Invoice app for tilers in Manchester
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 Manchester tiler’s voice note:
"Mrs Ashworth, Didsbury Manchester, bathroom splashback, six square metres, tiles materials two-twenty."
What tilers in Manchester 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 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 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 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 tiler? Finish the job. Voice note the rest.
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