Blue Collar Trade Manager is built for the reality of handyman work: a punch list of small, different tasks billed on the spot. Mix hourly labor and flat-rate items on one invoice, send it before you leave the driveway, and collect payment by card or ACH through a click-to-pay link. A job record can hold the site details, notes, photos, and time entries behind the work.
Create an estimate for the job from scratch or pull line items straight from your handyman price book, then send it for approval by text or email.
The customer reviews and approves the estimate online or by replying to a text — no printing, no in-person signature required.
Turn the approved estimate into an invoice in one step, so line items, pricing, and job details carry over without retyping anything.
The invoice goes out with a public click-to-pay link so the customer can pay by card or ACH from their phone, without creating an account.
If the invoice sits unpaid, automated payment reminders go out on a schedule you set, instead of you having to remember to chase it.
Paid, unpaid, and overdue invoices roll up into reports so you can see outstanding balances across every customer at a glance.
A single handyman visit might include hanging a door, patching drywall, and fixing a leaky faucet — three different pricing logics on one invoice. Mixed line items let you combine flat-rate tasks and hourly labor on a single invoice instead of writing three separate documents.
For a one-person business, time spent on paperwork is time not spent working. Mobile invoicing with a price book of common tasks means building an invoice for a small job takes a couple of minutes on your phone, right in the customer's driveway.
On a $75 invoice, a card processing fee eats a bigger share than on a $5,000 job. Comparing card (2.9% + $0.30) versus ACH (0.8% capped at $5) helps you decide which to nudge customers toward for smaller jobs (Stripe Pricing).
Plenty of handyman customers, especially older homeowners, are more comfortable with a text than an email. Flexible customer records support invoicing and SMS delivery using just a phone number, with a click-to-pay link right in the text.
The best fit lets you mix hourly and flat-rate pricing on one invoice, build it from your phone in a few minutes, and collect payment immediately — which matters more for handyman work than for trades with bigger, less frequent jobs.
Handyman work is defined by small, varied jobs happening constantly, so speed of invoicing and getting paid on the spot matters more than complex project-management features. BCTM is built around that fast-turnaround workflow.
Build the invoice from your phone right at the job — pull in price book items for standard tasks and add hourly line items for anything custom, then send it with a click-to-pay link.
Because a handyman invoice often mixes task types, itemizing each piece (door repair: $85 flat; extra drywall patch: 1.5 hrs at your hourly rate) gives the customer a clear breakdown rather than one lump number.
Most handyman businesses use a mix — flat rate for predictable, repeatable tasks and hourly for open-ended or diagnostic work — and BCTM's price book supports both on the same invoice.
Flat-rate pricing on common tasks (like a faucet swap) protects your margin on jobs you can estimate accurately, while hourly billing makes sense for less predictable work where scope isn't clear until you're on site.
Add hourly labor as a time-based line item and materials as separate itemized line items on the same invoice, so the customer sees both components broken out.
This is standard for handyman work where you might buy a part on the way to the job. Keeping materials and labor as distinct line items also makes it easier to review your margins later in reports.
BCTM provides invoice templates as part of the product rather than a separate downloadable file — you build the invoice directly in-app using your price book and branding.
Rather than filling in a static template by hand, price book items populate the invoice automatically, and your logo and business details apply to every invoice without re-entering them each time. Getting a clean invoice out fast matters most for solo operators: 82% of contractors overall report waiting 30+ days past the expected payment date (Level — Construction Cash Flow Crisis in Numbers), and a same-visit invoice with a payment link is one of the more direct ways a one-person handyman business can avoid joining that number.
Yes — customer records are flexible enough to invoice and text someone using just a phone number if that's all you have.
This matters for handyman work where a customer might be a referral or a one-time walk-up job with minimal contact info collected up front.
It depends on your state — some tax labor, some only tax materials, and some tax neither for certain repair services — so this needs to be confirmed with your state's department of revenue or a CPA.
You can configure tax fields on your invoices once you know your state's rule, but BCTM doesn't determine which rule applies to your business or job type. This is general information, not legal or tax advice — check with a licensed attorney or CPA in your state before relying on it.
$0/mo — no subscription and no per-user seats. Card payments: 3.9% + $0.30 (1% BCTM platform fee + 2.9% + $0.30 Stripe). ACH bank payments: 1.8% (1% BCTM platform fee + 0.8% Stripe, Stripe portion capped at $5.00). Cash and check: no fees. Full fee breakdown.
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