A garden swallows money weeks before it earns any: paving, topsoil, timber, and a plant order paid for on delivery. Cover that spend up front, bill the build stage by stage as the garden goes in, and keep the maintenance round billing itself.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, no card needed.
Set out the drawing, the groundworks, the paving, and the planting as your own line items, accepted online. Accepting doesn’t raise an invoice: you click “Convert to invoice” and check the pre-filled composer. Sending quotes is part of the £10/month plan; the free allowance covers invoices only. See how quotes work.
Porcelain, aggregate, and a nursery order all land before a penny does. Ask for a deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount, on its own due date. See deposits and payment plans.
On a full redesign, make that first payment the opening stage of a payment plan, so groundworks, hard landscaping, and planting each fall due on their own dates.
Grounds maintenance, seasonal cuts, and hedge work go on a recurring invoice that raises and sends itself monthly, quarterly, or yearly.
Landscaping bills badly: the weather moves the dates, and the spend comes first.
Add up to two photos to an invoice while it is still a draft, the finished terrace and the planted borders, so it goes out with the evidence attached.
Multi-stems swapped for something cheaper after you invoiced? Raise a credit note and send it, and the invoice nets down by that amount. Credit notes are part of the £10/month plan.
A developer’s payment run is not yours to fund. Reminders switch on when you send and escalate at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. On an overdue sterling invoice, Sendinvo works out the statutory interest you are owed from the Bank of England base rate you keep in your settings, plus the statutory 8%, ready for you to review and send as its own invoice.
The real app, filled with a season’s work: a redesign billed in stages, a materials deposit on a patio build, a maintenance round, and an overdue developer being chased.
A live demo seeded with a landscaping business. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.
One payment plan across the build, opening with the money that buys the materials.
The deposit is the plan’s first stage, and each later stage is chased on its own date. Connect Stripe and a stage can be paid by card. Sendinvo takes no cut; Stripe’s own card fees still apply.
Yes. Ask for a deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, on the invoice. On a bigger build, make that first payment the opening stage of a payment plan instead. An invoice takes a deposit or a plan, never both.
Yes. Split one invoice into stages, each with its own amount and due date, adding up to the total. Multi-stage payment plans are part of the £10/month plan; a single deposit is free.
Reminders switch on when you send an invoice and chase in your own words, at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. On an overdue sterling invoice you can draft a separate statutory interest invoice to review before it goes out.
Raise a credit note against the invoice for the plants that came out. When you send it, the invoice is netted down by that amount and the client gets a document that explains the change. Credit notes are part of the £10/month plan.
Send your first 3 invoices free, cover the materials before you order them, and let the chasing run itself.