For carpenters
Build the deck. Let someone else chase the invoice.
Decks, pergolas, fit outs. Your employee follows up every unpaid invoice by SMS while you keep your hands on the tools.
Own Australian mobile number on paid plans. Set up in 2 minutes. No lock in.
Churnproof chases unpaid invoices for carpenters in Australia. It connects to Xero or QuickBooks, texts and emails customers who owe you, handles their replies and promises to pay, and keeps you posted by SMS so you never have to log in.
Lena (client)
Your customer
Sarah (your employee)
Texting you
Sound familiar?
- Final invoices that drag on after the job's done and the client has moved on.
- Subbie work for builders who pay when they feel like it.
- Deposits paid quickly, balances not so much.
How your employee handles it
Balance owing on a deck
Deposit's in, balance isn't. Your employee reminds the client a few days after it's due and keeps going until it's paid.
Subbie invoice to a builder
Your employee is friendly but persistent with the builder's office, and tells you if they go quiet.
Promise to pay Friday
Logs it, goes quiet, checks Saturday, follows up if nothing's come through.
Runs by text, like the rest of your business
No app to check on site. Your employee texts you when someone pays, promises or pushes back, and you reply with what you want done. Works with Xero and QuickBooks. Free on one invoice, paid plans from $19 a month plus GST.
Why not just text them yourself?
You could. Here's why most tradies stop.
You: Chasing a mate or a regular is awkward and can sour the job.
Your employee: Does the firm part, so you stay the good guy.
You: "I'll pay Friday" gets forgotten by Monday.
Your employee: Remembers every promise and checks again when it's missed.
You: You're sending reminders at 9pm after a long day.
Your employee: Works business hours while you're on the tools.
You: Customers end up with your personal number.
Your employee: Texts from its own Australian mobile number (paid plans), so billing stays off your phone.
Questions people ask
- Do my customers know it's automated?
- Messages come from your business, signed by the employee name you choose, from its own Australian mobile number. They read like a normal text from your office.
- Can I step in myself?
- Any time. Text your employee to pause a customer, or jump into the conversation in the app.
- I use ServiceM8, Tradify or simPRO. Does it still work?
- Yes. Connect ServiceM8 and your employee knows the job behind each invoice, so it can answer questions about the work. With Tradify or simPRO, if your invoices end up in Xero or QuickBooks, your employee picks them up.
- Will it upset my customers?
- It starts friendly and only gets firmer slowly. It texts on business days between 8am and 7pm, never on public holidays, never more than once every three days, and stops when someone replies STOP.
Stop chasing. Start getting paid.
Connect Xero or QuickBooks, name your employee and let them get on with it. Start free on one invoice. Paid plans from $19 a month.
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