What shipped, and when
Sumitt ships weekly. Every entry below is a day something reached customers, newest first, written as what you can now do rather than what happened to the code.
Licensed and insured, under your name on every quote
- One line prints under your name on the client’s quote, invoice and booking page: your licence, your ABN status and your public liability cover.
- Fill it in once under Settings, Licence and insurance: the register, the number, the insurer, the policy, the cover and the day it runs out.
- Add the certificate too. The client sees the amount and the month the cover runs to, never the certificate.
- A Queensland licence is checked against the QBCC register each week, and the line says the day it was checked.
- Every other register prints the number as you gave it, and never says it was checked.
- Cover that runs out, or a licence the register no longer lists, comes off the line and you are told once. The client is never told.
The next six: the gauge on the job, Tap to Pay, People, PayTo stages and more
- The job page carries the margin gauge, live. Timesheets, received orders and receipts feed it, so you see the margin going before it has gone.
- Under it, three plain figures: the quoted cost, what is spent so far and what is left to spend, with the sources behind the spend.
- When labour or materials pass the quoted line, the key becomes Add a variation, priced to put the margin back where the quote had it.
- A job with nothing logged says so. It never reads as a margin.
- Scan a receipt and every line is held up against your price book. A price that moved waits under Settings, Prices moved, with the old rate and the new.
- Accept every move with one key, or each on its own. Decline one and the same price is not offered again.
- A line that could not be matched waits for you: pair it with the item it is, add it to the book as bought, or ignore it. A pairing is remembered.
- Only a match that agrees on supplier, unit and pack size can suggest a move, so a bag is never priced against a tonne.
- A quote still open says on its price step which lines moved in the book since it was priced, with one tap to use today’s rates.
- On an accepted quote, Tap to Pay on iPhone turns your iPhone into the card reader: the client holds their card, Apple Pay or Google Pay to the top of the phone.
- The deposit lands in your own Stripe account with the same fee and the same receipt as a card paid from the link.
- The balance works the same way from the quote once the deposit is in.
- A client who would rather pay later gets the link instead, from the same sheet. It switches on once Apple approves the app for Tap to Pay.
- The quote builder opens, prices and saves with no signal at all. A banner says the quote is saved on your phone and the day your rate card was saved.
- On the send screen with no signal there is one key: Save and send when I’m back in range.
- The quote then goes by email on its own the moment your phone finds a bar, and tells you when it has.
- A text still goes from your own phone: the quote is saved for you and Home says tap to text it.
- Your client’s page, deposits and acceptance are always live. Nothing about money runs offline.
- Give each payment stage its day and switch on Collect each stage by PayTo. Your client approves the schedule once in their bank app with the deposit.
- Each dated stage is taken from the client’s bank on its day, the invoice marks itself paid and the receipt goes out. Never early, never more than is owed.
- A stage that waits on the work is collected on your tap from the job’s money side. A bank that says no leaves the claim and its link as they are.
- The quote page says in plain words what the client approves, and the Terms sheet shows the bank fees beside the card estimate.
- Give someone a seat from Settings, People. They sign in with their own email and work in your business, with only what their job needs.
- An Office seat does quotes, invoices, clients, reports and chasing, and never sees your payouts or billing.
- A Foreman seat does jobs, timesheets, photos and purchase orders, and never sees a price or a margin.
- Seats are billed per seat on your plan, on the web. Remove one any time, and their own account stays theirs.
The Send sheet, a Pay button in reminders, and a heads-up before the due date
- One Send sheet for quotes, invoices and progress claims. Email it, text it from your own phone or copy the link, with the client’s details filled in.
- The invoice and claim emails name the amount due now and carry a Pay button. A text carries the amount and the link.
- Payment reminders and overdue notices carry a link to the invoice and a Pay button with the amount owing.
- On Pro with automatic follow-ups on, a heads-up goes three days before an invoice is due, once. Its wording is yours to edit in Settings.
