Brickwork is priced by the thousand on one job and by the day on the next: a garden wall for a homeowner, an extension to wall plate, a chimney rebuild. Sendinvo turns the accepted quote into a job, books the gang’s days on the Schedule and tells the client when you’re coming, and carries the count and the rate onto the invoice. When you lay for a main contractor, it works the CIS deduction off the labour alone and prints the reverse-charge wording the builder’s office is looking for.
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Extension brickwork to wall plate, a retaining wall in engineering bricks, block and beam, a chimney rebuild, repointing a front elevation: the work changes, the paperwork barely does. A homeowner wants a quote and the day you’re starting. A main contractor takes a deduction off your labour, and its accounts team wants the figures laid out before it will pay.
Put the count and the rate on the line and the invoice shows its own working: 8,400 facing bricks at £520.00 per thousand, or 34 days on a day rate, whichever way the job was agreed. Materials go on a line of their own, and that split is what makes the deduction right further down the page. On private work you can price it as a quote first, and once it’s accepted, Start job makes it a job, or it converts straight to an invoice carrying the same lines.
A garden wall for a homeowner is not subcontract work, so no deduction and no reverse charge apply to it. Take a deposit before the gang books in, or split one invoice into stages with a payment plan, foundation dug, wall up, coping on. They can settle by card once you connect Stripe, or by instant bank payment on a sterling invoice up to £10,000. Stripe takes its own fee on either route.
Each visit is one day on the Schedule, booked for the morning, the afternoon, all day, or a set time, and Sendinvo emails the client in your company’s name when you book it and again if you move it. A garden wall over four days is four visits on one job, and Raise invoice fills the invoice in from the quote when the coping’s on. On a gang, each visit is assigned to someone, the Schedule shows Everyone, Me, or one person, and your whole team is included in the one price. Photos of the footings before they’re covered stay with the job, sorted into before, during, and after.
Set your rate once in company settings, 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross payment status, then tick the CIS deduction on a sterling invoice and mark the materials lines. The deduction is worked out on the labour alone, so your facing bricks, blocks, ties, and sand keep their full value, and the invoice shows the full total and the net amount the main contractor actually pays. On a labour-only month, where the builder supplies everything off the pallet, every line is labour already and the deduction is taken on the whole subtotal.
On CIS work between VAT-registered businesses, tick the domestic reverse charge alongside the deduction. The VAT line then reads “Reverse charge” beside the rate, and the invoice carries the wording HMRC expects, so the main contractor accounts for the VAT at their end and you never have to remember the phrasing. Plots on a new-build housing site are different, because HMRC zero-rates new homes and the reverse charge doesn’t apply to zero-rated work. Whether it applies to a given job is your call, not ours.
Laying for the same builder month after month? Set up a recurring invoice for that account and it is raised and emailed on the same date each month, with your lines and VAT rate already on it. A recurring invoice carries no CIS deduction and no reverse charge, so raise the deducted months as one-off invoices and pause the recurring invoice when the gang moves off site. When the builder’s office asks where the account stands, download a client statement and every issued invoice for that client is on one branded page with the total still owed.
Reminders run on the days you set, 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them, and stop the moment the invoice is paid. If a sterling invoice to another business runs on, Sendinvo works out the statutory interest at the Bank of England base rate plus 8%, adds the fixed sum the Act allows, and drafts a separate interest invoice for you to read first. If a line comes out of the job, the site supplying its own bricks say, a credit note nets it off at the rate it was billed at.
The real app, filled with a bricklayer’s work. It opens on the Schedule, with visits booked this week and next and a job in every state from Not booked to Paid. Behind them: plot brickwork for a housing developer with the deduction on it, a monthly maintenance account for a managing agent on a recurring invoice, a garden wall paid in three stages, an overdue retaining wall with reminders chasing it, and a credit note for a week of scaffold that came down early. Have a click around.
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One priced by the thousand with materials on it, one a month of day-rate labour. Both go to a main contractor, and on both the deduction comes off the labour.
The deduction is 20% of the labour line, never of the £6,258.00 subtotal, so the bricks and sand keep their full value. The main contractor accounts for the £1,251.60 VAT at their end, pays the £5,384.40, and the invoice settles in full.
The other one: a month of gang labour for a builder who supplies the bricks.
Nothing but labour on this one, so every line is labour and the deduction is taken on the whole subtotal. A month carrying a deduction goes out as its own invoice, because a recurring invoice carries no CIS and no reverse charge.
Yes. Book a visit on the job for each day you’re on site, for the morning, the afternoon, all day, or a set time, and Sendinvo emails the client in your company’s name to say when you’re coming. If the start slips, move the visit and they hear that too. A garden wall over four days is four visits on the Schedule.
Set your rate once in company settings, 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross payment status. On a sterling invoice, tick “Apply CIS deduction” and mark the materials lines, and the deduction is worked out on the labour alone, so the bricks, blocks, ties, and sand keep their full value. On a labour-only month every line is labour already, and the deduction is taken on the whole subtotal.
Yes. Every line carries a quantity and a rate, so 8,400 facing bricks at £520.00 per thousand goes on as 8.4 in the Qty column, £520.00 as the rate, and £4,368.00 as the line total. A day rate works the same way, with the number of days in the Qty column. Price a private job as a quote first and, once the client accepts it online, it converts to an invoice with those lines already on it.
Yes, if both businesses are VAT registered. It is its own tick box beside the CIS deduction, and ticking it charges no VAT, puts “Reverse charge” beside the rate and prints the wording HMRC expects, so the main contractor accounts for the VAT at their end. Whether it applies to a given job is your call, not ours.
Yes. Set up a recurring invoice for the client and it is raised and emailed on the same date each month, with your lines and VAT rate already on it. Recurring invoices send themselves, with no draft to approve first, and they carry no CIS and no reverse charge, so raise the deducted months as one-off invoices and pause the recurring invoice when the gang moves off site.
Yes. A client statement lists every issued invoice for that client with its status, total, and outstanding balance, plus the total still owed across them all. It downloads as an A4 PDF in your own branding, ready to pass to their office.
Reminders keep chasing on the dates you set, 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them, and the tone steps up as it runs on. On an overdue sterling invoice to another business, Sendinvo works out the statutory interest at the Bank of England base rate plus 8%, adds the fixed sum the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 allows, and drafts a separate interest invoice for you to read before it goes. The invoice the builder already has is left exactly as it went out. This is general information, not legal advice.
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