The app for plumbing services that fits how the work actually runs

Plumbing splits three ways: emergency callouts that need invoicing before you have left the kerb, scheduled renovation work that needs a proper itemised quote, and maintenance clients you see on a cycle. An app for plumbing services has to handle all three without slowing you down, which is a different problem to generic job software.

For a callout, Chippie lets you raise and send the invoice from the customer's driveway, so a blocked drain at 7am is paid for, not forgotten by Friday. For bigger work, a hot-water changeover or a bathroom renovation, you itemise the quote line by line, and once the client accepts it becomes a job and an invoice with no re-keying.

Maintenance and service clients can run as recurring jobs, so the next visit is already on your schedule. Property details that matter on the day, meter and isolation-valve location, gate codes, the tenant's number, sit in the client's notes and carry across every job you do for that address.

Then there is the part plumbing has more of than any other trade: the scope that changes mid-job. The real problem shows up once something is opened up, the extra work gets agreed verbally with the customer standing next to you, and in a paper system that variation is the line that never makes it onto the invoice. In Chippie you add it to the job on the spot, photo attached, while the customer's yes is still fresh. That is the difference between an invoice you can defend and a conversation you lose two weeks later.