Tradehand

The appeal is easy to understand after a long day on the tools. Tradehand aims to keep the admin that follows an enquiry in one place, all the way through scheduling, paperwork, and payment. That could replace several smaller tools. The 5% fee on collected invoice payments deserves a careful comparison with a business's payment volume, though, and owners should understand how the service handles connected customer and accounting data.

Tradehand says it can answer incoming enquiries across phone, SMS, email, WhatsApp, and web chat. It can prepare quotes from a business's rates, schedule traders, send job details, and keep customers informed.

The same system stores job certificates, collects payments, and follows up on invoices. The advertised plan has no monthly fee or contract and charges 5% of the invoice payments it collects.

Sole traders and small trade businesses in the UK that lose evenings to missed enquiries, scheduling, paperwork, and payment follow-up.

The fit depends on whether one connected workflow is worth the collection fee and the data access it requires.

Tradehand tries to give small trade businesses one place for the work around the job, not the job itself. The scope is broad, so the fee and connected-data terms matter as much as the convenience.