Boarding, MF ceilings, and stud partitions are taken off the drawing by the metre, and most of it is paid against a programme somebody else sets, one valuation at a time. Sendinvo turns the accepted quote into a job, books your days on site on the Schedule, puts the measure on the invoice, and keeps the boards and sections on a line of their own. On work for a main contractor, it works the CIS deduction out on the labour lines alone.
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Areas in the Qty column, your rate beside them, and the line total works itself out. Send it as a quote and, once it is accepted online, Start job makes it a job, or it converts straight to an invoice carrying those lines, so nobody re-types the take-off.
Each day on site is a visit on the job, in the Schedule. On a team, each one is assigned to whoever’s fixing, and the client is emailed who’s coming and when, unless you untick the box.
The contractor pays at valuation, so bill at valuation: one invoice for that period, the fixing labour on its own lines and the boards, sections, and jointing materials on another, with its own CIS deduction. On a private fit-out you invoice direct, split one invoice into a payment plan instead.
You are not ringing anyone. Reminders follow the invoice on the days you set and stop the moment it is paid. A private client can pay by card once you connect Stripe, or by instant bank payment on a sterling invoice up to £10,000.
Drylining is measured work billed against a programme you don’t set. You take the quantities off the drawing, the contractor pays what the surveyor values, and the deduction comes off before the money reaches you. The invoice has to hold up in an office you never visit, which means the measure has to match the drawing and the labour has to be separated from the boards before anything is deducted.
MF and suspended ceilings by the square metre, stud partitions by the area of the wall, bulkheads and shadow gap by the linear metre. Put the area in the Qty column and the rate beside it, and the invoice carries its own working, so a surveyor can check it against the drawing instead of ringing you on site. The marked-up drawing or the take-off sheet can ride along with the invoice email, up to 10 MB of files, not counting the invoice PDF. See email attachments.
A package is a run of days on site, so book each one as a visit on the job, all day or for a set time, and the Schedule shows the week ahead. Once there’s a gang, each visit is assigned to one person, the Schedule shows Everyone, Me, or one person, and your whole team is included in the one price. A Field person sees only their own visits and jobs, and no prices in the Sendinvo app. The Sendinvo app is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and there’s no Android app yet. Two visits for the same fixer on the same day get a warning, never a refusal. Photos of the ceiling void before it’s closed up stay with the job, sorted into before, during, and after.
CIS comes off labour, never materials. Keep fixing labour on its own lines and the boards, MF sections, beads, and jointing materials on another, marked as materials. Every labour line counts, so when the boarding and the ceilings are priced separately, the deduction is taken on both together. Set your rate once in company settings, 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross payment status, and the deduction lands on the labour alone.
A package can run for months across several plots or floors, so bill it the way it is valued: an invoice per period, each with its own labour, deduction, and due date, sitting together under one client. When the contractor’s accounts team wants the whole picture, a client statement puts every invoice for them on one branded A4 page with what is still outstanding. A CIS invoice can carry a deposit or a payment plan too, each payment net of its share of the deduction.
On CIS work between VAT-registered businesses, tick the domestic reverse charge alongside the deduction. The invoice charges no VAT and carries the wording HMRC expects, worked out on the full net, so the main contractor accounts for the VAT at their end and you don’t 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.
Sites change their minds: the contractor takes over the board supply, or a floor comes out of your package. A credit note nets that value off the invoice at the rate it was billed at, and work that goes in instead is a new invoice. Regular monthly labour for the same contractor can be a recurring invoice, raised and emailed on the same date each month, though a recurring invoice carries no CIS deduction, so keep the deducted work on one-off invoices.
You board a floor in a fortnight and wait two months for it. Reminders chase on the days you set and step up in tone as the invoice runs on. If a sterling invoice to another business goes past its due date, Sendinvo shows the statutory interest accrued at the Bank of England base rate plus 8%, along with the fixed sum the Act allows, and drafts a separate interest invoice for you to read before it goes.
There isn’t a drylining demo yet, so this is the plastering one. 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: two builders on a monthly account, a materials deposit on a large external render, an overdue invoice with reminders chasing it, quotes accepted online, and a credit note. Different trade, same screens you’d be working in. Have a click around.
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Ceilings and partitions measured off the drawing, boards and sections on a line of their own, and the deduction taken on the two labour lines added together.
The two labour lines come to £7,961.00, and the deduction is 20% of that rather than of the £10,325.00 subtotal, so the boards and sections keep their full value. Office work is standard-rated and both firms are VAT registered, so the invoice charges no VAT and the contractor accounts for the £2,065.00 at their end. Valuation 4 goes out as its own invoice, with its own labour.
Yes. Each visit is one day, so book one for each day on site, all day or for a set time. On a team each visit is assigned to one person, so book one for each fixer, and the Schedule shows Everyone, Me, or one person. The client is emailed who’s coming and when, unless you untick the box, and two visits for the same person at once get a warning, never a refusal.
Yes. Every line carries a quantity and a rate, so 410m² of MF ceiling at £14.50 goes on as 410 in the Qty column, £14.50 as the rate, and £5,945.00 as the line total. Price the drawing as a quote first, and once the main contractor accepts it online it converts to an invoice carrying the same lines.
The labour lines. Each line says whether it is labour or materials, labour unless you mark it, and the deduction is worked out on every labour line together, at the rate you set in your company settings, and your boards, sections, and jointing materials keep their full value. An invoice that is all labour needs nothing marked, and the deduction comes off the whole subtotal.
Yes, as one invoice per valuation. Raise an invoice for the work in that valuation, with its own labour, its own CIS deduction, and its own due date, and they sit together under the same client so you can see what is still out. A CIS invoice can carry a deposit or a payment plan too, each payment net of its share of the deduction.
On CIS work between VAT-registered businesses you tick the domestic reverse charge alongside the deduction. The invoice then charges no VAT and carries the wording HMRC expects, with the VAT worked out on the full net so the main contractor can account for it at their end. You never type the wording yourself. 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.
Issue a credit note against that invoice for the materials line. Its value comes off the balance to the penny, at the rate it was billed at, and if that clears what’s left the invoice settles to paid and its reminders stop. Anything you fit instead goes out as a new invoice.
Yes. Reminders go to the accounts office on the dates you set, and the tone steps up the longer the invoice runs. On an overdue sterling invoice to another business, Sendinvo shows the statutory interest accrued and the fixed compensation the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 allows, from £40 on a debt under £1,000, and one click drafts a separate interest invoice for you to read before it goes. The invoice the contractor already has is left exactly as it went out. This is general information, not legal advice.
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