It lands on your phone
With photos, the suburb, and how soon they need somebody. Enough to know whether it is worth your time before you ring anyone.
On Tradie2U the customer picks one tradie and asks them. Not five. There's no auction, no bidding, and nothing to buy before the phone rings.
Free while we're building the map. Every trade, anywhere in Australia — and the other trades are on here too, which is the half of this most tradies get told about last.
You need a plumber on site Thursday. The chippie needs a sparky. Everyone is ringing round the same four numbers hoping somebody picks up.
Log in as a tradie and you get the whole customer side pointed at other trades: see who is free, what they charge for a day, and ask them the same way a customer asks you. Subbie work in both directions.
Electrician, Plumber, Carpenter, Builder, Tiler, Painter, Roofer, Plasterer, Landscaper, Handyman, Labourer, Concreter, Bricklayer, Scaffolder, Air con, Solar, Flooring, Pressure washing and Cleaner — nineteen trades, all of them able to ask each other for work.
A customer opens the map, sees you are free, and sends the job to you and nobody else. You get a set time to answer. Take it or leave it — if you leave it, it goes back and they ask somebody else.
With photos, the suburb, and how soon they need somebody. Enough to know whether it is worth your time before you ring anyone.
Nobody else has been asked while it is running. No racing four other blokes to call first, and nothing to buy to be in the race.
Pass it or let the timer run out. The customer is told and picks somebody else, and nothing happens to your rating either way.
Long enough to answer between jobs. Five minutes was considered and thrown out — it would expire work you were always going to take, which reads to a tradie as the app losing them jobs.
Your call-out fee and your hourly range sit on your card, the moment somebody taps your pin. Everyone else hides it until the customer is already on the phone, which is how you end up doing twenty minutes of free quoting for someone who was never going to pay it.
Put your number up. The people who ask you have already accepted it.
We don't take a cut. The app never takes a payment and never asks anybody for a card. What the job costs and how it gets paid is between you and the customer, exactly as it is now.
Leaving it blank is a real answer too. Plenty of trades price on inspection, so a profile with no rates on it shows nothing at all rather than a "rates not set" label that reads as a warning about you.
An illustration. The rates are yours to set and to change, and the two halves are independent — a flat call-out with no hourly rate, or an hourly rate with no call-out, are both normal ways to work.
Customers only ever see a rough area, never your exact spot. One tap takes you off the map entirely, and you can set it to hide you automatically from knock-off time and put you back in the morning.
Your home address is nobody's business, including ours. Try the control — it is the real one, with the real numbers behind it.
Your pin sits somewhere inside a 500-metre cell, snapped to a fixed grid rather than jittered — repeated looks never resolve it any further. Close enough for somebody to know you work their street, nowhere near close enough to find your van.
Add your licence and your profile shows the number beside a link to the register that can confirm it. A customer checks it with the regulator in about ten seconds — a stronger thing to have than a tick we drew ourselves.
Energy Safe Victoria, the Building and Plumbing Commission and ARCtick are wired up today. Outside Victoria your licence still goes on your profile with its number — it just will not carry a check link until we have added your state's register.
Nothing waits on us. There is no queue and no approval step — you are on the map when you say you are, and the licence is a thing you add because it wins you work, not because a gate demands it.
One thing worth knowing before it surprises you: an expired licence is shown and flagged, not hidden. Hiding one would make a lapsed ticket read as no ticket at all. Same for insurance — a lapsed policy says "lapsed", with the date. Two taps to fix, and the app tells you sixty days out.
Customers rate you, you rate the customer, and only on a job that actually finished. The number of jobs a score is built on is printed right next to it, so nobody hides behind one glowing review — yours or theirs.
Those two are never averaged together. One is what households thought of the work; the other is what a tradie thought of the job they were sent to — including the ones who wasted a trip.
A customer's record travels with them, and it is on every offer card you get: jobs completed, jobs called off after a tradie had already accepted, and how many other tradies of your trade they have this out to right now. Shop around and tradies see it.
Listings are free. We are not charging tradies to be on a map that is still filling up, and we will tell you well before that changes.
There is no lead fee, no credit pack, no commission and no card — not now and not behind a setting somewhere. The app has never taken a payment from anybody.
We started in Melbourne with electricians. It is open now to every trade in the country — if you work it, you can be on the map today, and you do not need us to have reached your suburb first.
Nineteen trades on the list, from sparkies and plumbers through to solar, flooring and cleaners. If yours is not there yet, put it on the form and it goes on.
You set where you are and how far you will go. The map is built from wherever tradies actually turn up, not from a list of suburbs somebody decided on.
Open everywhere does not mean busy everywhere. Where nobody covers a street yet the app says so in plain words, to you and to the customer, rather than letting either of you guess.
Whatever your trade, wherever you work. We will get you on and show you round the app ourselves — there are few enough of us that a real person still does that.
We'll be in touch on that number. If you'd rather not wait, the app is on the App Store now — sign up as a tradie and you're on the map the same day.
Already know you want it? The app is free, and you can be on the map before the kettle boils.
Free on iPhone and Android. No card, no lead fees, nothing to buy.