Finish the job.
Talk into your phone.
Invoice done.
Voice note in. Branded PDF invoice out — 15 seconds. Quotes, tax, receipts too. Built for UK tradespeople.
£29.99/mo · no contract · 7 days free · less than a round on Friday
Start Free on WhatsAppNo app to install. Just WhatsApp — the one you’ve already got. No card needed.
What real tradespeople are saying.
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Haven't done an invoice on the laptop since February. Wife's happier than me.
Sent invoice from the van before I'd even put the tools back in. Mental.
My accountant actually thanked me. First time that's ever happened.
Three taps. That’s the job.
From standing at the van to invoice-in-their-inbox. Same WhatsApp chat, start to finish.
Press record in your Holdfort WhatsApp chat. Say what you did and what you charged — “Mrs Davies, boiler install, Worcester Bosch twelve hundred, labour six hours.” That’s it.
15 seconds later the invoice comes back — your logo, your VAT number, your numbers. Wrong? Reply “change labour to four hundred” and it updates. Your customer never sees it until you’re happy.
Reply SEND. You get back a branded PDF. Forward it straight to the customer from the same chat. Done before the van’s warmed up.
Quotes. Projects. Receipts. Tax. Same chat.
Everything a sole trader actually needs — not features you’ll never use. Talk to Holdfort the same way you’d talk to a mate.
Branded PDF quote with a “What’s Included” section built from what you said. Want to offer options? Say “give her three options — standard, mid, premium” and each gets its own page.
Budget, stage invoices, variations, running total — tracked across months. Or forward a photo of the cost plan and every line item gets pulled in automatically.
Vendor, amount, VAT, category — logged as a deductible expense. No typing. At tax time, it’s all there.
HMRC-ready breakdown whenever you need it. CSV export for your accountant. Mileage tracked at HMRC rates. Your books are done before your accountant asks.
Also: payment tracking (“Mr Smith paid two hundred” — partial payments, running balances), set up in 30 seconds from a photo of any old invoice, and 10 languages — talk in yours, invoices always come out in English.
No app. No login. No faff.
You already have WhatsApp on your phone. That’s the whole tool. Nothing to install, no password to forget, no “sign in with Google”, no tutorial to sit through.
You didn’t become a plumber, electrician or gas engineer to sit on the laptop at 10pm doing admin.
Work out what you’d actually get back.
That’s 3 weeks of holiday — or 43 Fridays in the pub instead of Friday doing invoices. All for less than a quid a day.
Move the sliders. We assume you save the full time you currently spend per invoice, because with Holdfort you’re just sending a voice note. Annualised across 48 working weeks. Your numbers, your maths.
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Nope. It's WhatsApp. The same app you message your mates on. That's it.
Only Holdfort, and only for long enough to build the invoice or quote. Your voice note gets transcribed, the document gets made, and the recording is deleted. We don't keep it, we don't listen to it for training, we don't sell it to anyone. Full breakdown in our privacy notice. And if you ever want out completely, message “delete my data” — everything’s gone in seconds.
Yeah. Say something like “quote for Mrs Henderson, new bathroom, three and a half grand” and you get a branded PDF quote with a “What’s Included” section. Want to offer choices? “Give her three options — standard, mid, premium” and each one gets its own page on the PDF. Customer picks the one they want, you crack on.
Bathroom refit, rewire, extension, kitchen install — anything multi-day works as a project. Say “new project, kitchen extension for John, forty-five thousand” or forward a photo of the cost plan and Holdfort pulls every line item in. Then message as you go: “invoice the deposit for Dave, £1,500”, “Dave wants an extra radiator, £280”. Budget, stages, variations, running total — all tracked. Same WhatsApp chat, just with a longer memory.
Snap a photo of any till receipt — vendor, amount, VAT, category, logged as a deductible expense. No typing. Come tax time, say “tax summary” for an HMRC-ready breakdown, “export” for a CSV your accountant can use, or “mileage” for per-mile HMRC deductibles. VAT calculated automatically on every invoice. Your accountant will love you.
You always see it first — invoice, quote, whatever. Just reply with a correction: “change the labour to four hundred”, “remove the materials line”, “add a callout fee fifty quid”. It updates. Your customer only sees it when you hit forward.
Course. No contracts, no exit fees. Message us on WhatsApp and you're done. But once it's saving you half an hour a day, you won't want to. Full terms in the terms of service.
Yes — quarterly-ready breakdowns, sole-trader categories, no spreadsheets. From April 2026 the Revenue wants digital records for the self-employed; that's us.
Nope — and you shouldn't want it to. We give your accountant a clean CSV at year-end instead of a shoebox. Most sparks we know save two to three hundred quid on accountant fees because the sorting's already done.
Doesn't matter. You get a branded PDF. Forward it by email, text, Messenger — whatever they use. The customer never has to install anything.
Send a photo of last year's invoices or a contact list screenshot. Holdfort reads it and your customer book is ready in minutes.
Reply EXPORT in WhatsApp. You get a ZIP of every invoice, receipt and tax summary. Reply DELETE and we wipe the lot. Both done from the same chat.
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What founding members say
Voice note in the van, invoice in the customer's WhatsApp before I'd packed away. Faster than handing them a card.
I used to do invoices on Sunday night with a beer. Now they're done before I leave the job. The beer's still there.
Two minutes to set up. The first invoice was sent before the trial timer started. Customer paid same day.
Stop doing invoices on the sofa at 10pm.
Start getting paid before you've left the driveway.
7 days free. 30 seconds to set up. No app to install — it’s just WhatsApp.
Start Free on WhatsApp£29.99/month after trial · founding-member price locked for life · no contract · walk away anytime.