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AI scheduling tools for roofers in the UK

Roofing schedules are set by the weather as much as by the customer. A wet week pushes three jobs back, scaffolding has to be booked and struck around you, and emergency leak calls arrive in exactly the weather you can't work in. Scheduling software won't stop the rain, but it makes moving a week of jobs, and telling every customer, a ten-minute job instead of an evening on the phone.

Prices were re-checked on each provider's own page; the date is next to each one. Rules and figures from GOV.UK are linked where they're used.

Plan for weather days

Keep a buffer each week rather than booking every dry day solid, and put scaffold erection and strike dates on the job alongside your own visits. Tradify lists drag-and-drop scheduling with staff locations and Google Calendar sync, so dragging a job to next Tuesday shows up on everyone's phone. Powered Now is £28 a month for one user excluding VAT (checked 15 October 2026).

Safety planning belongs in the diary

The Work at Height Regulations 2005 require work at height to be properly planned, supervised and carried out by competent people (HSE). On domestic jobs, CDM 2015 client duties normally pass to the contractor (HSE). Attaching the method statement and scaffold details to each job means the plan travels with the booking, not in a separate folder.

Leak call-outs

Emergency leak calls need a slot today and a proper visit later. Log the temporary repair as one visit and the permanent repair as a linked follow-up, so the customer gets one record and one invoice trail. If you employ roofers, travel between jobs counts as working time for minimum wage purposes (GOV.UK), so group call-outs by area where you can.

The options, with prices

What to check before you choose

• Can you move several jobs at once and text every affected customer?
• Can scaffold dates, inspections and deliveries sit on the job as separate entries?
• Can you attach method statements and photos to the job?
• Per-user pricing: Tradify £34 to £44 per user a month; YourTradebase £29 plus £15 per extra user (checked 15 October 2026).
• Does the app work offline on a roof with poor signal?

A prompt to start with

Paste this into ChatGPT or Claude, filling in the brackets:

You schedule work for [business name], a roofing firm in [area] with [number] roofers. Here are next week's jobs with postcodes, estimated days and scaffold dates: [paste]. The forecast is: [paste]. Build a plan that puts exposed work on the driest days, keeps a buffer for leak call-outs, and write a short text to each customer whose date moves.

Free tools

Price a job with the quote and VAT calculator (20%, 5%, 0% and reverse charge), or work out your day rate (see how much to charge per hour). Comparing job management apps? Read Tradify vs Jobber. Driving between jobs? The mileage allowance calculator uses HMRC's flat rates, and van costs for sole traders compares leasing, buying and the mileage rate. Survey report, weather delay and scaffold prompts: ChatGPT prompts for roofers.

Questions

What's the cheapest scheduling app for a one-person roofing business?

Powered Now's one-user plan is £28 a month excluding VAT, and YourTradebase is £29 a month plus VAT. ServiceM8 has a free plan for 1 user and 30 jobs a month. Checked 15 October 2026.

Can I just use my phone calendar?

For one roofer, yes. Once you're juggling scaffolders, deliveries and a crew, a job app that links visits to each job saves calls.

Are these prices in pounds?

Not all. Where a provider only publishes US dollar prices we show dollars, so check the price in pounds at checkout.

Do you get paid if I sign up?

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