Invoice app for joiners & carpenters in Birmingham
Fitted furniture, staircases, doors and second fix — voice note in, branded PDF quote or invoice out in seconds.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Birmingham joiner’s voice note:
"Mr Singh, Moseley Birmingham, built-in wardrobe, two doors, eight hundred all-in."
What joiners in Birmingham actually have to log on a job
- Bespoke vs flat-pack pricing — Voice-note "made on site" or "shop-built" and Holdfort prices labour and overheads correctly per model.
- FENSA / CERTASS for windows & doors — Scheme reference auto-prefixes external-door and window invoices.
- Timber sourcing receipts — Softwood / hardwood / sheet receipts auto-categorised with VAT split.
- Fire-door compliance (FD30/FD60) — Frame, hinges, intumescent, smoke seal each as their own line — landlords need this for FRA paperwork.
- Site-survey time — Billable survey separate from labour day rate.
What joiners in Birmingham actually deal with
Severn Trent Water across Birmingham and most of the West Midlands
Birmingham Clean Air Zone (CAZ-D) covers the city-centre A4540 ring road — £8 per day for non-compliant vans. Register with the government portal or you’ll get auto-fined.
Birmingham City Council plus the seven West Midlands metropolitan districts. Building Control is delivered via BCC’s own service or approved inspectors.
Edwardian and inter-war semi-detached dominate the suburbs; tower blocks and back-of-pavement terraces still common in inner-city areas; increasingly high-density new-build around the Colmore Business District and Perry Barr.
Serving Moseley, Harborne, Edgbaston, Kings Heath, Solihull and the rest of West Midlands. The CAZ forces many older trade vans into the daily-charge zone or off-site parking. More than one Birmingham spark I know now quotes two prices: "inside the ring road" and "outside it".
Birmingham sits slightly below national average — £45–£75 for most trades’ callouts, with premium for CAZ entry. 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 Birmingham joiners
Yes. Set your FENSA number once; it auto-prefixes external windows and doors invoices and the building-regs notification reference attaches as a note.
Yes — voice-note "shop-built wardrobe, install on site Tuesday" and Holdfort splits the workshop time, materials and on-site fitting hours so the quote reflects real cost.
Voice-note it as a line: "plus eight pounds CAZ day pass" — Holdfort adds the line item. Most Birmingham customers are fine with it, especially business customers who’d pay it anyway.
Yes — developers and letting agents love a fast branded PDF because it gets reviewed and paid inside their usual 28-day cycle. Several Birmingham builders use Holdfort to bill stage payments to developers on Colmore Row refurbs.
If you’re a WIAPS-approved plumber, your approval number prints on the invoice footer. No separate cert upload, no separate portal — it’s just text on the PDF.
Yes — quarterly-ready breakdowns and sole-trader categories. Required for self-employed earners over the MTD threshold from April 2026. See the MTD guide.
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