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Everything a tradesperson gets on Tradelynx

Jobs come to you one at a time with no lead fees and no commission, and you can quote, invoice, take card or bank payment, run the job and build a verified public profile without paying anything. Tradelynx Pro is the one paid option: it adds Books, your customer book and a handful of back-office tools, and it's free to start with no card. Every line below says whether it's free or Pro, and the filters narrow it to what you can do on the web or in the app.

What does Tradelynx give a tradesperson, and what is free?

A tradesperson gets jobs routed one at a time with no lead fees, no commission and no required subscription, plus free quoting, invoicing, card and bank payment at cost, job tools, a public profile and a verified work record. Tradelynx Pro, the one paid option, adds Books (MTD-ready records that don't file to HMRC yet), the customer book and CRM, templates and LabourLynx.

By Mike Fellows, Founder, Tradelynx · IT and service management backgroundPublished 12 September 2026Last reviewed 3 October 2026

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1. What you can do

All 119 things a tradesperson gets, by category

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Getting work22 things · Free, one line is Pro

Jobs are offered to you one at a time, you read the brief before you commit, and you decide when you're taking work and when you're not.

  • Jobs are offered to you one at a time, matched by availability and distance, with no lead fee and no commission on the work.Web and appFree
  • Read the brief before you commit: the work needed, how urgent it is, the property, the customer's photos and how far away it is.Web and appFree
  • Accept a lead, or accept it and send a quick estimate in the same step.Web and appFree
  • Pass on a lead and say why, at no cost.Web and appFree
  • Message the customer about an enquiry before you decide to accept it.AppFree
  • See a customer's reliability rating on a lead, pooled from tradespeople who worked for them and never naming who rated.AppFree
  • When a homeowner keeps you on their trusted list, a job in your trade is offered to you first.Web and appFree
  • When a homeowner names you on a request, you are offered the job first.Web and appFree
  • When a past customer presses Book this again on a finished job, the request comes to you first while you are verified and not away.Web and appFree
  • A booked customer can ask you, in the job's thread, about other work due at their home in your trade.Web and appFree
  • Going away: pause new jobs until a date, and offers resume that morning by themselves.WebFree
  • Mark yourself busy on a job for two hours with one tap, and available again when you are done.WebFree
  • Mark a morning, an afternoon or a whole day as unavailable, and see the same days on the web and in the app.Web and appFree
  • Set the most new jobs a day, the most open jobs at once, how far away a job may be, the time of day and the size of job you are offered.WebFree
  • Set your home postcode, how far you travel, and the postcode areas you also cover or want to avoid.WebFree
  • Choose whether you take emergency work, residential or commercial jobs, and which pets you are happy around.AppFree
  • Calls to the public number for your town and trade ring verified tradespeople in turn during the hours you set, and a missed call becomes a lead.AppFree
  • See how routing has treated you this week against the median tradesperson in your trade.Web and appFree
  • Panel work from housing associations, letting agents and facilities firms: accept or pass, then complete it with an optional certificate record.Web and appFree
  • Link an NFC keyring to your profile: a customer taps it and their enquiry is offered to you first.Web and appFree
  • Among the first twenty tradespeople to join in a launch town, choose twelve months of Tradelynx Pro or a priority routing window, with a founding badge.WebFree
  • Post a day-labour shift on LabourLynx, choose from local workers who respond, and nominate one for an apprenticeship with their consent.WebPro
Quoting and pricing10 things · Free, one line is Pro

Build a quote from your own price list, send it as a PDF and a link the customer can sign, and see when they've opened it.

