatrade.
0:55Invoices, sorted. Reviews, on autopilot. LocalQuiver.
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What's included
- Invoices in your firm’s logo, colours and fonts
- Quantity and price lines, with VAT worked out
- Numbering carried on from your old invoices
- Sent as an emailed PDF, a texted link, or both
- Sort code and account under the total, for bank transfer
- Outstanding, overdue and recently paid at a glance
- Clients added to your contacts, ready for a review request
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Questions
No. Each invoice carries your sort code and account number, or an IBAN, with the invoice number for the client to quote as their reference. When the transfer lands, you mark the invoice as paid. There are no card payments and no automatic payment chasers, so the money side stays exactly as you run it now.
No. LocalQuiver does invoices only, so quotes and estimates stay in whatever you use today. Once the job is agreed, each stage can go out as its own invoice, and duplicating the previous one saves retyping the client’s details every time.
The invoice doesn’t, no. Sending can add the client to your contacts, and with automatic requests on, a separate review request follows on your normal timing. A repeat client who hasn’t clicked through yet gets asked again when their next invoice goes out.
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