Build the house.
Not the spreadsheet.
We check every invoice against HMRC's rules the moment it arrives, tell you what to fix, and keep a running total of the VAT you'll get back. When the house is finished, your claim is ready.
What Footings does
You're not building an admin department.
Two hundred invoices. Nine merchants. One claim, and one chance to get it right. So we do the checking for you.
Every invoice checked as it arrives
Read line by line and checked against HMRC's rules the moment it lands, so nothing wrong slips through.
Problems caught, emails written
If an invoice needs fixing, we tell you what's wrong and draft the email to the merchant, while they'll still put it right.
Your total, always up to date
A running total of the VAT you'll get back, so you know what's coming long before the build is finished.
Your claim ready at the end
Everything organised the way HMRC's claim expects, so what you submit is accurate first time.
Less time on paperwork, more of your money back, and no shoebox at the end. You send the claim to HMRC yourself, so the refund is paid straight to you.
What's it worth?
You're spending it. Make sure you get the VAT back.
On a new house, the VAT on your materials is one of the biggest sums you'll ever get back. But it only comes back if every invoice is there, and right.
- Invoices go missing. Emailed, handed over on site, lost in the van. If it's not in the claim, that VAT is gone.
- Details are wrong. No VAT number, a first name only, VAT charged where it shouldn't be. Easy to fix the week it arrives, hard two years later.
- The end is a rush. When the house is finished, it's tempting to send what you have and claim what you can.
Footings checks each invoice as it arrives, keeps your costs and claimable VAT lined up, and shows you what you're likely to get back long before the build is done. By completion most of us are stretched, so every pound counts.
Roughly £20,000 to £30,000 of VAT back
If a tenth of it goes missing or is wrong, that's £2,000 to £3,000 you won't see.
Get the Build Pass, £210 once Or start free with 10 invoicesA rough guide, not a quote. It assumes 40 to 60% of your budget goes on materials with 20% VAT. Labour on a new house is usually zero-rated, so there's no VAT on it to claim. Conversions work differently.
Getting invoices in
Three ways in. Whichever suits you.
Effort per invoice decides whether a tool like this gets used at all. So we made it as close to nothing as we could.
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Email it in
Every build gets its own Footings email address. Forward invoices to it, or ask your merchants to send them there, and they're checked and filed as they arrive.
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Drop it in
Add one, or drag in dozens at once if you've already started. Each is read and checked, and if one needs fixing the email to the supplier is written for you. When the corrected copy comes back, it's checked again.
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Photograph it
Counter dockets, paper invoices, anything handed to you at the yard. On your phone, tap Add and take a photo. It's read and checked like any other invoice.
What's at stake
One claim. No second go.
You get one claim, six months after completion, and anything wrong or missing by then is money you don't get back. Footings keeps your paperwork checked and complete as you go.
The VAT inside every £120,000 spent on materials.
To submit after completion. One claim, no second go.
To get a recent invoice fixed. Leave it to the end and the merchant may not be able to.
Start with your next invoice
Your first 10 invoices are checked free, with no card needed. Take a Build Pass when you're ready, and every invoice for the rest of the build is covered.