Plastering, price on requestYour services, timed
Plastering and rendering sit on the menu with how long each takes, priced on request.
Plasterer quoting and booking software: A smooth finish, on and off the wall
Quote quickly, confirm with a deposit and invoice on completion, so the admin never holds up the next job.
No commission on new clients. No per client charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p on standard UK cards, only when you take a card payment.
What plasterers see in Youzse
Real screens from Smooth Finish Plastering, our demo plastering firm, with the numbers it shows today.
Plastering, price on request
Waiting for your replyReviews that name the work
Every review names who it was with and what was booked, this one for plastering. Reply from the same screen.
Quote the job, fill the week
Capture enquiries, send a quick quote and lock the date with a deposit. Keep your week planned back to back and invoice the balance the moment the job is finished.
No commission on new customers. No per job charges.
One monthly subscription. 2.5% + 35p only when you take a card payment.
Day rate or price the room
Plastering is priced by the room or the day. The argument is always about what counted as preparation. Quote the scope in writing, charge separately for the preparation and take the money the day you finish.
Overdue invoices chase themselves.
2.5% plus 35p on standard UK cards, with the platform fee inside it.
Builders book you again and again
A plasterer's best customers are the builders and decorators who need someone reliable next week. Keep those contacts on a proper list, invoice them on terms and stay easy to book.
Unlimited customers on every plan.
Unlimited customer records on every plan, yours to export at any time.
Running a plastering business
Plastering is sold by the day and a day cannot be divided. A plasterer who arrives at eight to find the room not ready has already lost most of what that day was going to earn. No version of the afternoon gets it back.
The room has to be ready before you are
Furniture out, sockets off, floors covered, paper stripped and the electrician finished with his chases. None of that is your work and all of it is your problem, because if it has not happened the day is gone.
Say who is doing it in the quote and say it plainly. Most customers genuinely do not know that a wall covered in vinyl paper cannot simply be skimmed over. They are not being difficult when they assume otherwise.
Charge for the day you attended rather than the day you managed to work. Written down beforehand nobody argues with it and left unsaid it happens to you three or four times a year.
Where a plastering day quietly disappears
- A ceiling that turns out to be lath rather than board, discovered at half past nine
- Artex nobody mentioned on the phone, on the one ceiling in the house
- Waiting on a joiner to finish an opening you were told would be done on Friday
- Bags carried up two flights because the merchant left the delivery on the pavement
- A skim priced over a wall that needed a full coat of bonding first
- Cracking blamed on you months later, on a room that was heated hard while it was still green
What each kind of work asks of the day
| The work | What the day looks like | What the customer sees |
|---|---|---|
| Skimming a ceiling | The hardest hours in the trade, finished by mid afternoon | A flat white ceiling and a short day |
| Skimming sound plaster | One coat, two passes, straightforward | A wall that looks much like the last one |
| Board and skim on a stud | Two trades of work inside one day | A new wall, priced in their head as a skim |
| Float and set on brick | Two coats with a wait between them | Nothing at all until the second day |
| Patching and making good | Fiddly, slow and impossible to estimate from a photograph | A small job and expected to cost like one |
Each of those is a different price and a different length of day. One flat room rate treats them as the same job and the hard rooms end up paying for the easy ones.
Your customer is usually another trade
A homeowner needs a plasterer once a decade. A builder needs one every fortnight and a decorator needs one every time a customer changes their mind about a wall. That is where a full diary actually comes from.
Trade customers buy on reliability rather than on price. They also expect to be invoiced on terms instead of paying on the day, which is the one place in this trade where you are carrying somebody else's money.
The question you get asked is whether you can do next Tuesday. Answering it in the time it takes to read the message is worth more than any advertising, because the second plasterer to reply has already lost the work.
Keep those contacts somewhere better than a phone. A builder who used you twice last year and has not been in touch since March is a conversation worth having. It is the cheapest work you will ever win back.
Built for plasterers
Each of these sits in the same account, so a booking, its payment and the client record stay together.
Enquiry form and inbox
Enquiries with photos of the walls and ceilings arrive through your own form.
Fast branded quotes
Duplicate a past quote, adjust the rooms and send it with your logo.
Deposits and card payments
Payment links for a deposit and card payment on the day the skim is done.
Week planning
The week view shows every job, so drying time between coats can be planned in.
Balance invoicing
Turn the accepted quote into the invoice and send a payment link with it.
Automated reminders
Reminders to the customer before you arrive and to them again if the invoice goes overdue.
Clear answers before you switch
The details that usually slow down a move: setup, pricing, bookings, records and how Youzse fits into your day.
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Yes. Send a branded quote from your phone while you are still on site.
Simple pricing, nothing hidden
Try every feature on your plan free for 30 days, with no card needed.
- new customer fees
- 0%
- day free trial
- 30
- card rate, plus 35p
- 2.5%
- customer records on every plan
- Unlimited