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Pay links, cards, Direct Debit, late payers and the morning 'who owes me' email.
A text saying "our bank details have changed" has cost UK businesses tens of millions of pounds. Here's what actually protects a trade business from invoice fraud and account takeover — the habits that help whatever software you use, and how TradeYoke is built to catch a forged message before you act on it.
TradeYoke can now raise and send a window cleaning or gardening invoice the moment the job's marked done, and every invoice carries a Pay now button — on the email, the PDF and the customer's own account page.
Every invoicing tool claims to be the answer. Here's what actually matters for a UK trade business — branded PDFs, a pay link, an accounting sync you can trust — what the current crop of tools gets right and leaves out, and where TradeYoke fits, gaps included.
Around 1% on a £12 clean, no Friday-evening collections, and money that arrives whether the customer was in or not. How Direct Debit changes a window cleaning round, and how to move customers onto it.
A pay link by text, a card on the doorstep, a Direct Debit for the regulars. The three ways UK trades get paid the same day, and when to use each.
A reminder ladder that keeps customers, the automation that gets you paid weeks sooner, and exactly what the Late Payment Act lets you charge when a business ignores you.
One email before the first job: every customer who owes you, how overdue, and a link they can pay from. Why it works and what changes after a week of it.
January 2025 was about getting paid faster: a pay link on the invoice, cards through Stripe, Direct Debit through GoCardless, and every payment settled back onto the ledger automatically.
December 2024 was about the end of the invoice: part payments, receipts, and a clear view of who owes what and how old the money is. Here is what we built and why.
November 2024 was about trust. The invoicing ledger only ever adds entries: a correction is a new line, not an edit. Here is why that makes the books easier to trust.
With customers, jobs and a diary working, the next question was money. October 2024 started the invoicing work: why it followed the visit, and the three things it had to get right.
