Invoice app for tilers in Edinburgh
Square-metre pricing, materials breakdowns, VAT calculated — all by voice note, all through WhatsApp.
£29.99/mo · 7 days free · no card needed
Start Free on WhatsAppA real Edinburgh tiler’s voice note:
"Mr Sinclair, Morningside Edinburgh, bathroom splashback, six square metres, tiles materials two-twenty."
What tilers in Edinburgh actually have to log on a job
- m² + wastage built into the quote — Voice-note the room dims; Holdfort adds 10% wastage and prices tiles, adhesive, grout, trim.
- BS 5385 substrate prep — Tanking, ditra-mat, primer each as their own line — bathrooms especially.
- Natural stone vs ceramic — Two pricing models, switch per job; sealing labour separate.
- Wet-room / underfloor heating compatibility — Spec recorded with the invoice for the customer’s records.
- Trade-account receipts — Topps / CTD / Tile Mountain receipts auto-categorised with VAT split.
What tilers 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 tilers
Yes. Voice-note "3.2 by 2.1 metre bathroom floor, 60 by 60 porcelain"; Holdfort adds 10% wastage by default, prices boxes, adhesive and grout, and outputs an itemised quote.
Yes — tanking, primer and ditra-mat each get their own line per BS 5385 best practice, so the customer sees the full spec and you’re protected if anything fails later.
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 tiler? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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