{"id":9848,"date":"2021-07-27T10:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=9848"},"modified":"2026-07-09T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T14:30:29","slug":"mobile-app-tradespeople-reclaim-evenings-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/mobile-app-tradespeople-reclaim-evenings-weekends\/","title":{"rendered":"How a mobile accounting app can help tradespeople reclaim their evenings and weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK has seen a \u00a3110bn surge in home improvements during the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While that sounds like a nice problem for tradespeople across the country to have, in reality, many electricians, plumbers, gas engineers, painters and decorators are working flat out to manage the workload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with that in mind, they’re sacrificing their evenings and weekends to catch up with their accounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound like a familiar scenario?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Actually, despite the recent surge in work<\/a>, time spent working on the accounts after hours probably isn’t a new way of life for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But life doesn’t have to be like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By using a mobile accounting app, you could stay on top of your finance admin while you’re out working on a job or when you have some downtime. And that means you can simplify and streamline admin, reclaim your evenings and weekends, and avoid burnout<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on to learn more about how using a mobile app could help you regain that work\/life balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 ways a mobile accounting app can help you reclaim your evenings and weekends<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Productivity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Many tradespeople already rely on apps such as Tradify to simplify the management of jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With order books full to bursting, now’s a great time to start using a mobile accounting app<\/a> to manage your accounts (if you’re not already).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When using an accounting app<\/a>, you can access data on all critical areas of your business’s finances on your mobile phone or tablet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your accounting app will work with your accounting software<\/a> to enable you to manage critical aspects of your finances, such as invoicing and chasing payments, with just a few clicks. In addition, apps are often much faster to use than desktop computers or web browsers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to McKinsey, half of businesses see increases in productivity, and around 20% save money, when they introduce digital practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Offline working and flexibility<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Many apps are designed to be used even when you’re not connected to the internet. This means you can input data throughout your day, whenever and wherever it suits you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By updating information regularly, you can tackle the burden of dealing with admin long after work hours have been wrapped up \u2013 keeping your evenings and weekends free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Professionalise your brand<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We live in an era when customers can leave highly positive or negative online reviews of your business within minutes. Quite simply, it’s never been more vital to prove your commitment to delivering excellent customer service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One way to do this is to process key admin tasks such as final costings and invoices via your app as soon as your jobs are finished and before you leave a customer’s location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This enables you to be transparent, upfront and efficient with client communication, while building trusted relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Personalisation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most advanced mobile apps allow you to change settings in order to meet the specific needs of your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Options include uploading and using your logo in documents and communications, and setting up automated chases on invoices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Reducing risk<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

By managing data within cloud-based mobile apps, you can eliminate slow, manual and paper-based processes<\/a>, reduce the chance of losing important documents, and ensure you keep robust records of transactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s a smart move at a time of increased focus on data protection and compliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common accounting tasks you can streamline with a mobile accounting app<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Across the world, tradespeople spend an average of 120 working-days per year on administrative tasks<\/a>, and the largest admin task for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK is accounting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, many tradespeople are realising they could earn thousands of pounds more every year by using apps to reassign time spent on admin on to higher-paying, skilled work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s some key tasks you could carry out using a mobile accounting app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For your business<\/h3>\n\n\n\n