Tradie Invoice App · United Kingdom
Most invoicing software is built for accountants. TradieNotes is built for tradesmen — snap a photo of your job notes or speak them aloud, and AI generates a professional VAT invoice within seconds. £1 per export. No subscription.
Updated June 2026 · HMRC compliant · Built for UK tradesmen
Take a photo of your scrawled job notes. TradieNotes reads your handwriting, extracts the labour hours, materials, and client details, and builds a professional HMRC-compliant PDF invoice. Takes seconds. Costs £1. No monthly fee.
Traditional invoicing software — full accounting platforms like QuickBooks and Sage — is designed for businesses with dedicated admin staff. For a tradesman doing their own invoicing at the end of a long day, they're overkill, expensive, and time-consuming.
TradieNotes does one thing: turns your job notes into a professional VAT invoice as fast as possible. No learning curve, no monthly subscription, no setup. Just take a photo or speak your notes, check the result, and pay £1 to export the PDF.
Preview your invoice for free before paying anything. You only pay £1 once you're happy with the result and ready to download the PDF.
How it stacks up
Most invoicing software is built for businesses that invoice regularly from a desk. TradieNotes is built for tradesmen who invoice from the job site, the van, or the sofa at 9pm.
| Feature | TradieNotes | Accounting Software |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly fee | None | £15–£35/month |
| Cost per invoice | £1 | Included in subscription |
| Reads handwritten notes | Yes — AI powered | No |
| Voice input | Yes | No |
| Time to create invoice | Within seconds | 5–15 minutes |
| Signup required | Optional | Required |
| HMRC VAT compliant | Yes | Yes |
| Quote to invoice conversion | Free | Included |
| Built for tradesmen | Yes — UK made | General business |
If you're a busy tradesman doing fewer than 20 invoices a month, TradieNotes is significantly cheaper and faster than any subscription invoicing software. If you need full accounting — payroll, bank reconciliation, multi-user access — accounting software is the right tool. For invoicing only, TradieNotes wins on speed and cost.
TradieNotes works for electricians, plumbers, builders, landscapers, and any other trade where you're writing job notes by hand and need to invoice fast.
Any UK tradesman who writes job notes by hand and hates doing invoices on Sunday night. Electricians doing residential service calls. Plumbers quoting and invoicing in the same day. Builders billing labour and materials weekly. Landscapers with multiple small jobs per day. Self-employed contractors and sole traders without admin support.
The key difference is the AI that reads your actual handwritten job notes. You don't retype anything — you photograph what you already wrote on site. Voice input means you can dictate from the van before you've even left the driveway. And at £1 per invoice with no subscription, the economics work whether you do 3 invoices a week or 30.
If you're a sole trader invoicing under £90,000 a year, you don't need VAT on your invoices at all — TradieNotes handles both VAT and non-VAT invoices. Select your option before exporting and the correct invoice format is generated automatically. No accountant required. Not sure which VAT rules apply to your work? Read our VAT guide for UK tradespeople.
Common questions
No signup · HMRC compliant · UK made
TradieNotes is invoicing software for UK tradesmen. It is not accounting software and does not replace an accountant for tax returns, payroll, or financial reporting.
