Love Invoicing vs Powered Now UK (2026): Which Is Better for Tradespeople?

Love Invoicing vs Powered Now: Which Job Management Software Is Better for UK Tradespeople?

Powered Now is not an unknown lightweight invoicing app.

It is an established UK trade-business platform that has been operating since 2013 and says it is used by thousands of trade businesses. Its current product covers quoting, invoicing, scheduling, customer management, timesheets, expenses, purchase orders, certificates, CIS, VAT, Making Tax Digital and staff tracking.

So if both Love Invoicing and Powered Now are designed for UK tradespeople, what is the difference?

And more importantly:

Which one gives a plumber, electrician, builder, roofer, heating engineer or other small trade company the better overall system for running the business?

For many sole traders and small-to-medium field teams, I believe the answer is now:

Love Invoicing.

Not because Powered Now lacks features.

It doesn't.

Love Invoicing wins because of the combination of:

simpler pricing

separate owner and field-worker applications

job scheduling

team availability

live tracking

GPS-backed proof of work

Job Report PDFs

customer financial visibility

payment history

employee and contractor reporting

job-profitability exports

built-in inventory

delivery management

and:

a very clear quote-to-payment workflow

without requiring a small team to pay £32 or £40 per person, per month.

That distinction becomes significant very quickly.

Quick verdict: Love Invoicing vs Powered Now

Love Invoicing is particularly strong if you want:

• one Main App for the owner/admin
• a separate Love Invoicing Team app for field workers
• £14.99/month for the Main App
• £2.99/month for each Team App member
• single-day jobs
• multi-day jobs
• repeat jobs
• team availability
• job assignment
• field-worker notifications
• navigation
• live GPS tracking
• GPS-backed proof of work
• Job Report PDFs
• quote follow-up
• customer balances
• customer statements
• partial payments
• full payment history
• Take Payment and Record Payment
• the business's own connected Stripe account
• supported Tap to Pay
• employee payroll exports
• contractor-payment reporting
• job-profitability reporting
• worker-performance reporting
• built-in stock/inventory
• delivery scheduling and tracking
• VAT
• CIS
• web, iOS, Android and tablet access
• a 30-day trial

Powered Now is particularly strong if you need:

• Making Tax Digital submissions
• direct VAT return submission
• Xero integration
• 80+ trade forms and certificates
• purchase orders
• supplier invoices
• expense management
• extensive timesheets
• automatic invoice chasing
• automatic quote chasing
• appointment reminders
• customer portal
• AI text
• AI receipt scanning
• AI receptionist
• project management
• offline operation
• What3Words
• sketches and annotations

Those are genuine Powered Now strengths.

But the question is not:

Which platform can list the most features?

The useful question is:

Which platform gives my particular trade business the best operational workflow for the money?

That is where Love Invoicing becomes particularly compelling.

Two UK trade platforms built around different ideas

Powered Now describes itself as an all-in-one job management application for UK trades.

Its workflow covers customers, jobs, paperwork, quotes, invoices and payments.

Love Invoicing approaches the same problem through a highly connected workflow:

Customer

↓

Quote

↓

Awaiting Response

↓

Accepted

↓

Job

↓

Schedule

↓

Check Team Availability

↓

Assign Worker

↓

Navigate

↓

Track

↓

Proof of Work

↓

Complete

↓

Job Report

↓

Invoice

↓

Take or Record Payment

↓

Customer Statement

↓

Payroll / Contractor / Profitability Reporting

The aim is not merely to store information.

It is to make the next action obvious.

Job management: both products are capable

Powered Now keeps the job history together and can show:

• customer
• address
• quoted work
• notes
• photographs
• paperwork
• certificates
• invoices
• payments

within the wider job record.

Love Invoicing also keeps customer and job information connected.

