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Win more business, increase profit margin, and reclaim your work-life balance with TruTrade.

Software that's built by builders, for builders.

Complete construction project management software for builders

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Run your whole
construction business
from your phone

A complete project management system for builders

- (for less than the price of a pint of beer)cheers!!Cheers

£4.99+VAT/ month* *Per seat, per month, after your 1 month free.

  • Project Management
  • Live Profit & Cashflow
  • Free Professional Quote Packs
  • Client Portal & Chat
  • Employee Project Tracking
  • Project Costs & Budgets
  • Invoicing & VAT
  • Payroll, CIS & PAYE
  • Team & Project Chat
  • Materials Ordering
  • Health & Safety

We also offer in-house professional estimates (charged separately), plus lots more great features that help you work smarter, not harder.

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The TruTrade builders app on a phone, with profit, invoices and today’s jobs

One simple system to streamline your business and eliminate the chaos

TruTrade Project Management puts your timesheets, wages, budgets, messages, materials and invoices in one place. Use as much or as little as you need. It works on any device.

01

Projects

Every job has a P&L, not a folder of PDFs

Open a project and the whole job is there on one screen: money, materials, wages, and the client.

  • See profit margins, cash, outstanding invoices, and your spend against budget at a glance.
  • Set a budget for every stage and track spend as you go.
  • Log agreed extras as variations, so they don't get lost.
  • Keep timesheets, documents, and client details on the job.

You'll have one job screen instead of five spreadsheets. Plus, know if a job's making money while it's still running.

02

Timesheets

Stop chasing timesheets on a Friday

Your team log their hours on their phone each day. You get a weekly report that feeds straight into wages and CIS. No paper, no guesswork, no weekends lost to spreadsheets.

  • Your team check in on site by scanning the QR induction sheet or opening a link you send.
  • Hours go against the stage they were worked on, so you know exactly where they went.
  • Only you or your site manager can change the hours, and every change is logged.
  • Approve the week's timesheets before anything goes to wages.

No more paper timesheets. Get your Friday back.

Check in on site and open your timesheet in TruTrade on a phoneCheck-in confirmation with time on site in TruTrade on a phoneWeekly timesheet with hours against the job in TruTrade on a phone

03

Payroll, HMRC & reports

Payroll, built for British builders

Approved hours feed straight into wages, with PAYE for your employed team and CIS for your subbies, all in the same login as the job.

  • Get wages, PAYE, and CIS worked out from each person's hourly rate.
  • HMRC view: see VAT owed, sales, purchases, and reverse charge in one place.
  • Have your figures ready for you or your accountant to send to HMRC.

Know where you stand with HMRC, without the brown envelope dread.

04

Estimates

Spend less time quoting & more time earning

Build your own estimates for free, or have our estimators price the job for you. Either way, you stay in control of the price.

  • Upload drawings, photos, or a written scope - whatever the job came in on.
  • See which quotes are in progress, ready, and sent, and track your win rate.
  • Set your margin trade by trade, not one blanket percentage.
  • Keep versions, T&Cs, and payment schedules attached to the estimate, not in a downloads folder.
  • Turn a won estimate into a project in one click, with no re-typing.

Send your client a professional Quote Pack. They'll think you've got a QS on the payroll, and you'll get your evenings back.

05

Client Portal

Give the client a login, not a WhatsApp thread

Your client gets their own free login, with the quote, messages, payments, variations, and drawings all in one place.

  • They sign off the quote in the portal, so you can get on with the job.
  • When they ask for a change, it becomes a tracked variation, not a text you'll lose.
  • They can see every invoice and payment, so "I didn't get that" stops being a thing.
  • Drawings live in one place, not buried in an email chain.

You stay organised, your client always knows where the job's at, and they stop ringing you out of hours. Your costs, margins, and team chat stay hidden.

06

Invoices

Send the invoice the day the work's done

Create invoices from the job and see who's paid and who hasn't, without digging through emails.

  • Raise a new invoice straight from the payment schedule, with the stages, amounts, and dates already filled in.
  • Find any invoice fast, whether you're looking across all your projects or just one.
  • Preview the PDF before it goes out.
  • See outstanding invoices on your dashboard, next to profit and cash.

No more doing invoices on a Sunday night.

07

TruChat

Get your jobs out of the WhatsApp group

Every job gets a chat for your team and a separate chat with your client. There's also the TruChat feed, where builders share their work.

  • Team chat: you, your team, and your subbies keep every message with the job.
  • Your client: they get their own chat with you in the Client Portal, and never see your team chat.
  • TruChat feed: post photos of your work and see what other builders are working on.

Remove the chaos. Keep every job's chat in one place.

08

Materials

Order materials straight from the job

Order through participating merchants straight from your estimate or project plan.

  • Take the materials list straight off the estimate, stage by stage.
  • Print a materials list for each stage, so there are no more shopping lists on offcuts.
  • Track what you spend on materials against the project.

No retyping lists, no ringing round.

Accurate Estimating & Professional Quote Packs

Tried estimating services before but don't trust the accuracy?

Send us your drawings and an estimator will be in touch within 24 hours to go through the job. Every labour and material cost is priced at current UK supplier rates. You get the full breakdown and a client-ready Quote Pack in 3 to 5 working days. Every estimate is backed by The TruTrade Estimate Guarantee. If we've missed something that's clearly in your plans or written scope, we'll put it right.

  • Get a full labour and materials breakdown, so nothing gets missed.
  • You set the margin, overheads and contingency. You stay in control of the price.
  • Receive a free, client-ready Quote Pack with every estimate.
  • Yours from £90 + VAT.
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What builders say

“Every penny is money well spent and can’t wait to build our business around this platform”
MR Matthew Renshaw Builder, Warwickshire
“The quote pack alone wins me work. Clients think I’ve got a QS on the payroll - and the margin sliders mean the number that goes out is the number I meant.”
MR Matthew Renshaw Builder, Warwickshire
“I used to price on the hop and hope for the best. Now I set my margin before the client’s even called back, and I know where every job stands on a Sunday night instead of finding out at the end.”
D Dommo Self-employed builder
“Invoices, CIS and the client portal in one place. My admin night has basically disappeared, and clients stopped ringing me for updates because they can see it all.”
MA Matthew Atkinson Atkinson Building

Free with every estimate

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Won the job? Turn it into a project.

Your estimate doesn't stop at the quote. Everything carries straight through to running the job.

  1. 1

    Price the job

    We build the estimate from your drawings.

  2. 2

    Set your margin

    Adjust margins, overheads, and contingency line by line.

  3. 3

    Send your Quote Pack

    Get a professional, branded quote for your customer.

  4. 4

    Win the work

    Your customer says yes.

  5. 5

    Run the job

    Turn the estimate into a project in one click.

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What builders say about TruTrade

“The quote pack alone wins me work. Clients think I’ve got a QS on the payroll - and the margin sliders mean the number that goes out is the number I meant.”
MR Matthew Renshaw Builder, Warwickshire
“I used to price on the hop and hope for the best. Now I set my margin before the client’s even called back, and I know where every job stands on a Sunday night instead of finding out at the end.”
D Dommo Self-employed builder
“Invoices, CIS and the client portal in one place. My admin night has basically disappeared, and clients stopped ringing me for updates because they can see it all.”
MA Matthew Atkinson Atkinson Building

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