Why TradeQuote exists
Built by people who got fed up watching tradespeople undercharge.
Most UK tradespeople still quote from memory, scribbled notes, or a tired spreadsheet they copied off another spark in 2014. The result is the same story every week: under-quoting cable runs, forgetting paint coverage, missing the testing time on an EICR, eating the cost of an extra coat because the customer "thought it was included". Quoting is the single most important thing you do as a tradesperson — it sets your wage, your margin, your reputation — and it's the part that gets the least tooling.
TradeQuote is a focused fix for that. Not a CRM trying to be a calendar trying to be an accounting suite. Just a quote calculator built around how painters, electricians, plumbers, plasterers and cleaners actually price work, plus the supporting pieces (customers, invoices, calendar) you need to take a job from first phone call to paid invoice without leaving the app.
What "trade-specific" actually means
A generic quoting app gives you a blank line item table and tells you good luck. A trade-specific calculator asks the questions your trade actually thinks about — number of rooms, surface type, paint quality, cable runs, circuits, boiler size, plaster method, property type, access difficulty — and turns those answers into labour, materials, margin and VAT automatically. You're not translating a job into a spreadsheet. The calculator already speaks your language.
What you get on day one
Who it's for
Solo tradespeople and small crews (2–10 people) across the UK. If you're quoting more than two jobs a week, the time it saves pays for itself in the first day. If you're a one-trade business hating the admin side, this is for you. If you run a small painting or electrical crew and need everyone on the same numbers, this is for you. If you're a cleaner running repeat contracts, this is for you.
Who it's not for
Large national contractors with bespoke procurement systems. Quantity surveyors doing £multi-million tenders. Anyone wanting to build their own custom formulas from scratch — we make opinionated decisions about how each trade should price work, and we update those defaults as supplier costs and standards shift.
How it compares to a spreadsheet
Spreadsheets are free, which is why most tradespeople start there. They're also unforgiving: one mistyped formula and every quote for the next six months is wrong by 12%. They don't save customers, don't send invoices, don't sync to your phone properly, and turn a 5-minute quote into a 25-minute exercise in cell-formatting. TradeQuote replaces the spreadsheet with a structured workflow that quietly enforces correct maths, every time, on every job.
How it compares to general invoicing software
QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks and the like are excellent accounting tools — but they have no opinion about how a painter should price a three-bed semi, or how a sparky should price a consumer unit upgrade. Their quoting templates are blank. TradeQuote sits in front of them: you quote and invoice in TradeQuote, then export to your accounting software at year end. Use both, get the best of both.
Pricing in plain English
£19/month for solo tradespeople. £15/user/month for crews of 5 or more. Every plan includes every feature — calculator, customers, invoices, calendar, branded PDFs, offline use, unlimited everything. 14-day free trial, no card required. Cancel in one click from Settings. Your price never goes up while you're a customer.
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