The Full Flow

How to Quote, Invoice and Get Paid with TradeCrew

From sign-up to getting paid, here is the whole flow, plus what is not built yet.

01

Sign Up & Set Your Rates

A few minutes

Create an account and answer a few questions. No lengthy forms, no calls with a sales rep.

  • Sign up with your email, Google, or Apple
  • Pick your trade: plumbing, electrical, HVAC, landscaping, roofing, general, or other
  • Set your hourly labor rate
  • Choose your materials markup: 0%, 10%, 15%, 20%, or enter your own
  • Add your business name if you use one
  • Connect Stripe from Settings when you are ready to accept card payments
02

Create & Send Quotes

Professional quotes in minutes

Build itemized quotes that show customers exactly what they are paying for, before any work begins.

  • Add line items for labor, materials, and other costs with quantities and prices
  • Or type or paste a few lines about the job and AI drafts the line items. You review and edit them before saving
  • Send the quote by email with one tap
  • Your customer opens a link to review the full breakdown, then accepts or declines
  • Track the status: Draft, Sent, Accepted, or Declined
The TradeCrew quote builder with a customer, a job type, and two line items, materials and labor, totalling $3,730.00.
The quote builder, shown with demo data.
03

Invoice & Get Paid

1.2% platform fee, nothing hidden

Once a customer accepts your quote, turning it into an invoice is a single tap.

  • One tap converts the accepted quote into an invoice. Nothing to re-enter
  • Your customer gets a secure payment link by email, and you can copy the link to send it yourself
  • They see the itemized breakdown before they pay
  • Customers pay by card through Stripe
  • Send a reminder email from the invoice if it is still unpaid
  • You receive the invoice total minus the 1.2% platform fee: $988 on a $1,000 invoice
A TradeCrew invoice showing the $352.50 invoice amount, the 1.2% platform fee, and the $348.27 net payout.
An invoice with the fee and your net payout, shown with demo data.
04

Collect Customer Ratings

Early access

TradeCrew rates a job on six dimensions instead of one star score. Ratings are in early access, so parts of this are still being built.

  • Customers rate 6 dimensions: Quality, Honesty, Reliability, Communication, Cleanliness, and Fairness of Price
  • A weighted composite score is calculated for you. Quality and honesty count most
  • "Would hire again?" is tracked separately as a yes or no
  • You can reply to every review
  • TradeCrew does not send rating requests automatically yet

What TradeCrew does not do yet

We would rather you hear it here than find out on a job. This is what is not built.

  • Working offline

    TradeCrew needs a connection. Quotes and customers created without one are not synced yet.

  • Deposits and payment terms

    An invoice is the full accepted quote. There are no deposit, due-date, or payment-terms fields yet.

  • Text messages and push alerts

    TradeCrew does not text your customers, and it does not alert you when a customer accepts a quote.

  • Automatic ratings and public profiles

    Rating requests are not sent automatically yet, and there are no public contractor profiles or score lookups.

Ready to see it in action?

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