Gaffer for
automatic gate installers.

An automatic gate is machinery, and machinery has to be safe on the day it is handed over and still safe a year later. Gaffer holds the force and safety test record against the gate, files the UKCA declaration of conformity alongside it, and brings you back for the planned service — the visit that keeps the gate legal and keeps you paid. Quote, schedule, certify, invoice and get paid — with the 12 trade documents automatic gate installers actually use already in the account.

Start free trial See the 12 forms

Where two names look alike they are different documents — a notification is not the certificate that follows it, and two schemes covering the same work each want their own form. If you think one is missing, or that one of these is redundant, say so and we will change the pack.

Trade packs and specialist workflows for automatic gate installers in Gaffer

Quote it from a template

Priced quote templates for automatic gate installers, your own price book and good-better-best options. Customers accept and pay a deposit from their phone.

Quoting & Estimating →

Do the job with the paperwork built in

12 trade documents ready for automatic gate installers — 7 written for this trade, 5 shared with others — filled in on the phone, signed on site and emailed as a PDF before you leave.

Compliance & Certificates →

Invoice from the driveway

One tap raises the invoice from the accepted quote, nets off the deposit and sends a Pay Now link. Reminders chase for you.

Invoicing & Payments →

Rebook the renewal automatically

Certificates and services with an expiry date become next year’s work. Gaffer texts the customer a booking link before it lapses.

Automations & AI →

A worked job

A sliding gate on a yard entrance, end to end

This is the shape of the work in Gaffer — the same job you already do, with the hand-offs taken off your plate.

See the same job in detail

Day 0Site survey captured with photos, gate weight and the existing power run.
Day 1Quote sent from the template. Accepted online with a deposit.
Day 12Install, electrical safety record and force testing to EN 12453 signed on site.
Day 12Commissioning record, UKCA declaration and handover record emailed as PDFs.
Day 12Invoice sent; the balance is paid by card before the van leaves the yard.
+12 moThe planned service falls due. The site manager books his own slot from a link.

Certificates & forms

12 trade documents, ready for automatic gate installers.

7 of them are written for this trade and 5 are shared with others — an EICR is an EICR whoever issues it. Every one is a real digital form, not a blank template.

Each one is a proper digital form: the fields that document actually needs, signature capture, photo attachments, a PDF the customer can keep, and — where it has one — an expiry date Gaffer tracks. Completed on the phone, offline if it has to be.

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