Win the job.Run the job.Keep the profit.
Quoting, clients, invoices, materials, wages and CIS — the lot, in one login. Built for UK builders.
- UK construction
- CIS & PAYE
- Client portal
- Monthly — cancel anytime
Good morning, Tony
Tuesday 25 Nov · 3 live jobs
Net profit
£0
Est. cashflow
£0
Invoices outst.
£0
Project spend
£0
Sound familiar?
What builders tell us on site — and what TruTrade does about it, in the same login.
“I price jobs at night, after site, and I’m never sure the number’s right.”
With TruTrade
Live pricing on real costs
Set margin, contingency, overhead and VAT on sliders and watch the client price move. Lock what you trust, save it as a new revision, send it as a quote pack.
“I find out a job lost money at the end — when it’s too late to do anything.”
With TruTrade
Every job carries a live P&L
Margin, spend, wages and materials on one screen instead of five spreadsheets. Projected profit sits next to the budget from day one.
“Instructions live in WhatsApp, texts and my own head.”
With TruTrade
Job chat stays on the job
One thread per job — you, the client and the team. Clients get their own portal to accept quotes, request changes and see drawings.
“Chasing invoices is a second job I didn’t sign up for.”
With TruTrade
Invoices raised from the job
Invoice straight off the payment schedule. Who owes what sits on your home screen next to profit — not buried in an accountancy package.
“CIS, PAYE and VAT make my stomach turn.”
With TruTrade
A payroll and HMRC hub built for UK construction
Run PAYE and CIS payroll, approve timesheets, and check VAT liabilities and supplier balances in the same login as the quote.
None of that is a promise — it’s what the app does, screen by screen. Here’s the tour.
See the featuresOne login. The whole job.
Seven reasons builders stop keeping the business in a notebook — in the order you’d actually use them.
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.
Builder outcome
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.
Rather we priced it? TruTrade estimators produce the takeoff — £90 / £180 / £255 + VAT, optional, any time.
Rear Extension — Oak Street
v3 · draftWin rate 68%
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.
- 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.
Builder outcome
One job screen instead of five spreadsheets. Know margin, cash, wages and materials before you buy the next skip.
Oak Street — Rear Extension
Started 02 Sep · 6 stages
Profit margin
24%
+2% vs quote
Paid invoices
£18,000
3 of 6 stages
Outstanding
£4,500
due in 12 days
Spend vs budget
£31,200 / £46k
68% used
Material ledger
£12,940
42 lines
Wage ledger
£9,320
w/e 23 Nov
Budget
Give the client a login, not a WhatsApp thread
Your client gets their own app: 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 from March.
Builder outcome
You look organised. They stop ringing you at 8pm.
Oak Street
Builder online
Rear Extension — Quotation
£52,920
inc VAT · 5 stages · v3
Tony · Ellard Builds
07:58Morning Sarah — scaffold’s up Monday. I’ll send photos on here.
Stage 1 invoice paid — £13,230
Raise the invoice from the job. Track who hasn’t paid
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.
Builder outcome
Invoice from the payment schedule. See what’s outstanding without opening Xero first.
Sales invoices
New invoiceDoyle — Garden room
INV-0036 · Due 12 Dec
£9,200
outstandingOak Street · Stage 3
INV-0035 · Due in 12 days
£4,500
outstandingNash — Renovation
INV-0034 · Overdue 6 days
£2,400
overdueOak Street · Stage 2
INV-0033 · Paid 04 Nov
£12,000
paidKaur — Knock-through
INV-0032 · Paid 28 Oct
£7,490
paid£14,350 outstanding · £2,400 overdue — also on your home KPIs
Quote or order 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.
Builder outcome
Take the materials off the estimate, get a merchant price, order, and keep the spend on the job.
Merchant pricing and ordering is for merchant-connected projects. Every plan gets the materials list, spend tracking and print sheets.
Order materials
Celotex GA4000 100mm — 2400×1200
12 × £41.20
£494
British Gypsum Soundbloc 12.5mm
24 × £18.90
£454
IKO lead flashing — code 4
1 × £212.00
£212
Scaffold hire — stage 2
1 × £680.00
£680
Merchant pricing and ordering is for merchant-connected jobs. Every job still gets the materials list, spend tracking and printable sheets.
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.
Builder outcome
Stop losing instructions in WhatsApp.
Oak Street — Rear ext.
Sarah: Scaffold Monday then…
Mrs Patel — Loft conv.
You: Drawings uploaded
Dave — groundworks
Dave: On site 7:30
Oak Street — Rear ext.
OnlineHi Tony — can we move the bi-folds to the East wall? What would that do to the price?
08:02
No problem — I’ll raise it as a variation so it’s all formal. You’ll see it in your portal tonight.
08:14
Perfect, thank you!
