Saved items

The things you charge for, offered as you type

Keep the things you charge for again and again as saved items, each with its price and the unit it’s priced by, and add one to an invoice or quote in a tap. Type a few letters into a line and the lines you’ve billed before are offered too, at the price you last charged. You don’t have to build a list first: the jobs you’ve billed are already one.

30 days of everything, free. No card needed.

Labour, first fix plumbing £1,240.00
Labour, second fix plumbing £860.00
Fixings, brackets, and clips £96.00
Type “fix” and your saved items with that word in them come first, then every line you’ve billed with it, at the price you last charged.
How it works

Type a few letters, pick the line

1

Start typing the line

Build the invoice the way you always do. Click into the item field and your saved items are listed, most recently used first. Start typing and Sendinvo looks through every line you’ve invoiced and quoted before as well.

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See your items, then what you billed last time

The matches drop in under the field: your saved items first, each with its price and unit, then the lines you’ve billed, each with the price you last charged. It matches anywhere in the wording, so “fix” finds first fix and second fix.

3

Tap it and the price comes too

Tap the line you want and the description and the price fill in together. Set the quantity, then change the price if this job ran differently.

4

Your newest price wins

Change a saved item’s price and that’s the price it adds from then on. Billed a line that isn’t saved at more than one price? The most recent one is offered, so putting your day rate up once is enough.

The details

Your own price list, and the jobs you’ve done

Saved items are the things you charge for every week, kept as a list under Items: the call-out charge, an hour’s labour, the part you fit on every job. The lines you’ve billed before sit beside them, so the list is as current as the last job you billed. Both are offered under the item field on invoices, quotes, and recurring invoices.

Saved items, with their price and unit

An owner or admin keeps the company’s items: a name, a price, the unit it’s priced by (each, hour, day, m², and the rest), labour or materials if you use CIS, and, if it needs one, a VAT rate of its own. Anyone who writes invoices and quotes can use them. Typed a line that isn’t saved yet? Switch on Save to items beside it and it’s there for next time.

Changing an item never changes a sent invoice

Picking an item copies its name, price and unit onto the line. Put the item’s price up, or delete it, and the invoices and quotes that already use it stay exactly as they were.

Nothing has to be set up first

You can send your first invoice without saving a single item. Every invoice and quote you send adds its lines to what Sendinvo draws on. Where you’ve billed the same wording more than once, the price you last charged is the one offered, so a rate change only has to happen once.

It matches anywhere in the line, not just the first letters

Type “fix” and both first fix and second fix come up. Type “day” and your day rate lines do. You don’t have to remember how you worded a line months ago, only one word that was in it.

Quotes count as well as invoices

A price you put on a quote counts the same as one on an invoice. Agree a price with a client at the quoting stage and it’s waiting when the work is done and you come to invoice it, so the figure on the invoice is the figure they accepted. Start a job from the accepted quote and Raise invoice brings the quote’s lines across for you.

Prices stay in the job’s currency

You only see prices you’ve charged in the currency of the document in front of you. Most jobs here are in sterling, and if you take on work priced in euros through multi-currency invoicing, a euro figure can’t land on a sterling invoice by accident.

A picked line is still an ordinary line

Once an item or a suggestion fills the line in, it behaves like anything else you typed. Reword it, change the price, set VAT on that line, or mark it as labour or materials on a CIS invoice, where the deduction comes off the labour and leaves your materials at full value.

Questions

Good to know

Do I have to set up a price list first?

No. You can keep the things you charge for as saved items, but nothing has to be set up before your first invoice. Every invoice and quote you send adds its lines to your history, and Sendinvo offers them back the next time you type a word that matches.

How do the suggestions appear?

Click into the item field and your saved items are listed underneath it. Start typing and the lines you’ve billed before join them, each with the price you last charged. Tap one on your phone, or arrow down and press Enter on a laptop, and the description and the price fill in together.

Will I see prices from a different currency?

No. Suggestions match the currency of the document in front of you, so a sterling invoice only offers prices you’ve charged in pounds. A rate in one currency can’t land on an invoice in another.

Does it suggest from quotes as well as invoices?

Yes. Both count. A day rate you put on a quote comes back when you invoice the work, so you aren’t reading the figure off the quote and typing it in again to make the two agree.

Can I still change the price after picking a suggestion?

Yes. A suggestion fills in the description and the price, and both stay editable, as does the quantity. If the job ran three days instead of two, or you’ve put your rate up since, change it on the line.

Does changing a saved item change my invoices?

No. Picking an item copies its name, price and unit onto the line. Change the item’s price later, or delete it, and the invoices and quotes that already use it stay as they are.

Type three letters, not the whole line.

Your saved items at their own prices, and every line you’ve billed at the price you last charged. 30 days of everything, free. No card needed.