Splashbacks, porcelain floors, wetrooms, and regrouts, priced by the metre. Sendinvo puts the metres and the rate on the invoice, keeps tile and adhesive on their own lines so a CIS deduction lands on the labour alone, and asks for a deposit before you order the stone.
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“The limestone is bought and paid for before I lift a tile.”
Put a deposit on the invoice, a percentage or a fixed amount with its own due date, so the stone order goes in on the client’s money rather than yours. Sendinvo chases the deposit first, then moves to the balance once it lands. A deposit and a CIS deduction can’t share an invoice, so deposits are for the floors you lay direct.
Deposits and payment plans“The showroom takes CIS off the whole invoice, tile and all.”
Tile, adhesive, and grout go on their own lines, and you tell Sendinvo which figure is the labour. The deduction comes off that figure alone, at 20%, 30%, or 0% for gross payment status, and the invoice shows the gross total and the net the showroom actually pays. If you are both VAT registered, a separate tick applies the domestic reverse charge and prints the wording HMRC expects.
CIS invoices“I price by the metre, then wait a month to be paid for it.”
Every line carries a quantity and a rate, so 26 m² at £55.00 goes out priced the way you measured it and nobody re-counts the hallway by email. Connect Stripe and the invoice carries a pay link, by card or straight from their bank, so a homeowner can settle while you wash the buckets out. Stripe charges its own processing fees, and reminders chase whatever drifts.
How online payments workThe real app, filled with a tiler’s work: a limestone floor with the stone paid for by deposit, plots on a housing site billed in two stages, an overdue showroom invoice with reminders running, a wetroom quote the client accepted on their phone, and a showroom account on a monthly recurring schedule.
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One is a stone floor laid direct for a homeowner, with the material bought on a deposit. The other is a wetroom subcontracted to a bathroom showroom, where the deduction comes off you.
The deposit is chased on its own date, and chasing moves to the balance once the stone money is in. A deposit goes on an invoice rather than a quote.
The other one: the same trade, done for a bathroom showroom on a new-build site, with CIS at 20% and the reverse charge applied.
The deduction is 20% of the £1,430.00 labour, never the £845.00 of tile and adhesive. Both firms are VAT registered, so the invoice charges no VAT and carries the wording HMRC expects, and the showroom accounts for the £455.00 VAT at their end. When they pay the £1,989.00, the invoice settles in full and the deduction is booked as a non-cash settlement.
Yes. Put a deposit on the invoice as a percentage or a fixed amount, with its own due date, and Sendinvo chases the deposit first, then the balance once the stone money is in. Deposits go on invoices rather than quotes, and a CIS invoice can’t carry a deposit or a payment plan, so keep deposits for the work you tile direct.
Put labour and materials on their own lines, then tell Sendinvo which figure is the labour. The deduction comes off that figure alone, at the rate you set once in company settings: 20% for a registered subcontractor, 30% if you’re not registered, or 0% for gross payment status. Left blank, the labour figure defaults to the whole subtotal, so fill it in on any job with tile on it.
Yes, as a separate tick box inside the CIS block, and it shows when your company is VAT registered. Tick it and the invoice charges no VAT and carries the wording HMRC expects, so the showroom or main contractor accounts for the VAT at their end. You decide when it applies, Sendinvo never decides for you.
Yes. Every line takes a quantity and a unit price, so 26 m² at £55.00 goes on the invoice at the rate you priced it and totals itself. Send the job as a quote first and the client can accept it on their phone, which turns it into a draft invoice with the same lines and rates already in it.
Yes, once you’ve connected a Stripe account. Every invoice carries a pay link, by card or straight from their bank, and the invoice marks itself paid the moment the payment clears. Stripe charges its own processing fees.
Reminders are set up the moment the invoice goes out and follow your workspace settings, so there’s nothing to switch on job by job. The dates start at 1, 7, and 14 days past due, and the tone steps up as it runs on. On an overdue sterling invoice to another business, Sendinvo shows the statutory interest accrued and the fixed compensation the Late Payment of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act 1998 allows, from £40 on a debt under £1,000, and one click drafts a separate interest invoice for you to read before it goes. This is general information, not legal advice.
No. Sendinvo is the getting-paid half of the job: quote, deposit, invoice, chase, paid. There’s no diary, no timesheets, no job costing, and nothing that measures a floor up for you. Photos of the finished floor go out with the invoice email as attachments, up to 10 MB across everything the message carries, the invoice PDF included, and they ride alongside the invoice rather than printing on it.
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