Invoice App for Tradies

You have finished the job. The customer is happy. They say "just send me the invoice" and you nod, knowing full well that you will forget to do it tonight because there are three other jobs to chase up, and by the time you send it three days later they take another two weeks to pay. Sound familiar?

Late payments are the silent killer of trade businesses in Australia. The average tradie is owed $15,000 to $30,000 in unpaid invoicesat any given time. That is money you have already earned — for materials you have already paid for — sitting in someone else's bank account.

Why Tradies Struggle With Invoicing

The invoicing problem is not about complexity. It is about timing and energy. Here is what typically goes wrong:

• Delayed invoicing: You finish a job at 4pm but do not send the invoice until the weekend — or worse, the end of the month. The longer the delay, the longer you wait for payment.
• Forgotten invoices: Small jobs slip through the cracks. That $300 tap repair? Never invoiced. Multiply that by a few per month and you are losing thousands annually.
• Payment friction: You send a PDF invoice by email. The customer has to open it, find your bank details, log into their bank, and enter the BSB and account number. Every step is a reason to procrastinate.
• Chasing payments: Sending reminder texts, making awkward phone calls, sending follow-up emails. Nobody became a tradie to be a debt collector.
• Poor record keeping: Handwritten invoices, lost receipts, and no clear picture of who owes what.

How Tradee Handles Invoicing

Tradee turns invoicing from a chore into an automatic process. Because Tradee already knows the job details — the customer, the work done, and the agreed price — it can generate and send invoices without you lifting a finger.

1. One-tap invoice: When you mark a job as complete in Tradee, an invoice is generated automatically from the job details and your rate card.
2. SMS payment link: The customer receives a text message with a link to pay instantly by card. No PDFs, no bank transfers, no friction.
3. Instant payment: Customers tap the link, enter their card, and you get paid. Most payments come through within minutes of sending.
4. Automatic reminders: If the customer has not paid after 24 hours, Tradee sends a gentle reminder. Another at 3 days. And another at 7 days. You never have to chase manually.
5. Payment tracking: Your dashboard shows all invoices — sent, paid, and overdue — with the total amount outstanding at a glance.

Why SMS Invoicing Works Better

Traditional email invoicing has a major problem: people do not check their email like they used to. SMS, on the other hand, has a 98% open ratecompared to email's 20%. When you send an invoice via text with a tap-to-pay link, the path from "invoice received" to "invoice paid" is measured in taps, not steps.

Tradies using SMS invoicing through Tradee report that:

• 65% of invoices are paid within 1 hour of sending
• 90% are paid within 48 hours — compared to the industry average of 30+ days
• Bad debt drops by 80% because immediate payment capture removes the opportunity for customers to forget or avoid paying

The Full Picture: Call to Cash

What makes Tradee different from standalone invoicing apps like Invoice2go or Xero is that it handles the entire journey from the first phone call to the final payment:

• Customer calls → AI answers and qualifies the job
• AI sends a quote via SMS → customer accepts
• Job is booked in your calendar → you show up and do the work
• You mark the job complete → invoice sent automatically via SMS
• Customer taps the link → you get paid

No other tool gives tradies this end-to-end flow. You focus on the work. Tradee handles the business.

Pricing

SMS invoicing and payment links are included from the Starter plan at $49/month. The Tradie plan at $99/month adds automatic quoting, job booking, and the overflow network. All plans come with a 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

Start your free trial and send your first instant invoice today.