We got sick of watching good tradies do paperwork at 9pm
TradieO wasn’t built in a boardroom. It was built watching real trade businesses lose their nights and weekends to admin that should have taken care of itself.
The problem was never the work.
Spend any time around trade businesses and you notice the same thing. The tradies are brilliant at the actual job — the plumbing, the wiring, the install. Then they get home, and the second job starts. Writing up quotes. Sending invoices they meant to send last week. Filling out compliance certificates by hand. Chasing customers who owe them money. Wrestling with software that charges more every time they hire someone.
None of that is the trade. It’s the tax you pay for running a trade business — and it was eating people alive.
We looked at what was on the market and it made the problem worse, not better. Every tool wanted a monthly fee per person. None of them included a website. None of them touched the compliance paperwork — the single biggest time-sink of the lot. And all of them kept your business data on their servers, where you couldn’t see it and couldn’t take it with you. So we built the thing we wished existed.
One system that does the after-hours part for you.
TradieO runs the whole business side of a trade: quoting, invoicing, job scheduling, staff time tracking, customer reminders, bulk email, and a professional website that actually ranks on Google. Then it goes further than anything else on the market — it generates your compliance certificates and lodges them to the authorities automatically, and it chases your unpaid invoices without you lifting a finger.
The point of all of it is simple: the work day should end when you leave the job. The system handles the rest overnight.
You own it. Not us.
Your server, your data
Your system runs on your own server. Nobody at TradieO is browsing through your customers, your prices, or your jobs. How that works →
One flat price
You pay one flat price no matter how many staff you put on, and if you ever want to walk away, you take the entire system and every record with you.
We’re not trying to trap you in a monthly bill for the rest of your working life. We’re trying to give you a tool you own, that pays for itself in the hours it hands back to you.
Built here, proven here.
We started in Tasmania on purpose — close to the trade businesses we built this for, where we could sit across the table from real sparkies and plumbers and gas fitters and get it right. As TradieO grows onto the mainland, that stays the standard: built for working tradies, tested by working tradies, sold by people who actually understand the job.