But Love Invoicing explicitly supports three easy-to-understand working patterns:

Single-Day Job

For:

• boiler repair
• leak
• call-out
• inspection
• electrical repair

Multi-Day / Block Booking

For:

• bathroom renovation
• rewire
• roof replacement
• installation
• larger building work

Repeat Job

For:

• servicing
• inspections
• scheduled maintenance
• recurring contracts

That gives small field teams a particularly straightforward way to organise different kinds of trade work.

Check availability before assigning the worker

A calendar entry is only useful if the right person is actually available.

Love Invoicing can let the owner:

select the job dates

→

check worker availability

→

select available team members

→

assign the job

→

notify the workers

This is especially useful for multi-day work.

Imagine a four-day bathroom renovation.

The owner does not simply book Monday to Thursday.

They can first check whether the plumber required for those four days is actually free.

That is a practical field-service workflow rather than simply calendar software.

The biggest architectural difference: two Love Invoicing applications

This is one of the strongest reasons to choose Love Invoicing for a team.

Love Invoicing consists of:

Love Invoicing

The main business application for the owner/admin.

and:

Love Invoicing Team

A separate application focused on field workers.

Why does that matter?

Because the business owner and the worker do different jobs.

The owner may need:

• customers
• quotes
• invoices
• payments
• reports
• payroll
• inventory
• statements
• team management

The worker may primarily need:

• today's jobs
• job information
• customer address
• navigation
• progress controls
• evidence
• completion actions

A field worker does not necessarily need unrestricted access to the entire commercial side of the business.

Love Invoicing separates those experiences intentionally.

Powered Now uses a more conventional user model

Powered Now's Professional plan allows businesses to:

• add team members
• track staff location
• track time
• use team chat

and its pricing is explicitly based per user.

That is a perfectly valid structure.

But the philosophies differ.

Powered Now

One broader platform with multiple users.

Love Invoicing

Main business application + dedicated field-worker application.

For a small owner-led trade company, Love Invoicing's separation can be considerably easier to explain to the workforce:

I run the business here. You receive and complete your jobs there.

Quotes: Powered Now is strong, but Love Invoicing makes the pipeline unusually clear

Powered Now supports:

• quotes
• estimates
• accepted/rejected status
• deposits
• stage payments
• automatic quote chasing on Premium

It also supports converting quotations into invoices without retyping the information.

That is a strong quotation system.

Love Invoicing's advantage is visibility.

A quotation can move through:

Draft

→

Sent

→

Awaiting Response

→

Accepted / Lost / Expired

A sent quote can clearly remain:

Awaiting Response

If the customer needs chasing:

Send Reminder

If they decline:

Mark as Lost

If they later return, the quote does not need to disappear forever.

And when accepted:

Create Job

or:

Create Invoice

becomes the next action.

• ation

Love Invoicing is particularly good if you want:

• a very clear quote pipeline
• an obvious reminder action
• lost work retained
• accepted quotes moved directly into jobs or invoices

For many smaller businesses:

simplicity beats automation they may never configure.

Worker GPS: both products have it

Powered Now Professional includes staff-location tracking, and its current product description specifically promotes team tracking and live appointments.

Love Invoicing also provides Live Tracking for authorised field workers.

Therefore:

Love Invoicing tracks workers and Powered Now doesn't

would be false.

Both do.

But Love Invoicing goes further in connecting location with proof of work.

GPS tracking and GPS-backed evidence are not the same thing

There are two different questions.

Question one:

Where is my worker?

That is GPS tracking.

Question two:

Where was this evidence captured?

That is proof-of-work context.

Love Invoicing job evidence can combine:

• photographs
• notes
• contributor
• timestamp
• available GPS information

against the actual job.

That means the evidence tells a story.

Who captured it?

When?

Where?

Which job?

Love Invoicing can then generate a structured:

Job Report PDF

from the field evidence.

Powered Now also supports job photographs

Powered Now's job-management functionality includes before-and-after photographs, attachments and job documentation.

That is useful proof.

