Your rate, up front
Put your hourly range or day rate on your card and the people who ask you have already seen it. Or leave it blank: plenty of painters price on inspection, and a blank shows nothing rather than a warning.
Tradie2U for painters
Painting jobs, sent to one painter.
A customer getting a rental ready, or a builder at handover, sees which painters are free near them and asks one. You. No auction, no lead fee, and your rate is on your card before they ring.
No lead fees
No bidding war
No cut of the job
Free while we’re building the map. Every trade, anywhere in Australia.
01 — How work comes in
One job, one painter, one answer.
A customer 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 to somebody else.
Nobody else is asked
While your clock runs the job is only yours. No racing to quote first.
Passing is free
Booked out? Pass it and it goes back to somebody else. Nothing happens to your rating.
Needs it nowEmergency, someone waiting15 min
TodaySometime this afternoon2 hours
TomorrowBooked in, not urgent12 hours
02 — Trade to trade
The other trades are on here too.
Signed in as a tradie, 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. Work in both directions.
Who asks you
The builder at handover who needs it painted by Friday. The plasterer whose client wants it finished. The property owner turning a rental around between tenants.
Who you ask
A plasterer for the patching you found under the old paint. A carpenter for doors and trims. A pressure washer before the exterior.
03 — Checkable, not vouched for
What you hold, shown as you hold it.
Whatever you hold goes on your profile with its number and expiry: a registration, your White Card, your public liability. If it is not on our list, you type its name.
Construction Induction Card (White Card)
Shown with its number
Public liability insurance
Shown as entered, flagged if it lapses
A lapsed policy says "lapsed", with the date, rather than disappearing. Hiding it would make a lapsed policy look like no policy. The app tells you sixty days out.
04 — What you charge
They see your rate before they ring.
Your call-out, your hourly range and your day rate sit on your card the moment somebody taps your pin. All three are optional and independent, and a blank one shows nothing rather than a warning.
We don’t take a cut. The app never takes a payment and never asks anybody for a card. What the job costs is between you and whoever asked.
05 — Your map, your terms
You choose when you’re on it.
Customers see a rough area about 500 metres across, snapped to a fixed grid. Never your exact spot, never your address.
One tap takes you off the map entirely, and you can set it to hide you at knock-off and put you back in the morning. Off means your phone stops sending, not that we hide you at our end.
06 — Straight answers
What painters ask us.
Do I have to put my rates up?
No. Your call-out, hourly range and day rate are all optional, and independent of each other. Leave them blank and your card shows nothing at all, not a "rates not set" label that reads as a warning about you.
Who asks painters for work?
Customers near you, and other trades: builders at handover, plasterers whose clients want the job finished. Signed in as a tradie, they see who is free and ask the same way a customer does.
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.
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.
Can customers see where I live?
No. They see a circle about 500 metres across, snapped to a fixed grid before it ever leaves the server: never a point, and never your address. You can drop to a 5 km circle that only shows up in a count, or go off the map entirely.
Get on the map.
Whatever you do, wherever you work. Tell us your trade and we will get you on and show you round the app ourselves.