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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

£4.99 /month less than the price of a pint of beer

  • 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

Quotes, the job, the client, invoices, materials, chat, and wages. One login, in the order you actually use it.

01

Estimates

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

A full estimating workspace. Upload the plans, break the job into builds and stages, then price it live with your own numbers.

  • 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
  • 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

Set your sell price live. Send a pack that looks like a national contractor wrote it. Convert the win into a job without re-typing it.

02

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.

  • Six tiles on every job: profit margin, paid invoices, outstanding, spend vs budget, materials and wages
  • Budget accordion shows client estimate, raw budget, spend, projected profit and contingency - all editable
  • 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

You'll have one job screen instead of five spreadsheets. Know margin, cash, wages, and materials before you buy the next skip.

03

Client portal

Give the client a login, not a WhatsApp thread

Your client gets their own app: the estimate, messages, payments, variations, and drawings. It's all in one place, always current.

  • Digital sign-off - they accept the quote in the portal, and you can 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 from March.

You look organised; they stop ringing you at 8pm.

04

Invoices

Sales invoices

Sales invoices live where the work lives. Find what you need easily 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 exports before they go out
  • Outstanding invoices on your home KPIs next to profit and cash

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

05

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 lands on the job’s material ledger as it happens.

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

06

TruChat

Site chat & trade feeds 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 messages are highlighted.
  • Easy to find: the same thread appears on the project and in the client’s Messages tab.
  • TruTrade Feed: see posts, photos, and comments with the wider trade.

Stop losing instructions in WhatsApp.

07

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 & CIS payroll and mark it paid. Timesheet approvals on the week.
  • See CIS & PAYE wage ledgers with monthly and yearly deductions, tax, NI and net.
  • Access an easy HMRC view: VAT liabilities, sales, purchases and reverse charge.
  • Get a simple purchase ledger for suppliers.

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

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 £90 + 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.

Submit Your Land

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.

Arrange a Discussion

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

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