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For one-person trades in the UK

Nothing you're owed slips through the cracks.

The quote nobody answered. The job you never invoiced. The payment that is late. My Job Goblin keeps the list and tells you what to chase next.

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No card needed. 14 day trial, £29 a month after, cancel any time.

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14 to sort· 6 need chasing· £4,181.63 won

Invoice overdue

Neil Shepherd

£580.00

balance due

Invoice · 69d overdueFAY-INV-005

Due: Mon 15 Jun

Significant risk of non-payment. Act today.

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+10 more

Priya Patel

Quote · opened 3 times, not accepted

Quote viewed

Tom Whitfield

Job · finished, never invoiced

Ready to invoice

Marcus Bell

Quote · too big to price blind

Site visit needed

One quote, start to finish

Send it from the van. It follows up for you.

  1. Quote

    You describe Priya's job in plain English. It is priced at your own rates, with labour and materials on their own lines, and sent as a PDF or a link.

  2. Approval

    She opens it three times and goes quiet. A week later one friendly nudge goes out, from your Today list or on its own if chasing is switched on, and she approves it on her phone.

  3. Job

    Approved work becomes a job. Connect Google, Outlook or iCloud and it appears in your calendar; the app only creates and updates events for work you schedule.

  4. Completion

    You mark it done and add the photos, so the record of the work stays with the job.

  5. Invoice

    One tap turns the finished job into an invoice, with nothing typed twice.

  6. Payment

    She pays by card from the link, and anyone who has already paid is never chased.

A quiet quote gets one nudge, then one reminder before the price runs out, and then the chasing stops by itself. See every rule it follows

What your days really earn

£400 a day at three days a week is not £400 a day.

Pricing work, going to look at it and the job that fell through all take days nobody pays for. So it does the sum a hotel does every morning: what did each day you were open for work actually bring in?

In the last 30 days, which held 22 working days, Monday to Friday.

£218

earned per working day, which is not your day rate

You billed 12 of 22 working days. The other 10 went on the parts of the job nobody pays for: pricing work, going to look at it, and the job that fell through.

How it is worked out

What you billed, divided by the working days the period held. A hotel measures an empty room the same way, because a night nobody booked can never be sold again, and an empty Tuesday is no different.

In the app it comes from your own invoices and the working week you set in Settings, and it says nothing until at least 5 working days sit behind it.

It works out how many of your quotes you win and how long customers take to pay the same way, and shows neither until there is enough work behind it. Try the win rate

Tax

Receipts sorted as you go, not in January.

  • Photograph a receipt and it lands in the right box on your Self Assessment (SA103F).
  • Income and expenses stay digital all year, the way Making Tax Digital needs them.
  • On Pro + Tax, the quarterly updates go to HMRC from the app.

When does Making Tax Digital reach you?

Everything you earned from self-employment and property, before expenses.

Making Tax Digital reaches you

6 April 2027 at the latest

Earlier if your 2024 to 2025 turnover was over £50,000, because then it applies already.

Straight answers

Built for one person who does the work and the admin.

  • No card to start, and you can cancel any time.
  • No leads sold and no commission. One flat price, whatever work you win.
  • Nothing AI writes is sent until you have read it and pressed send.
  • Every figure waits for enough work behind it to be honest, and shows nothing until then.

Is it right for you

My Job Goblin is priced and built for a one-person trade that quotes most weeks. If you send a handful of invoices a year, a free invoicing app will do the job and this will feel like more software than you need. It starts paying for itself at the point where chasing quotes and filing receipts has become a real part of your week.

Price

Start free. Decide later.

Free

£0

3 quotes and 3 invoices a month, start to finish, with the customer approval portal and up to 10 saved contacts.

Pro

£29 a month

Unlimited quotes and invoices, plus AI descriptions, deposits, expenses and reports. Or £290 a year.

Start free

Every account starts with a 14 day trial of Pro, no card needed.

Pro + Tax, £39 a month or £390 a year: everything in Pro, plus quarterly updates sent to HMRC for Making Tax Digital and the SA103F year end summary, for self-employment income on the cash basis with standard quarterly periods. HMRC publishes its own list of recognised MTD software; check it before relying on any product, including this one, for filing.

Questions

Does My Job Goblin tell me whether I am actually making money?+

Yes, and that is the half most job software leaves out. It records the quote and the invoice like anything else, then does the arithmetic on top: revenue per available working day, margin per job against materials and subcontractor cost, quote win rate with the range it could really be, and how long customers take to pay weighted by the size of the invoice. Turnover on its own hides all four. No figure is shown on a sample too small to support it. Where there is too little history the card renders nothing, rather than a number with a caveat underneath it.

What is revenue per available working day?+

It is what a day of your available time earned, rather than what you charged for a day you worked. Take the money received in a period and divide it by the working days that period held, from the working pattern you set. Hotels have measured this for decades as revenue per available room, because a room nobody booked is revenue that can never be recovered. A Tuesday you did not fill is exactly the same thing. My Job Goblin decomposes it the way a hotel does, into your effective day rate multiplied by your utilisation, so you can see which of the two moved.

Does it compare my prices against other tradespeople?+

No, and that is deliberate. There is no benchmarking against other businesses. Trades publish no prices, day rates or availability in any machine-readable form, so a peer comparison in this market is either a very small sample or an invented one. Every figure compares a trader against their own history. A benchmark against a handful of unrepresentative businesses, or against a number nobody can source, is worse than no benchmark at all.

How is it different from Tradify or ServiceM8?+

Those are built for firms with office staff, vans and per-user seats to license. My Job Goblin is built for one person who does both the work and the admin: one flat price, no per-seat fees, no contract, and nothing to set up on day one. If you run the whole business from your phone, it is built for you.

Is My Job Goblin for large teams?+

Not yet. My Job Goblin is focused on solo tradespeople and small businesses that want a simple admin workflow without heavy field service software.

Does it work on my phone?+

Yes. It runs in the browser on your phone, tablet or laptop, so there is nothing to install.

Does it do CIS?+

Yes. On an invoice to a contractor the deduction is worked out on the labour only, with materials taken out first and VAT never part of the base, so you can check it line by line against the contractor's monthly statement.

Does it sync with my calendar?+

Yes. You can connect Google Calendar, Outlook or iCloud. When you schedule a job or site visit, My Job Goblin creates the calendar event for you and keeps it up to date. It only touches events for work you schedule, and you can disconnect at any time from Settings.

Does My Job Goblin help with Making Tax Digital?+

Yes. My Job Goblin keeps your income and expense records organised digitally all year. When Making Tax Digital for Income Tax applies to you (from April 2026 for sole traders earning over £50,000), having clean digital records already in place makes quarterly updates and the final return much less painful.

What does it cost?+

Pro is £29 a month or £290 a year: the full app, unlimited. Pro + Tax is £39 a month or £390 a year and adds HMRC filing, both the quarterly updates and the year end tools. Every account starts with a 14 day trial of Pro, no card needed. The free tier runs 3 quotes and 3 invoices a month, end to end: build the quote, send the PDF, let the customer approve it in the portal, and invoice it. The AI pricing and description tools, expense tracking, certificate filing and reports are Pro. The HMRC year-end tools are Pro + Tax.

Why is the free tier so small?+

The cap is small on purpose. A free tier big enough to run a trade on has to be paid for by the traders who do pay, and they are one-person businesses on a flat £29 a month with no per-seat fee. What the free tier proves is the whole loop rather than the volume: build the quote, send it, let the customer approve it, invoice it.

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