Invoices for plumbers
Finish a boiler service, add the parts and labour, and send a branded invoice by text or email before you pull off the drive. Your bank details sit under the total with the invoice number as the reference, and the customer is added to your contacts, so a review request can follow.
£185.00
Karen Davies · due 20 Oct
How it works for plumbers
Parts and labour, tax worked out
Add lines with a quantity and price for the valve, the call-out and the hours on site. UK VAT is preset, any other rate works, and you can turn tax off if you’re not VAT registered. Numbering carries on from your old invoices.
Paid by bank transfer
Customers see your sort code and account number, or IBAN, under the total, with the invoice number as their reference. When the transfer arrives, you mark the invoice paid and it moves out of your outstanding list.
Landlords and letting agents too
Send gas safety check invoices to landlords or letting agents by email with the PDF attached. The link opens a clean page they can view, print or download as PDF or Word, and you can see when it was first opened.
Know who still owes you
Outstanding, overdue, paid in the last 30 days and drafts each have their own list. Send any invoice again, duplicate, cancel or download it, which makes next year’s service for the same customer quick to repeat.
A Thursday afternoon with Oakvale Heating
Sent from the driveway, not the kitchen table
Marcus finishes a combi boiler service and sits in the van for a minute. He duplicates the invoice from the customer’s last service, updates the date, and sends it by text with a link. The customer opens it that evening, and Marcus can see when. The bank transfer arrives on Monday and he marks it paid. Because automatic review requests are switched on, a separate text asking for a review follows on his usual timing, without him thinking about it.
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 plumbers. 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
- Branded invoices with your logo, colours and fonts
- Parts and labour lines, with VAT added up for you
- PDF by email or a link by text, whichever suits
- Bank transfer details, with the invoice number as reference
- Outstanding, overdue and paid lists at a glance
- See when the customer first opened it
- Customers added to your contacts automatically
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Questions
No. Each invoice carries your sort code and account number, or an IBAN, with its own number as the payment reference. Customers pay by bank transfer and you mark the invoice paid yourself. Nothing chases late payers automatically, but you can send any invoice again whenever you need to.
No. Invoices don’t sync with accounting packages and don’t file anything with HMRC. You can download any invoice as a PDF to keep with your records or pass to your accountant. Your job software can be linked for contacts and review requests, but not for accounts.
Not the invoice itself. Sending it can add the customer to your contacts, and if automatic requests are on, a separate review request follows on your usual timing. A landlord you invoice every year is asked again next time, until they click through.
Invoices
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