  • Build a branded quote from your price list and save drafts as you go.Web and appFree
  • Send a quote as a link the customer can accept or decline, signing to accept if they wish, with a PDF to download.WebFree
  • See when a customer has viewed your quote.WebFree
  • Withdraw a quote you have sent; the customer's link then says it is no longer active.WebFree
  • Follow up a stalled quote with one tap: a polite email, sent once per quote and never automatically.WebFree
  • Quote this job: open a quote draft already filled with the customer, the address and the job.WebFree
  • Keep a price list of items priced per item or per metre, with codes and categories; archived lines stay in your history.Web and appFree
  • Show chosen price-list lines on your public profile as indicative prices.WebFree
  • Set your quote logo, default terms, payment terms and quote validity once for every quote.WebFree
  • Keep reusable templates for quotes, texts and reminders.WebPro
Running the job18 things · Free, one line is Pro

Every job sits on one board from offer to completion, and what you record on site ends up on the property's record.

  • Every lead, quote and job on one board, filtered by new, active, quoted and completed.Web and appFree
  • Your calendar: today's jobs, what is coming up, what needs attention and what you finished recently, with maintenance reminders due.WebFree
  • Today: the day's booked jobs in visiting order, each with directions, a call button and any pets note.WebFree
  • Suggest an appointment date, confirm or suggest another, change the date or cancel, and the customer is told each time.AppFree
  • Move a job along as you go, including in progress and waiting for parts.AppFree
  • Open the job's address in maps straight from the job.AppFree
  • Message the customer in the job's own thread.Web and appFree
  • Record the property's condition with photos before you start, and the customer acknowledges it.Web and appFree
  • Record what you installed, with make, model, date and warranty.Web and appFree
  • Note anything you noticed but did not work on; it reaches the owner as a question and is recorded only if they confirm it.WebFree
  • Flag work outside your trade, and the customer decides whether another tradesperson is asked.WebFree
  • Record energy-efficiency intent on a job: the measure, the predicted saving and the method.WebFree
  • Track each job's revenue, costs and hours to see its gross profit.WebFree
  • Mark a job complete and say how it was paid, and it is written to the property's record.Web and appFree
  • Log a job you won outside Tradelynx for a customer in your book, and it sits on your work board with the rest.WebPro
  • Add work you did elsewhere to a property's history, with the customer's consent.AppFree
  • Rate the customer after a job; only tradespeople offered work there later see it, and never who rated.AppFree
  • Report or block a customer; a blocked customer is not told.AppFree
Getting paid9 things · Free

Invoice from the finished job, take card or bank payment on a Tradelynx page, and let the reminders do the chasing.

  • Connect your payouts through Stripe and check your account status.WebFree
  • Send an invoice when a job is complete, with a payment link you can copy.WebFree
  • Download an invoice to your phone from the job.AppFree
  • Customers pay by card, or straight from their banking app on larger invoices; bank payment costs less with its cost capped, both are passed through at cost, and no commission is taken.WebFree
  • Unpaid invoices get automatic reminders to the customer on day 7 and day 14, and you can switch them off.WebFree
  • Who owes me: every unpaid invoice, longest waiting first, with a one-tap reminder carrying a fresh payment link.WebFree
  • Payment recovery: produce a friendly reminder, a letter before action or a small-claim preparation pack, which is not legal advice.WebFree
  • See this month's earnings, the last twelve months, money still in flight and a month-by-month breakdown.WebFree
  • See the quote value you won after a one-tap follow-up, counted only where the follow-up came first.WebFree
Books and tax13 things · Pro, except where marked free

Your Tradelynx income lands in your books by itself, and a photo of a receipt is enough to record an expense.

  • Keep your books anywhere in Great Britain, with no verification and no documents needed.WebPro
  • Income from your Tradelynx invoices lands in your books by itself, marked as evidenced.WebPro
  • Scan a receipt photo: the details are read for you to check, and the receipt is kept with the entry.Web and appPro
  • Record expenses and off-platform income yourself, with VAT worked out from the gross or the net amount.Web and appPro
  • Void an entry: it stays in your history but stops counting.WebPro
  • Open a stored receipt from its entry whenever you need it.WebPro
  • Your records follow the Making Tax Digital quarters, with a check that shows what is missing from each one.WebPro
  • Export your records as CSV or PDF, for a quarter or the whole year.WebPro
  • CIS: record deductions on each payment at the rate from your status, check them against contractors' statements, and export each tax year as CSV.WebPro
  • A self-assessment estimate for the year so far, shown as a worst-case figure.WebFree
  • A rough quarterly VAT estimate from your completed jobs.WebFree
  • A cash-flow forecast of what is coming in over the next 30 and 60 days.WebFree
  • Give your accountant or bookkeeper a read-only view of your books, and revoke it whenever you like.WebPro
Your reputation and profile13 things · Free, one line is Pro

A public profile you arrange yourself, built on reviews and work that's been checked, with a badge for your own website.

