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What you need before the work begins — a figure or a percent. It prints on the estimate; nothing is owed yet.
Sales tax — is this taxable, and what’s the rate here?
Two questions, in this order: is this job taxable at all, and if it is, at what rate. Both depend on where the work is.
Is it taxable at all?
- Improving real property — a new install, a remodel, an addition — usually makes you the end user of the materials. You already paid sales tax at the supply house, and you don't add tax to your customer's invoice.
- Repairs and maintenance are taxable far more often, and several states treat residential and commercial work differently.
When a customer says they're exempt
Churches, schools, charities and municipal work are often genuinely exempt, and a general contractor buying your work to resell to their client is usually a resale rather than an exemption. In both cases they'll have a certificate, and a copy of it is what protects you — it's the piece of paper that puts the tax on them rather than on you if anyone ever asks. Most customers hand it over without blinking; it's routine paperwork on their end, not a favour you're asking for.
There is no federal sales tax — nothing on this document is federal. Your federal tax is income and self-employment tax, settled with the IRS, not collected from your customer.
State rates as published January 2026; local rates change often. This is general information, not tax advice — your state's revenue department or your bookkeeper has the last word.
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No app, and no account for your first two documents — build them, print them, send them, nothing to sign up for. An estimate counts the same as an invoice. Once you've used those two, unlimited documents are $8.99/month and that's when you'd create an account. Without an account, nothing you type into a document is sent to us.
How do I send the invoice to my customer?
Tap “Send as PDF” and your phone's own share sheet opens with the finished invoice attached — pick Messages, Mail, WhatsApp, whatever you use, and the customer is already in your contacts, so there's nothing to type. “Send via SMS” sends it as a picture instead, which previews right inside the message thread. Either way the amount due, your payment instructions and your payment link travel in the message, and the file is built on your phone — it never passes through us.
How do my customers pay me?
Put your payment link or handle in “Get paid online” and every invoice gets a scan-to-pay code: your customer points their phone camera at it and their payment app opens, already pointed at you. Three ways in, because customers read invoices in different places — scan the code off a printed copy, tap the code itself in the PDF (a phone can't photograph its own screen, so on a phone the tap is the one that works), or tap the link in the message you sent. The money moves directly between your customer and your own payment account — we are not a payment processor, we never touch it, and we never see whether you were paid.
What do I put on a junk removal invoice?
Your company name and license number, the customer's name and service address, itemized work (for example: Half-truck load — loaded & hauled away), tax if it applies, any deposit already received, and your warranty terms. Beyond that, junk removal invoices carry a few things the generic list misses: the volume you actually took as a fraction of the truck, the disposal or landfill fee shown as its own line, and anything you could not legally take — paint, tires, batteries, electronics. Separating the dump fee is what makes the price legible. Name what you were told to leave, and name the facility and the weight ticket, because both answer questions that arrive months later.
What causes callbacks on junk removal jobs, and how do I head one off?
The argument is almost always volume. You quoted a full truck off a phone photo of the garage, loaded it, and the customer says it never looked full to them, or that what you called a half load was a quarter.
The other one lands three days later, after a cleanout: a box of papers, a tool set, or somebody's china went out with the pile and nobody can say what was in the room to begin with. Put the truck's actual cubic yard capacity on the invoice and the load as a fraction of that number, then the scale ticket weight and the facility name on their own line.
On any cleanout, name what you were told to leave and name what you could not legally take, item by item. A customer who reads back the paint, tires and propane tank you refused stops asking why the corner of the basement is still full. And on estate or eviction work, say who authorised the removal and when — that single line is the difference between a job you were hired to do and a claim from somebody who was not in the room.
What junk removal work gets done and never gets billed?
The disposal counter is where the money leaks out. Mattress fees, a fee per tire, refrigerant recovery on a fridge, the surcharge on a CRT or a big flat screen: you pay every one of those at the gate and then bill a load price that quietly absorbed them.
Second stops go the same way. The donation drop-off the customer asked for and the sorted recycling run are two more addresses on your day, not part of the haul. So is access. Carrying a sleeper sofa up out of a walkout basement, the long driveway you could not back down, a high-rise elevator you had to reserve.
Disassembly is real hours, whether it is a bunk bed, a trampoline or slate out of a pool table. Then the ones that disappear entirely: floor and doorway protection, the broom-clean sweep after the room is empty, and the trip charge when there is nothing on site to load. Add the sorting itself — pulling metal, electronics and clean wood out of a mixed load because three facilities take three different things — which is time spent to make the disposal cheaper and is never on the invoice.
What should I record on a junk removal job?
Photograph every room and every pile from the doorway before you touch it, then shoot the same frame once it is empty. On estate and eviction work that pair is your whole defense, because the relative who was not there and the tenant who comes back for their property both turn up months later, and a landlord's attorney will want a dated list of what left the building.
Keep the scale ticket showing date, weight and facility with the job, and keep the recovery certificate for anything that held refrigerant.
Fire and flood contents work gets read by an adjuster who wants the items photographed while they were still in the house, not sitting in your truck. For property managers, shoot the unit broom-clean with the date on the file, since the turnover dispute is always about what condition the place was in at handoff. And photograph anything you refused to take, where you left it, so the one thing still in the garage has a picture and a reason attached to it.
What tax rate should I charge on a junk removal invoice?
Start with a different question: is the job taxable at all? In most states, work that improves real property — a new install, a remodel, an addition — makes you the end user of the materials. You paid sales tax at the supply house and you don't add tax to the customer's invoice. Repairs and maintenance are taxable far more often, and some states treat residential and commercial work differently. If tax does apply, the rate is the one at the job's service address: only a handful of states are a single statewide rate, and everywhere else counties and cities add on top of the state share. Tap “Sales tax — is this taxable, and what’s the rate here?” under the tax field, pick your state, and we'll show you the state rate and link you straight to your revenue department's own guidance. And there's no federal sales tax — your federal tax is income and self-employment tax, which you settle with the IRS, not something you collect from a customer. When no tax applies, leave the rate at 0.