Take onsite or online card payments — set up in a day.
Setup only — software licences and card processing fees are paid directly to the provider.
Invoicing is where most sole traders lose money, and rarely because of the rate they charge. It is the invoice sent a fortnight late, the one missing a payment term, and the awkward phone call nobody wants to make.
Card payments both ways: a reader so you can take payment onsite the moment the job is signed off, and a payment link on every invoice so customers can settle from their phone before they put it down. Getting paid at the door beats chasing it a month later.
Then a branded template carrying everything a customer needs — your details and clear payment terms — plus automatic reminders at seven, fourteen and twenty-one days, so the chasing happens without you being the one to do it.
Two things we tell every client: invoice the day the job finishes, not at the end of the month, and always put the payment terms on the invoice. Businesses that do both get paid roughly twice as fast, and it costs nothing to change.