A skim is priced on Monday, done by Wednesday, and invoiced from the van. Sendinvo keeps up: CIS on the labour figure you enter for the builder, the full amount for the homeowner, chasing handled for both.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, no card needed.
Send a quote the evening you measure up, priced by room or by wall, and the client accepts it online. Big render? Invoice a materials deposit before the scaffold goes up.
Patch repair, a re-plaster after damp, coving, or render across a gable. Keep a note of the labour and the materials as you go, so both figures are to hand when you invoice.
Subcontracting to a builder? Tick CIS on the invoice and enter your labour figure, and the deduction comes off that alone, with the net due shown underneath. VAT-registered? Tick the VAT reverse charge too and the invoice charges no VAT and carries the HMRC wording for you. Working direct? Leave both off and invoice in full.
Most plastering work is subcontracted, quick, and paid by whoever holds the contract. Two very different invoices leave the same phone in the same week, and the switching is what eats the evening.
On site for the same builder week in, week out? Put the client on a recurring schedule and the invoice is raised and emailed on the same date each month, with your line items, VAT rate, and payment terms already on it. CIS is ticked per invoice, so keep the CIS jobs on one-off invoices. Pause the schedule when the work dries up.
Plastering is fast work paid slowly. Reminders go out on a schedule you set, up to 30 days past the due date, and stop the moment the invoice is paid. If a sterling invoice runs overdue, Sendinvo shows the statutory interest accrued at your base rate plus 8%, and drafts the interest invoice in one click.
The real app, filled with a plasterer’s work: two builders on a monthly account, a materials deposit on a big render, an overdue invoice with reminders chasing it, and quotes clients accept online. Have a click around.
A live demo seeded with a plastering business. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.
Labour and materials itemised, the deduction on the labour figure you entered, and no VAT to collect.
The builder accounts for the VAT. Pay the £870.00 net and the invoice settles in full.
Yes. Switch CIS on once in your settings, then tick it per invoice: on for the builder who deducts, off for the homeowner. Both sit in the same list.
Not if you tell it the labour figure. Enter that on the invoice and the deduction comes off it alone, at 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross-payment status, so your bonding, beads, and finish plaster stay whole. Leave the box empty and the deduction is taken off the whole subtotal. Either way the invoice shows the full total and the net due.
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 HMRC wording for you.
Yes. Put a deposit on the invoice as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, shown alongside the balance. Handy when a pallet of render goes out before you do. A deposit and a CIS deduction can’t sit on the same invoice, so use it on the jobs you invoice in full.
Yes. Put the client on a recurring schedule and the invoice is raised and emailed on the same date each month, with your line items and VAT rate already on it. CIS is ticked per invoice, so keep the CIS jobs on one-off invoices. Pause the schedule whenever the work stops.
Send your first invoice free, tick CIS where it applies, and let the VAT wording and the chasing look after themselves.