- Mark a job complete and it offers to send the bill. Nothing goes until you choose how.
Deposit caps are advice again
- Your client is asked for the deposit you set, never a lowered one.
Risk checks in Pro, and a quote builder with a spine
- Business risk checks are now part of Pro: the same checks and watched businesses the add-on sells, with nothing extra to buy. On Core the add-on stays.
- The quote builder runs price, then check, then send. The cost ledger stays folded until you open it, so a quote is priced at a number before anything else.
- Four things the builder used to say that were not true are gone. Three legal guards that were failing open now hold.
- The total no longer hides behind the navigation on a phone. The gauge reads the one rule the app is named for.
- A crawl of every signed-in screen found twenty-seven accessibility faults. All are fixed, and the crawl now runs on every change.
The job checklist, the notification centre, and photos that argue for you
- Every line the client accepted becomes a step on the job's on-site checklist, with its quantity and its spec. You tick it off from the job screen.
- A notification centre: every quote accepted, deposit paid, variation answered or visit requested, in one list, read or unread.
- Tag what each site photo proves, and the evidence pack prints the case in plain words. Capture times show in your own timezone.
- Charge per square metre part by part. Each section of the job carries its own rate, and the client's quote itemises the sections.
- Every number box holds exactly what you type. So 0.125 is 0.125, a typed zero stays zero, and a count you give beats a count the app guessed.
- Dates on the documents your clients open are your calendar day, never the server's.
Quotes in sections, deposit caps enforced, text size and high contrast
- A job can be quoted in sections, each with its own size and spec. Every trade names the parts of its own job in the builder.
- Where a state’s law set a deposit cap, a deposit over it was held to the cap when the quote was sent, accepted and charged. Reversed on 14 September.
- Three text sizes and a high-contrast switch under Settings, Display, plus a public accessibility statement.
- Business risk checks read the Payment Times Reports Register, so a report on a large builder says how long it takes to pay.
- A first job shows what it has instead of seven empty tabs.
Automation: receipts, clock-on, crew links, books that do themselves
- Photograph a supplier receipt and its lines land on the job's real margin, with the receipt kept as evidence. You check the numbers before you save.
- Clock on and clock off from the job. Hours log themselves, rounded to the quarter hour, and the jobs list shows where you are clocked on.
- Crew links: send a worker a link for one job to clock on, clock off and add site photos with no account. They never see a dollar figure.
- Xero full mode: invoices can land approved with the payment applied to the clearing account you pick. Draft mode stays the default.
- A QuickBooks Online connector on the same engine as Xero. It is built and waiting on Intuit's approval for production before it switches on.
- Your backup by email: your whole dataset, zipped, to your own inbox. Set it to weekly or monthly under Settings.
- Move from another app: import clients and past jobs from Tradify, ServiceM8 or Fergus exports, or any CSV.
- Quote requests: a public link where clients describe the job with photos. It arrives with you as a draft quote and a notification.
- Notifications on Android and desktop for the installed web app, and on iPhone from the home screen.
- A public status page. And a page for every trade in every state (128 today) stating the deposit rules, licence threshold and certificate rule where you work.
Job costing, price books, Xero contacts and the bookkeeper pack
- Timesheets and purchase orders on the job screen feed real-margin back-costing. The gauge reads the job on what it actually cost.
- Supplier price books: import a supplier’s price list by CSV or paste. Then add lines from it in the quote builder with the price book picker.
- Xero: the client’s name, email, phone and address go across as a Xero contact. Paid invoices sync automatically after each payment, still as drafts.
- New CSV exports: a Xero-ready invoice CSV in Xero’s import template columns, a MYOB-ready sales CSV and a clients CSV.
- Download everything. A zip of every CSV plus a JSON of quotes with line items, clients, invoices, payments, jobs, variations, claims and safety-doc metadata.
