Gaffer for
handymen.
A handyman’s problem is volume. Nine small jobs a day, each with its own materials, and half of them never get invoiced properly because the day ran away. Gaffer keeps the work record and the materials against each job, takes the payment on the doorstep by card, and brings the same customer back for the next five things on her list. Quote, schedule, record the work, invoice and get paid — with the 12 trade documents handymen actually use already in the account.
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.
Priced quote templates for handymen, your own price book and good-better-best options. Customers accept and pay a deposit from their phone.
12 trade documents ready for handymen — 6 written for this trade, 6 shared with others — filled in on the phone, signed on site and emailed as a PDF before you leave.
One tap raises the invoice from the accepted quote, nets off the deposit and sends a Pay Now link. Reminders chase for you.
Finished jobs surface follow-up work automatically — the room you did not do, the quote they never answered, the customer who has gone quiet.
A morning of small jobs for a letting agent, 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- 08:00Six jobs on the board for one agent, four flats, every one with access notes.
- 09:20First flat: work record and photos, materials logged from the price book.
- 11:05A dodgy socket. Photographed, written up as a defect and passed to the agent’s electrician — with the record on the flat, not in a text message.
- 13:40Each job closed with its photos, its materials and its time against it.
- 13:45Customer satisfaction and defects record sent out with the invoice link.
- +2 wksThe agent’s next list arrives. The flats and their notes are already on file.
12 trade documents, ready for handymen.
6 of them are written for this trade and 6 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.
- Handyman — Credentials & Accreditation Record
- Handyman — Customer Satisfaction & Defects Record
- Job survey
- Part P minor works record
- Work record
- Materials record
- Asbestos awareness check
- Working at height assessment
- Building regs notification
- COSHH assessment
- Handover record
- Risk assessment
Certificates are the start. The whole operation runs here.
Leads, quotes, scheduling, the field app, invoicing, payments, reminders, reports and your accounts sync — all in the same login as the paperwork.
Run your next handyman job on Gaffer.
Free for 14 days, no card. Pick “Handyman” at sign-up and the 12 trade documents above are switched on before you finish your tea.
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