Track every project job-by-job, hold and release retentions, pay subcontractors with CIS, and see your real cash flow — for builders, plumbers, electricians and trades running on Fire.
Adds a Construction section to your FireBuddy sidebar — no new login, no separate tool.
What's inside
Purpose-built for how construction money actually moves: staged jobs, retentions, subbies and supplier bills.
Track each job's income, costs and margin so you know which builds actually make money.
Hold back and release retention amounts per project — never lose track of money owed at sign-off.
Add subbies as payees, track their bills and handle CIS tax — pay them straight from Fire.
Log supplier invoices with document storage so every cost is captured against the right job.
Require sign-off before money goes out — a clean approval trail for every subcontractor payment.
See what's coming in and going out across projects so a tight month never catches you out.
Why builders switch
Construction money is large, staged, and tangled in RCT/CIS. FireBuddy is built for exactly that shape.
A €10,000 stage payment costs a flat €0.30 to collect — on a card it's €150–250, and a bare bank transfer is a week of "did you send it?". The client pays from their business account, you watch it settle in seconds.
Mark a payee as a subcontractor with their rate (0/20/35% IE · gross/20/30% UK) and every payment deducts on the labour element, pays the net, and records the deduction. Photo a subbie's invoice and the deduction is computed at capture — Pay prefills the net.
Every subcontractor gets a printable year-to-date deduction statement (net + deduction = gross). Their accountant stops ringing you, and your deduction records are sitting there when the RCT/CIS return is due.
WhatsApp a photo of the merchant's docket and it lands in Bills, categorised, VAT split out — materials tracked against the job without a Sunday of shoebox admin.
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