03/09/2026
Three things I set every tradie up with in their first week as a client. None of them take more than an afternoon.
Get a fuel card. Fuel is the messiest expense in most trade files. Receipts in the ute, receipts through the wash, receipts nobody ever sees. A fuel card gives you one statement a month, coded consistently, with the GST right. It also means you stop chasing your own team for dockets.
Put PayID on your invoices, linked to your ABN. Bank details make someone go and find their banking app and type sixteen digits. A PayID is one field, and it shows your business name back to the payer before they hit send. Fewer typos, fewer "did that go through", faster payment.
Give people more than one way to pay you on the spot. If the only way to pay is a bank transfer after the invoice arrives, you have built a delay into every single job. Tap to pay on the phone, a payment link in the invoice, or a card option at the door all shorten the gap between finishing the work and having the money.
None of this changes what you charge. It changes how fast it lands. Three days versus thirty is a cash flow problem, not a sales problem.
Save this and set one of them up this week.