Invoice app for painters & decorators in Manchester
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 Manchester decorator’s voice note:
"Mrs Ashworth, Didsbury Manchester, three bedrooms painted, two coats, materials three-forty."
What decorators in Manchester 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 Manchester actually deal with
United Utilities across the whole of Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone — plans paused since 2022 but councils are preparing a replacement scheme. Keep receipts for any Ultra Low Emission van upgrades; they’re capital allowance-eligible.
Ten boroughs (Manchester, Salford, Trafford, Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Wigan). Building Control for most residential jobs is split between council services and approved inspectors.
Heavy mix of Victorian two-up-two-downs, interwar semis, post-war council housing, and new-build apartment blocks especially around the city centre. Back-to-back terraces still need careful bracing on loft conversions.
Serving Didsbury, Chorlton, Sale, Altrincham, Withington and the rest of Greater Manchester. Manchester’s rapid apartment boom means lots of concierge-access jobs where you need a sign-in, a lift booking, and often a COSHH briefing before you can even touch a sink.
Greater Manchester sits around £50–£85 for a plumber callout, cheaper than London but increasingly comparable in city-centre postcodes. 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 Manchester 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 UK-wide. Whether you’re invoicing a job in Manchester City Centre, a Salford Quays apartment, or a Stockport semi, the process is identical.
Log it as a voice-note line: "plus one hour sign-in and lift booking" and it goes on the invoice as a separate line. Your customer sees why the total’s higher than a like-for-like house call.
Landlords love fast PDFs for end-of-tenancy fixes. Voice-note a two-line fix-and-forward invoice from the van, send to the letting agent before you’ve left the driveway. Paid within days, not weeks.
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.
Manchester decorator? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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