Invoice app for handymen in Edinburgh
Multiple small jobs, combined bills, quick quotes — the WhatsApp tool built for the realities of handyman work.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Edinburgh handyman’s voice note:
"Mr Sinclair, Morningside Edinburgh, four small jobs, callout plus two and a half hours at forty."
What handymen in Edinburgh actually have to log on a job
- Multi-task jobs as one invoice — Shelving + door rehang + tap swap on one ticket — each as its own line so the customer sees value.
- Hourly minimum + half-hour blocks — Set a 1-hour minimum then bill in half-hours; no awkward "but it only took 20 minutes" conversations.
- Materials at cost or markup — B&Q / Toolstation / Screwfix receipts auto-categorised and attached.
- Public-liability cover reference — PL insurance number on every invoice — letting agents need it.
- Repeat-customer recall — 12-week "anything else?" nudge to the customer keeps you front-of-mind.
What handymen 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 handymen
Yes — voice-note them as you go ("curtain pole hung, kitchen tap replaced, shed door re-hinged") and Holdfort lines them up cleanly with separate labour and material rows.
Yes. Set your PL insurer and policy number once; it’s on every invoice and quote, which lets letting agents tick the compliance box without ringing you.
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 handyman? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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