Invoice app for painters & decorators in Birmingham
Price per room, materials markup, receipts from the decorator’s merchant — invoicing handled in the same chat you message the customer in.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Birmingham decorator’s voice note:
"Mr Singh, Moseley Birmingham, three bedrooms painted, two coats, materials three-forty."
What decorators in Birmingham actually have to log on a job
- Surface prep as its own line — Fill, sand, prime — priced separately so customers see why a "paint job" isn’t just paint.
- Trade-discount paint sourcing — Dulux Trade / Crown Trade receipts auto-categorised; markup or pass-through, your call per job.
- Wallpaper m² calc — Voice-note the room dimensions; Holdfort costs rolls + paste + drops with waste built in.
- Listed buildings / heritage — Specialist paints (mineral, lime) flagged so the invoice carries the spec for conservation officers.
- Day-rate vs square-metre pricing — Switch quoting model per job without rebuilding the template.
What decorators in Birmingham actually deal with
Severn Trent Water across Birmingham and most of the West Midlands
Birmingham Clean Air Zone (CAZ-D) covers the city-centre A4540 ring road — £8 per day for non-compliant vans. Register with the government portal or you’ll get auto-fined.
Birmingham City Council plus the seven West Midlands metropolitan districts. Building Control is delivered via BCC’s own service or approved inspectors.
Edwardian and inter-war semi-detached dominate the suburbs; tower blocks and back-of-pavement terraces still common in inner-city areas; increasingly high-density new-build around the Colmore Business District and Perry Barr.
Serving Moseley, Harborne, Edgbaston, Kings Heath, Solihull and the rest of West Midlands. The CAZ forces many older trade vans into the daily-charge zone or off-site parking. More than one Birmingham spark I know now quotes two prices: "inside the ring road" and "outside it".
Birmingham sits slightly below national average — £45–£75 for most trades’ callouts, with premium for CAZ entry. Holdfort doesn’t set your prices — your rates are yours — but it stops you from losing track of what’s owed, what’s paid, and what’s been expensed along the way. All through WhatsApp. No app to install, no portal to log into.
Questions from Birmingham decorators
Both. Voice-note "master bedroom, walls and ceiling, two coats Dulux Trade Vinyl Matt" and Holdfort produces an itemised quote at your set m² rate; switch to day-rate for site work.
Either. Set a default markup (10/15/20%) or flag a job as pass-through-at-cost — receipts attach to the invoice automatically.
Voice-note it as a line: "plus eight pounds CAZ day pass" — Holdfort adds the line item. Most Birmingham customers are fine with it, especially business customers who’d pay it anyway.
Yes — developers and letting agents love a fast branded PDF because it gets reviewed and paid inside their usual 28-day cycle. Several Birmingham builders use Holdfort to bill stage payments to developers on Colmore Row refurbs.
If you’re a WIAPS-approved plumber, your approval number prints on the invoice footer. No separate cert upload, no separate portal — it’s just text on the PDF.
Yes — quarterly-ready breakdowns and sole-trader categories. Required for self-employed earners over the MTD threshold from April 2026. See the MTD guide.
£29.99 per month, all in. 7 days free, no card needed to start. Founding-member price locked for life.
Birmingham decorator? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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