Your kinds of work.
- Block paving
- Tarmac
- Resin-bound surfacing
- Gravel driveway
- Tar and chip
- Concrete driveway
- Patio
- Driveway repair
Rename them or add your own in the office.
For driveway and paving contractors
The drive quoted, dug, laid and paid.
In England, a new drive reached across a pavement needs a dropped kerb, which the council has to approve.
Set up the day you sign up.
Tick driveways and paving and all of this is ready.
Built around the work.
Drive, path and patio on one quote.
Drive, path and patio can each be a Section of lines priced per square metre. Edging or lighting can be an Optional extra. Your customer ticks one or both, types their name and pays any deposit by card to accept.
Drives and patios count under CIS.
HMRC’s list of construction work under CIS names access works such as drives, and the repair and resurfacing of roads. A patio laid for a contractor is construction too.
A disabled customer’s ramp at zero.
HMRC zero rates a ramp built for a disabled customer’s access to their home, and widening an existing path across their garden. The relief never covers a vehicle driveway.
The sub-base, before the blocks go down.
A photo filed on a visit can be marked During the work. The Job report drawn when the job is completed prints those photos between the before and the after, so the dig-out and sub-base stay on record.
The merchant’s bill, split by drive.
A supplier bill keeps its PDF or photo of the bill, and you name a Job on each line. A month of stone, sand and blocks splits across the drives that way, and each job shows its share as Billed by suppliers.
Questions, answered.
- Does it check whether a front drive needs planning permission?
- No. Nothing is checked with a council or sent to one. In England, a new or replacement drive of over 5 square metres in a house’s front garden needs planning permission unless it is permeable or drains to a lawn or border. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own rules.
- Can a customer pay the deposit by bank transfer?
- Yes. When your customer accepts by phone, Record the answer on a quote with a Site opens the job, with the deposit’s invoice drafted on it for you to send. That invoice can be paid by bank transfer, and Record a payment records the transfer.
- Can it keep the guarantee I give on each drive?
- No. A job keeps no guarantee period, so nothing is sent when one ends. The wording of a drive’s guarantee, such as its years against sinking or weeds, can go in Your standard terms under Terms and exclusions in Settings. Those terms are copied onto each new quote, printed on its PDF and shown on your customer’s page.