Your own booking app
A link with your name on it for your regular customers, a QR code for the van, and a Book button for your Google listing. Customers who come through it land on you. Never the map, never another tradie.
Tradie2U for trades · free
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Get booked direct. No lead fees.
Your own booking app for your regular customers, a subbie in one call, and a spot on the map in your work hours. Free, and your customers stay yours.
Nothing to buy
No bidding war
No cut of the job
Free while we build the map, and about two minutes to set up. Rather we did it with you? Leave your number and one of us will ring.
$0
what a lead costs, and what we take of the job
0 min
to answer an urgent job before it moves on
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different trades, from sparkies to cleaners
01 — Yours from day one
Worth having before a single customer finds you.
A subbie in one call
Tap a trade on the map, tap Show number, and you're ringing them. Your own number stays hidden until another trade taps it, customers never see it, and you can switch it off in a tap.
Materials, sorted
Your nearest wholesalers on the map, your usual one first. Describe the job and the Tradie2U helper writes the pick list.
Jobs that are yours alone
When a customer near you picks you, nobody else is asked while you have it. You see their record before you say yes, and passing costs you nothing.
Victorian tradies: win one of three $500 fuel cards. Set up your tradie profile with your logo, your rates, a short bio and a photo of your work, and you're in. Open to Victorian residents 18+ with a Tradie2U tradie account. Entries close 11:59 pm AEDT Monday 30 November 2026. Drawn 10 am AEDT Wednesday 2 December 2026 at Melbourne VIC 3000. Winners named at tradie2u.com.au/fuel from Thursday 3 December 2026. Full rules.
Built in Melbourne by Nik and Simon, a sparky and a chippie.
02 — Trade to trade
The other trades are on here too.
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, or tap Show number and ring them. 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, Cleaner, Crane operator, Rigger, Glazier and Caulking — twenty-three trades, all of them able to ask each other for work.
03 — How work comes in
One job, one tradie, one answer.
A customer opens the map, sees you are free, and sends the job to you. Nobody else is asked while you have it, and you get a set time to answer. Take it or leave it — if you leave it, it goes to the next tradie nearby, or back to the customer.
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.
The clock is yours alone
Nobody else is asked while it is running. No racing four other blokes to call first, and nothing to buy to be in the race.
Passing costs you nothing
Pass it or let the timer run out. It goes to the next tradie nearby, or back to the customer, and nothing happens to your rating either way.
Needs it now
Emergency, someone at home waiting
15 min
Today
Sometime this afternoon
2 hours
Tomorrow
Booked in, not urgent
12 hours
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.
04 — What you charge
They see your rate before they ring.
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.
What a customer sees
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.
05 — Your map, your terms
On the map in your hours.
From start to knock-off on your work days, customers see a rough area, never your exact spot. The one exception: tap "On my way" for a job and choose to share, and that customer sees where you are until you mark the job done, or sooner if the app sees you arrive. After knock-off you're off the map, and your phone stops sending its location until you start again.
Your home address is nobody's business, including ours. Set a home zone over it and, in your hours, you show there as a wide area instead. Pick a time of day to see what a customer sees.
Customers see
a ~500 m area
In your hours 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.
06 — Trust, both ways
Checkable, and nobody approves you.
Licences
Your number, beside the register that proves it.
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 in your hours from the day you sign up, 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.
Ratings
You rate them back.
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.
The two scores 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.
07 — What it costs
Nothing, while we build the map.
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.
08 — Where you can work
Every trade. Anywhere in Australia.
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.
Whatever you do
Twenty-three 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.
Trade by trade: electricians, plumbers, carpenters, builders, tilers and painters.
Wherever you work
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.
An empty map says so
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.
09 — Straight answers
What tradies ask us.
Does it cost anything to join?
No. Listings are free while we're building the map, and there's nothing to buy in order to receive work. If that ever changes we'll tell you well before it does.
Do I pay per lead?
No. There are no lead fees and no credits. A customer picks you and asks you, and while you're deciding nobody else is asked.
Do you take a cut of the job?
No. 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.
Can customers see where I live?
No. In your work hours they see a circle about 500 metres across, snapped to a fixed grid before it ever leaves the server, and never your address. The one exception is a job you have set off for: tap "On my way" and choose to share, and that customer sees where you are until you mark the job done, or sooner if the app sees you arrive. Nothing from before you set off is ever shown. Set a home zone over your place and, inside it, you show as a wide area about 5 km across instead. After knock-off you are off the map, and your phone stops sending too: it is not just our server hiding you.
Do I have to be available all the time?
No. You're on the map in your work hours — 7am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, until you change them — and off it the rest of the time, unless you take after-hours call-outs. In your hours you say whether you're free now, later today or tomorrow. After knock-off your booking link still works: a customer can ask you for tomorrow, and it reaches you when you start. Going away? Pick the day you're back and you come back on by yourself.
What if I don't want the job?
Pass it, or let the timer run out. It goes to the next tradie nearby, or back to the customer. Nothing happens to your rating either way — a rating only ever comes from a job that actually finished.
Can other tradies see me?
Yes, and that's the point. Trades hire trades. Signed in as a tradie you get the whole customer side pointed at other trades: see who's free, what they charge for a day, and ask them the same way a customer asks you.
What do I need to sign up?
A trade and a business name. Your licence number, your insurance and what you charge are all optional — and all worth adding, because a licence on your profile prints its number beside a link to the register that can confirm it. Nobody approves you and nothing is held in a queue.
Rather we set you up?
Tell us what you do.
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.
Got it.
We'll be in touch on that number. If you'd rather not wait, the app is on the App Store and on Google Play. Sign up as a tradie and you're on the map in your work hours, with nobody to approve you first.
Already know you want it? The app is free, and you can be on the map before the kettle boils.
Free. On the App Store and on Google Play. No card, no lead fees, nothing to buy.