The tools finish at three. The job finishes at nine.

A tradesman still in dusty hi-vis leaning on both fists over a garage workbench at night, an open laptop and loose invoices in front of him under a desk lamp.

Sunday isn't a day off. It's admin.

You're at the barbecue, on the phone.

And every night ends at the laptop.

The day ends at three. The job doesn't.

  1. 3:10 PMLast screw in, site swept, ute loaded. You're finished, technically.
  2. 5:40 PMHome. Tomorrow's quote is still in your head, and it has to go out tonight.
  3. 7:20 PMDinner's done. You tell them twenty minutes, then start on the receipts.
  4. 8:45 PMKids are down. The laptop's open, and you're invoicing last week's job.
  5. 10:15 PMThe house went quiet an hour ago and you didn't notice it go.
“ServiceYak put my whole business on my phone. I quote on site, the invoice goes out the second the job's done, and the money lands without me chasing it. Game changer for a small team.”
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Alex Tasseron
Hakea Projects · Fairfield, VIC
Alex Tasseron

You're not disorganised. Nothing lets you do the paperwork on the spot.

While you're still on site

The quote goes out before you've packed the ladder.

  • Built on your phone off your price book, not typed up from memory later
  • Photos on the lines, so they can see what you're talking about
  • Sent as a link they can accept from their own phone
  • So tomorrow's quote isn't sitting in your head tonight
How quoting works

As the job happens

The paperwork happens with your hands still dirty.

  • Photos and notes land on the job card, not in your camera roll
  • Scan the merchant receipt at the counter and it comes back as a draft
  • The crew adds what they found, so you're not the only record of the job
  • So nothing has to be remembered at eight at night
How job management works

Before you pull out of the driveway

The invoice leaves before the ute does.

  • One tap off the finished job, with nothing typed up a second time
  • GST worked out, your ABN and your branding already on it
  • It lands in Xero or QuickBooks by itself, so the books stay right
  • And it goes the day you did the work, not the week after
How invoicing works
“I used to do quotes and invoices at the kitchen table well after I clocked off. Now it's knocked out from the ute before I've pulled out of the driveway, I've got my evenings back.”
Luc Dunbar
Luc Antony Garden Designs · Keilor East, VIC
Luc Dunbar
The same tradesman at the same garage workbench, standing straight now with the laptop shut and the bench clear, looking away with the desk lamp still on.

Same day. Different evening.

  1. On the jobQuote's gone out, photos are on the card, receipt scanned at the counter.
  2. By knock-offThe invoice leaves with you, before you've pulled out of the driveway.
  3. That nightThe laptop stays shut, and nobody in the house is waiting on you.
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Questions, answered

What tradies ask about getting their nights back.

If you can text, you can do this. Most of it is tapping things you've already got — your prices, your clients, the job you're standing on. Nobody sits down of an evening and learns ServiceYak. You use it on the first job, and by the third you've stopped thinking about it.

About ten minutes to be quoting. Put in your logo, your ABN and a handful of your regular prices, and the first quote can go out the same day. The price book fills itself in as you work — save a job as a template the first time you quote it, and the second one takes a couple of taps.

Then it waits, and that's the honest answer: ServiceYak needs a mobile connection to send a quote or an invoice, and there's no offline mode. In practice you're sending from the driveway or the ute rather than the bottom of a lift well — but if your days are spent somewhere with no bars, that's worth knowing before you start rather than after.

Yes — the full app on iPhone and Android, the same screens on both, so it doesn't matter what you or your apprentice happen to be carrying. There's a web app for when you want a big screen, but nothing on this page needs one.

Hold the mic and say what you need — "invoice the Kellys for last week's job" — and Yak AI writes it up off your clients and your prices. It lands as a draft for you to check, and nothing reaches a customer until you send it. Every seat gets 20 Yak AI requests a month, with an add-on if you end up living in it.

Some of it, sometimes. But this isn't about doing the same evening's work faster. It's about doing it at the moment you've actually got what you need — standing in front of the job, customer there, measurements fresh, receipt still in your hand. Work done then isn't waiting for you at eight o'clock, because it's already done. What's left is the stuff genuinely worth thinking about, and that's a much shorter list.

They get their own day on their own phone: where the job is, what it involves, clock on, clock off. That's less work for them than ringing you to ask. And once they're putting photos and notes on the job from site, you stop being the only person who knows what happened — which is most of why your evenings look the way they do.

No. $37 per person per month with everything in it: quoting, jobs, scheduling, invoicing, payment reminders, timesheets and reporting. Add a seat when you put someone on, drop it when it slows down. There's no tier above you holding the thing you need.
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