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TradesPlace

For UK trades and local service businesses

More than a website.
Run your business in your pocket.

TradesPlace runs your whole trade business, from the first enquiry to the final payment. Do the paperwork at your desk on the portal, then take it all with you on your iPhone or iPad. Your website comes included, and it feeds new work straight in.

£49 (no VAT) a month. Nothing to pay until your site is live and you have said yes. Or read the agreement first →

Before After

£0

to start — you pay when your site is live

Every minute

we check your site is up

Day one

the domain and site are in your name

Any month

no minimum term, cancel from your dashboard

What you are actually buying

A website is not the point. Being found and getting the call is.

Tradespeople report paying Checkatrade between £100 and £300 a month for leads shared with the competitors quoting against them, on reviews that stay behind somebody else's login. One year of that money buys you something you own outright instead.

Quotes in minutes.

Send a proper quote from the van, and turn it into an invoice with one tap once the customer says yes.

Every job in one diary.

Today's visits, addresses and job notes are ready when you are, and you can add before and after photos on site, even with no signal.

Know your customers.

Every customer's details, jobs and history are in one place, so you never go hunting through texts again.

Get paid faster.

Customers pay by card from a link, and you get a ping on your phone the moment they do.

One job pays for it

What is one job worth to you?

One job

£2,500

a combi boiler replacement

Your website, per month

£49 (no VAT)

No fee per lead, no minimum term.

One job pays for 4 years of your website.

A typical UK price before your own costs, not a promise of work. Change it to what you charge. Nothing here is stored or sent anywhere.

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Repeat work

Your past customers, booked again.

The cheapest job you will ever win is the one you already did last year. When a customer’s service comes due, we email them from you, so the repeat work you are already owed does not slip because nobody had time to chase it.

Your past customers, in one place

Paste in last year’s jobs from your dashboard. Every enquiry you mark as won is added for you after that.

We know how often each job comes round

The usual timings for your trade are filled in for you, and you can change any of them. A garage just asks for the registration: the MOT date comes from DVSA.

We email them before it is due

From your business name, with your number and a link to book. Anyone who asks not to hear from you again never does.

  • Boiler service, every year
  • MOT, from the registration
  • Carpet clean, every year
  • Dog groom, every two months
  • Dental check-up, every six months
  • EICR, every five years
How it works

Four simple steps. Live in seven days.

You send the link. Our team handles the rest.

  1. 1
    Day 0 · 2 minutes

    Show us your website

    Paste your web address and your email.

  2. 2
    Day 2

    We redesign it

    A real, working homepage built from your own content.

  3. 3
    Day 7

    You approve it

    Give it the nod and we finish the details, live and secure on your own domain.

  4. 4
    From then on

    Live, and looked after

    We keep it secure and updated. You get the analytics, and your time back.

Nothing to pay while we work on it, and nothing to pay unless you keep it.

Nothing is charged until your site is live.

Our work

Your website should look like nobody else’s.

These are example sites, designed and built end to end. Each one is shaped around how that trade is actually bought: who the customer is, how quickly they decide, and what earns their trust. Yours would be designed the same way, around your business.

See more examples
Dawson & Sons Plumbing example website Example site

Plumber · Reading

Dawson & Sons Plumbing

An emergency-first plumbing site where the phone number is the hero. Built for the 2am burst-pipe visitor: one action, instant trust, nothing in the way.

Visit the site →
Hart & Hale Accountants example website Example site

Accountancy · Henley-on-Thames

Hart & Hale Accountants

A calm, editorial site for a modern practice. Typography does the work: clear specialisms, fixed monthly fees on the page, and one unhurried route to a conversation.

Visit the site →
Oakwell Cleaning example website Example site

Cleaner · Wokingham

Oakwell Cleaning

A light, airy site that feels as clean as the service. Checklist transparency, per-visit pricing and a three-field quote form remove every reason to hesitate.

Visit the site →

FAQ

Some questions you might have

If yours is not here, just ask. We would rather answer it now than leave you wondering.

Ask us a question

The free preview

Is the preview really free?

Yes. We rebuild your homepage from your own content and send it within 48 hours. There is no deposit and nothing to pay unless you decide to keep it.

How quickly can my website go live?

You see the rebuilt homepage within 48 hours. If you want the rest, most sites are live within 7 days of you approving it and supplying the remaining content.

What we build

What kind of websites do you build?

We specialise in professional brochure and lead-generation websites for UK service businesses. Ecommerce stores and custom web applications are outside this core offer.

What types of businesses do you work with?

Independent trades and service businesses: plumbers, electricians, decorators, cleaners, window cleaners, salons and other local firms that live on enquiries rather than online sales.

Do you build websites for businesses outside the UK?

Yes. We are a UK-based studio and also work with small businesses in Ireland, Spain, France, Portugal and Italy, with the site written in your market’s language.

Will my site show up when someone asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for a local trade?

We cannot promise placement in anyone's AI answer, and you should be wary of anyone who does. What we can do is make your site readable: every page carries LocalBusiness structured data with your services and the areas you cover, your FAQ is marked up so it can be quoted, and the site publishes an llms.txt summary and a robots.txt that names the AI crawlers and lets them in. That is what an assistant needs in order to describe your business correctly rather than guess.

Price and contract

How much does a professional website cost for a small business?

£49 a month, with no setup fee and nothing to pay up front. That one price covers the build, hosting, SSL, backups, security updates, uptime monitoring, a domain in your name, every enquiry texted to your phone within seconds, review requests, and a monthly report on the work the site won you. There is no cheaper tier to be upsold out of and no more expensive one to be pushed towards.

Am I tied into a contract?

No. £49 a month, cancel any time, with no minimum term and no exit fee. If you leave, the domain, site, content and reviews go with you, because they were yours from your first payment. You change your own words, prices, hours and photos from your dashboard as often as you like; anything you would rather we did for you is quoted first.

Domain and DNS

Do I own my website and domain?

Yes. You own the domain, the site, the content and the reviews from your first payment. If you ever leave, it all goes with you.

What happens to my domain and the DNS?

We handle it, and the domain stays registered in your name. Your current website keeps running the whole time we are building: the new site goes onto our hosting first and we check it is answering properly before anything points at it. Only then do we switch your domain over, so there is never a day when your site is down.

Switching from a directory or a builder

I’m on Checkatrade. Do I still need a website?

Yes, and most members already have one, because the homeowner who finds you on a directory looks you up on Google next. A site you own also catches the customers who never open a directory. Keep the membership while the site ramps up, compare the cost per won job on both, and cut the loser.

I built my site on Wix or GoDaddy. Why change?

Because you are its administrator, and nobody is paying you for that. The renewals, the updates, the padlock, the form that stopped delivering: all yours, at 11pm. We take the whole job off you, and the rebuild looks like your business rather than the page you started from. Send us the address and judge it beside your own.

I already pay Yell or someone else for my website.

Then the question is what you own when that contract ends. With us the domain is registered in your name from your first payment, the whole site exports in one click, and there is no minimum term. If you are inside a contract, we build the new site now and it goes live the week the term ends, so you never pay twice and never have a day without a site.

What happens to my reviews if I leave a directory?

They stay on the directory, which is why we start before anything lapses. We set you up with a one-tap review link and QR code to send your past customers, so the good reviews land on your own Google Business Profile, where every customer looks and where nobody can take them from you.

Already on a directory or a builder? Read the switching pages

Run your business from your pocket. Start with TradesPlace today.

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