Quoting and invoicing for kitchen fitters
SoloDesks is a quoting and invoicing app for self-employed kitchen fitters. Price the whole job at the survey, the rip-out, the units, the worktop, the appliances and the labour, and send a professional PDF before you leave the house. Stage the payments across a fit that runs two or three weeks, take a deposit against what you've ordered, and turn the accepted quote into an invoice without typing it twice. It's built for one fitter running the whole job, not a firm with a showroom.
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Why kitchen fitters use SoloDesks
Stage the payments across a three-week fit
A full kitchen is the best part of a month's work and thousands in materials before the customer sees a finished room. Don't fund that out of your own account. Invoice a deposit, a stage when the units are in and the balance at handover, as separate invoices against the same job, so you're never more than a few days' work away from being paid.
Their units, and the three doors that didn't arrive
Half of kitchens now turn up flat-packed from a retailer the customer picked, which means it isn't your order, isn't your delivery and isn't your fault when it's short. Quote your labour separately from anything you supply, and say on the quote that time lost waiting on their delivery is chargeable, so a week of standing about isn't silently yours.
The rip-out that finds forty years of bodges
Take out an old kitchen and you find the isolator buried behind a unit, waste pipes at the wrong fall and a floor that's nowhere near level. Add each one as its own line the day you find it and get it accepted before you carry on, so the extras are a signed-off list rather than a speech you make at the end.
Templating splits the job in half
Solid surface worktops get templated once the units are in and fitted a week or more later, so the job stops dead in the middle through nobody's fault. Invoice the first half when the units are in rather than waiting on a worktop fitter whose diary you don't control.
One tap to accept, and three weeks of your diary goes
Every quote gets a private link. The customer opens it on their phone, taps Accept, and you see it the moment they do, with the job on the calendar and the address attached. A full kitchen blocks out most of a month, so knowing it's genuinely confirmed matters before you turn other work away. Three accept-links a month are free; Pro makes them unlimited.
Questions kitchen fitters ask
- What is the best quoting app for a self-employed kitchen fitter?
- The one you can build the quote on at the survey, while you're still stood in the room measuring. SoloDesks is built for solo fitters: itemise the rip-out, units, worktop and labour, send a professional PDF before you leave, stage the payments across the fit, and turn it all into invoices without retyping. Free for 10 quotes and 10 invoices a month.
- How do I quote a kitchen installation?
- Break it into lines the customer recognises: rip-out and disposal, first fix, fitting the units, worktop, appliances, second fix, making good. One lump sum invites haggling because there's nothing to look at. An itemised quote turns the conversation into which parts they want, which is a much better conversation to be having.
- Can I take a deposit and stage the payments?
- Yes. A deposit invoice for materials up front, a stage invoice when the units are in and the balance at handover, each as its own invoice against the job with its own paid or unpaid status. A fit spread over three weeks never turns into guesswork about what's been settled.
- What if the customer supplies their own units?
- Quote your labour on its own lines and leave their supply out of your totals entirely, so you're not carrying the risk on somebody else's order. It's worth putting a line on the quote covering delays caused by their delivery, because that's the single most common way a fitter loses a week they can't bill for.
- What does it cost?
- The free plan is 10 quotes, 10 invoices, 10 emailed PDFs and 3 accept-links a month, with unlimited clients and jobs and no card required. Pro removes those limits, unlocks the premium PDF styles and chases overdue invoices automatically. No contract, cancel anytime.
Reading for kitchen fitters
Free guides and calculators. No account needed for any of them.
How to Write a Quote That Wins the Job
How Much Deposit Should You Take on a Job?
How to Check a Customer Will Pay Before You Start the Job
Stage Payments for Tradespeople: How to Structure Them
Calculators most kitchen fitters actually open
Those are three of nine free calculators. No account needed for any of them.
What are you using now?
Honest write-ups of the four systems most kitchen fitters actually run on, including who should keep the one they have.
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