But from the current Powered Now documentation reviewed for this comparison, I could not confirm an equivalent core workflow where each evidence entry is surfaced with the same worker/timestamp/GPS context and then presented through Love Invoicing's specific Job Report workflow.

That gives Love Invoicing a particularly strong proposition where evidence matters.

Examples include:

• property maintenance
• landlord work
• plumbing
• roofing
• building work
• installations
• insurance-related repairs

Customers: both systems know who owes money

Powered Now supports customer statements.

Its current Help Centre explains that a business can create a statement by filtering customer, date range and payment status and then preview, email, print or export the result.

So Powered Now absolutely has customer statements.

Love Invoicing does too.

The difference is how prominently the customer's financial position is surfaced.

Love Invoicing turns Customers into a financial command screen

The Love Invoicing Customers area can visibly distinguish:

Paid

Partially paid

Sent / still due

Overdue

That means the owner can scan customers and quickly identify account health.

The same customer record can also provide:

Create Quote

Create Job

Create Invoice

So a customer is not simply:

name + phone + email.

It becomes a gateway into both:

the work

and:

the money.

Partial payments: both platforms support them

Powered Now explicitly supports:

Part Paid

invoice status.

It also maintains a history of recorded payments and allows payment date, amount and payment type to be edited.

So again, this is not a weak competitor.

Love Invoicing nevertheless makes the payment journey particularly visual.

An invoice can show:

Invoice: £1,500

Paid: £500

Outstanding: £1,000

and then retain subsequent payment events until the invoice reaches:

Paid.

This is particularly useful for trade businesses receiving:

• deposits
• bank transfers
• cash
• card payments
• stage payments
• mixed payment methods

Take Payment vs Record Payment

Powered Now also distinguishes electronic payments from payments already received through other methods.

Its documentation supports recording:

• cash
• cheque
• bank transfer
• direct debit
• card
• standing orders

and separately supports electronic payments through SumUp and PayPal.

So again, the underlying concept exists in both systems.

Love Invoicing's advantage is the interface.

It gives the user two explicit actions:

Take Payment

and:

Record Payment

That terminology makes it difficult to misunderstand what is happening.

Love Invoicing's payment model

When Love Invoicing Take Payment is used with Stripe:

the business connects its own Stripe account.

Love Invoicing:

• does not receive the customer's money
• does not hold the customer's money
• does not take a percentage commission from the customer's payment

Stripe's own charges and conditions apply separately.

Supported Stripe workflows can also include Tap to Pay on compatible devices.

Powered Now currently supports on-site card payments through SumUp, including a card reader workflow, as well as online payment links.

Difference

Powered Now: SumUp/card-reader-focused workflow.

Love Invoicing: connected Stripe workflow, including supported phone-based Tap to Pay.

For a tradesperson wanting to use the phone already in their pocket instead of purchasing and carrying another card terminal, that can be a meaningful advantage.

Payroll and workforce reporting: a major Love Invoicing strength

This is one of the most important differences in this comparison.

From the Love Invoicing web Jobs screen, the owner can select:

Export Payroll

and filter by:

• Today
• This Week
• This Month
• Custom date
• worker
• customer
• worker type
• job status
• service type

The report can then be exported as:

PDF

or:

Excel

But the Excel file is not simply a list of hours.

Employee Payroll

The workbook can include:

• Date
• Worker
• Role
• Start
• End
• Total Hours
• Hourly Rate
• Pay

Contractor Payments

It can separately contain:

• Date
• Contractor
• Job ID
• Job Title
• Customer
• Job Value
• Contractor Pay

This is especially relevant in UK trades where a business may use a mixture of:

employees

and:

subcontractors.

Job Profitability

The same workbook can provide:

• Job
• Service
• Workers
• Revenue
• Labour Cost
• Profit
• Margin %
• Revenue Source

Worker Performance

It can also show:

• Worker
• Jobs Completed
• Total Hours
• Revenue Generated
• Efficiency

This means one export can help answer four different questions:

What should we pay employees?

