Get found, get booked, get paid directly
TrustedTrades is for electricians and plumbers in Potchefstroom. Clients find your checked profile, message you directly and book you. They pay you directly, at the price the two of you agree. We take no cut. Joining is free.
No commission. No lead fees. No listing fee. No subscription.
Why we built it
Talk to any tradesman in this town and the complaints are the same three.
Nobody new can see your record
Your good work lives in old WhatsApp chats. A new client cannot tell you apart from any guy with a bakkie.
You quote for free, all day
Drive out, look at the job, write the quote, hear nothing. The lead sites still charge you for that.
The same lead goes to five of you
You pay for a contact that four competitors bought at the same time, and the cheapest one wins it.
How a job runs
The client messages you
Directly, in the app chat
You accept the booking
Date, time and the price you agreed
You do the job
Tap that you have arrived, then mark it done
The client confirms
And leaves a review on your profile
The client pays you directly, the way you are paid now. We never hold or touch the money. What we add is the record: the chat, the agreed price, the booking and the client’s confirmation all sit on the job. If the client has a problem, they can report it within 48 hours of you marking the job done, and it is noted on the job.
What it costs you
Nothing. Joining is free and using it is free: no commission, no lead fees, no listing fee, no subscription. The client pays you directly and we take no cut of it. Later we may offer optional paid extras, like a featured listing. Right now there is nothing to pay.
The price is between you and the client
You quote, the client agrees, the client pays you. We do not set, cap or approve your price, we never see the money, and nobody else is bidding on the same lead.
What we check before you go live
Your trade registration: a current PIRB number for plumbers, the registration behind the Certificate of Compliance for electricians. A person reads the document before your profile goes live.
The check is the point
If anyone with a bakkie could list here, your registration would be worth nothing on this site. The whole reason a landlord books a stranger off this site is that somebody checked who is coming.
It all runs on your phone
Sign up, upload your registration document, chat to the client, accept the booking and mark the job done in the browser. There is no app to download and nothing to install.
The full list, including what we deliberately do not check, is on how we verify.
You do not start at zero reviews
A new site with no reviews on your profile is worth nothing to you, so we bring your existing reputation across. Give us up to five past clients’ numbers when you set up. We text each one a private link and they write a short review of the work you already did for them. It sits on your profile from day one.
Your clients, contacted once
One text with one link. No account for them to make, nothing to sign up for, and we never contact them again or use their number for anything else. Their number is never shown on the site.
Marked for what it is
These show on your profile as work done before you joined, not as jobs booked through us. We are not going to dress up your history, and a landlord who spots that would not trust the rest of the page either.
Tell those clients to expect the text before we send it. An unexpected link from a name they do not know gets ignored, and that is your reputation sitting unused.
What we will not do to you
- Sell the same job to five of you and let the cheapest one win.
- Charge you a monthly fee whether work comes in or not.
- Charge you for a lead that never turns into a job.
- Hold your money or take a cut of what the client pays you.
- Stand between you and the client. You two talk directly in the chat.
Where this actually is right now
TrustedTrades is new and it is launching in Potchefstroom only. The site is built and the booking flow works, from the first message to the review. We are signing up and checking the first Potch electricians and plumbers, and no completed jobs have run through it yet. You would be early, and it costs you nothing to be.
The clients we are bringing in are letting agents and landlords who own student houses in Potch and do not live here, so the work is maintenance callouts on rented property.