You wear every hat — estimator, buyer, fitter, and chaser. Your quotes still need the same discipline as a bigger firm: real labour, honest materials, overheads, and margin you can defend when the customer compares three PDFs.
Self-employed tradespeople lose money when “quick quotes” hide van time, merchant runs, and the admin that never appears on the job sheet. Quotimiser helps sole traders and small partnerships line out jobs properly, recover overheads without mystery percentages, and carry the same structure from quote to invoice so nothing drifts when work is approved.
Break out labour bands, materials with markup, travel, and exclusions so domestic customers understand the price — and you see margin before you book the diary. Works across trades without locking you to one trade-only wizard.
Sell a fixed bathroom price or a fault-find day rate — but keep the underlying lines visible so variations have a reference point and you stop cross-subsidising rushed evenings with optimistic lump sums.
Insurance, van, tools, software, and non-billable time belong in your pricing model early. Recover them per hour, per day, or per job so quiet weeks do not quietly erase last month’s profit.
When the customer says yes, carry the same line items into VAT-aware invoices and payment tracking — fewer spreadsheet tabs, fewer “what did I quote for that?” moments at month end.
Follow the path below for self-employed tradespeople — deep guides, templates, calculators, and product surfaces that reinforce the same pricing habits from first quote through to payment.
Self-employed trades need quoting discipline first — visible costs, sensible markup, and documents customers trust. Quotimiser is built around structured job pricing for UK sole traders, then the same numbers flow through to invoices and client links without a second spreadsheet rebuild.
Yes. Line items are job-based, not a rigid single-trade template. Many self-employed users cover mixed domestic work — use the structure that matches each quote while keeping pricing habits consistent.
No. Non-VAT sole traders can quote and invoice clearly; when you register for VAT, totals can follow your business profile so quotes and invoices stay aligned — see our VAT guides in Resources for wording discipline, not tax advice.
Yes. Start free with monthly quote and invoice limits; upgrade to Pro when you outgrow caps — see pricing for current entitlements.
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