Quoting and invoicing for flooring fitters
SoloDesks is a quoting and invoicing app for self-employed flooring fitters. Measure the rooms, price them by the square metre with the underlay, the trims, the uplift and the subfloor prep on their own lines, and send a professional PDF before you've loaded the van. Take a deposit that covers a roll you've had cut, and turn accepted quotes into invoices without typing them twice. It's built for one fitter on their knees all day, not a firm with a showroom.
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Why flooring fitters use SoloDesks
The subfloor you can't see until the old floor is up
A price worked out off a room measurement quietly assumes the floor underneath is flat and dry, and plenty of the time it's neither. Latex, ply, a damp membrane, boards that need screwing down. Put subfloor prep on the quote as a stated provisional line, so finding out on the morning is a conversation about a number you already wrote down.
Uplift and disposal, priced instead of absorbed
Lifting the old carpet, pulling the gripper, loading the van and paying at the tip is half a day that nobody quotes for and everybody does. Give it a line with a price against it. It's work, it costs you a tip fee, and a customer who sees it written down almost never argues with it.
A deposit for a roll that's already been cut
The moment a roll is cut to your room sizes it belongs to you, whatever the customer decides next week. Send a deposit invoice against the job covering the material, so a cancelled bedroom costs you a morning rather than a roll of LVT stood in the garage.
Metres, wastage and the customer counting offcuts
You order over for cuts, doorways and pattern match, then they spot the offcuts going in the van and wonder what exactly they paid for. Itemise the area and the wastage allowance on the quote so it's on paper from the start, rather than a defence you're mounting at the end with your own money on the line.
One tap to accept, and Thursday's booked
Every quote gets a private link. The customer opens it on their phone and taps Accept, and you see it the moment they do, with the job on the calendar and the address attached. No ringing round on a Sunday night working out whose lounge you're starting on Monday. Three accept-links a month are free; Pro makes them unlimited.
Questions flooring fitters ask
- What is the best quoting app for a self-employed flooring fitter?
- The one that works on a phone in somebody's front room with a tape measure in your other hand. SoloDesks is built for solo fitters: price by the square metre, itemise underlay, trims, uplift and prep, send a professional PDF quote on the spot, and turn it into an invoice when it's accepted. Free for 10 quotes and 10 invoices a month, no card required.
- How do I quote a flooring job per square metre?
- One line for the area at your square-metre rate, then separate lines for underlay, trims, door bars, uplift and disposal, and any subfloor prep. The metres and the materials being visibly apart is what stops a customer reading your rate as the whole price. SoloDesks totals it into a PDF and carries the same breakdown onto the invoice.
- Should I quote subfloor preparation up front?
- Put it on as a provisional line with a figure, and say plainly that it's confirmed once the old floor is up. Leaving it off means every prep job becomes a difficult phone call on the morning. Naming a number in advance turns the same conversation into you being right about something you already warned them about.
- Can I take a deposit for materials?
- Yes. Raise a deposit invoice against the job covering the flooring and underlay you've ordered, then bill the balance when you finish. Each invoice carries its own paid or unpaid status, so material you've fronted is never something you have to reconstruct from memory.
- Is it free?
- To start, yes: 10 quotes, 10 invoices, 10 emailed PDFs and 3 one-tap accept-links a month, with unlimited clients and jobs and no card asked for. Pro lifts the limits, unlocks the premium PDF styles and chases late invoices for you. No contract, cancel anytime.
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