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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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Can I make an invoice on my phone without an account?
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 pressure washing invoice?
Your company name and license number, the customer's name and service address, itemized work (for example: House wash — 2-story soft wash), tax if it applies, any deposit already received, and your warranty terms. Beyond that, pressure washing invoices carry a few things the generic list misses: the surfaces and their approximate square footage, the chemical or detergent used, and the pressure or method — soft wash versus high pressure, which is the distinction that matters on siding, roofs and older mortar. Name the condition you found and pointed out: oxidation, spalling, failed sealer, brittle shingles, rotted boards. That sentence is what separates cleaning from stain removal, and it is the whole of your defence on a damage claim.
What causes callbacks on pressure washing jobs, and how do I head one off?
The call comes three days later and it is that the house still looks dirty. Most times the surface is clean and what is left is a stain rather than soil. Rust off an irrigation head, tannin under a maple, an oil shadow in a parking stall and a chalked aluminium panel all survive a wash, because none of them are algae.
A roof is the opposite complaint. The treatment kills on contact, but the black sheds over weeks of rain, so day two looks half finished. Say so on the invoice and say roughly how long it takes, because a customer who was told will wait and a customer who was not will call.
Then there is the damage call, where a customer decides your wash stripped their paint or fuzzed their deck boards. Write the method against each surface, soft wash or high pressure and what you applied, the square footage, and the condition you pointed out at the walkthrough: the oxidation, the spalling, the failed sealer, the brittle shingles. Say plainly that stain removal is separate work, and that a wash reveals what paint was hiding rather than causing it.
What pressure washing work gets done and never gets billed?
Gutter brightening is the one that walks. Black tiger striping on a gutter face does not come off with a house wash. It is a separate product, applied and worked by hand off a ladder one length at a time, and it gets thrown in because the customer asked while you were coiling hose.
Prep is the same story. Bagging light fixtures, taping outlets, pre-wetting and rinsing down every bed you wash over, pulling weeds and moss out of paver joints before a surface cleaner can touch them, moving the patio set and the grill and the planters off a deck and putting them back, knocking cobwebs and nests out of the eaves.
Then the site itself. A water haul where there is no spigot, a generator where there is no power, drain protection downtown, and the second trip for cars in the driveway or a padlocked gate. Add the walkthrough at the end — the one where somebody points at a stain and you explain again what it is — and the small jobs that get folded in on the way out: the walkway, the trash cans, the front steps, the mailbox post.
What should I record on a pressure washing job?
Shoot every elevation before you unroll a hose, standing where you will stand for the after photo. Then walk it again and photograph what you are going to be blamed for: chalking on aluminium siding, spalled and popping concrete, a cloudy failed sealer, rotted deck boards, missing mortar, torn screens, a fogged pane with a blown seal, and any window, vent or crawl space opening you found open.
On a roof get the shingles up close before you treat, granule loss and curling and all, because the claim comes back as your wash having stripped them. Record the mix and the dwell against each surface and note that you rinsed the beds.
On commercial work photograph the drain covers, berms or reclaim rig in place. A year on it is an insurer on a water intrusion claim, or an inspector asking where your wash water went. Keep the date the chemical drum was filled with the job as well, since strength depends on age and a recorded dilution means nothing without it.
What tax rate should I charge on a pressure washing 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.