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Want to give your admin members more – or less – control over what they can do in YourTradebase? Then we’ve got a great little update to share with you today. Introducing… Admin permissions: the power to grant permissions to each admin on your team. What permissions can we grant? For starters, you get to choose whether […]

If you use QuickBooks to keep your accounting in order, then we’ve got great news for you – you can now connect YourTradebase to your QuickBooks account 🎉 Invoices and payments can now be sent automatically to QuickBooks account, and then kept in sync. That means your invoices, cashflow and bookkeeping are all connected, all kept […]

Keeping in touch with customers and sending the right messages at the right time is vital to delivering fantastic service and growing your business. Forgetting to follow-up with a customer, or not chasing a late payment, can be costly. So we’re delighted to introduce auto-messages: an easy – and automatic – way to make sure you always send the […]

If you’re a VAT-registered trades business, there’s a big change coming your way this Spring. On 1 March 2021, HMRC is bringing in the VAT domestic reverse charge for building and construction, and it’s set to change the way you charge and pay VAT. Sounds kind of boring and complicated? Well yeah, it’s tax. But […]

For electricians, writing estimates and quotes comes with the territory. But knowing what to charge isn’t always easy. Looking after your cashflow and protecting your profits means having a clear idea how much you want to be paid for your time – but how do you work it out? We’re here to help. If you’re […]

Pricing electrical work when you’d rather be on the job (or the sofa) isn’t much fun. If you’re like most electricians we know, you probably hate being pulled away from hands-on work, or spending your evenings up to your eyes in quotes and estimates. And if all that paperwork doesn’t bring the work in, it’s […]

However hard you work, there are never enough hours in the day. And the last thing you want to fill them with is paperwork. Writing quotes and estimates takes you away from the hands-on graft that pays the bills – but what if you could crack through it faster with a few nifty apps? There’s […]

Ask any electrician what they love about their job, and chances are it won’t be estimating. When you’re just starting out, it’s pretty daunting – how do electricians price up work, charge for their time and estimate enough… but not too much? And even if you’re a seasoned pro, how do you know you’ve found […]

However much you love the hands-on, boots-on graft of being an electrician, paperwork’s an inevitable part of the job. Busy sparkies write electrical estimates and quotes week in, week out. But how do you know you’re nailing it? What’s the best way to price up electrical work? And when it comes down to it, what […]