Roofing money goes out before it comes in: tiles, felt, and a scaffold on hire from day one. Ask for a deposit up front, or split a re-roof into stages that follow the job up the roof, and let the chasing run itself while you’re up a ladder.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, no card needed.
Full re-roofs, flat-roof replacements, ridge and chimney repointing, gutter and fascia runs, storm damage after a bad week: every one of them starts with a materials bill and a scaffold hire. Sendinvo is set up for that shape of job.
Ask for a deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, so the tiles and the scaffold are paid for before you order them. On a longer job, use a payment plan instead: two or more stages, the first one due up front for the materials and the scaffold, the rest spread across the build. It is one or the other on an invoice, so pick the one that fits the job.
Roofing for a main contractor means CIS. Turn CIS on and set your rate once, then tick the deduction on a sterling invoice and enter the labour element. The deduction comes off that figure, the gross total is shown with the net amount due, and if you are VAT registered you can tick the VAT domestic reverse charge on the same invoice.
Reminders start the moment you send and escalate on their own, at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. If a sterling invoice to a business client is still overdue and owing, you can draft a separate statutory interest invoice in a click and send it once you have read it over. Clients settle by bank transfer, or by card once you connect Stripe, whose processing fees apply.
The real app, filled with a roofer’s work: a re-roof on a staged plan, a deposit invoice for a rear elevation, a subcontract invoice to a builder with reminders already running, and a storm-damage repair. Have a click around.
A live demo seeded with a roofing business. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.
One invoice, four stages that follow the job up the roof, each with its own due date.
The first stage covers the materials and scaffold up front, and each later stage is chased on its own date.
Yes. The photos your client can’t check for themselves, the ridge, the flashing, the finished slates, go out with the invoice email as attachments, next to the PDF. A short video works too.
Yes. Ask for a deposit as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, and the reminder engine chases the deposit before anything else. Once it’s in, chasing moves on to the balance.
Yes. Split an invoice into a milestone payment plan, two or more stages each with its own amount and due date, adding up to the total. Payment plans are available on a paid plan.
Yes. Turn CIS on in your company settings and set your rate, 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross-payment status. Tick “Apply CIS deduction” on a sterling invoice and enter the labour element, and the deduction comes off that figure, with the full total shown and a net amount due. When the contractor pays the net amount, the invoice settles in full.
Reminders start when you send and escalate on their own, with steps at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. If a sterling invoice to a business client is still overdue and owing, Sendinvo works out the statutory interest and compensation from the Bank of England base rate you keep in your settings, and you can draft a separate interest invoice from it in a click.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, and the chasing looks after itself from the moment you send.