Invoice app for gas engineers in Edinburgh
Your Gas Safe number on every PDF. CP12 landlord certificates by voice note. Receipts, tax, MTD — same WhatsApp chat.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Edinburgh gas engineer’s voice note:
"Mr Sinclair, Morningside Edinburgh, annual boiler service, one-twenty plus parts forty-five."
What gas engineers in Edinburgh actually have to log on a job
- Gas Safe number & ACS classes — Auto-prefixed on every invoice with your in-date ACS class numbers (CCN1, CENWAT, CKR1, HTR1, MET1, etc.).
- CP12 / Landlord Gas Safety Records — Issued in 30 seconds from a voice note and stored against the property.
- Gas tightness / let-by / standing pressure — Logged as an invoice note for audit.
- Boiler installation notification — Building Regs notification reference attaches with the invoice.
- Annual service reminders — 12-month auto-reminder to chase recurring revenue from the same customer.
What gas engineers 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 gas engineers
Yes. Speak the readings — standing pressure, working pressure, flue analysis — and Holdfort outputs a Gas Safe-format CP12 PDF that you sign on WhatsApp.
Yes — set once, prefixed on every quote, invoice, CP12 and service certificate, and Holdfort warns you 30 days before any class lapses.
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 gas engineer? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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Start Free on WhatsAppHold the fort. We’ve got the paperwork.