For UK tilers
Built for tilers. Compliant invoices in 30 seconds.
Voice-to-invoice for UK sole-trader tilers. Per-m² pricing with the 10% waste allowance captured properly, adhesive and grout tracked separately from the tile spend, and CIS labour/materials split automatic when you're subbing to a bathroom fitter or builder. Built around the reality that a tiling quote lives or dies on the m² and the wastage.
What you say
“Bathroom wall tile at 14 Elm Grove — twelve square metres of large-format porcelain, plus the 10% waste. Two days on the wall, half a day on the floor. Six bags of adhesive, two of grout, a tub of primer. £680 all in.”
What Honest Invoices does in 30 seconds
- · Extracts time, materials and costs from the words you used
- · Builds a compliant UK invoice with sequential numbering, VAT (if registered), and your payment terms
- · Stores the digital record for MTD ITSA quarterly submission
- · Emails the PDF to your client when you tap send
£15/month, locked · 14-day free trial · no card required
The reality
The pain you actually have.
Generic accounting software is built for accountants. This is built for a tiler who finishes a job at 5pm covered in dust and just wants to get paid.
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Tiling is priced by area with a waste allowance — usually 10-15% for large-format and mosaic. If the invoice hides the wastage in a lump sum, the customer thinks they overpaid on tiles. If it’s not there, you eat the cost.
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Adhesive and grout costs disappear if they’re rolled into ‘materials’ alongside the tiles. Six bags of a good rapid-set adhesive is £70 the customer never sees itemised, and never questions when you have to buy another bag mid-job.
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Wet rooms and tanking runs add labour that domestic clients underestimate — priming, membraning, decoupling, back-buttering large-format. The invoice needs to show that work distinctly from the ‘laying tiles’ time or the customer thinks the trade rate is high.
Got an HMRC question?
Ask HMRC is a free, grounded-in-gov.uk assistant that knows what matters to tilers — CIS, trade registration fees, VAT rules and the rest. Five questions a day, no signup, no card.
Try this one
“I'm a self-employed tiler earning around £40k — do I need to start with MTD from April 2026?”
What it does
Three things. Built for trades.
No bloat, no “multi-entity reporting”.
Voice-to-invoice for the way you actually quote
Describe the m², the format, the waste allowance, the substrate, the adhesive spec. In the words you use at the tile shop. Honest Invoices extracts the area, the material spec, the prep time, and builds a UK-compliant invoice with the m² and wastage broken out.
Tile spend, adhesive, grout, primer, decoupling membrane — each a separate line. The customer can see exactly what they paid for, per square metre, per bag.
CIS labour/materials split for bathroom-fitter subcontract work
When you’re subbing to a bathroom fitter or main contractor on a bigger site, CIS deducts 20% (or 30%) from the labour. Materials should be exempt — but only if the invoice splits them cleanly. That’s the £220 of large-format porcelain and £70 of rapid-set adhesive, kept out of the CIS deduction.
Every job-based invoice auto-splits labour and materials, applies the deduction at your contractor’s CIS status, and keeps a year-to-date deductions total ready for Self Assessment. See the free CIS calculator to work through a specific job.
MTD ITSA quarterly records built as you go
Full-time tilers doing bathroom refits + wet-room installs cross £50k in a busy year without noticing. MTD ITSA is live now for that band, dropping to £30k in April 2027 and £20k in April 2028.
Every voice invoice is captured as a digital record in the MTD-required format from day one. When production HMRC credentials clear (we’re sandbox-tested at 12/12 pass and in review with HMRC’s SDS team), quarterly submissions go live inside the app.
From the founder
Built end-to-end against HMRC’s APIs.
Honest Invoices is built and run by Vix Hawley. The MTD ITSA integration was built by hand — OAuth, fraud-prevention headers, the full Self-Employment Business and BSAS APIs. It took months. The full HMRC sandbox journey passes 16 out of 16 steps with proof on file.
Most accounting platforms are built for accountants. This one is built for tilerswho don’t want to spend their evenings doing admin. £15/month. Locked. No price hikes, ever.
FAQ
FAQ for tilers.
Can I show the waste allowance as a separate line on the invoice?
Yes. Speak “twelve square metres plus 10% waste” and the invoice shows “12m² × £X” plus “1.2m² wastage allowance” as its own line. Defensible when the customer asks about the tile count, and honest about what you actually ordered.
What about adhesive that runs out mid-job and I have to buy more?
Add materials to the job whenever you spend on them — not just at invoice time. When you invoice, everything rolls in. The extra bag of rapid-set doesn’t get missed.
Can I handle wet rooms with the extra tanking work priced separately?
Yes. Add wet-room-specific labour lines (priming, membraning, back-buttering) alongside the tiling labour. Each shows as its own line so the customer sees the wet-room premium isn’t hidden in the tile-laying rate.
I quote fixed-price for bathrooms — does that work?
Yes. Quote the fixed price, and the invoice reflects it. The behind-the-scenes materials + labour tracking still happens (for MTD digital records and for CIS if it applies), but the customer sees the agreed total.
Do you handle VAT if I'm VAT-registered?
Yes. Toggle VAT registration in settings, and Honest Invoices applies 20% VAT on labour and materials with the required VAT invoice fields.
Talk to a person
Not a chatbot.
If you’ve got a question about whether Honest Invoices fits your trade — call, text, or email. You’ll reach the founder, not a queue.
Ready to stop typing invoices?
14 days free. No card required. £15/month after that — locked, forever.