Invoice app for handymen in Manchester
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 Manchester handyman’s voice note:
"Mrs Ashworth, Didsbury Manchester, four small jobs, callout plus two and a half hours at forty."
What handymen in Manchester 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 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 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 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 handyman? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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Start Free on WhatsAppHold the fort. We’ve got the paperwork.