One time · For existing clients

Get paid before
you leave the driveway.

Job's done, you're still parked out front. You send the invoice as a text, they tap it and pay on their phone — card or Apple Pay — and it's in your account before you've put the ladder back on the van. No cheque, no thirty days, no chasing.

$147 CAD — one time Nothing recurring Refunded if it's not for you

Ridgeline Plumbing

A recent afternoon

All done Sarah — new tank's in and tested. Invoice below, you can pay it right here.

Sent from the driveway · 4:41

Ridgeline Plumbing

Hot water tank — supply & fit

$340.00

Pay now →

Card or Apple Pay · 4:41

Done — thanks Dave, that was easy

4:43

Paid — $340.00 · Apple Pay

Into your account · 4:43

Two minutes. The ladder wasn't back on the van yet.

Why it works

People pay when it's easy.

The invoice you email on Friday night gets opened on Monday, moved to the pile, and paid whenever they next sit down with the bills. The one you text while you're standing in their kitchen gets paid in about a minute, because paying it is easier than remembering it.

The gap is the problem

Nobody sets out to pay you late. The delay is the gap between the job finishing and the invoice landing — and every day in that gap is a day the job goes cold in their head. Closing it to zero is most of the fix.

Deposits stop no-shows

The same link takes a deposit before you book someone in. A customer who has paid two hundred dollars is a customer who is home when you turn up, and who cancels three days out instead of on the morning.

It goes in the same thread

The payment link sends from your business number, in the conversation you're already having. They don't get a separate email from a system they don't recognize, which is the other reason invoices sit unopened.

The money is yours, directly

It goes into your own account, not through me. I never hold it, never see the card, and can't touch a refund — that's yours to do, and it's the right way around.

See it work

One booking that doesn't fall through.

The same link takes money before the job as well as after it. This is a Thursday quote turning into a Monday morning you can count on. It runs on its own — or tap any step to go at your own pace.

Ridgeline Plumbing

Thursday

Morning Sarah — that's $1,850 for the bathroom, three days. Monday the 14th works my end if it does yours.

Sent from the van · 2:15

A quote, sent while you're still outside

Nothing unusual so far. This is the point where most jobs go quiet — they've got your number, you've got nothing, and you find out on the morning whether it's happening.

Right now the booking is worth exactly what a verbal yes is worth.

How it runs

Four steps, one afternoon.

1

You open a Stripe account

This is the only part I can't do for you, because it's your money and your business it's attached to. Fifteen minutes, and Stripe asks for photo ID and the bank account you want paying out to. I'll sit on the phone with you while you do it if that's easier.

2

I wire it into your account

I connect Stripe to your inbox, set up the things you charge for so you're not typing them out every time, and put your logo and terms on the invoice. You get one that looks like your business, not like a form.

3

I run a real one through

I send you a test invoice for a dollar and you pay it on your own phone, so you've seen exactly what your customer sees before a customer ever gets one. Then we refund it.

4

You send them from the van

Three taps on your phone: pick the customer, pick what you're charging, send. Paid or unpaid shows against their name, so you can see at a glance who still owes you without opening a spreadsheet.

Stripe takes its cut from the payment, not from you. They publish the card rate on their website and it comes off the top, the same as it would with any card machine. Nothing extra is added by me, and there's no monthly fee for it.

The rules, briefly

Texting an invoice is fine. Here's why.

Canadian anti-spam law covers commercial texts, but it treats a message about a job you've just done for someone as part of an existing business relationship — they gave you the number for exactly this. Where it stops being fine is marketing. A payment link for work you did is an invoice; "book your spring service, 10% off" is a campaign, and that needs the consent side handled properly. I set it up so the two never get mixed.

In the US the rules on texting are about consent to be texted, and a customer who handed you their mobile so you could tell them when you're arriving has given it for that job. Where it stops being fine is marketing. A payment link for work you did is an invoice; "book your spring service, 10% off" is a campaign, and that's a different consent. I set it up so the two never get mixed.

None of that is legal advice — I'm a website and phone system, not a lawyer. What I can tell you is how I configure it, and that I won't wire something up that puts your number at risk of being blocked.

What it costs

One payment. Nothing recurring.

$147 CAD one time · nothing added to your monthly

That covers the Stripe connection, your invoice branding, setting up what you charge for, the test run, and showing you how to send one. After that it's part of the system you already pay for — there's nothing else to pay me.

If you already take cards on the job, you may not need this. If you've got a tap machine and it's working, say so and I'll tell you honestly whether this adds anything for you. Plenty of trades are fine as they are — and if you set it up and find you don't reach for it, tell me and I'll refund it.

Text Me To Set It Up Email Instead

Not sure it's worth it for how you work? Text or call (888) 240-2477, or email hello@everycall.co, and I'll tell you straight before you pay anything.

The work's done.
The money should be too.

You've already been to the house, done the job and packed up. The last thing standing between you and getting paid shouldn't be a piece of paper and three weeks of remembering to chase it.

What it's actually worth: if you invoice thirty jobs a month and even a third of them currently take a fortnight to land, that's ten jobs' worth of your money sitting in someone else's account at any given time. Getting paid on the day doesn't earn you more — it just stops you lending it out for free.

Erik

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