Software for trades & field services
Trades businesses lose time and money in the gap between the job on site and the admin back at the office — quotes written on the van, jobs double-booked, invoices sent late. The right app closes that gap without adding faff.
What usually gets in the way
- ✕Quotes and job details lost between the site and the office
- ✕Double-bookings and no clear view of the week ahead
- ✕Invoices sent late because the paperwork piles up
- ✕Customers chasing for updates you don’t have time to give
How we'd help
- Mobile job and quote apps your team uses on site
- Scheduling that prevents double-bookings
- Automated quote-to-invoice with payment links
- Customer booking pages that fill your diary
Working with trades & field services businesses
The test for trades software is brutal and fair: will someone actually use it standing in a loft with one bar of signal? If the answer is no, it doesn't matter how good the dashboard looks. So we design for the van and the site first — big buttons, photos attached to jobs in two taps, quotes that can be drafted on the spot and tidied up later.
The other half of the job is the office. Quote-to-invoice should be one flow, not three tools: the quote becomes the job, the job becomes the invoice, and the invoice carries a payment link so you're not chasing bank transfers. Where you already use accounting software like Xero or QuickBooks, the app pushes invoices straight in rather than making anyone retype them.
Most trades clients start small — a booking page that fills the diary, or a job sheet app that kills the paperwork — and grow the system from there once it's proving itself. That keeps the first investment modest and means the software earns its keep before you spend more.
Common questions
- My team isn't technical. Will they actually use an app?
- That's a design constraint, not a blocker. The apps we build for trades teams are deliberately simpler than WhatsApp: see today's jobs, tap one, add photos and notes, mark it done. If it takes training, we've built it wrong.
- Does it work offline or with poor signal?
- Yes — jobs and notes are stored on the device and sync when signal returns. For field work that's essential, not a nice-to-have, and it's built in from the start.
- What does a trades job management app cost?
- A customer booking page or simple job tracker sits at the lower end; a full quote-to-invoice mobile app for a team starts from around £15,000, fixed price agreed upfront. A free 30-minute call is enough for us to give you a realistic figure.
Let's talk about your trades & field services project.
A free 30-minute chat, no obligation. We'll tell you honestly what would help and roughly what it would take.