The handyman app for quoting, doing and invoicing in one visit

Built for how handymen actually work#

• Quote at the door, start straight away. Put the callout fee, the labour and the parts on their own lines, send the quote from the phone, and the client accepts it from the email on their own phone. Acceptance turns it into a job, so you can start while you are still there.
• Many small jobs, one day that makes sense. Drag each job onto the calendar or the dispatch board, see the gaps, and move a visit when a job runs over. Every job carries its address, so the day reads as a run rather than a list.
• Parts bought on the way. Add the hinges, the tap washer and the timber you picked up as parts lines on the job, with a photo of the receipt attached, so they make the invoice instead of your glovebox.
• Property managers and repeat clients. One client can hold many sites, each with its own address, access notes and job history. Regular work, such as a monthly check on a rental, runs as a recurring job that puts the next visit on the schedule.
• Paid before you leave. The invoice is built from the job and sent from site. Clients pay by bank transfer, cash, or card through Stripe from the link in the email, and the paid date is recorded when the payment is confirmed.

How a handyman's day runs in Chippie#

A handyman's job is small and the margin is in doing many of them. A leaking tap, a door that will not close, a shelf, a fence paling. Each one needs a price before you start, the parts you bought on the way charged, and an invoice that goes before you drive to the next address.

1. 1

   Quote at the door

   Callout fee, labour and parts as separate lines, sent from the phone. The client accepts from the email without an account.

2. 2

   Do the job

   Acceptance makes it a job. Photos and notes save against it, and the job itself opens and edits with no signal.

3. 3

   Add the parts

   Anything you picked up on the way goes on as a parts line, receipt photo attached.

4. 4

   Invoice from the driveway

   The invoice is built from the job and sent before you leave, with a card payment link if you use Stripe.

5. 5

   Book the next one

   The next job is already on the calendar. Repeat work for property managers runs as recurring jobs at each site.

Chippie does not do job costing: it shows what you quoted and what you invoiced, not what each job earned after the parts. For a business that lives on small jobs, the part that pays is not losing the twenty dollars of parts on every invoice.