01Invoicing on a construction job
Construction is the one trade where the invoice format is set by somebody else. Get it wrong and the payment is held before a human has looked at the work.
The same billing problems look different depending on what you do. A plumber invoicing an emergency callout, a cleaning contractor billing forty sites every month, and an agency running monthly retainers all need a different shape of invoice and a different rhythm behind it.
13 guides in this category
Each guide below works through the billing workflow for one trade, using the jobs, sites and charges that trade actually deals with.
01Construction is the one trade where the invoice format is set by somebody else. Get it wrong and the payment is held before a human has looked at the work.
02Carpet cleaning is the trade most likely to be told the work was not done properly, weeks later, by someone who was not there. The invoice is where you win or lose that.
03Domestic cleaning invoices fail differently from commercial ones. There is no accounts department to absorb an unclear line, just one person deciding whether it looks right.
04Maintenance contracts bill on a schedule, breakdowns bill on the day, and installations bill in stages. One account, three billing rhythms.
05Guarding contracts bill the same sites every month and still change every week. A billing routine that separates the contracted hours from the cover shifts.
06A practical way to bill a repeat window cleaning round without rebuilding the same invoices every month or losing track of small unpaid balances.
07A practical guide to organising monthly retainers, repeat projects, invoice review and payment follow-up in one consistent agency billing routine.
08A practical workflow for organising roofing jobs, variations, staged billing, costs, client-ready documents and payment follow-up in one system.
09A practical guide to organising planned maintenance, inspections, reactive work, recurring invoices and payment records around each client site.
10A practical guide to organising repeat grounds maintenance, seasonal jobs, invoices and payment follow-up around clients and service sites.
11Learn how a focused electrician invoicing workflow can turn completed work into clear invoices, consistent PDFs and visible payment statuses.
12A practical guide to billing everything from emergency callouts to annual boiler servicing in one workflow, with parts and labour tracking, AI invoice drafting, and recurring maintenance schedules.
13A practical guide to replacing monthly spreadsheets and repeated invoice admin with one clear workflow for every client and cleaning site.