Most brickwork is subcontract: a gang on a builder’s site, priced by the thousand or by the metre, invoiced with a CIS deduction and often the VAT reverse charge. Sendinvo does that arithmetic and chases the money.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, no card needed.
Extension brickwork to wall plate, garden and retaining walls, chimney rebuilds, block-and-beam, repointing, a garage build: the work changes, the paperwork rarely does. A contractor, a deduction, and an accounts team wanting the figures laid out.
Turn CIS on once in settings and set your rate, then tick the CIS deduction on a sterling invoice and type the labour figure. Sendinvo shows the gross total, the deduction, and the net amount due. Left blank, that box means the deduction is taken on the whole subtotal.
If you are VAT registered, the VAT domestic reverse charge is a separate tick box next to an applied deduction. Ticked, the VAT line reads £0.00 and the document tells the builder to account for it. Whether it applies is your call.
Working the same developer month after month? Put the account on a recurring schedule, which always sends on its own dates and carries no CIS or reverse charge. When accounts ask what is outstanding, download a client statement to send on.
Reminders start when you send and escalate on their own, at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. Still owing, and you can draft a separate statutory interest invoice to read before it goes. On a private garden wall, ask for a deposit, or split it into stages with a payment plan on the paid plan, and take card payments once Stripe is connected, whose fees apply.
The real app, filled with a bricklayer’s work: a subcontract invoice with CIS and the reverse charge, a monthly developer account, and a stage-paid garden wall.
A live demo seeded with a bricklaying business. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.
One sterling invoice, with a 20% deduction typed against the labour.
The builder accounts for the VAT. Pay the £5,160.00 net and the invoice settles in full.
Turn CIS on in settings and set your rate, 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross-payment status. On a sterling invoice, tick “Apply CIS deduction” and type the labour figure. Left blank, the deduction is taken on the whole subtotal instead.
Yes, if you are VAT registered. It is its own tick box, shown alongside an applied CIS deduction, and it drops the VAT to £0.00 with a note telling the builder to account for it. You decide when it applies.
Yes. A recurring schedule sends the invoice on your dates. Recurring invoices always send themselves, with no draft to approve first, and they carry no CIS and no reverse charge, so keep gang work on one-off invoices.
Yes. Open a client and download a statement of what they have been invoiced, what has been paid, and what is still owing, as a PDF you can pass on.
Reminders switch on when you send and escalate on their own, at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. If a sterling invoice is still overdue and owing, Sendinvo works out the statutory interest from the base rate you keep in settings, and you can draft a separate interest invoice to review.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, with the deduction worked out and the chasing running.