Smart Pricing and Billing for Skip Hire Operators

Most systems collapse them into one status. They are asked by different people at different times: "have I billed this?" is the accounts question at month end, and "have they paid me?" is the one you ask before you drop another bin at the same address.

SkipOS keeps them apart. A job can sit invoiced and unpaid for a month quite legitimately, and you can still see at a glance what has been done and never billed at all.

Keep using it. Most South African skip hire businesses keep their books in QuickBooks, Sage, Xero or a shoebox for the bookkeeper, and none of them will bill a job twice because SkipOS can print an invoice.

Mark a job as invoiced and put your own reference against it — the QuickBooks number, the Sage reference, or the page in a duplicate book. SkipOS then shows you the list that matters: work done, not yet billed, oldest first.

A builder hiring three bins a week does not want to pay eleven times a month. Put him on account with your own terms and SkipOS keeps the running total, including how much of it is late and how late, and prints a statement you can send.