  • Choose what your public profile shows: about, recent work, reviews, services and prices, availability, verified work, common questions, an intro video and your own links.WebFree
  • Choose your profile address; the previous one keeps working after a change.WebFree
  • A profile strength check that shows what a customer would still look for.WebFree
  • See how many people looked at your profile.WebFree
  • A portfolio of photos and videos, with before-and-after pairs shown on a slider.Web and appFree
  • A live Verified on Tradelynx badge for your own website.WebFree
  • A QR code of your profile and a link to share it.WebFree
  • Ask a customer for a review from the job.WebFree
  • Reply to a review.AppFree
  • Reviews scored for quality of work, punctuality, communication and value for money, with a breakdown and badges.WebFree
  • Bring in your ratings from other review sites: a person checks each one against the public page within 72 hours, and only verified ones show.WebFree
  • Log jobs from before you joined and invite those customers to review you; their reviews show as a separate, labelled tier.WebFree
  • Download your Verified Work Record as a PDF, or share it through a 90-day verify link.WebPro
Staying verified and compliant5 things · Free

Your ID, credentials and insurance are checked once and watched for expiry, so you don't have to keep proving yourself.

  • A biometric identity check before you are offered customer work.WebFree
  • Upload your insurance and credentials, such as Gas Safe, NICEIC and CSCS: each is read automatically, checked by a person against the public register, and watched for expiry.Web and appFree
  • If an upload does not look like the certificate you chose, you are told before it goes in.WebFree
  • One compliance page showing what is verified, what is pending review and what needs renewing soon.WebFree
  • Protect your bank details with an authenticator app: changing where your money is paid always asks for the code.WebFree
Customers and CRM19 things · Pro, except where marked free

Keep every customer you've worked for in one book, see what it's worth, and know who's due a call.

  • A customer book with search, filters, tags, private notes and a timeline for each customer.Web and appPro
  • Invite your own customers by email to connect with you on Tradelynx, and see who has accepted.WebPro
  • What your customer book is worth to you, and who your most valuable customers are.WebPro
  • Import contacts from a CSV file and export your contact book.WebPro
  • A contact book page: search your contacts, see who is already a customer, and call, text, email, invite or quote any of them in a tap.WebPro
  • Save segments of your customers as private views.Web and appPro
  • Email a saved segment: you write it, and Tradelynx adds your identity and an unsubscribe link.WebPro
  • Text a customer, starting from one of your templates if you like.WebPro
  • Log calls, texts, emails and notes against a customer.WebPro
  • Maintenance schedules for each customer, with a one-tap reminder.WebPro
  • Ask for an AI maintenance forecast for a customer's property; it is advisory.WebPro
  • See what you installed and the certificates you issued at a customer's property, and turn any of them into a quote draft.WebPro
  • Offer a boiler service plan where you did the last service; offering one never costs you anything.WebPro
  • A sales pipeline of your quotes from draft to won or lost, and a list of customers with work due.Web and appPro
  • Today's actions on your dashboard: stalled quotes, rebookings due at homes you served, quiet customers and service anniversaries.WebFree
  • Choose whether you get a daily email of your actions, and how far ahead rebooking reminders look.Web and appFree
  • See how a lead reached you and, if it stalled, what in your own handling held it up, with a suggested next step.WebFree
  • Ask for AI coaching on a stalled lead: clarity, pricing, unanswered questions and timing, about your handling only.WebPro
  • Switch call recording on or off, and review the AI summary of each call before keeping it as a note.WebFree
Your business and the app6 things · Free

Your business details, your tools, your notifications and the trader app for iPhone and Android.