What should we pay contractors?

Which jobs made money?

How is the workforce performing?

Powered Now does have timesheets and payroll exports

This is important.

Powered Now's timesheets can feed into job costing and payroll processes.

Its current feature page explicitly describes:

• total labour hours
• payroll export
• labour costs
• multi-staff support
• filtering by job, employee, customer and date

So:

Powered Now doesn't have payroll reporting

would be wrong.

Where Love Invoicing's reporting differs

Powered Now's model is primarily:

timesheets → labour cost → payroll/job costing

Love Invoicing's exported workbook creates separate views for:

Employee Payroll

Contractor Payments

Job Profitability

and:

Worker Performance

in one downloadable workbook.

For a trade business using both employees and subcontractors, that is an unusually useful management-report structure.

Verdict

Powered Now has more mature timesheet functionality.

Love Invoicing provides a particularly strong combined owner-management export.

CIS: both are genuinely strong

This is not somewhere Love Invoicing can claim exclusivity.

Powered Now has extensive CIS support.

Its documentation describes:

• CIS calculator
• contractor and subcontractor records
• deductions
• CIS invoices
• payment/deduction statements
• CIS reporting

Love Invoicing also supports CIS workflows.

Verdict

Both are genuinely relevant to UK construction businesses.

Powered Now currently has greater published depth around formal CIS reporting.

Love Invoicing's CIS experience is particularly valuable because it remains connected to the wider:

quote → job → invoice → payment

workflow.

Certificates and compliance: Powered Now wins

This one should be unambiguous.

Powered Now currently advertises 80+ trade-specific forms and certificates, including gas, electrical and other compliance documents.

Love Invoicing has:

• proof of work
• job evidence
• photographs
• GPS context
• Job Report PDFs

but does not currently provide the same library of specialist regulatory forms and certificates.

Powered Now wins this category.

For a gas engineer whose primary software requirement is issuing specialist certificates, Powered Now may currently be the stronger fit.

Making Tax Digital: Powered Now wins today

Powered Now provides direct HMRC connectivity for:

• VAT
• Making Tax Digital
• MTD for Income Tax

Love Invoicing currently handles VAT and CIS within its operational workflow but does not yet have an equivalent mature direct MTD submission proposition that I would claim against Powered Now today.

Powered Now wins MTD.

That does not make it better at job management.

It makes Powered Now more complete as an accounting/compliance product.

Xero: Powered Now wins

Powered Now Professional includes Xero integration.

Love Invoicing does not currently provide equivalent live Xero synchronisation.

If:

Everything must sync directly into Xero

is a non-negotiable requirement:

Powered Now currently wins.

Purchase orders and supplier invoices: Powered Now wins

Powered Now includes:

• purchase orders
• supplier invoices
• expenses

even in its Business plan.

Love Invoicing does not currently provide the same purchasing/accounts-payable depth.

Powered Now wins.

Built-in inventory is where Love Invoicing has an interesting advantage

Powered Now has a Product Catalogue.

It can store:

• products
• prices
• costs
• markups
• SKUs
• VAT
• categories

That is a strong catalogue.

But Powered Now's current help documentation explains that actual stock quantity management is handled through Xero integration.

The available quantity is maintained in Xero and updated when Powered Now invoices are synchronised.

Love Invoicing approaches this differently.

Inventory is built into Love Invoicing itself.

The business can manage:

• products
• saved prices
• VAT
• stock quantities
• in-stock/out-of-stock position
• items used on quotes
• items used on invoices

without needing Xero to act as the inventory engine.

Verdict

Love Invoicing wins built-in inventory.

For a plumber carrying boiler parts or an electrician managing RCBOs, cable and fittings, that distinction matters.

Delivery management: a clear Love Invoicing advantage

This is one of the biggest scope differences.

