Genuinely useful calculators for the paperwork side of running a trade or engineering firm. Each does one real job, shows its working, and is free. Built and used by Bloor Engineering Ltd.
Raise a numbered PO and send it to your supplier. The document that stops a price being argued about later.
A delivery note with a signature block. Unsigned deliveries are the most common reason an invoice gets queried.
Record what was done and what was used, and get it signed before you leave site.
Price the job and send a proper quote as a PDF the same day. Handles VAT and the CIS reverse charge.
Make a proper VAT invoice and download it as a PDF in about a minute. Handles the CIS domestic reverse charge. No sign-up, and nothing leaves your browser.
How much retention is locked on each contract, the exact dates each half is due back (JCT, NEC, US retainage), and whether it's overdue.
Work out the statutory interest and compensation you're owed on an overdue commercial invoice, under the Late Payment Act.
Work out the right Construction Industry Scheme deduction (20%, 30% or 0%) on a subcontractor payment, labour and materials split correctly.
Price a job from your materials and labour and see your real profit margin, so you stop confusing markup with margin and under-charging.
Work out the day rate you need to hit your take-home, once overheads, tax and the days you can't actually bill are accounted for.
See the real profit and margin on a job once your own labour and every cost is counted, plus the profit per day that tells you if the work was worth taking.
Build your hourly charge-out rate from an employee's wage, on-costs, productive hours and overheads, so you price labour to profit instead of guessing.
Four questions and you know whether to charge VAT or apply the domestic reverse charge, with the exact wording for your invoice.
We add tools one at a time, and only when they're genuinely useful.