Stage 04 · Contractor Invoicing & Payments
Stop chasing cheques. Send an invoice from the driveway.
Turn a finished job into a proper invoice before you've left the driveway. Your customer pays by card or scans a QR code, and deposits, partial payments, and overdue chasing are handled for you.
What is contractor invoicing software?
Contractor invoicing software helps tradespeople create, send, track, and collect payment for invoices, without relying on spreadsheets, Word documents, or manually tracking who's paid and who hasn't. Instead of building an invoice from scratch after every job and then chasing payment separately, everything stays connected to the job itself.
It typically handles:
- 01Creating professional invoices
- 02Labour and material line items
- 03Taxes
- 04Deposits
- 05Partial payments
- 06Progress billing
- 07Online payments
- 08Payment tracking
- 09Receipts
- 10Overdue reminders
- 11Payment records
How you get paid
- 01
Invoice the job
A completed job becomes a branded invoice with its own INV- number.
- 02
Send it
Email the invoice, or show the QR code on screen and let them scan it.
- 03
They pay
Card on a hosted payment page, with no account needed on their side.
- 04
It reconciles
Deposits credited, partial payments tracked, overdue reminders sent for you.
Payments handled, not bolted on
Deposits, progress payments and card payments are part of the app, not a paid upgrade or a second tool to sign up for.
- 01Draft, send, paid, with an invoice number series that's separate from your quotes.
- 02Pay by card on a hosted page, or scan a QR code from a printed or on-screen invoice.
- 03Deposits taken at quote approval are credited automatically.
- 04Partial payments and progress-payment invoices that carry the work context.
- 05Record cash, cheque, or e-transfer payments by hand so your books stay true.
- 06Payouts to your own bank account, with the setup handled inside the app.
- 07Automatic overdue reminders chase unpaid invoices so you don't have to.
- 08GST/HST-aware tax settings and a tax report, priced in Canadian dollars.
- 09Outstanding, Overdue, and Collected on one screen. Tap any of them to filter.
Make it dead easy to pay you
Don't make customers dig through an invoice to figure out how to pay you.
Pay by card.
Opens a secure hosted payment page linked directly from the invoice.
Scan a QR code.
Useful when you're handing over a printed invoice or showing it on your phone.
Pay another way.
Cash, cheque, or e-transfer payments can be recorded by hand so your books stay accurate.
What should a contractor invoice include?
A professional contractor invoice should clearly show:
- 01Your business details
- 02Customer details
- 03Invoice number
- 04Invoice date
- 05Job or service description
- 06Labour and materials
- 07Quantity and price
- 08Subtotal
- 09GST/HST
- 10Total amount due
- 11Payment terms
- 12Payment instructions
Several of these come straight from the job it's generated from: the invoice number runs in its own series separate from your quotes, GST/HST is applied automatically based on your tax settings, and the total, payment link, and QR code are built into every invoice you send.
GST/HST without the spreadsheet gymnastics
Canadian contractors shouldn't have to calculate tax by hand on every invoice. StrikeHoney's tax settings are built in, the right GST/HST rate is applied automatically by province, and there's a tax report when you need the numbers, whether that's for filing or just checking your own math.
Every price on the app and this site is in Canadian dollars.
Where does your money actually go?
Payments land in your own bank account. You connect it once during setup, and payouts run from there automatically, no separate step to collect what customers have paid.
The old way vs. the StrikeHoney way
- 01Create invoice manually
- 02Email a PDF and hope
- 03Wait for a cheque
- 04Check your bank manually
- 05Keep deposits in a spreadsheet
- 06Remember who owes you
- 07Chase customers yourself
- 01Create it from the finished job
- 02Send an online invoice with a payment link
- 03Customer pays by card or QR code
- 04Outstanding, overdue, and collected tracked automatically
- 05Deposits credited automatically at quote approval
- 06Outstanding and overdue balances visible at a glance
- 07Automatic overdue reminders
One job, four stages, one app
Every stage hands off to the next, and messaging and payments run through all of them.
Invoicing and payment questions
By card on a secure payment page linked from the invoice, or by scanning a QR code on a printed or on-screen invoice. You can also record cash, cheque, or e-transfer payments by hand.
Yes. Tax settings are built in and invoicing is GST/HST-aware, so the right rate is applied. There's a tax report when you need the numbers.
No. StrikeHoney sends automatic overdue reminders, and tracks what's outstanding, what's overdue, and what's been collected.
To your own bank account. You connect it during setup inside the app, and payouts run from there.
Software that helps tradespeople create, send, track, and collect payment for invoices, with taxes, deposits, and overdue tracking handled automatically instead of manually.
Business and customer details, an invoice number and date, a description of the work, labour and materials, the subtotal, GST/HST, the total due, and how to pay.
Turn the finished job straight into an invoice, no rebuilding it from a blank template. Tax, the job details, and payment options come with it.
Yes. Invoicing runs in your phone's browser, no separate app or desktop needed, so you can send one from the driveway right after finishing a job.
Yes. Partial and progress-payment invoices carry the job's context, so you can bill for part of the work and track what's still outstanding.
Yes. Deposits taken at quote approval are credited automatically against the final invoice.
An invoice asks for payment. A receipt confirms it already landed. StrikeHoney makes the receipt from the same job the moment an invoice is marked paid.
Outstanding, overdue, and collected amounts are all shown on one screen, and you can tap any of them to filter.
Yes. Invoice the full job, a percentage of it, or specific line items, and the remaining balance is worked out for you automatically.