Love Invoicing also supports businesses that deliver products.

The workflow can include:

• delivery scheduling
• driver assignment
• live driver tracking
• delivery proof
• invoice connection

Love Invoicing's public feature set specifically includes Delivery Tracking and the ability to assign deliveries to drivers and follow them on a live map.

I could not identify a comparable dedicated driver/delivery-management module in Powered Now's current core feature set.

Love Invoicing wins.

This matters for businesses combining:

trades

stock

deliveries.

Now the biggest difference: pricing

This is where Love Invoicing becomes the clear overall winner for many small teams.

Love Invoicing pricing

Current Love Invoicing monthly pricing is:

Main App account

£14.99/month

Full business-owner/admin access.

Each Team App member

£2.99/month

Focused field-worker access through the separate Love Invoicing Team app.

Free trial

30 days

Powered Now pricing

Powered Now currently publishes:

Business

£28/month

Professional

£32/month per user

Premium

£40/month per user

Its pricing page explicitly states that pricing is per user, VAT excluded. Team functionality such as adding workers and staff-location tracking starts with Professional.

Powered Now's trial is:

14 days

with no card required.

Sole trader comparison

Love Invoicing

1 Main App:

£14.99/month

Powered Now Business

1 user:

£28/month

Difference:

£13.01/month

Over twelve months:

£156.12

Love Invoicing is approximately half the monthly price before annual discounts or promotional offers are considered.

One owner + one field worker

With Love Invoicing:

Main App:

£14.99

Team App member:

£2.99

Total:

£17.98/month

A Powered Now business needing team functionality would generally need Professional.

Two Professional users:

2 × £32

=

£64/month

Difference:

£46.02/month

or:

£552.24 over 12 months.

That is already substantial.

One owner + four field workers

This is the profile that matters most.

Love Invoicing

1 Main App:

£14.99

4 Team App members:

4 × £2.99 = £11.96

Total:

£26.95/month

Powered Now Professional

5 users × £32

=

£160/month

Difference:

£133.05/month

Annual difference at those monthly rates:

£1,596.60

Powered Now may offer annual discounts or promotions, so buyers should always check current pricing before purchasing.

But the structural difference is enormous.

Premium comparison for five people

If the team required Powered Now Premium:

5 × £40

=

£200/month

Love Invoicing:

£26.95/month

Difference:

£173.05/month

Annual difference:

£2,076.60

Again, those packages do not contain identical features.

Powered Now Premium contains advanced features Love Invoicing does not currently offer.

But the question for a five-person plumbing company is:

Will we actually use £173.05 worth of additional software every month?

For many small trade teams, the answer may be no.

Frequently Asked Questions: Love Invoicing vs Powered Now

Is Love Invoicing cheaper than Powered Now?

Yes, based on the published prices checked on 31 August 2026.

Love Invoicing costs £14.99 per month for the Main App account and £2.99 per month for each Love Invoicing Team member.

Powered Now currently publishes:

• Business: £28/month
• Professional: £32 per user/month
• Premium: £40 per user/month

For example, one Love Invoicing owner plus four field workers costs £26.95 per month. Five Powered Now Professional users would cost £160 per month at the standard published monthly rate.

Annual discounts, promotions and product pricing can change, so businesses should always verify current pricing before subscribing.

Which is better for a small UK trade business: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

For many small UK trade businesses, particularly those with a business owner and several field workers, Love Invoicing offers the stronger overall value proposition.

Love Invoicing combines job scheduling, quotes, team assignment, live GPS tracking, proof of work, invoicing, payments, customer statements, payroll exports, contractor reporting, inventory and delivery management while keeping Team App access at £2.99 per worker per month.

Powered Now may be more suitable for businesses that specifically require features such as direct Making Tax Digital submissions, Xero integration, specialist trade certificates, purchase orders and extensive supplier-expense workflows.

