You fix pipes, not spreadsheets. Workeey runs the paperwork side of a plumbing business from your phone: the day's calls, the estimate you give in the driveway, the invoice the second the water's back on, and the pay link before you pull away. It works in the basement with no signal — and it's free to start.
Most plumbers run the business on a clipboard, a text thread and a shoebox of receipts. Workeey puts the whole thing in one place: today's jobs, the client's address and history, the estimate, the invoice, the photos and the money owed. Everything a call touches lives on one screen, so you're not flipping between your calendar, your notes app and a paper pad while a customer waits with a wet basement.
It's built mobile-first, for a phone in a work glove — big taps, short forms, nothing you have to pinch-zoom to read. You can try the whole thing in guest mode with just a name and 'plumbing', no account and no card. When you're ready, the free plan stays free, and Pro and Premium add more reminders and QuickBooks sync as the business grows.
Plumbing days don't hold still. A water heater goes at 7 a.m., a drain backs up at lunch, and a burst pipe blows up the whole afternoon. Workeey's schedule shows the day as time slots you can slide around in seconds, and the day view auto-expands so you're not squinting at a month grid. Adding a job is also where you enter the client, the address and the notes — one stop, not three.
Every change syncs two ways with Google Calendar, near-instantly. Move a 2 o'clock to 4 on your phone and it moves on the calendar your family and your office see — and if someone edits it there, it writes back to Workeey. That's genuinely better than the one-way sync in Jobber or Housecall Pro. When it's time to roll, one tap routes you to the next house or optimizes the whole day, opening Google Maps, Waze or Apple Maps.
Half the job is the number you say out loud before you start. In Workeey you enter the job — swap a 40-gallon heater, snake a main line, re-pipe under a sink — and get a suggested estimate you can adjust, or ask the AI for one in plain words. The estimate lives inside the job, next to your notes and photos, so the price and the work never drift apart.
That means no separate estimate to lose track of. You quote it, you do it, and when it's done the same job becomes the invoice — the line items, the parts, the tax rate and the photos are already there. If the customer wants it in writing first, the AI can draft a clean message from the job in seconds, in your voice, ready to send.
The gap between finishing a job and getting paid is where plumbers lose money. Workeey closes it: from a finished job, one tap builds the invoice — client, line items, tax and the before-and-after photos carried over as proof. It's numbered automatically and sent by email from the app before you've packed the truck. See our full walkthrough for invoicing plumbers.
Connect your own Stripe and every invoice carries a pay link. The customer taps it and pays by card or straight from a US bank account (ACH) — card runs about 3% plus 30¢, bank about 1%, so a big water-heater job costs you far less over ACH. The money lands in your account, and Workeey tracks who owes what and each client's full payment history.
Some customers pay before you're off the driveway. Others need three nudges. Workeey sends automatic payment reminders by email on a schedule until the invoice is paid or you switch it off — you pick the tone once, friendly or firm, and it runs per invoice. No awkward 'just following up' texts at 9 p.m., no invoice quietly aging for a month.
Email reminders are live today. Text reminders are coming once mobile-carrier verification clears — but email already does the steady, unemotional chasing that gets invoices paid. The free plan includes 10 reminders a month, Pro 30, and Premium unlimited, which matters once you're running enough jobs that two or three are always waiting on a check to clear, and manually nagging each one isn't a good use of your evening.
A plumber goes back to the same houses for years. Workeey keeps a record per client: contact, address with Google autocomplete, notes, and the full history of every job, invoice and payment. Photos and videos of the work are backed up and organized, so the shutoff you found behind the dryer last spring is one tap away next time — and the before-and-after shots double as proof if anyone questions the bill.
Best part for plumbers: it works with no signal. Crawlspaces, basements and mechanical rooms kill your bars, so every action goes into a durable offline queue and sends itself the moment you're back in range. You can write the invoice standing in the basement you just fixed, hit send, and trust it to go out when your phone finds the world again. (Capturing new photos is in the native app; the web app views what's already uploaded.)
Yes — it's built for the self-employed plumber, not a big shop. There's no dispatcher, no seat licenses, no setup project. You sign up free, add your first job, and you're invoicing the same day. The free plan is genuinely free forever; Pro and Premium just add more reminders and QuickBooks sync.
That's the core of it. From a finished job, one tap builds the invoice with the client, line items, tax rate and job photos already filled in. It's numbered automatically and you send it by email from the app before you leave. See invoicing for plumbers for the full flow.
Connect your own Stripe and every invoice carries a pay link. Customers pay by card (about 3% + 30¢) or from a US bank account via ACH (about 1%). You keep the choice, and Workeey tracks money owed, money paid and each client's history.
Yes. Every write goes into a durable offline queue and sends automatically when your phone reconnects. You can build and send an invoice underground and trust it to go out the moment you're back in range.
Automatic reminders go out by email today, on a schedule you set, until the invoice is paid. Text/SMS reminders are coming once mobile-carrier verification clears. Email reminders already handle the steady chasing that gets you paid.
Workeey syncs two ways with Google Calendar, near-instantly. Edit a job in either place and it updates in the other — including the times. That's a step past the one-way sync most field apps offer.