Job management for UK trades — on your computer

Quotes, jobs & invoices sorted. £37 once. Not £408 a year.

TradesBoss lives on your computer — no subscription, no account, no internet needed. Do your admin at the kitchen table in 20 minutes, not your whole Sunday.

30-day money-back guarantee. Instant download.

The TradesBoss dashboard — money owed, jobs this week, and who to chase
One payment — £37
30-day money-back
Works fully offline
No account, no cloud
The maths

Good tools shouldn’t cost £400 a year, forever.

Subscription job-management apps are built for firms with office staff. If it’s just you and the van, you’re paying every month for features you never open. TradesBoss costs about one month of what they charge per year — and it’s yours for good.

Tradify — cheapest plan£34 per month, per user£408 / year
…and the year afterand every year you’re trading£408 again
TradesBossone payment, free updates£37 — ever
How it works

One job. One flow. Nothing typed twice.

Every job moves through the same six stages. TradesBoss always shows you the next step — one big orange button.

QuoteScheduledIn progressDoneInvoicedPaid
1

Price the job

Add your lines — labour, materials, callout. Hit print and a clean, professional PDF quote is ready to send.

2

They say yes — it’s booked

Pick a date and it’s on your calendar. Copy a ready-made “on my way” text with their name already in it.

3

Job done — invoice in one tap

Your quote becomes the invoice automatically. Bank details and a late-payment clause included, so you get paid faster.

4

Nobody slips through

Overdue invoice? Quiet quote? Finished job you forgot to bill? The dashboard flags it and writes the chase-up message for you.

A job in TradesBoss moving through Quote, Scheduled, In progress, Done, Invoiced, Paid
What you get

Everything a one-man band actually uses.

Jobs pipeline

Every job from first quote to money in the bank, searchable forever.

Pro quotes & invoices

Print-ready A4 PDFs with your logo, VAT and bank details.

Ready-to-send messages

Follow-ups, payment reminders, review requests — pre-written with your customer’s name.

Calendar

See your week at a glance. Booked jobs land on it automatically.

Money tracker

What you’re owed, what’s overdue, what you banked, real profit after expenses.

Private & offline

Everything saves on your computer. No cloud, no account, no signal needed. Your business stays yours.

The TradesBoss jobs list — every job, its status and its next step

The jobs list: what’s on, what’s owed, and the next step for every job — one click each.

Straight comparison

TradesBoss vs the subscription apps

We’re not pretending to match apps with 100 staff. Here’s the honest picture.

TradesBoss
Tradify
Price
£37 once
£408+/yr
Works offline
No account needed
Your data on your machine
Quotes → invoices
Phone app
Team scheduling
Straight talk: if you’ve got employees, or you need to quote from the van on your phone, get Tradify — it’s good. TradesBoss is for the solo tradesman who does his admin on the laptop in the evening and is done paying rent on his own paperwork.
TradesBoss
£37 one-time
Yours forever. Free updates.
  • The full app — jobs, quotes, invoices, calendar, money
  • Works offline, on your computer — nothing uploaded
  • Print-ready A4 quotes and invoices with your details
  • Ready-made customer messages — chase-ups, reminders, reviews
  • One-tap backup to a file you keep
  • Free updates — no “pro tier” emails, ever
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30-day money-back guarantee

Try it on your real jobs. Not for you? Email within 30 days and you get every penny back.

Questions

Fair enough. Asked and answered.

Is it really a one-time payment?
Yes. £37, once. No monthly fee, no renewal, no “premium tier” emails. Updates are free too.
Does it work on my phone?
No — and that’s on purpose. TradesBoss is a laptop/PC tool for doing your admin properly at the end of the day. If you need to quote from your phone on-site, a subscription app like Tradify fits you better.
What do I actually get?
A single file that opens in your browser like an app. No install, no setup, nothing to configure. Open it, put your business name in, quote your first job in about a minute.
Where does my data live?
On your computer, full stop. Nothing is uploaded anywhere. One tap exports a backup file you can keep on a USB stick — same file moves everything to a new computer.
Do I need internet?
Only to download it once. After that it works completely offline — basement, new-build site, middle of nowhere.
I’m not good with computers…
If you can use WhatsApp, you can use this. There’s one orange button on every job telling you the next step, and a built-in example mode so you can poke around before touching your real numbers.
£37once, yours forever
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