For roofers & roofing contractors

Invoicing for roofers and roofing contractors

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.

Built for roofing work

Cash in before the scaffold goes up

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.

A deposit that covers the outlay

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.

The before and the after, on the invoice

Nobody sees their own roof. Attach up to two photos to the invoice, the slipped tiles and the finished ridge, and they land as a block on the document and in the PDF. Fewer questions, and a record of what you found up there.

Subcontract work for a builder

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.

Chased while you’re on the roof

Reminders start the moment you send and escalate on their own, up to 30 days past the due date. If a sterling invoice 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.

See it in action

A roofing business, seeded and running

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.

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

A worked example

A £10,000.00 re-roof, paid in four

One invoice, four stages that follow the job up the roof, each with its own due date.

Payment plan for a full re-roof
Up front, materials and scaffold £3,500.00 Paid
Strip and felt £2,000.00 Next due
Tiling £2,500.00
Completion £2,000.00
Total £10,000.00

The first stage covers the materials and scaffold up front, and each later stage is chased on its own date.

Questions

Good to know

Can I ask for a deposit to cover materials and scaffold?

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.

Can a re-roof be paid in stages?

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.

Can I put roof photos on the invoice?

Yes. Attach up to two photos to an invoice, the before and the after, and they appear on the invoice document and in the PDF you send.

Does Sendinvo handle CIS on subcontract roofing?

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.

What happens if a client sits on the final invoice?

Reminders start when you send and escalate on their own, with steps running up to 30 days past the due date. If a sterling invoice 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.

Get paid stage by stage.

Your first 3 invoices are free to send, and the chasing looks after itself from the moment you send.