Does Love Invoicing have a separate app for field workers?

Yes.

Love Invoicing uses two connected applications:

Love Invoicing is the main business application for the owner or administrator.

Love Invoicing Team is the separate field-worker application with limited, role-based access.

This allows the business owner to retain broader commercial and financial control while field workers concentrate on their assigned jobs, navigation, progress and job evidence.

This two-app architecture is one of the biggest differences between Love Invoicing and Powered Now.

Does Powered Now have a separate field-worker app?

Powered Now supports multiple users and team-management functionality through its wider platform.

Love Invoicing takes a different approach by providing a dedicated Love Invoicing Team application specifically for field workers.

For businesses that want a clear distinction between the person running the company and workers completing jobs in the field, Love Invoicing's two-application model may be easier to manage.

Do Love Invoicing and Powered Now both support job scheduling?

Yes.

Both products can manage scheduled trade work.

Love Invoicing supports:

• single-day jobs
• multi-day or block-booking jobs
• repeat jobs
• team availability
• worker assignment
• job notifications
• live tracking

This allows a business to manage anything from a one-hour plumbing repair to a multi-day bathroom renovation or recurring maintenance work.

Powered Now also provides mature job, appointment and scheduling functionality.

Can Love Invoicing check team availability before assigning a job?

Yes.

Love Invoicing can help the owner check which workers are available before assigning team members to scheduled work.

A typical workflow is:

Choose job dates → Check availability → Select workers → Assign job → Notify team

This is particularly useful for multi-day plumbing, electrical, building and installation work.

Do both Love Invoicing and Powered Now have GPS worker tracking?

Yes.

Love Invoicing provides Live Tracking for authorised field workers.

Powered Now also provides staff-location tracking on relevant plans.

The more important Love Invoicing distinction is that location can also become part of its proof-of-work workflow, rather than being used only to show where a worker is.

What is GPS-backed proof of work in Love Invoicing?

Love Invoicing can keep job evidence connected to the actual work record.

Evidence can include information such as:

• photographs
• notes
• worker or contributor
• timestamp
• available GPS location information

This helps establish who captured the evidence, when it was captured and where it related to the job.

Love Invoicing can then bring the evidence together into a Job Report PDF.

This is useful for plumbers, electricians, roofers, builders, property-maintenance companies and other businesses that need a clearer record of completed work.

Does Powered Now support job photos and proof of work?

Yes.

Powered Now supports job photographs, attachments and other job documentation.

However, Love Invoicing places particular emphasis on the connected workflow:

Job → Evidence → Worker → Timestamp → GPS context → Job Report PDF

That makes proof of work a central part of the Love Invoicing field-service workflow.

Do both Love Invoicing and Powered Now support customer statements?

Yes.

Love Invoicing customer statements can show information such as:

• invoices
• payments
• partially paid invoices
• credits
• total invoiced
• total paid
• outstanding balance

Statements can be viewed and shared through supported document workflows.

Powered Now also supports customer statements that can be generated, emailed, printed or exported.

What is different about Love Invoicing customer management?

Love Invoicing does more than store customer contact information.

The Customers area can help the business understand the customer's current financial position using states such as:

Paid

Partially Paid

Sent / Still Due

Overdue

From the same customer record, the business can also quickly:

Create Quote

Create Job

or:

Create Invoice

This makes the customer record an operational and financial starting point rather than simply an address book.

Can both Love Invoicing and Powered Now track partial invoice payments?

Yes.

Both products support partially paid invoices.

Love Invoicing can keep multiple payment events connected to the same invoice while continuing to display the outstanding balance.

For example:

Invoice: £1,500

Payment 1: £500

Remaining: £1,000

Payment 2: £1,000

Remaining: £0

This makes the invoice useful as an ongoing payment record rather than simply showing Paid or Unpaid.

What is the difference between Take Payment and Record Payment in Love Invoicing?

