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Roofers

Software for roofers

Your customer is standing on the drive looking at a roof they cannot see. Whatever you did up there exists for them only as a photograph — which makes the evidence record the product as much as the tiles are, and makes a lost photo a lost argument.

What is different about this trade

Evidence is internal until somebody says otherwise. An engineer photographing the state they found a roof in is protecting the business, not publishing — so nothing reaches a customer unless it is marked to, and there is deliberately no way to export the lot. A business whose internal shots went out attached to an invoice never uses the feature again.

How it handles your day

Proof the customer can actually look at

Photos, video and voice notes against the job, dated and grouped by the stage of work they belong to. Anything written before stages existed stays marked unknown rather than being quietly filed as during.

A link, not an attachment

Phone video runs to hundreds of megabytes and no email will carry it, so what the customer gets is a link to live data. Withdraw an item and it disappears from the copy you sent three weeks ago, which an attachment can never do.

Weather, counted honestly

Stood down before anybody set off costs nothing and gives the slot back. Turning up to a locked site is a wasted journey — the van went, the day went — and is counted as one rather than hidden as a cancellation.

Retention that is not chased

Money held back on a commercial job is not late, so it is never counted as overdue and never put on the chase list. Past its release date it becomes ordinary money owed and is named as retention, because "your invoice is overdue" is the wrong call to make about money a surveyor is sitting on.

Two on the roof, one job

A two-man lift is one visit with two people on it. The second person sees it on their board with who they are meeting, and their diary shows them busy — but only the lead drives the job, because two people pressing Arrive produces a history nobody can read.

Questions, answered

Do photographs go to the customer automatically?

No, and that is deliberate. Everything is internal until you mark the individual items to share. There is no export-everything button for a renderer to reach for by mistake.

Can I put the photos on the invoice?

Yes — the same chosen items can be shown on the invoice the customer already opens to pay, so the proof and the bill are in one place rather than two emails.

What happens to the photos if the job is cancelled?

They stay exactly where they are. Completing, invoicing, crediting or the customer declining the extra work all leave every item alone — a customer saying no is precisely when the evidence matters.

Does it handle retention on commercial work?

Yes, and it is the reason the chasing can be trusted. Without somewhere to record it, an invoice paid short by retention looks exactly like a customer who has not finished paying, and your biggest accounts get chased for money that is not late.

What if there is no release date yet?

A retention with no date is never treated as late. "Six months after practical completion" is often not a date anybody has, and treating unknown as overdue would put every retention on the chase list the day it was recorded.

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 Roofing — 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 retention 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.

The job evidence record

Everything photographed, filmed, recorded or written on a job — and choosing what the customer sees.

Retention held back on a contract

Money the contract keeps until practical completion — recorded, shown to the customer, and never chased as a debt.

Photos, video, voice notes and extra work

Your record of what you found and what you left, and getting extra work approved before you do it.

All the guides and videos →

Also worth a look

Most businesses on this list do more than one of these. It is the same product and the same price either way.

Builders and main contractors

Months, stages, subcontractors and retention — with money held back recorded properly so it never reads as an overdue invoice.

Painters and decorators

Priced by the day more often than by the job. Days counted from the diary rather than estimated, part days rounded up, and never to zero.

All trades and field teams →

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.

Start your free trialTalk to a person07976 748850

£29.99 a month for the whole business after the free 60 days.

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