You price a skim or a re-plaster by the square metre and a render by the elevation, and most of it is for homeowners who want to know which day you’re coming. Sendinvo turns the accepted quote into a job, books each visit on the Schedule and tells the client when you’re coming, then carries the measure onto the invoice. When you work for a main contractor, it bills stage by stage and takes the CIS deduction off the labour alone.
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Price the room or the elevation with the area in the Qty column and your rate beside it, and the client accepts the quote online. Start job makes it a job with the client, the site, and the quote on it, so you measure once and price once.
Book a visit on the Schedule for each day on the job, for the morning, the afternoon, or all day, and the client is emailed to say when you’re coming. Photos of the walls as you found them stay with the job.
When the last coat’s on, Raise invoice fills the invoice in from the quote. On a full external render, split it into a payment plan. For a main contractor, bill each stage as its own invoice, the boards and plaster on a materials line, with its own CIS deduction.
Reminders chase the invoice on the days you set and stop the moment it is paid. Connect Stripe and a homeowner can settle by card, or by instant bank payment on a sterling invoice up to £10,000.
Plastering is measured work. You price by the metre, and when you work for a main contractor, they pay by valuation and take the deduction before the money reaches you. So every invoice has to get the measure right, and a subcontract one the split between labour and materials too, because that split is the figure the deduction is worked out on.
Board and skim by the square metre, coving by the linear metre, render by the elevation. Put the area in the Qty column and your rate beside it, and the invoice shows its own working, so a quantity surveyor can check it against the drawing without ringing you. Attach the measure sheet to the invoice email and it arrives with the rest of the paperwork rather than in a second message.
Each visit is one day on the job, booked for the morning, the afternoon, all day, or a set time, and morning and afternoon mean your own hours. Sendinvo emails the client in your company’s name when you book a visit and again if you move it, and warns you when two visits clash. Jobs you’ve won with nothing booked wait under To book. Take on a labourer or a second plasterer and your whole team is included in the one price: each visit is assigned to someone, and the client’s email names who’s coming.
CIS comes off labour, never materials. Keep your labour on one line and the boards, beads, scrim, and finish plaster on another, marked as materials. The deduction is worked out on the labour alone, and the materials keep their full value. Leave every line as labour and the deduction comes off the whole subtotal.
A main contractor pays by valuation rather than on completion, so bill by valuation. Each stage is its own invoice, with its own labour, its own deduction, and its own due date, and they sit together under one client so you can see what is still out. A client statement puts every stage on one branded page when the contractor’s accounts team asks where the account stands. 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 then charges no VAT and carries the wording HMRC expects, 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.
Plastering labour for the same main contractor month after month can be a recurring invoice, 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, so keep the deducted jobs as one-off invoices. When a line comes out, the site supplying its own boards say, a credit note nets it off at the rate it was billed at.
Plastering is quick work paid on a long programme. Reminders go out on the days you set and stop the moment the invoice is paid. If a sterling invoice runs 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 review before it goes.
The real app, filled with a plasterer’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: board and skim measured across a housing site, two main contractors on a monthly account, a materials deposit on a full external render, an overdue invoice with reminders chasing it, and a credit note for a scaffold tower the site ended up supplying. Have a click around.
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Measured work priced by the square metre, materials on a line of their own, and the deduction taken off the labour alone.
The deduction is 20% of the labour line, not of the £4,920.00 subtotal, so the materials keep their full value. New homes are zero-rated, so this invoice is set to 0% VAT and the reverse charge is left unticked. The main contractor pays the £4,184.00 and the invoice settles in full. The next valuation goes out as its own invoice, with its own labour.
Yes. When you book a visit on the job, for the morning, the afternoon, all day, or a set time, Sendinvo emails the client in your company’s name with the day and when you’ll arrive, and emails again if you move it. A re-plaster that runs to three days is three visits, one for each day on the Schedule.
Yes. Every line carries a quantity and a rate, so 320m² of board and skim at £11.50 goes on as 320 in the Qty column, £11.50 as the rate, and £3,680.00 as the line total. Price it as a quote first and, once the client accepts online, it converts to an invoice with those lines already on it.
Not if you mark them as materials. Each line is labour unless you say otherwise, and the deduction is worked out on the labour alone, at 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross-payment status, whichever you set in your company settings, so your boards, beads, scrim, and finish plaster stay whole. Leave every line as labour and the deduction comes off the whole subtotal. Either way the invoice shows the full total and the net amount due.
Yes, as one invoice per stage. Raise an invoice at each valuation with that stage’s labour and materials and its own CIS deduction, and they sit together under the same client, each with its own due date. A CIS invoice can carry a deposit or a payment plan too, each payment net of its share of the deduction.
No. On CIS work between VAT-registered businesses, tick the domestic reverse charge alongside the CIS deduction. The invoice then charges no VAT and carries the wording HMRC expects, so the main contractor accounts for the VAT at their end. 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. The value nets off the balance to the penny, at the rate it was billed at, and if it clears the debt the invoice settles to paid and its reminders stop.
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. A recurring invoice carries no CIS deduction, so keep the CIS jobs on one-off invoices and pause the recurring invoice when the work stops.
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