What's New in Traddie: August 2026 Product Update

This batch is about the two worst feelings in the trade

Not knowing whether the money coming in covers the money going out, and standing on a doorstep nobody answers. Almost everything in this update goes at one of those two, and the rest takes a job off your Sunday evening.

Everything below is live on the web app today. The pieces that belong on your phone, like the doorstep button for no-shows, land in the next app update.

Cash flow: see 13 weeks ahead, not just the bank balance

The bank balance tells you where you are. It says nothing about the VAT bill in five weeks, the invoice that is due on Friday, or the quiet fortnight coming after the current job wraps up. The new cash flow view puts the next 13 weeks on one chart: open invoices by their due date, booked jobs and accepted quotes, your regular income, minus the bills Traddie has spotted you paying on a steady cadence and the tax dates that never move.

At the top sits one number: safe to spend. It is the net position at the end of the 13 weeks, and it never counts a maybe. Firm money, like a dated invoice, moves the line. A quote that has not become a job yet shows on the chart so you can see it, but it does not touch the number. If the line dips below zero somewhere in the middle, the shortfall is flagged for the week it happens, which is exactly the warning a bank balance cannot give you.

Last year's weeks sit faded behind the chart, so you can see whether a quiet-looking September is a problem or just September.

Scan to pay: a QR code on every invoice

Most trade invoices in the UK get paid by bank transfer, and most of the delay is friction: the customer has the PDF open on the kitchen table, then has to prop the phone up and copy an account number across without fat-fingering it.

Every invoice PDF and every chase email now carries a QR code. The customer points their phone camera at it and lands on the invoice's own payment page, with your bank details laid out to copy in one tap, or card payment if you have that switched on. Your account details print beside the code on the PDF as well, so the transfer is the easy path instead of the annoying one.

This rides along automatically on invoices and on every payment chase Traddie sends for you. There is one catch: Traddie can only print the bank details you have given it, and most businesses have not filled them in yet.

No-shows: three reminders, a YES by text, and a fee when it still goes wrong

A no-show is not one problem, it is three. The customer forgot. You did not find out until you were parked outside. And the morning is gone with nothing to invoice for it. This update goes at all three.

Booked visits now get up to three reminders: one 48 hours out, the main one at 6pm the evening before, when people are on the sofa actually looking at their phone, and a final nudge a couple of hours before you set off. The customer can confirm by tapping the link or by simply texting YES back, which for most people is the difference between confirming and meaning to.

If nobody has confirmed by 18 hours before the visit, Traddie tells you. That flips the economics of the thing: instead of discovering the problem on the doorstep, you get a push notification the evening before, while there is still time to ring them or move the day around.

For the doorstep itself, there is now a Customer Not Home button on the job. It stamps the time, takes a photo of the door for the record, sends the customer a link to rebook, and if they accepted a cancellation fee when they approved the quote, drafts the fee invoice for you from the figures they agreed to. Nothing goes out until you choose to send it, but the paperwork is no longer the reason you let it slide.

And for the bookings most likely to vanish, first-time customers booking online now pay a deposit by default. Returning customers Traddie recognises are waved through.

Payroll: the Friday spreadsheet, done in one click

If you have anyone on the books, you know the Friday ritual: collect everyone's hours, work out who went over 40, remember the mileage, and retype the lot into whatever your accountant uses. Traddie already has the hours, because your team clocks time against jobs. Now it does the rest.

The new payroll page gives you a weekly per-person summary: regular hours, overtime, which jobs the time went to, and mileage. Export it as a CSV shaped for BrightPay or a generic one for anything else, or skip the file entirely and send the timesheets straight into Xero Payroll or QuickBooks. Hours that nobody has confirmed yet are included but flagged, so you can see at a glance what still needs a nod.

Also in this update

The Jobs page on the web is now the calendar. The old list view duplicated what the calendar already showed, and every conversation about a job starts with when it is happening anyway.

If you have overdue invoices and have never switched on automatic chasing, Traddie will now show you a card on Home that turns it on in one tap. We built the chasing ladder because polite persistence works; this is us being politely persistent about it.

As ever, all of it is included in your existing plan. Nothing here costs extra.