Love Invoicing deliberately separates two different payment actions.

Take Payment is used when the customer still needs to pay and the business wants to collect a supported payment through its connected payment workflow.

Record Payment is used when money has already been received elsewhere, for example by:

• bank transfer
• cash
• cheque
• card collected elsewhere
• another payment method

Record Payment does not move or collect money. It simply updates the invoice record to reflect a payment already received.

Does Love Invoicing take a commission from customer payments?

Love Invoicing does not take a percentage commission from payments processed through the user's connected Stripe account.

The business connects its own Stripe account.

Love Invoicing does not receive or hold the customer's money.

Stripe's own processing fees and terms apply separately.

Does Powered Now take card payments?

Yes.

Powered Now supports electronic payments, including payment workflows using services such as SumUp.

Love Invoicing uses the business's connected Stripe account and can support compatible Tap to Pay workflows.

The two platforms therefore use different payment architectures.

Does Love Invoicing have payroll reporting?

Yes.

Love Invoicing provides an Export Payroll workflow from the web Jobs area.

Reports can be filtered by information such as:

• date range
• worker
• customer
• worker type
• job status
• service type

The report can then be exported as PDF or Excel.

What information is included in the Love Invoicing payroll export?

The Love Invoicing Excel export can include separate sections for:

Employee Payroll

• worker
• role
• start and end time
• total hours
• hourly rate
• pay

Contractor Payments

• contractor
• job
• customer
• job value
• contractor pay

Job Profitability

• revenue
• labour cost
• profit
• margin

Worker Performance

• jobs completed
• total hours
• revenue generated
• efficiency

This makes the export useful for operational reporting as well as payroll preparation.

Does Powered Now have timesheets and payroll exports?

Yes.

Powered Now provides timesheet functionality and payroll-related reporting.

Powered Now currently has greater depth in traditional timesheet management.

Love Invoicing's particular strength is bringing employee payroll, contractor payments, job profitability and worker performance together within one export workflow.

Does Love Invoicing support contractors and subcontractors?

Yes.

Love Invoicing can support contractor-related workflows and includes a dedicated Contractor Payments section within its payroll export.

The report can connect:

contractor → job → customer → job value → contractor pay

which is particularly relevant to UK trade businesses that use a mixture of employees and subcontractors.

Do both Love Invoicing and Powered Now support CIS?

Yes.

Both platforms are relevant to UK businesses operating under the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS).

Love Invoicing supports CIS within its invoicing workflow.

Powered Now also has extensive CIS functionality and currently provides deeper published functionality around formal CIS reporting.

For construction businesses where detailed CIS administration is the primary requirement, Powered Now deserves consideration.

Does Love Invoicing support VAT?

Yes.

Love Invoicing supports VAT workflows for UK businesses, including VAT treatment on relevant products and services.

VAT functionality remains connected to quoting and invoicing rather than existing as a separate standalone tool.

Which is better for Making Tax Digital: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

Powered Now is currently stronger for direct Making Tax Digital functionality.

Powered Now provides direct MTD and VAT-submission features.

Love Invoicing supports VAT and CIS workflows but does not currently provide an equivalent mature direct HMRC MTD-submission system.

If direct MTD filing from the job-management system is essential, Powered Now currently wins this category.

Which is better for trade certificates: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

Powered Now currently wins specialist trade certificates.

Powered Now offers a large library of trade-specific forms and certificates.

Love Invoicing instead focuses strongly on:

• job evidence
• photographs
• GPS context
• notes
• Job Report PDFs

A business that depends heavily on regulatory gas, electrical or specialist certificates may currently prefer Powered Now.

A business primarily concerned with proving what happened on site may find the Love Invoicing proof-of-work workflow more relevant.

Does Love Invoicing integrate with Xero?

Love Invoicing does not currently provide an equivalent direct Xero integration.

Powered Now supports Xero integration on relevant plans.

