For flooring fitters

Invoicing for flooring fitters

Engineered oak, LVT, carpet supply and fit, screed and latex, stair runners, contract carpet tiles. The floor is paid for at the merchant long before anyone walks on it. Sendinvo puts the materials money up front, bills a fit-out on the stages you actually reach, and keeps the repeat work billing itself.

Your first 3 invoices are free to send, no card needed.

Subfloor to sign-off

Three things a floor needs

“The floor is bought before it is laid.”

A deposit that covers the boards

Engineered oak, underlay, and adhesive are ordered weeks ahead, and on a supply-and-fit job the material is the biggest number on the invoice. Ask for a deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount with its own due date, and it is chased ahead of the balance. The single deposit is free to use.

Deposits and payment plans

“A commercial fit-out pays in stages.”

Stages that match the programme

Screed and latex go down in one visit, the carpet tiles in another, the stair nosings last. Split one invoice into a payment plan of two or more stages, each with its own amount and date. Money taken up front becomes the plan’s first stage, so a job carries a deposit or a plan, never both. Payment plans are on the paid plan, £10 a month.

Payment plans in stages

“Void properties come round again and again.”

Repeat work that bills itself

A letting agent turning voids around is the same invoice on the same rhythm, month after month. Put them on a recurring schedule and each invoice is raised and sent on its own dates. Recurring invoices always send themselves, so nothing waits in drafts for you.

Recurring invoices

Around those three: a supply-and-fit quote is accepted online, and “Convert to invoice” opens a pre-filled invoice for you to check and save. Quotes are on the paid plan, £10 a month. Up to 2 photos of the laid floor go on the invoice and its online copy. Reminders switch on the moment you send and run at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them, and statutory interest on an overdue sterling invoice is drafted as its own invoice for you to review. Connect Stripe and every invoice carries a pay-by-card link, with Stripe’s own processing fees applying.

See it in action

A flooring business, seeded and running

The real app, filled with a fitter’s work: a whole-house LVT quote out with a homeowner, a materials deposit paid with the balance still open, a contract carpet tile fit-out on stages, and a letting agent’s voids on repeat. Have a click around.

sendinvo.com/invoices

A live demo seeded with a flooring business. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.

A worked example

Engineered oak, supply and fit

One invoice, two stages: the materials money first, the rest when the floor is down.

Payment plan for engineered oak, supply and fit
Materials deposit, on order £2,200.00 Paid
Balance on completion £2,600.00 Due
Total £4,800.00

The deposit covers the boards on order, and the balance is chased when the floor is down.

Questions

Good to know

Can I bill for the boards before I lay them?

Yes. Ask for a materials deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, and it is chased ahead of the balance. The single deposit is free to use, and a quote cannot carry one, so the deposit request goes on the invoice.

Can a commercial fit-out be split into stages?

Yes. Split one invoice into a payment plan of two or more stages, each with its own amount and due date, adding up to the total. Where the job starts with money up front, that deposit is the plan’s first stage. Payment plans are available on a paid plan at £10 a month.

I fit for a letting agent every month. Can that repeat?

Yes. Put the agent on a recurring schedule and the invoice is raised and sent on its own dates, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Recurring invoices always send themselves, so there is no draft waiting for your approval.

Can I show the floor I laid on the invoice?

Yes. Add up to 2 photos to the invoice and they appear on the PDF and on the copy your client opens online. They are not shown on the Stripe card payment page.

What happens when a contractor pays late?

Reminders switch on when you send an invoice and run on their own dates, at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. On an overdue sterling invoice you can also draft a statutory interest invoice, worked out from the base rate you keep in settings, which you review before you send it.

Order it, lay it, get paid for it.

Send your first 3 invoices free and let the deposit and the chasing run themselves.