Invoicing and getting paid
Invoicing that ends with the money in your account.
A finished job becomes a real PDF invoice your customer can open, read and pay online. The card lands in your own Stripe account, their statement shows your name, and the money never passes through us.
$297/month, per company, unlimited users, no per-seat pricing. Month to month. Cancel anytime. No setup fee.
The real software, recorded against a demo landscaping company. Every figure on screen is theirs and the company is fictitious.
The slow part of getting paid is the part before the invoice.
Most late payment in this trade is not a customer refusing to pay. It is an invoice that went out eleven days after the work was finished, because the person who knew what was done was on a mower and the person who writes invoices was waiting to be told.
Every day between finishing and invoicing is a day of your money sitting in somebody else’s account, and it is the cheapest thing in the whole business to fix, because it costs nothing but not having to retype the job.
The invoice is the job, not a document about the job.
A job in Platy already knows the client, the address, the work and the price, because it came from a quote the customer approved. Finishing it produces the invoice from what is already there. Nobody opens a second app, and nobody reads a line item off one screen to type it into another.
What the customer receives is a real PDF, not a link to a screenshot: something they can open, read, save, and hand to their own bookkeeper without asking you for a copy in a different format.
They pay on the invoice, and it goes to you.
Your customer can pay the invoice online with a card, and the charge goes directly into your own Stripe account. Their statement shows your business name. The money does not route through Platy, we do not hold it, and we do not take a cut of it.
That is a deliberate structure rather than a feature. A system that sits in the middle of your payments is a system that can hold your money when something goes wrong with it. This one cannot, because it is never in the path.
And they can pay without phoning you.
Every customer gets their own login. They open it to approve a quote, pay an invoice, save a card for next time, and ask for more work. That last one matters more than it sounds: the request arrives as a job you can quote instead of a voicemail somebody has to remember to return.
Repeat customers who have already saved a card are the difference between an invoice paid the same week and an invoice paid whenever they next sit down at a desk.
What the money side gives you.
Shipped, and recorded above against a demo company.
- Real PDF invoices your customer can open, read and pay online
- Card payments straight into your own Stripe account
- Your business name on your customer’s statement
- A customer login to approve quotes, pay, and save a card
- An invoice built from the job, not retyped off it
- Every payment landing in your books without being re-entered
Questions owners ask
Do you take a percentage of my payments?
Whose name is on my customer’s statement?
Do you hold my money before it reaches me?
Can a customer pay without creating an account?
Does the payment show up in my books automatically?
Do you store my customer’s card number?
The rest of the same system
Platy is one system, so none of these is a separate product or a separate bill. They are the other jobs the same software is doing while it does this one.
Send one real invoice through it.
Put a job you finished last week through the whole chain and watch where the money lands. That is the only part of this that is hard to argue with.