Invoice app for plumbers in Edinburgh
Voice note in from the van, branded PDF invoice out in 15 seconds — a plumbers’ invoicing tool that lives entirely in WhatsApp.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Edinburgh plumber’s voice note:
"Mr Sinclair, Morningside Edinburgh, boiler install, Worcester Bosch twelve hundred, labour six hours."
What plumbers in Edinburgh actually have to log on a job
- Gas Safe (if combi/boiler work) — Your Gas Safe number auto-prefixes every invoice; CP12 reminders fire 11 months after issue.
- Unvented G3 work — Cylinder model and discharge route captured as invoice notes; G3 cert PDF attaches to the WhatsApp thread.
- WaterSafe / WIAPS — WRAS-compliant fittings as a separate line item so commercial clients can audit.
- Legionella risk assessment — Store-and-recall template for landlord, HMO and care-home jobs.
- Building Regs Part G / Part H — Building-control sign-off PDF attaches inside the invoice thread.
What plumbers 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 plumbers
Yes. Set it once; every invoice and CP12 thereafter auto-prefixes the number, registration class and expiry — important for landlord work in Edinburgh where letting agents check before paying.
Yes — reply to the WhatsApp with the CP12 PDF and it attaches to the invoice thread. The landlord gets one document with the gas safety record and the invoice.
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 plumber? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
7 days free. 30 seconds to set up. Just WhatsApp.
Start Free on WhatsAppHold the fort. We’ve got the paperwork.