- Compliance certificate records for electrical and plumbing work, all states: test results, the regulator, the deadline, a reminder. You lodge on its portal.
- Formwork is the sixteenth trade. It has its own rate card, takeoff engine and structured entries for slabs, soffits, props and walls.
- Bank transfer and PayID ride on the quote. The client taps I’ve transferred it, you tap Mark paid by transfer, and the receipt and tax invoice follow.
- Quote again starts a fresh quote from one you saved. Nudge now sends one friendly follow-up on a quote that has gone quiet.
- Setup is one screen of four controls. The quote goes out by email in your business’s name, with replies coming straight to you.
Business risk checks in the free trial, and a readability pass
- The free trial now includes business risk checks: 10 checks and 10 watched businesses while the trial runs, nothing billed.
- Bigger, plainer type across every screen: 12px is the floor, labels read as sentences, and the terminal-style capitals are gone.
- Concrete supply lines price from the rate card again ($270/m³ for 25 MPa). A stale copy of the grade ladder had been billing well over it.
- A typed grade is now read: ask for 20 MPa and the quote prices and describes 20 MPa, not the recipe default.
Sourced rates, a tighter takeoff engine, and faster client pages
- Every headline rate in every rate card now carries its source. Each was re-checked against at least two 2026 Australian supplier lists or cost guides.
- Takeoff engine: a door or pier size is never read as a count, and a restated tally is not doubled. Removal work stops billing as new work.
- The client’s quote page renders on the server, so it opens faster on their phone. The app and the link read the same loader, so they cannot drift.
- Site photos live in a private bucket behind signed links. Nothing internal reaches a public page.
- Business risk checks: every report records the rules version it was banded under. Bodies registered under an ARBN can now be banded.
- Client phone numbers and emails are tappable and copyable in the client book. Signing out forgets who you were on a shared phone.
Business risk checks are live, and every trade gets its own examples
- Business risk checks: check the business behind a quote on ABN Lookup, ASIC’s company dataset and the QBCC register. Every reason is sourced and dated.
- Watch a business and get told when its ABN, company status or licence changes. An optional add-on. Information to consider, not advice.
- Every trade sees its own worked examples in tutorials, the estimator, the job form and the Foreman. A tiler is no longer shown a concrete slab.
- The Foreman’s launcher drags smoothly, settles on the side you leave it, and no longer starts a text selection on a long press.
- Risk reports: a government body can be banded, and a saved report PDF no longer mentions your own trial.
Back-costing, variations 2.0, retention, EOT notices and memberships
- Back-costing: type actual costs against the accepted quote’s cost lines and the gauge re-reads the job on real margin, with over-budget lines flagged.
- Variations 2.0: your state’s rules on unsigned variations shown up front, and a margin preview. One tap bills an approved variation on a claim.
- Retention and defects money clock: retention withheld per paid claim, practical completion and defects dates, and release reminders.
- Extension-of-time notices dated on the statutory business-day clock, stating the cause and the extent, before the window closes.
- Reopen a week-old draft and see a line-by-line reprice against today’s guide card, with a dated note on which cost families are moving.
- Maintenance memberships: a recurring plan your client joins from a link, billed through your own Stripe account.
- Site evidence: photos tied to a stage, a quote line and the real capture time. Before and after pairs go in a printable evidence pack.
- The AI Estimator takes photos: camera-first on a phone, up to six. The money is still priced off your rate card.
Four new trades, statutory payment claims, and the licence guard
- Carpentry, roofing, bricklaying and rendering join the line-up, each with its own editable 2026 rate card and takeoff engine.
- Security of Payment claims in NSW, VIC and QLD: an overdue invoice escalates to a statutory payment claim with each Act’s exact wording. Never auto-sent.
- Licence threshold guard: in QLD, NSW and VIC, cross the state’s unlicensed-work cap with no licence on file and the builder says so in hard words.
- Payment terms that outrun the state’s security-of-payment clock are flagged in Settings. Due dates over the Christmas shutdown are flagged too.
