What SoloDesks does, and what it doesn’t

SoloDesks is quoting, invoicing and job-scheduling software for a one-person trade business. You quote from a phone, the client taps Accept, the job lands on a calendar, the invoice goes out, and the unpaid ones get chased without you. Free to start, £12 a month for everything.

This is the plain version. The home page sells it. This one just says what it is, including the parts it doesn’t do.

The work it carries

One job, from the doorstep to the money landing. Four steps, and the app is only ever doing one of them at a time.

  1. Quote

    The client opens the link and taps Accept, and the status changes there and then.

  2. Schedule

    The job is worked and marked done, with its line items still attached to it.

  3. Invoice
    Pro

    The due date passes without the money arriving.

  4. Chase
    Pro

    You mark it paid, and the chasing stops the same second.

One job moving through the app. Each arrow is a thing that happens rather than a screen you go and find, which is why the four steps read as one piece of work and not four features.

  1. Quote

    Build a quote on a phone, standing in the kitchen you have just been asked to price. It goes out as a PDF with your logo on it, and the client gets a private link they can open and tap Accept on. The status changes the moment they do, so you are not left wondering whether the email arrived.

  2. Schedule

    An accepted quote becomes a job with a date and the client's address on it. The day view is a list you work down, in the order you would actually drive it.

  3. Invoice

    One tap turns the finished job into an invoice, with a real due date on it and your VAT rate and CIS deduction already worked out. No retyping the line items you wrote three weeks ago.

    Pay-now links on invoices are a Pro feature.

  4. Chase

    Overdue Autopilot emails your client a reminder at 7 days, a firmer one at 14 and a final notice at 21. All of it goes out under your business name, and replies come to you. It stops the second you mark the invoice paid, and you can mute any invoice you would rather handle in person.

    Overdue Autopilot is a Pro feature.

What comes with it

What it does not do

Written down so you can rule it out in a minute rather than after a fortnight of using it. If you need something on this list, you’ll be happier somewhere else, and that is a fine outcome.

Why the list stops there

Every one of those is a real thing some trade business genuinely needs. Every one of them also costs something to have on the screen. A second login means permissions. Expenses means categories. Stock means a supplier list, and a supplier list means an evening spent typing one in.

A person who fits bathrooms does not have that evening. So the absences are the product decision, not an apology for one: the whole of SoloDesks is meant to be learnable between two jobs, and the only way to keep it that way is to keep saying no.

There are two related arguments living elsewhere on the site, because each belongs to one page and not three. Why software charged per user is the wrong shape for a business of one is on the sole trader page. Who builds this and why it is independent is on the about page.

What it costs

Free
10 quotes, 10 invoices and 10 emailed PDFs a month, plus 3 one-tap accept-links. Unlimited clients and jobs, and your own logo on every PDF. No card.
Pro, £12 a month
All of those limits gone, Overdue Autopilot chasing your unpaid invoices, Pay-now links, premium PDF styles in your brand colour, and no SoloDesks credit line at the bottom of your paperwork. One price for the business, not per user. Cancel whenever.

For scale: Tradify lists at £34 per user, per month (July 2026). The full comparison is on the pricing page.

The specifics

The questions that usually take three emails to get answered.

Where it runs
Any browser, on a phone, a tablet or a desktop. Add it to the home screen and it opens like an app. Nothing to install and nothing to update.
Who can see your data
Only you. The rule is enforced by the database rather than by the app, so a bug in the app could not show one tradesperson another one's clients.
The links you send clients
Long random codes that cannot be guessed. They expire after 60 days and are flagged so search engines never index them.
Getting your data out
A full download of everything as one file, or a CSV export for Excel. Both are in Settings, both work on the free plan, and neither needs an email to us.
Leaving
Delete the account yourself from Settings, whenever you like. It removes every client, quote, invoice, job and payment record, and there is no undo, so export first.
Downgrading
Nothing is deleted when a Pro subscription ends or when you reach a free limit. You keep everything you have made, you just make fewer new ones that month.
Who takes the subscription payment
Dodo Payments, as merchant of record. Your card number goes to them and never reaches us.
Where it works
Built around UK rules (VAT, CIS, Gas Safe) because that is the market it was made for, and usable anywhere. The currency on your documents is a setting.

More detail on how your data is held, on refunds, and in the privacy policy. Anything else, ask: support@solodesks.com. It is one person answering.

Before you sign up

Nothing here needs an account, and none of it is a trial.

Still the right shape for you?

Then it takes about a minute to set up, and your first quote can go out before the tea’s cold.

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