Straight answers
Answers for UK trades.
The things tradespeople actually ask: quoting, invoicing, deposits, chasing late payment, VAT, CIS and Making Tax Digital. No jargon.
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Price a job in your trade, free
A typical job, priced from the app's own price book. Change it to yours and send it as a real quote. No signing up to try it.
How do I quote a job fast?
Type it, say it or photo it once, and send a priced, branded quote from your own rates.
How can I automate invoicing as a tradesperson?
The quote becomes the invoice, the customer pays by card, late payers get chased for you.
How does the VAT reverse charge work for construction?
When VAT-registered subs leave the VAT off the total, and what the invoice must say.
How do I take a deposit before starting a job?
State it on the quote and let them pay by card the moment they accept.
How do I chase late-paying customers?
Invoice the same day, follow up on a schedule, and let the app do the chasing.
What should a professional quote include?
The essentials every quote needs to win the job and avoid disputes.
Is there an app that books the job in when the deposit is paid?
The deposit lands and the job books itself into your next free days.
How do I get paid faster as a tradesperson?
Deposit on the quote, invoice the same day, card payment, and chasing that does itself.
How much does job management software cost for UK trades?
What UK trade apps really cost, and the three things to check besides the price.
Do I need Xero or QuickBooks as a tradesperson?
When a separate accounting app is worth it, and when your job app can keep the books.
What's the best quoting app for UK trades?
Just a quote, or the whole job handled? How the options compare for UK trades.
Built on the tools, not in a boardroom
I'm Tom. Ten years in the trade, and every quote done sat in the van on the drive. If that's you, keep reading.
I started in the trade at 17. Ten years in, the work was fine. It was everything after the work.
Every night I'd pull up at home and sit in the van on the drive, because the quotes and the invoices and the chasing had to be done before I went in. Every night. And the better the quotes were, the more people rang, so it never got smaller. I was starting to hate a trade I'd loved since I was 17.
If you've ever sat outside your own house doing paperwork, you know.
I tried every system going. Every one made a quote, then left me in the van doing the rest.
So I came off the tools and spent 18 months building the thing that didn't exist. Every step I used to do on that drive, built in so it happens without you. The quote prices itself from your rates. The deposit books the job. The invoice goes when you tap Job done. The late payer gets chased. VAT and CIS worked out.
Two things we found in no other trade app we checked: the deposit on your quote books the job and the customer moves the date themselves, and your bank statement gets matched with the tax to put aside shown.
It's new. Price a real job on it, 7 days free. If it's not quicker than what you do now, bin it and tell me why.
What I want is simple: you out of the van and in the house, paid properly and on time, and back in love with the trade you picked.
Want your prices set up with you? Reply to the welcome email and I'll ring you.
- InstaQuote Ltd
- Co. No. 17224118
- Registered in England & Wales
- ICO ZC153382
- Payments on Stripe, we never see a card number
- Data never sold
- VAT, CIS & reverse charge the HMRC way
The whole job
The same job, before and after.
You shouldn't have to do any of this. After you send the quote, the only thing you do is tap Job done. The deposit, the booking, the invoice and the chasing are handled.
- 01Quoting
NowQuote typed up after tea. Sent as a PDF. No reply for a week.
With InstaQuoteQuote priced from your saved rates in seconds. Sent straight away. The customer accepts on their phone.
- 02Customer acceptance & deposit
NowDeposit asked for by text. Paid when they remember.
With InstaQuoteThe quote is accepted and the deposit is paid on the same screen, by card.
- 03Invoices & payment chasing
NowInvoice done on Sunday. Paid a month late after two awkward calls.
With InstaQuoteTap Job done and the invoice goes out. Late payers get reminders in your name that stop when they pay.
- 04VAT, CIS & totals
NowVAT and CIS added up at the kitchen table, twice, to be sure.
With InstaQuoteVAT, CIS and job totals worked out on every quote and invoice, the HMRC way, with the figure shown.
Why us, not the others
Six things no other trade app we checked does.
Every app we checked does quotes, invoices, the diary, VAT and CIS. So do we. These six are on top, and none of the ten says it does them.
The deposit books the job.
No more chasing a date. They pick it, they move it, you turn up.
Your bank statement, matched to your invoices.
Upload it and every payment is matched to the invoice it paid. No surprise tax bill: what to put aside is shown as the year goes.
Download everything, even after you cancel.
Your work is yours, not ours. Five of the ten say on their own sites that they lock you out or delete it.
One tap splits labour and materials.
No more working out the itemised version at the kitchen table. Your merchant's prices, your markup.
Your own certificates, with reminders.
Gas Safe, NICEIC, CSCS, insurance, the lot on file. You're told before one runs out, never after.
Ask ChatGPT or Claude what's on today.
Make a key in Settings, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude once, and ask "who owes me?". It can read your account and never change it.
Checked on their own websites, 18 to 26 September 2026, and ServiceM8 again on 3 October, and all ten again on 12 October 2026: Tradify, Powered Now, Fergus, ServiceM8, Jobber, Commusoft, YourTradebase, QuickPrice, VoxTrade and PriceUp. Where their site says nothing, we say "not found", never "they don't". See it app by app.
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Your 7 free days start when you do. At the end of the free week you pick a plan, or the account pauses with nothing deleted. No InstaQuote charge during the trial.
No sales call to see the price.
Every plan is published in pounds on the pricing page.
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Cancel from Settings in a couple of taps. No notice period, no phone call, no form.
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Export your customers, quotes, invoices, photos and receipts in one file, on any plan, even after you've cancelled.
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Take a deposit or an invoice by card and InstaQuote adds nothing. Stripe's own card rate still applies, the same as anywhere.
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Price a real job on it in your free week. If it isn't quicker, cancel in a couple of taps and tell us why, so we fix it.
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Sunday nights back.
Price a real job on it. Build the quote from your rates, send it, and watch the deposit, the booking and the chaser run themselves. If it isn't quicker than what you do now, cancel in a couple of taps and tell us why.
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