08:15
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. Timesheet approvals on the week.
- 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.
Builder outcome
CIS, PAYE, VAT and supplier balances in the same login as the quote.
Reports
2 need attentionRun payroll
PAYE + CIS · 6 staff
Timesheet approvals
4 weeks pending
CIS wage ledger
Nov: £3,120 deducted
HMRC
VAT £8,240 due 07 Dec
Purchase ledger
£6,410 owed to suppliers
Calendar
3 events this week
PAYE wage ledger
Tax · NI · net
Wages — week 48
25–29 Nov · CIS subcontractors
Dave R
Groundworks
Mick
Bricklayer
Tom
Labourer
Steve
Carpenter
Net week total £4,452 · CIS deductions £2,581 · mark paid in one click
A job through TruTrade
Not a feature list — one job, start to finish, the way it actually runs.
Upload the plans
Job name, Google address, customer. PDFs, drawings, CAD, spreadsheets — whatever you’ve got.
Price it live
Set margin, contingency and overhead on the sliders. Or ask TruTrade’s estimators to price it for you.
Send the quote pack
A professional PDF with stages, VAT, labour and a payment schedule. Emailed to the client, you CC’d.
Client accepts
They accept in their own portal and request any changes formally — variations, not texts.
Convert to project
One click. The estimate becomes a live job with a budget, a P&L and a material ledger.
Order materials
Take the list off the estimate, get a merchant price, place the order. Spend tracks to the job.
Invoice the stages
Invoices come off the payment schedule. See who’s paid and who hasn’t at a glance.
Pay wages, see profit
PAYE and CIS sorted, timesheets approved. Margin on your home screen the whole way through.
That whole run — from plans to profit — happens in the one app.
Start a job like thisOne login. The whole app.
No tiers, no feature gates, no “contact sales”. If it’s in the app, it’s included.
Builder software
Every tool in the app. One login.
Everything included
- Dashboard with profit, cash & KPIs
- Estimating workspace & live pricing
- Professional quote packs
- Projects with a P&L per job
- Client portal for every project
- Sales invoices & payment schedules
- Materials lists, spend & print sheets
- TruChat
- Payroll, CIS, PAYE & HMRC reports
- Business settings, rates & overheads
The only thing not included: TruTrade estimators doing the takeoff for you — optional, and priced below.
Need us to price it?
Optional. Software subscribers can request these any time — guests can too. Every estimate includes a free, professional quote pack.
Single Works
Optional extra- Garden rooms
- Kitchens & bathrooms
- Knock-throughs
- Garage conversions
Extensions & Renovations
Optional extra- Extensions
- Internal & external renovation
- Loft conversions
Bespoke & New Builds
Optional extra- New builds
- Multi-aspect projects
- Specialist work
- Estimate add-ons are optional. Software subscribers can request them any time — guests can too.
- Partner finance, insurance and warranty are provided by third parties. TruTrade makes introductions, not advice.
- All prices are exclusive of VAT. Merchant material pricing and ordering is available on merchant-connected projects.
Builders who stopped working in the dark
Why TruTrade exists
“Builders were pricing jobs on guesswork, spreadsheets and time they didn’t have. That costs you margin, sleep and jobs. So we built the thing the trade was missing — price properly, stay in control, stop working in the dark.”
Tony Ellard
Founder, 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.”
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.”
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.”
Matthew Atkinson
Atkinson Building
Fair questions, straight answers
The two we get most: “what’s included?” and “what about CIS?” — both covered.
The full builder app: dashboard and KPIs, the estimating workspace with live pricing, quote packs, projects and job P&L, the client portal, sales invoices, materials, TruChat, payroll, CIS, PAYE, HMRC reports and business settings. One login.
No — and that’s deliberate. The software lets you price your own work live. If you’d rather TruTrade estimators produced the takeoff, that’s an optional extra: £90 Single Works, £180 Extensions & Renovations, £255 Bespoke & New Builds, all + VAT.
Self-employed trades and small building firms across the UK. If you currently quote in a notebook, WhatsApp and three spreadsheets, it’s for you.
Yes. Every project can give the client their own login — estimate acceptance, messages, payments, variations and drawings — at no extra cost.
Yes, in the Reports hub. Run PAYE and CIS payroll, approve timesheets, check CIS and PAYE wage ledgers, and see HMRC VAT liabilities, sales, purchases and reverse charge.
On merchant-connected projects you can request a merchant quote or order materials from the job. Every project gets the materials list, spend tracking and printable stage sheets for site.
No. It’s rolling. Cancel anytime.
Register, fill in your business settings — rates, overheads, people — and build your first estimate. The whole thing takes minutes, not a training course.
The whole app. Cancel anytime.
Run the next job on TruTrade.
Register, set your rates and overheads, and price your next job properly — tonight, not the night before it’s due.