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What's New in Traddie: September 2026 Product Update

7 September 2026

Klarna on every invoice, a price check that catches a quote priced under cost, the five OFTEC oil forms, and a calendar that finally takes more than jobs.

By Kian McKiernan, founder of Traddie. Sources linked throughout; see also our editorial policy.

This one is about the gap between doing the work and getting paid for it

Every job has a stretch where nothing is really happening. The quote is sent and you are waiting. The certificate is filled in on paper and waiting to be typed up. The invoice is out and the customer means to pay it. None of that is work, and all of it is time.

Traddie 1.7 goes at that stretch. A payment option that removes the price objection, a check that stops a quote going out under cost, oil and gas records finished before you leave the drive, and a calendar that knows about the half of your week that is not a job.

Klarna, through Stripe

Price is the last thing standing between a good quote and a yes, and on the bigger work it is usually the only thing. A boiler swap or a rewire is a lot of money to find in one go, even for a customer who wants the job done.

Klarna now sits on the payment page beside the card option. Your customer spreads the cost over a few payments and settles with Klarna, not with you. You are paid up front, in full, on the day they accept. There is no arrangement to chase and no part-payment to track, because as far as your books are concerned the invoice was paid in one.

There is nothing to switch on. If your Stripe account is connected to Traddie, Klarna is already there on the invoices you send.

A Traddie invoice payment page on a phone showing Apple Pay, Pay with Klarna, card and other payment methods
Klarna sits beside the card option on the invoice payment page.

How to turn it on

  1. Nothing to set up. Connect Stripe in Settings if you have not already, and Klarna appears on the invoices you send.
  2. What it costs: Stripe charges 4.99% plus 35p for Klarna, against 1.5% plus 20p for a standard UK card. Worth pricing in on the big ones.

A price check before the quote goes out, not after

Quoting under cost is rarely a big obvious mistake. It is a length of cable priced from memory at last year's number, or a rate you set when the material was cheaper and never went back to. You find out months later, if you find out at all.

Type a line on a quote and Traddie now checks what you are charging against what that material has actually cost you, worked out for the quantity you wrote. Thirty metres off a hundred metre drum, it does the maths. If a line comes out a long way under, it says so, and it names the line while you can still change it.

It adds the whole quote up as well, which matters more than it sounds. Three lines that are each only slightly light do not look like anything on their own. Together they are the difference between a job that pays and a job that does not.

Traddie warning on a phone that one price on a quote looks a long way under the usual cost, with Go back and Send anyway buttons
It names the line before the quote goes out, and you can still send it anyway.

How to turn it on

  1. You do not switch it on. It runs on every quote and invoice you write.
  2. It gets sharper the more receipts you scan, because a price you have actually paid beats any estimate.

Oil certificates, and the gas commissioning record

If you work on oil, the paperwork has been the part Traddie could not help with. That is fixed. The five oil forms are in by their proper codes: CD/10 for commissioning, CD/11 for servicing, CD/12 for the safety inspection, CD/14 for a warning notice, and TI/133D for the tank risk assessment. They sit on one appliance record, so the details you enter for a service are there for the next inspection instead of being written out again.

The Gas Boiler Installation and Commissioning Record is in too, rebuilt to full Benchmark coverage, with the notification route and reference printed on the certificate itself rather than buried in a checklist.

That takes Traddie to fifteen certificate types you can complete end to end: gas safety records, EICR, Electrical Installation and Minor Works certificates, PAT, smoke alarm and emergency lighting, alongside the oil and Benchmark records. Fill it in on the phone at the property, capture the signature on screen, and the signed PDF is emailed before you are back in the van.

A CD/11 oil service record on a phone showing the oil firing service and commissioning schedule with Checked, Pass and Fail options for each item
A CD/11 oil service schedule, with Mark all Pass for the ones that are fine.

How to turn it on

  1. Open the job and start the certificate from there, so the customer and the address carry over on their own.
  2. Or go to Certificates and tap New, then pick the form you need.

The calendar takes more than jobs

Look at a week in most job management software and it shows you the jobs. Then look at your actual week: the merchant run first thing, the site meeting that is not a job yet, the day someone is on a course, and the fortnight your apprentice is away in October. None of that was in Traddie, so none of it was anywhere except your head.

The calendar now takes all of it. Add a meeting, a supplier run, a holiday, a training day or an admin block, give it a time or leave it all day, and run it across several days if it needs to. Every entry says who it is for, so a week where one person is off does not look like a week where everyone is free.

Jobs now carry the name of whoever they are assigned to, in their own colour. A full week reads in one look instead of a squint, and the gaps you can actually fill are obvious.

A month view of the Traddie calendar on a phone showing jobs, meetings, merchant runs, training and multi-day holidays colour coded by person
Jobs, meetings, merchant runs, training and holidays on one calendar.

How to turn it on

  1. Open the calendar and tap the add icon at the top of the screen, next to Today.
  2. Pick what it is, choose all day or a time, set an end date if it runs on, and say who it is for.

Also in this update

Your bank details now print on quotes as well as invoices, and they show on your own quote and invoice screens and in the preview, so you can see exactly what the customer will get before you send it. Most trade invoices in the UK are still paid by bank transfer, and the details being on the document is most of the job.

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

How to turn it on

  1. Go to Settings, open your invoice and quote style, and enter your account name, sort code and account number.
  2. That is the whole job. Every quote and invoice from then on carries them.

Where to get it

Traddie 1.7 is on the App Store and Google Play now, and everything above is on the web app today. If you have automatic updates on, you already have it.

If there is something in here you would have built differently, hit reply on any Traddie email. We read every one.