Invoice app for painters & decorators in Edinburgh
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 Edinburgh decorator’s voice note:
"Mr Sinclair, Morningside Edinburgh, three bedrooms painted, two coats, materials three-forty."
What decorators in Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh actually deal with
Scottish Water across the entire city and surrounding Lothians
Edinburgh Low Emission Zone in force since June 2024 covering the Old Town / city centre area. Non-compliant vans are banned outright, enforced by ANPR cameras.
City of Edinburgh Council plus West Lothian, Mid Lothian and East Lothian. UNESCO-protected Old Town and New Town mean lots of listed-building consents and conservation-area restrictions.
Edinburgh is stone. Listed Georgian terraces in the New Town, medieval tenements in the Old Town, post-war bungalows out in Corstorphine and Portobello, and modern fit-out work in the mushrooming Waterfront and BioQuarter zones.
Serving Morningside, Leith, Stockbridge, New Town, Old Town and the rest of Lothian. Conservation area + listed building combo means even changing a back-door handle can need written consent. Quote the consent-chasing time, bill it, and have it on your PDF — customers who’ve just moved into a New Town flat don’t yet know the rules.
Edinburgh callout rates track Glasgow closely — £45–£80 typical — with a significant uplift for work inside World Heritage zones where access is harder. 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 Edinburgh 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.
Yes — it’s a line item. Voice-note "consent ref CEC-2026-12345" and it goes on. Some insurers and freeholders specifically require it be visible on the quote and the invoice.
Multi-month projects are a core Holdfort feature. Set up once ("New Town flat, listed refurb, 85k"), then voice-note stage invoices as you go — strip-out, first fix, second fix, final. Running totals tracked across months.
Yes — the whole of Scotland and the rest of the UK. Whether you’re in Princes Street or a Linlithgow new-build, it’s the same voice-note-to-PDF flow.
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.
Edinburgh decorator? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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Start Free on WhatsAppHold the fort. We’ve got the paperwork.