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

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

ÂŁ4.99 + VAT per seat 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).

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

Why builders choose TruTrade

Projects, timesheets, payroll, estimates, the client, invoices, chat and materials. One login, in the order you actually use it.

01

Projects

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

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

  • Six tiles on every job: profit margin, paid invoices, outstanding, spend vs budget, materials and wages.
  • Variations and VO payments tracked separately, so agreed extras don’t vanish.
  • Sub-pages for cash available, money owed, timesheets, purchase ledger, calendar and client details.

One job screen instead of five spreadsheets. Know margin, cash, wages and materials before you buy the next skip.

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

CIS, PAYE, VAT and supplier balances in the same login as the quote — because builders don’t run American invoicing apps.

  • Run PAYE and CIS payroll and mark it paid.
  • CIS and PAYE wage ledgers — monthly and yearly deductions, tax, NI and net.
  • HMRC view: VAT liabilities, sales, purchases and reverse charge.
  • Purchase ledger for suppliers.

CIS, PAYE, VAT and supplier balances in the same login as the quote.

04

Estimates

Quote like a QS — even if you’re quoting after site

Upload the plans, job broken down into build stages, live pricing, full estimating workspace

  • Upload plans, drawings, PDFs, photos, CAD files and spreadsheets — whatever the job came in on.
  • Pipeline tracks In Progress, Ready and Sent, with your win rate and value won on the same card.
  • Budget accordion shows client estimate, raw budget, spend, projected profit and contingency — all editable.
  • Versions, T&Cs and payment schedules stay attached to the estimate, not in a downloads folder.
  • Convert a won estimate into a live project. No re-typing, no duplicate entries.

Send a FREE professional Estimate Pack to your customer via a customer portal and INCREASE your win rate.

05

Client portal

Give the client a login, not a WhatsApp thread

Your client gets their own portal: the estimate, messages, payments, variations and drawings — all in one place, always current.

  • Digital acceptance — they accept the quote in the portal, you get on with the job.
  • Request a change formally and it becomes a tracked variation, not a text you’ll lose.
  • Every invoice and payment visible, so “I didn’t get that” stops being a thing.
  • Drawings live in one vault, not buried in an email chain.

You are organised, full communication, they will stop ringing you out of hours.

06

Invoices

Sales invoices

Sales invoices live where the work lives — with filters, search and PDFs, scoped to a project or across the lot.

  • New invoice straight from the payment schedule — stages, amounts and dates already there.
  • KPI filters and search across every invoice, or scoped to one project.
  • Preview and PDF before it goes out.
  • Outstanding invoices sit on your home KPIs next to profit and cash.

Invoice from the payment schedule. See what’s outstanding without opening Xero first.

07

TruChat

Site chat and a trade feed in one place

TruChat keeps every job’s conversation on the job — you, the client and the team.

  • Project Chat: one thread per job — you, the client and the team. Unread counts and presence built in.
  • The same thread appears on the project and in the client’s Messages tab.
  • TruTrade Feed: posts, photos and comments with the wider trade.

Stop losing instructions in WhatsApp.

08

Materials

Merchant Invoices - Quote from the estimate, not from memory!

The materials list comes off the estimate stage by stage. Merchant-connected jobs can price it and order it without leaving the job.

  • Take the materials list straight off the estimate, stage by stage.
  • Merchant-connected jobs: request a material quote or place the order from the job.
  • Printable stage material lists for site — no more shopping lists on offcuts.
  • Spend tracked on the job’s material ledger.

Take the materials off the estimate, get a merchant price, order, and keep the spend on the job.

Accurate estimating & professional Quote Packs

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

Send us your drawings and an estimator will call you 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. We're so confident in our estimates that every one is backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee.

  • 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 ÂŁ90 + VAT. No subscription needed.
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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

More TruTrade solutions

Other ways TruTrade can help you work smarter, not harder

Land & development

Got land? Let us take a look! Submit it for a free, no-obligation appraisal.

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For merchants

Help your builders win more work, and help your branch win more material orders.

Book a call

Academy

Your Construction Career Toolkit - practical, ready-made content that gets students job-ready.

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Win more work. Run better jobs. Get your time back.

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