Plinth Pay
Ask for the money. They tap. You’re paid.
Twenty seconds to send the request. One tap for them to pay it — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or straight from their bank. The money lands in your own account, and you never had to drive back across town for a check.
And when someone doesn’t pay, Plinth chases them for you and helps you collect balances intelligently, with prioritized billing.
$25/month, flat — no transaction fees from Plinth. Nothing to install.
How your customer pays
Multiple ways to pay, matched to how your customer prefers
A big-ticket invoice shouldn’t be the one bill in someone’s life that still needs a checkbook. Paying you should feel like paying for anything else on a phone — which is most of why it happens faster.
Card
Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover — typed in once on their own phone, on Stripe's secure page. No card details ever touch Plinth.
Apple Pay and Google Pay
The fastest way anyone pays for anything now: Face ID, or a thumb on the sensor, and it's done. Nothing to type at all.
Straight from their bank
On four- and five-figure balances, customers can pay by bank transfer instead of card — easier for them on a big total, and it costs less to process.
Nothing for them to install
No app to download, no account to create, no portal login, no password. They open a link and pay. Nobody has to write a check or drive anywhere.
How you ask
Three steps, and none of them are yours to remember
01
Ask, in about twenty seconds
Pick the customer, type the amount. A deposit before you start, the balance when you finish, or the whole job at once — your choice each time.
02
Send it, or paste it anywhere
Plinth emails them a payment link, or hands you the link to drop wherever you already talk to them. One tap on their end opens it.
03
The money lands in your account
Into your own Stripe account, in your business's name — Plinth never holds it. You'll see the job move to paid without touching anything.
And then it chases
The follow-up you keep meaning to send, sent
Most unpaid invoices aren’t refusals. They’re people who meant to pay and forgot, waiting on a contractor who hates nagging. Plinth does the nagging, politely, on a schedule you set.
It follows up so you don't have to
If an ask goes quiet, Plinth sends the polite nudge for you — by default a few days later, up to twice. You set both numbers, or switch it off entirely.
It knows when to stop
Nobody gets chased while their bank payment is still clearing, and nothing more goes out once they've paid. The most embarrassing message you can send is the one asking for money you already have.
No number needed
The follow-up goes by email, so the chasing starts the day you sign up — you don't have to wait on a phone number or carrier approval for it to work.
And shows you where you stand
One screen for every dollar still out there
Plenty of software will collect a payment. Almost none of it will tell you, without being asked, that the $6,400 balance from five weeks ago has never once been followed up — while the bigger one from Tuesday can wait.
Prioritized billing
Not newest-first, and not just biggest-first. How long it has been sitting, whether anyone has followed up yet, and how much is actually at stake — weighed together.
Every position gives its reason
“Asked 34 days ago.” “No reminder sent yet — never chased.” You can see why something is at the top, which means you can disagree with it.
How fast you normally get paid
Once there's enough history to say something true, Plinth tells you your own typical time from asking to paid. Before that it says nothing, rather than guessing.
What it costs
One flat price. No cut of your money.
$25/month whatever you collect. Plinth takes no percentage of your payments — a busy spring costs you the same as a quiet winter.
What Plinth charges
$25/month and nothing else — no markup on your payments, the same as a full Plinth contractor pays on their existing customers.
What Plinth doesn’t
Paying by card carries the standard ~2.9% — that’s the processor’s fee, the same with any processor, and never a Plinth fee. On four- and five-figure balances your customer can pay straight from their bank instead, which costs less on the total.
No setup fee, no per-seat pricing, and no contract length to sign up for.
What it isn’t
It does one thing, which is why you can start this afternoon
Not field-service software
No dispatch board, no crew scheduling, no timesheets, no inventory. If you run several crews and need a system of record, that’s a different product and you should buy one. Plinth Pay is for the shop that just wants the money in.
Nothing to roll out
No implementation, no onboarding project, no data migration, and nothing your crew has to be trained on — they never touch it. You connect your Stripe account and ask someone for money.
And the honest boundary: if you already pay for software that takes payments, Plinth Pay is an extra line on your costs, not a saving. It earns its place on how little friction it puts between the work and the money — or it doesn’t earn it at all.
When you want the rest
The phone is the other half. It’s here when you want it.
Most of the work a contractor loses is lost before any of this — on the call that rang out while you were under a house. The full Plinth answers it, books the job, and turns the finished work into the review that wins the next one. Payments are one piece of that system; Plinth Pay is that piece on its own.
Moving up is a switch on your account, not a new signup and not a migration — your customers, jobs and payment history stay exactly where they are, because they never move. The full product is $50/month.
Straight answers
Before you ask
- How do my customers actually pay?
- They tap the link and pay on their own phone — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or a bank transfer. There's nothing to download, no account to make, and no password. If they can pay for lunch with their phone, they can pay you.
- Do I need a card reader or any hardware?
- No. There's nothing to buy and nothing to plug in. Everything happens through a link, so it works from the truck, the kitchen table, or the driveway.
- Can they pay from their bank account?
- Usually, yes — and on a five-figure balance it's often what they'd prefer. Bank payments switch on once Stripe approves your account for them, which Plinth requests automatically while you're setting up. Until then, card and the phone wallets work from day one.
- Do I have to switch the software I already use?
- No. Plinth Pay doesn't replace your scheduling, your books, or your paperwork — it doesn't want to. It's the getting-paid part, and it sits alongside whatever you already run. There's nothing to install and nothing for your crew to learn.
- Can my customers pay by text?
- Not on Plinth Pay on its own. Payment requests go out by email, or as a link you can paste into whatever you already use to talk to them. Texting from a Plinth number for your business is part of the full product, and carriers take a week or two to approve a new business for it — so we don't pretend it's instant.
- Where does the money actually go?
- Into your own Stripe account, in your business's name. Plinth never holds your money or pays it out to you — we're not a middleman on the funds.
- What happens when someone doesn't pay?
- Plinth sends the follow-up for you on a schedule you set, and what's still owed sits on one prioritized screen, most urgent first, with the reason. What we won't claim is that chasing happens entirely without you — some balances need a phone call, and Plinth's job is making sure you know which ones.
- What if I want the rest of Plinth later?
- That's the idea. Answering your phone, booking the job, and turning finished work into reviews are the rest of the system, and moving up is a switch on your account rather than a new signup or a migration. Your customers, jobs and payment history carry over because they never moved.
- Is this cheaper than what I've got?
- Honest answer: it depends what you've got. Against adopting a whole operations suite you don't otherwise need, yes — considerably, and it takes an afternoon instead of a project. But if you already pay for software that takes payments, Plinth Pay is an added cost, not a saving. We'd rather say that now than have you work it out later.
Send the ask. Take the tap. Know who still owes you.
$25/month, flat — no transaction fees from Plinth. Tell us about your business and we’ll set up your account — then connect Stripe and send your first request.
Rather think about it? Drop your email and we’ll keep you posted.