Quoting and invoicing, by trade
Every other app in this market sells seats, because their business needs teams. SoloDesks is priced per business and built for one pair of hands, which is why these pages talk about the van and the kitchen table rather than about your crew.
Fifteen trades below, grouped by how the money moves rather than by what is written on the van. A gas engineer and a cleaner have nothing in common as trades and almost everything in common as businesses.
Callouts and small jobs
Lots of jobs, small invoices, and money that should arrive this week rather than next month. The paperwork risk here is the invoice that never gets written up at all.
Plumbers
Send plumbing quotes from the customer's hallway, turn accepted ones into invoices without retyping, and chase what's unpaid. Free to start.
Electricians
Price the job during the walk-round, send a professional PDF quote before you leave, and turn accepted quotes into invoices without retyping. Free to start.
Gas & heating engineers
Invoice a service from the van, quote a boiler swap on the spot, and get told which of last year's customers are due again. Free to start.
Handymen
Turn a list of odd jobs into one clear quote, invoice from the van before the next stop, and keep every small job billed. Free to start.
Cleaners
Quote end-of-tenancy and deep cleans room by room, invoice the moment you're done, and chase the landlords and agents who pay slowly. Free to start.
A room at a time
Priced by the room, the metre or the day, with materials bought at a merchant and a finish that disappears under somebody else's work. The risk is the prep nobody quoted for.
Painters & decorators
Quote room by room at the walk-through, send the PDF the same day, and turn accepted quotes into invoices without retyping. Free to start.
Plasterers
Price a skim by the room or by the day, get the quote out before the dust settles, and turn accepted quotes into invoices without retyping. Free to start.
Tilers
Quote a tiling job by the square metre, take a deposit that covers the tiles you can't send back, and turn quotes into invoices without retyping.
Flooring fitters
Quote a floor by the square metre, price the uplift and subfloor prep as their own lines, and invoice from the van without retyping. Free to start.
Carpenters & joiners
Quote bespoke joinery and second-fix work on-site, itemise the timber and ironmongery, and turn accepted quotes into invoices without retyping. Free to start.
Weeks of work and staged payments
Thousands in materials before anything is visible, jobs that run for weeks, and surprises hiding behind whatever comes out first. The risk is funding somebody else's project out of your own account.
Builders & extensions
Quote an extension in stages, keep the variations on paper as you find them, and invoice each stage without retyping. Free to start.
Roofers
Quote a re-roof or an emergency leak from the driveway, put the scaffold and materials on their own lines, and invoice without retyping. Free to start.
Bathroom fitters
Quote a full bathroom on-site, stage the payments across the fit, take a deposit that covers the suite and tiles, and invoice without retyping. Free to start.
Kitchen fitters
Quote a full kitchen at the survey, stage the payments across a three-week fit, and take a deposit against what you've ordered. Free to start.
Landscapers & gardeners
Quote at the garden walk-round, take a deposit before you order materials, and invoice stage by stage without retyping. Free to start.
Not sure your trade is listed?
It still works. The pages above exist because a plumber and a plasterer describe the same job in different words, not because the app treats them differently. These three are for everyone:
Free invoice & quote templates
Itemised, written for how each trade actually bills, downloadable as a PDF with no signup.
Nine free calculators
Day rates, VAT, CIS, deposits, markup and what a late invoice is really owed. No account needed.
Getting paid
What to do when a customer goes quiet, from the first polite chase to a letter before action.
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