Splashbacks, porcelain and stone floors, wetrooms, and regrouts. Sendinvo covers the money side: a deposit for the tile and adhesive, CIS and the VAT reverse charge on subcontract work, and a pay link so you are paid the day you finish.
Your first 3 invoices are free to send, no card needed.
“The porcelain and six bags of adhesive are paid for before day one.”
Put a single deposit on the invoice, a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, so the tile is bought with the client’s money rather than yours. A deposit and a CIS deduction can’t sit on the same invoice, so pick the one the job needs. On a bigger stone job you can split the whole thing into instalments instead, on a paid plan.
Deposits and payment plans“The showroom wants it net of CIS, with the right VAT wording.”
Switch CIS on in settings, tick it on the invoice, and type in your labour figure. Sendinvo deducts 20%, 30%, or 0% from that figure and shows the net amount due. If you are VAT registered, a separate tick applies the domestic reverse charge and its HMRC wording.
CIS invoices“I grout up, I clean the van, and then I wait a month.”
Connect Stripe and every invoice carries a pay-by-card link, so a homeowner can settle up while you load the van. Stripe charges its own processing fees. Add up to two photos of the finished floor, and reminders chase whatever drifts.
How card payments workThe real app, filled with a tiler’s work: a CIS subcontract for a builder, a stone floor with a deposit, and a showroom on a monthly recurring schedule.
A live demo seeded with a tiling business. Nothing you do here is saved or sent.
CIS at 20% on the labour figure you typed, and the reverse charge applied.
The builder accounts for the VAT. Pay the £1,820.00 net and the invoice settles in full.
Yes. Add a single deposit to an invoice as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date. The deposit is free to use; splitting a stone floor into several instalments is a paid-plan feature at £10 a month. Deposits go on invoices, not quotes.
Turn CIS on in your company settings, tick “Apply CIS deduction” on the invoice, and type in the labour figure. Sendinvo takes 20%, 30%, or 0% off that figure and shows the net amount due. Left blank, it deducts from the whole subtotal, so type it in every time.
Yes, as a separate tick box on the invoice. It shows for VAT-registered companies alongside an applied CIS deduction, and the invoice then carries no VAT and the HMRC wording. You decide when it applies, Sendinvo never decides for you.
Yes, once you have connected a Stripe account. Every invoice carries a pay link, and the invoice marks itself paid the moment the card clears. Stripe charges its own processing fees.
Reminders switch on by themselves when you send an invoice and run at 1, 7, and 14 days past due unless you change them. If a sterling invoice is still owing, you can draft a separate statutory interest invoice, priced off the Bank of England base rate you keep current in settings, then review and send it.
Send your first 3 invoices free, and let the deposit, the CIS deduction, and the chasing take care of the paperwork.