- The deposit split on Money: the latest deposit broken into GST held, materials committed and what is actually yours.
- The public Trade Rate Index: cost-derived floor, healthy and premium rates for the most-quoted jobs in every trade, with a free rate checker.
One free trial per person
- A new account starts on full Pro for the whole free trial, every feature switched on.
- One free trial per person: deleting an account and signing up again no longer starts a fresh clock.
Rate cards audited against real supplier pricing
- 134 rate lines checked against supplier evidence and 39 corrected. Retail sticker prices that had crept into cost lines now read as trade cost.
- 25 MPa concrete re-anchored at $270/m³ from published supplier and contractor pricing, and the whole grade ladder moved with it.
- Earthmoving: spoil swell is a property of the material (sand, clay, shale, rock), read from the scope. The assumption is shown on the quote.
- The free trial is uncapped while it runs: unlimited quotes, invoices and safety packs.
Twelve quote templates, live previews and a logo from your camera roll
- Twelve quote and invoice templates with a live preview of what your client opens, in the builder, in Settings and during setup.
- Upload your logo from the camera roll during setup or under Branding. It lands on the preview the second it is picked.
- Markup explained in money during setup: a job that costs you $8,000, charged at $10,000, keeps $2,000.
- The Foreman’s pill minimises to a small draggable badge and remembers where you left it.
- The welcome email that was failing silently now sends, with a nightly sweep for any that were missed.
Sumitt is on the App Store
- The iPhone and iPad app is live on the Australian App Store, running the same account as the web.
- Android and desktop: sign in on the web and add Sumitt to your home screen. It opens full screen like any other app.
The free Rate Checker
- Type your rate for a common job in your trade. See whether it clears cost, the floor, healthy or premium, with the itemised working.
- Share a check as a link. The preview card carries the job, the rate and the verdict.
Ten one-glance nudges
- Client money memory in the builder: how a repeat client paid last time, what they still owe, and what the last job made.
- A rate sanity check when a line sits well under the median of your own accepted jobs. And a note when materials outrun the deposit.
- Waiting-on-an-answer rail: quiet quotes, biggest money first, with open receipts and a one-tap text in your own words.
- Due dates that land on a weekend or a public holiday are flagged with the next banking day.
- The materials counter list: your material lines as the list you read out at the trade counter, copied in one tap.
Card-fee advice in the builder
- Taking card payments costs about 3% all up. The builder shows the dollar figure and lifts the price by that much in one tap, so you never surcharge.
The Foreman answers as it thinks
- The Foreman streams its replies, keeps your conversation on your own account, and knows which screen you are on.
- Its opening view shows real vitals: open quotes, unpaid, margin and won.
Progress claims, review asks and instant payouts
- Progress claims: numbered claims against an accepted quote, each with its own pay link by card or bank transfer, capped at the contract.
- One Google-review ask per paid job, sent in your name when the invoice is paid in full. Opt out in Settings.
- Instant Payouts from the Money screen: your Stripe balance to your bank in minutes, with the real fee shown first.
- Reports and overdue counts run on your own timezone, so an invoice turns overdue at your midnight, not UTC’s.
- About thirty money and security findings from an audit closed: double-charge guards, atomic claim caps, server-side variation maths.
Optional extras become billable, and Pro is Pro
- Optional extras are real. The client ticks them on the quote link, and the total, deposit, invoice and job contract follow.
- The tax invoice itemises ticked extras and approved variations as their own lines.
- Pro features are now Pro: the AI Estimator, Site Inspector, Intelligence, live Foreman, safety packs and automatic follow-ups. The trial keeps full Pro.
- Lifecycle emails: a heads-up before the trial ends, a nudge for a draft never sent, and one win-back.
What is coming next, without dates, is on the roadmap. Something you need that is on neither page? Email support@sumitt.com.au and it goes on the build queue.