Invoice Koi

Invoicing for house clearance companies

The price of a clearance is not the price of the work. It is the price of the work plus what it costs to make it disappear, and the fees for a fridge, a mattress and a van load of general waste are a real number that arrives after the job is done. A customer who was quoted for hours and then billed for tickets feels overcharged even when they are not.

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01On the document

What house clearance companies
put on an invoice.

These go in your price book once, with your own prices against them. After that a line is one tap: the item, the description, the unit and the price fill themselves, and the totals resolve underneath.

LineUnit
Van load, halfeach
Van load, fulleach
Labour, per operativehrs
Tip and transfer station feesjob
Fridge, mattress or tyre disposaleach
Single item collectioneach
Site visit and quotationeach

Prices are yours. Invoice Koi ships a handful of round placeholder lines to start from and never fills your book with figures you did not set.

A job, grouped Subtotals per section
LABOUR
Two operatives, 4 hrs£260
Subtotal£260
REMOVAL
Van loads, 2 full£380
Subtotal£380
DISPOSAL
Tip and transfer station fees£95
Mattress and fridge disposal, 3 items£60
Subtotal£155
Total£795
Grouped line items are free, on all nine templates.
A photograph of two clearance workers carrying a wardrobe down a garden path towards an open luton van.
Price book
Van load, halfeach
Van load, fulleach
Labour, per operativehrs
One tap puts the line on the invoice.
This job, grouped
LABOUR£260
REMOVAL£380
DISPOSAL£155
Total£795
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02Why house clearance companies use it

Three things that
save the evening.

The tip ticket becomes the line

Photograph the ticket and it is read into an expense with the merchant, the date, the total and the tax. If the customer is covering it, put it back on their invoice as a line and it lands with the figure it actually was.

Hours that end up on the invoice

Track the time on site against the client and turn it into a line, rather than reconstructing a morning from memory once the van is unloaded.

Labour, loads and disposal read as three things

Grouped subtotals let a house clearance be explained in the order it happened, which is the difference between a bill that gets paid and a bill that gets a phone call.

03 · Questions

Asked by house clearance companies.

How do I put tip fees on the invoice at what they cost?

Scan the ticket into an expense and re-bill it as a line. Taking it back off removes that line and no other, so a change of mind does not leave a stray charge.

Can I quote a clearance before seeing the house?

Send an estimate with the loads and hours you expect, then edit the lines when it converts. What you bill is what happened, not what you guessed on the phone.

Can I bill a letting agent for several clearances at once?

Yes. Put each property under its own heading on one invoice with its own subtotal, or raise one per job. The reports total them either way.

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