  • Your business details in one place: name, logo, VAT number, company number, address and contact details.Web and appFree
  • One inbox for your customer conversations and Tradelynx support.WebFree
  • A register of your tools with photos and serial numbers, and an insurance pack PDF made from it.Web and appFree
  • Close your account yourself: your personal details are deleted and your completed work history is kept, anonymised.WebFree
  • Choose which alerts reach your phone and which come by email.AppFree
  • The trader app: dashboard, leads, jobs, quotes, tools and profile, with push notifications.AppFree
Learning and community4 things · Free

A plain how-to guide, a board where trades vote on what gets built, and a daily puzzle.

  • A how-to guide: 15 articles in five sections, each naming the screen it is about.WebFree
  • A community board: suggest features, vote, comment and follow a suggestion.Web and appFree
  • Tradie IQ: daily trade-knowledge puzzles with streaks and leaderboards.WebFree
  • A private wellbeing check-in after a completed job, at most once a month, with CALM signposted.AppFree

2. What it costs

Getting work, quoting, invoicing, card payment, running the job, verification and your public profile are free: no lead fees, no commission on jobs and no subscription needed. Tradelynx Pro is the one paid option. It costs £15 per month (includes any VAT that applies), it's free until we're HMRC-recognised, plus three months, and you can start it today without a card. We'll tell you before we ever charge, and your records stay yours either way.

Every price on this page is resolved from the one pricing source at the moment the page is served; a line charges only when it is priced, activated and above its data threshold, and until then it says so.

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Questions tradespeople ask

Is Tradelynx free for tradespeople?

Yes. There are no lead fees, no commission on the jobs you win and no subscription needed to receive and accept work. If a customer pays by card or bank through Tradelynx, the processing cost is passed through at cost and isn't commission.

What does Tradelynx Pro add?

Pro adds Books (your income, expenses, receipts, CIS and quarterly summaries kept the way Making Tax Digital expects), your customer book and CRM, reusable templates, AI coaching on stalled leads, an accountant's read-only view, logging jobs you won outside Tradelynx, and LabourLynx day-labour shifts. Everything you need to get and do work stays free without it.

How much does Tradelynx Pro cost, and when will I be charged?

Pro costs £15 per month (includes any VAT that applies), and it's free until Tradelynx is HMRC-recognised, plus three months. You can start it without a card, Tradelynx tells you before it ever charges, and you keep your records either way.

Can I pay to get more leads or to be offered jobs first?

No. There's no paid priority and no featured tier: each job goes to one tradesperson at a time, so you're never bidding against others for the same lead.

Does Tradelynx Books file my tax return or VAT to HMRC?

Not yet. Books keeps MTD-ready records and exports them, but Tradelynx isn't HMRC-recognised software yet, so you file through your current route until it is.

What do I need before I can take customer work?

A biometric identity check, current public liability insurance and your trade credentials, which a person checks against the relevant public register. A person reviews every application, and AI never turns anyone down on its own.

I'm not on the South Coast. Can I still use Tradelynx?

Yes. Anyone in Great Britain can open a trader account and use Books, the work record and property records without any documents. Customer jobs are offered only where the marketplace runs, which today is Portsmouth, Southampton and Bournemouth.

Does Tradelynx help me chase unpaid invoices?

Yes, for invoices sent through Tradelynx. Customers get automatic reminders at 7 and 14 days (you can switch them off), "Who owes me" lists every unpaid invoice longest-waiting first, and a payment recovery pack covers a reminder, a letter before action and small-claims preparation. The pack isn't legal advice.

Other audiences: Homeowners · Tenants and residents · Housing associations · Councils that manage their own homes · Letting agents · Estate agents · Facilities management · Landlords · Insurers · Mortgage lenders