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Contractor accounts
Sign up as a contractor, set up your business, and run your own customers, jobs, quotes and invoices.
Sign up
You don’t need a landlord’s invitation. Choose Create an account, pick Contractor, and enter your name, email and a password. After you confirm your email, set up your business: your business name, trades, phone number and, if you like, your address, Gas Safe number, other registrations, insurance expiry, company number and VAT number. They go on your quotes and invoices.
Your own work
Your work portal has Jobs, Customers and Invoices:
- Add a customer under Customers: a landlord, letting agent, homeowner or business.
- Add a job for them under Jobs, with the address, a visit time, details and private notes. Add photos and files as you go.
- Send a quote or an invoice from the job or from Invoices. Each gets the next number (QUO-0001, INV-0001), and you can download it as a PDF with your payment details.
Only you can see your customers, jobs and invoices.
Repeating jobs and the calendar
For work that comes round again, such as an annual gas safety check, set Repeats on the job. When you mark it done, the next one is added that many months after the visit. Choose Calendar on Jobs to see every visit by day, yours and landlords’.
Get paid by card
Under Account, choose Set up card payments and finish Stripe’s sign-up for your own account. Every sent invoice then has a Pay link: copy it into your email or message. Your customer opens it, sees the invoice and pays by card. The money goes straight to your Stripe account (Stripe’s fee comes off each payment; Keymews takes nothing) and the invoice is marked paid.
Jobs from landlords on Keymews
When a landlord on Keymews adds you to their contractor list and gives you a login, their repairs appear in Jobs too. You can accept or decline them, book visits, post updates and photos, and send quotes and invoices for them to approve. This is free for you: the landlord’s plan pays for it.
If a landlord you work for isn’t on Keymews, open them under Customers and choose Invite to Keymews. If they sign up with that email address, you’ll already be in their contractor list.
Plans
Jobs from landlords on Keymews are free. Your own customers, jobs, quotes and invoices need Basic (10 customers, 10 open jobs, 15 quotes or invoices a month) or Pro (no limits). See plans for contractors and accountants.