Sectors
One platform, six very different working weeks
A sole trader and a housing association need the same quote-to-invoice spine and almost nothing else in common. Each page below sets out the problem that sector actually has, what Estimark does about it, and which plan it costs.
Sole traders
Solo at £39 a month +VAT: 2 users, 20 open jobs, quote and invoice from the phone.
Read Sector: builders & contractorsBuilders & contractors
Pro at £299 a month +VAT: payment applications and HR, on top of job costing, CVR, CIS and site safety.
Read Sector: property maintenanceProperty maintenance
Repairs on priority SLAs, appointment windows residents accept, schedule-of-rates pricing and van stock.
Read Sector: social housingHousing associations & councils
Awaab’s Law timescales, the Big Six compliance register, void turnaround and SOR-priced works.
Read Sector: electrical contractorsElectricians
EIC, EICR, Minor Works and PAT certificates with typed test results and a signature on the device.
Read Sector: plumbing & heatingPlumbers & heating engineers
CP12s, appointment windows residents accept, maintenance contracts and van stock.
Read Sector: roofing contractorsRoofers
Working-at-height permits and versioned RAMS, weather and delays in the site diary, and the variation for what the strip turned up.
Read Sector: groundworks & civilsGroundworks
Owned and hired plant with usage booked to the job, waste by disposal route, and a valuation the main contractor can check.
Read Sector: scaffolding contractorsScaffolders
Stock on hire with QR tags and recurring schedules, inspection records built as your own form, and a handover signed on the device.
Read Sector: plastering & dryliningPlasterers
The trade where the whole payment is the CIS deduction base, so verification and the right rate are the margin.
Read Sector: bricklaying & masonryBricklayers
Coded rate sets for measured work, gang hours booked to the job, and CIS handled across the gang.
Read Sector: joinery & carpentryJoiners & carpenters
One job spanning workshop and site, materials on purchase orders, and the CIS split that keeps them out of the deduction.
Read Sector: painting & decoratingPainters & decorators
Quotes accepted and signed online, numbered snags tracked to sign-off, and reminders that stop the wasted visit.
Read Sector: gas & heating engineersGas & heating engineers
CP12 and tightness certificates typed on the device, the Gas Safe card held cell by cell, annual services dated and invoiced.
Read Sector: solar PV & heat pumpsSolar PV & heat pump installers
Optional lines the customer ticks, the kit receipted as it lands, the EIC typed, and a handover pack that compiles the MCS certificate and the warranties.
Read Sector: tiling contractorsTilers
Rates by the square metre, the preparation priced as a variation from the phone, CIS on the gang, and snags signed off item by item.
Read Sector: flooring contractorsFlooring contractors
Materials off the CIS deduction base, rolls and packs receipted against the order, subfloor preparation priced as a variation, and the uplifted floor on a waste transfer note.
Read Sector: kitchen & bathroom fittersKitchen & bathroom fitters
Five trades on one job, stage payments on a plan, the units receipted as they land, variations signed at the door, and the certificates typed.
Read Sector: windows, doors & glazingWindows, doors & glazing
Survey to deposit to order to fit: frames receipted against the fabricator’s order, the fitting date in a window the customer will be in for, snags photographed, and the guarantee on record.
Read Sector: landscaping & drivewaysLandscaping & driveways
Plant on and off hire with the rate visible, spoil on a waste transfer note, the rained-off day in the diary, and a deposit invoiced the day the quote is signed.
Read Sector: drylining contractorsDrylining contractors
Valuations with retention and the notice dates on them, gang hours by QR, pay less notices to your own gangs, and CIS at the rate HMRC gives each of them.
Read Sector: damp & timber specialistsDamp & timber specialists
A survey form with photographs and a signature, COSHH for the biocides, the guarantee dated per job, and the social landlord’s damp report on its statutory clock.
Read Sector: passive fire protectionPassive fire protection
A before-and-after pair per penetration, a checklist with a pass and a photograph per item signed off as a sheet, snags pinned on the drawing, and RAMS versioned per operative.
Read Nation: EnglandEngland
Awaab’s Law on a computed clock, the Building Safety Act dutyholders recorded, the higher-risk building threshold, and the EICR rule that is England’s rather than Britain’s.
Read Nation: ScotlandScotland
Building warrants and completion certificates, the Repairing Standard, the damp and mould deadlines that start on 6 October 2026, and the bank holidays that are not England’s.
Read Nation: WalesWales
Renting Homes (Wales) Act fitness standards since 1 December 2022, the alarms and the five-yearly electrical test, the Building Safety (Wales) Act categories, and what the English regime does not reach.
Read Nation: Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland
Separate building regulations and CDM, the 1997 Order on construction payment, CIS on this side of the border and RCT on the other, and a bank holiday list of its own.
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