Run Your Whole Trade Business From Your Phone

Most trade businesses still run on a split shift: on the tools during the day, then hours of admin at the kitchen table at night. Quotes, invoices, chasing payments, working out who is going where tomorrow. It is the part of the job nobody trained you for, and it is the part that eats your evenings.

Gaffer is built to kill that second shift. The whole platform runs on your phone, so the admin happens in the gaps between jobs instead of after them.

Everything In One App

Gaffer puts your entire operation on your phone: customers, jobs, the diary, quotes, invoices, payments, photos, certificates and messages. There is no jumping between a notes app, a spreadsheet, WhatsApp and a separate invoicing tool. Everything you capture on site is instantly connected to the right customer and job, through a proper native mobile app built for Android (iOS coming soon), not a cut-down mobile website.

• Create a job from an enquiry in seconds
• Build and send a quote before you leave the driveway
• Take photos and notes that attach straight to the job
• Raise an invoice the moment the work is signed off
• See exactly who owes you what

Do The Admin On Site, Not At Home

Because Gaffer works in your hand, the paperwork gets done while you are still with the customer. Finish a boiler service and the certificate, invoice and next-service reminder are all sorted before you have packed the van. Nothing piles up, because nothing waits for you to get home.

This matters more than it sounds. Every job that gets "finished off later" is a job where details get forgotten — the exact reading, the material used, the thing the customer mentioned in passing. Doing it there and then, on the phone, while it is fresh, means the record is accurate and the customer gets their invoice or certificate the same day.

What A Typical Day Looks Like

Picture a normal Tuesday. You wake up to a briefing showing today's jobs, any overdue invoices and anything urgent. You drive to the first job, and the address, customer history and notes are already on your phone. You finish, take a photo, get a signature and raise the invoice before you have started the van. A new enquiry comes in while you are driving — it lands as a lead, ready to quote when you stop. By the time you are home, there is no pile of paperwork waiting. There never was one.

Your Team, On The Same Page

Everyone sees the same live diary. Jobs get assigned, the dispatch board updates, and your engineers get the address, notes and history on their own phones. When they clock on, add photos or complete a form, it syncs back to the office instantly — no phone calls to find out where anyone is.

Works Where You Work

Lofts, basements, plant rooms and rural sites do not have signal. Gaffer's app is offline-first, so you can keep working with no connection and everything syncs the moment you are back online. Your phone is the office, wherever the job is.

FAQs

Do I need a laptop or desktop to use Gaffer?

No. Everything a solo trader or small team needs — quoting, scheduling, invoicing, customer records — works fully on the mobile app. A browser is there if you ever want the bigger screen, but it is never required.

Will my phone's storage or battery take a hit?

No more than any other everyday app. Gaffer is built to be light on both, and photos and forms sync in the background rather than draining the battery with constant activity.

Can my whole team use it, or is it just for the owner?

The whole team. Each person gets their own login and sees the jobs, customers and tools relevant to their role, with access controlled by you.

What if I still prefer doing some admin at a desk?

That is completely fine — everything you do on mobile is also available in the browser, so you can pick up exactly where you left off on a bigger screen whenever you want.

If you are still doing admin at night, you are working two jobs. Start a free 14-day trial and get your evenings back.