Locksmiths
Software for locksmiths
What is different about this trade
This is the trade with the shortest distance between the work and the money, and software written around quote-then-schedule-then-invoice gets in the way of it. The invoice is raised standing at the door and the customer pays it on their own phone, on their own copy of it, before you have packed the van.
How it handles your day
Raise it at the door
A job that is one visit
Out of hours, and who is near
What you found, photographed
Agents and landlords on account
Questions, answered
Can the customer pay card at the door?
They pay by card on their own invoice page, which you send them there and then — so on their phone rather than on a reader in your hand. The payment records itself and settles the invoice.
Do I have to raise a quote first?
No. A job does not need a quote behind it, and for call-out work it usually should not have one.
Can I have different rates out of hours?
Prices are per job or from your price list rather than a time-of-day rule, so an out-of-hours call-out is priced as its own item.
Does it work on a phone properly?
It is built to be used standing up with one hand — that is the assumption throughout, not a cut-down mobile version. Every form control is sized so a phone will not zoom when you tap it.
Can I put a letting agent on account?
Yes, with a monthly statement rather than an invoice per call-out, on their payment terms.
How much is it?
£29.99 a month for the whole business — every feature, every person, no add-ons. 60 days free and no card to start.
Before you start
When you sign up you are asked what the business does. Pick Locksmith — the app uses it to decide what to show you, so the screens arrive already suited to the work rather than needing switching off one at a time.
The arithmetic behind this is free to use without an account — try the late payment interest calculator, which runs the same code the invoices do.
See it being done
Step-by-step guides with a short recording of each one, free to read without an account.
Raise and send an invoice
From a finished job, or from scratch when there was no job.
Take a payment
By card on their own page, or recording one that arrived another way.
Bill a customer once a month
A letting agent or a housing association who sends you forty jobs a month gets one invoice, with a line for each.
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Try it on your own work
60 days free with everything switched on, and no card to start. If you would rather ask something first, there is a person on the other end.
£29.99 a month for the whole business after the free 60 days.