For roofers
Bookkeeping for roofers — done before you're off the scaffold
14 days free · no card required · sign-up takes about 60 seconds on WhatsApp.
Made for your trade
Your books, kept from the van
Weather windows don't wait for admin. Roofing means early starts, merchant runs for tiles and membrane, scaffold costs and price-work paid through CIS — and receipts that fade in the van long before year end. Photograph them on WhatsApp instead: SubReady records each one instantly, so a rained-off morning is the closest you get to bookkeeping.
Start free on WhatsApp14 days free · No card required
Expenses roofers should never miss
Roofing carries heavy, claimable costs. Every one of these belongs in your records:
- Tiles, slates, battens, membrane, flashings and fixings
- Scaffold hire, towers, edge protection and access equipment
- Harnesses, PPE and working-at-height kit
- Waste disposal and skip hire for strip-offs
- Van costs, fuel and mileage between jobs and merchants
- Public liability insurance (a big, fully claimable cost)
- Small tools, guns, blades and consumables
CIS, handled
CIS for roofers
Most roofing subcontract work is squarely inside CIS: 20% deducted from your labour (30% unregistered), materials excluded. On price work the labour/materials split decides how much is deducted — SubReady's invoices split it correctly and every forwarded CIS statement is read, stored and counted toward your refund.
New to the scheme? Read our full CIS guide or how CIS refunds work.
A day with SubReady
What it looks like on WhatsApp
📷 Photo of a roofing-merchant receipt
Tiles and membrane recorded as materials in seconds.
Paid £180 scaffold hire cash
Logged instantly — cash expenses tracked as cleanly as card ones.
📄 CIS statement forwarded
Gross, materials and deduction read automatically and tracked for the year.
Your accountant will thank you
Accountant-ready, all year
Your accountant receives categorised expenses, CIS statements and invoices in one export — or watches read-only through the year. The refund conversation starts from records, not memory.
Are you an accountant with roofer clients? See the Practice Plan.
Making Tax Digital
MTD without the homework
Making Tax Digital applies to sole-trader roofers with qualifying income over £50,000 from April 2026 (£30,000 from April 2027). Send receipts as you go and your digital records and quarterly figures are already handled.
Full details on our MTD page — including exactly what’s live today and what’s pending HMRC production approval.
Simple pricing from £8.99/month · how it works · allowable expenses guide · mileage at 55p a mile (2026/27)
Try SubReady free for 14 days
Start free on WhatsApp — your first receipt is recorded ten seconds later. No card required.
14 days free · No card required · Takes about 60 seconds