Stop chasing payments. Send a professional invoice from your phone before you leave the job site — and get paid the same day.
Whether you're a plumber, roofer, electrician, HVAC tech, or landscaper — getting paid for your work should be the easy part. But for most tradesmen it's the hardest part. Paper invoices get lost. Customers forget. Payment drags on for weeks.
The right invoice app changes all of that. In 2026 there's no reason a tradesman should be chasing payments or writing invoices by hand. Here's everything you need to know about choosing the best invoice app for your trade — and why FieldPay was built specifically for people like you.
General invoicing apps like QuickBooks and FreshBooks are built for office workers and accountants. They're complicated, expensive, and full of features you'll never use. What tradesmen need is completely different:
💡 Tradesmen who invoice immediately after the job and offer digital payment get paid an average of 11 days faster than those who batch invoices later. That's the difference between covering payroll and falling behind.
Open the app, tap +, select your customer, add your line items using saved labor rates, and hit send. Your customer gets a professional invoice link via text or email before you're back in the truck. The entire process takes under 60 seconds — even on your first job.
No PDF attachments. No confusing emails. Your customer gets a clean link that shows your business name, every line item, the total due, and every payment option. They tap PayPal, CashApp, or Venmo and pay in 30 seconds. Or they pay by credit card — no PayPal account required.
Every line item has a taxable toggle — T for taxable, blank for not. Materials taxable, labor not. You set your tax rate once and FieldPay calculates everything automatically. Your customers see a clean breakdown every time.
Save your standard charges once — "Service call $85", "Labor $95/hr", "Emergency rate $150" — and tap them when building invoices. Never type the same numbers twice.
Set a reminder threshold and FieldPay alerts you to overdue invoices automatically. Resend a professional follow-up text or email with one tap. Your business name, not your personal cell number.
Solo tradesman? $24/month covers everything. Running a crew? Add worker seats at $10/month each. Your workers invoice under your business name from their own phones. You see everything on your dashboard in real time.
At tax time generate a complete income summary for any date range — total revenue, sales tax collected, revenue by job type. Print or save as PDF and hand it straight to your accountant. Saved tradesmen hours at tax time.
| Feature | FieldPay | Jobber | QuickBooks | Paper Invoice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $24 | $49–$599 | $30–$200 | $0 |
| Invoice from phone | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tap-to-pay customer link | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Per-line taxable toggle | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Credit card via PayPal | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Auto follow-up reminders | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Tax report for accountant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| No app store needed | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | N/A |
| 14-day free trial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | N/A |
Setup takes about 5 minutes:
You can send your first professional invoice within 10 minutes of signing up. Most tradesmen who try FieldPay never go back to paper invoices or generic templates.
Join tradesmen across the country using FieldPay to invoice from the job site. 14-day free trial.
Start free trial →FieldPay is built specifically for tradesmen — plumbers, roofers, HVAC techs, electricians, landscapers, and general contractors. It handles the specific needs of trades invoicing including per-line materials vs labor tax, saved labor rates, and digital payment options. At $24/month it is significantly cheaper than alternatives like Jobber.
Yes. Tradesmen who use a dedicated invoice app get paid significantly faster than those using paper invoices. An app lets you invoice on site immediately after the job, offer digital payments, and automatically follow up on overdue invoices — all from your phone.
Yes. With FieldPay every invoice includes a PayPal button that accepts credit and debit cards — no PayPal account required for your customer. Just enter your PayPal username in settings and it works automatically on every invoice.
FieldPay costs $24/month for a solo tradesman. Worker seats are $10/month each. There is a 14-day free trial on every plan — card required to start, cancel anytime before you are charged.