Built for the trade who
does the job right.
TradeDraft comes out of years in the UK building trade: walking jobs, surveying them, pricing them, writing the quotes — and reading the ones that came in from the other side of the desk. From either seat you learn the same uncomfortable truth: whether a trade gets paid properly often has less to do with the work than with the piece of paper.
A quote off a free Word template, VAT wrong, no terms, reads as a risk no matter how good the trade is. It gets queried, knocked down, or passed over for someone who looked the part. And when a job goes sideways, the one with nothing in writing eats the cost.
That's the whole reason this exists.
It happens, over and over, to trades whose work nobody ever faulted.
- The builderFinishes a £40,000 extension. The client pushes back on the final invoice, and there's nothing in writing to stand on.
- The electricianPrices a rewire. Halfway through, the client asks for three more circuits. He does them for free, to avoid the argument.
- The plumberFinishes a £4,000 bathroom, and is still chasing the balance two months later. No deposit taken, no dates agreed.
The fix was never a mystery. Put the quotes that get taken seriously next to the ones that don't and the difference is always the same: priced completely, the tax right, terms agreed before anyone lifts a finger. What didn't exist was something that would just do it — on a phone, between jobs, without a setup weekend and without leaving the VAT to you.
That is the job TradeDraft was built for. A costed, professional quote you can put together on your phone: VAT, CIS and the Reverse Charge worked out for you, a live check on your margin, and a way for the client to accept and pay online. Plus a set of editable documents for the rest of the job.
What you're in it for
You price the job knowing what your week actually costs.
The customer signs the document you sent.
When the job grows, the new work has a price on it before it's done.
When the balance is due, the figure is the one everyone signed.
The job in your head and the job on paper are the same job.
That is all TradeDraft is for.
Behind TradeDraft
There's a real person behind every email — no ticket queue — so if you ever want to talk to a human, just get in touch.
There's no name at the top of this site, and that asks for a bit of trust. So here's the deal: don't take anyone on trust — check the work. Every price TradeDraft produces shows its full working — the VAT, the CIS, the margin, line by line — so you can see exactly how a number was reached before you pay a penny. A person you'd have to believe; the working you can inspect. See a real quote, worked out in full →