Kepuro works alongside the sites you already use.
Builderscrack and Trade Me Services find you jobs. NoCowboys collects reviews. Kepuro does the one thing none of them do: it tells you who you're about to work for, and it lets good customers prove they pay. It's free, and the others keep doing what they do.
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Side by side
What each one is for, in plain terms. Check their own sites for current fees; they change.
Kepuro
For: checking a customer or builder before you quote, proving you're a good customer, getting paid, and a home logbook.
Who pays: nobody. Free for tradies and customers; local businesses pay to advertise.
Reviews: none. Only good news is recorded, and only about members.
Checks the customer first: yes, that's the point.
Finds you jobs: only when a member posts one; it's not a job board.
Builderscrack
For: homeowners posting jobs and tradies quoting on them.
Who pays: tradies, with fees tied to jobs won (see their site).
Reviews: yes, homeowners rate tradies after the job.
Checks the customer first: no.
Finds you jobs: yes, that's the point.
NoCowboys
For: customer reviews and ratings of tradies.
Who pays: tradies can pay for a listing; reviewing is free.
Reviews: yes, that's the product.
Checks the customer first: no.
Finds you jobs: indirectly, through your reviews.
Trade Me Services
For: homeowners posting jobs and tradies responding.
Who pays: tradies, to list or to respond (see their site).
Reviews: yes.
Checks the customer first: no.
Finds you jobs: yes, that's the point.
Use them together
The job comes from one place. Whether to take it, and whether you get paid, is Kepuro's job.
- A lead comes inFrom Builderscrack, Trade Me, a phone call or a mate. Nothing changes there.
- Two minutes on KepuroCheck the name and the address: registered-owner match, how they've paid other trades, any site notes. Company? Status, directors, history.
- Quote, do the job, get paidReminders and the pay page chase the invoice for you. The letter is ready if it goes quiet.
- Vouch for themOne tap, and the customer or builder gets a record that makes the next tradie's decision easy too.
Why no reviews?
Reviews cut both ways
A review site needs tradies to risk a one-star from a customer who wouldn't pay. Kepuro records payment and satisfaction as facts, only when they're good, and never lets anyone leave a mark on anyone else.
Facts beat opinions
‘Paid 7 invoices, 3 days on average, 6 tradies satisfied’ tells a tradie more than five stars from strangers. And a customer can't be ruined by one bad day.
Customers get something too
On a job board the customer is the product. On Kepuro they get a home logbook, faster quotes and member deals for being good to deal with.
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