If Xero synchronisation is essential, Powered Now currently has the stronger proposition in this area.

Which has better inventory management: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

Love Invoicing has a strong advantage if the business wants stock quantities managed directly inside the job-management platform.

Love Invoicing can manage:

• products
• saved prices
• VAT
• stock quantities
• stock position
• items used on quotes
• items used on invoices

Powered Now has a strong Product Catalogue, but its published stock-quantity workflow relies more heavily on Xero for stock-management information.

For a trade business wanting native stock tracking without depending on Xero, Love Invoicing is the stronger fit.

Does Love Invoicing have delivery management?

Yes.

Love Invoicing also supports delivery-focused workflows, including:

• delivery scheduling
• driver assignment
• delivery tracking
• proof of delivery
• related invoicing workflows

This makes Love Invoicing particularly useful for businesses combining field service, products, stock and customer deliveries.

A comparable dedicated delivery-management module is not currently a central Powered Now feature.

Which has the longer free trial: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

Love Invoicing currently provides a 30-day free trial.

Powered Now currently provides a 14-day free trial.

That gives businesses more time to test Love Invoicing against real customers, jobs, workers, invoices and payments before deciding whether to subscribe.

How much does Love Invoicing cost for one owner and four field workers?

Under the current Love Invoicing pricing model:

1 Main App account: £14.99/month

4 Team App members: 4 × £2.99 = £11.96/month

Total: £26.95/month

The owner receives the wider Main App experience while the four field workers use the separate Love Invoicing Team app.

How much would five Powered Now Professional users cost?

Using the current published standard monthly Powered Now Professional price of £32 per user, five users would cost:

5 × £32 = £160/month

Powered Now may offer annual discounts, promotions or different commercial arrangements, so businesses should verify current prices directly before purchasing.

Is Love Invoicing better than Powered Now?

For every possible business, no.

Powered Now is currently stronger in areas such as:

• Making Tax Digital
• Xero
• specialist certificates
• purchase orders
• supplier invoices
• expenses
• advanced timesheets
• administrative automation

However, Love Invoicing can be the better overall choice for many small UK trade teams because it combines:

• separate Main and Team apps
• low-cost field-worker access
• quote management
• job scheduling
• team availability
• live GPS tracking
• GPS-backed proof of work
• Job Report PDFs
• customer financial visibility
• invoices
• partial payments
• Take and Record Payment
• payroll and contractor reporting
• worker-performance reporting
• built-in inventory
• delivery management

at a significantly lower team cost.

Which is better for plumbers: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

For a plumbing company primarily focused on winning work, scheduling plumbers, tracking jobs, collecting evidence, invoicing customers and managing payments, Love Invoicing can be the stronger value proposition.

Powered Now may be preferable for plumbing businesses that heavily depend on specialist certificates, Making Tax Digital, Xero or more advanced purchasing functionality.

For an owner with several plumbers in the field, Love Invoicing's £2.99 per Team App member pricing and separate field-worker application are particularly compelling.

Which is better for electricians: Love Invoicing or Powered Now?

Love Invoicing may be particularly suitable for electrical businesses wanting:

• affordable field-worker access
• job scheduling
• GPS tracking
• proof of work
• stock quantities
• CIS
• invoices
• payment tracking
• payroll and contractor reporting

Powered Now may currently be more appropriate where specialist electrical certificates, MTD, Xero integration and purchase orders are essential.

Can Love Invoicing replace Powered Now?

For many sole traders and smaller trade teams, potentially yes.

A business should compare the features it actually uses rather than simply comparing the total number of features available.

If the business mainly needs:

Customers → Quotes → Jobs → Team → Proof of Work → Invoices → Payments → Payroll Reporting

Love Invoicing can provide an exceptionally strong and lower-cost alternative.

If the business relies heavily on specialist certificates, direct MTD submissions or Xero integration, Powered Now may still be the more appropriate choice.