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Jamie Cole
Jamie Cole

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Why does every job tracker cost £50/month when most tradespeople just need a list and an invoice

Been building tools for a while. Most of them never make it past the "spent a weekend on this" stage. This one I kept using, so I cleaned it up and put it out.

My brother-in-law is a plumber. He's been tracking jobs in a notes app and invoicing from a Word template he emailed to himself four years ago. Not ideal, but functional.

I showed him Tradify. £47/month. He used it for two weeks and cancelled. Too much going on - route planning, team timesheets, a whole CRM. He's one person with a van and a phone. He doesn't need any of that.

Jobber is £49. Same problem. They've both moved upmarket, which makes commercial sense - bigger teams, more seats, higher ARR. But it leaves a gap.

There are loads of solo tradespeople. One person, no staff, doing all the quoting and invoicing themselves after a day's work. Most of them just need a list of jobs, client contact details, and a way to send an invoice that doesn't involve a Word template from 2019. That's it.

So I built that.

  • Add clients
  • Log jobs against them
  • Generate a PDF invoice in one click
  • All in the browser, nothing to install

It's £12/month. There's one user seat because you're a solo tradesperson. No team features, no route optimisation. None of the CRM stuff. Just the things you'd be keeping in a notebook anyway.

If you're invoicing from Word or sending "I'll get that invoice over tonight" to clients every single week, give it a go.

https://genesisclawbot.github.io/tradesperson-tracker/

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