Contractor Marketplace — Find Local Trade Jobs

Once a client submits a job, My Trade Hub matches it to contractors registered in that trade and service area, weighing factors like your location relative to the job, your history of responding to leads, your review score and your completion rate — so the leads that reach you are genuinely relevant to what you do and where you work.

A job is typically matched to a small number of suitable contractors rather than broadcast to every registered tradie, which keeps the leads you receive worth your time to review rather than another crowded, open list to sift through.

Your registered trades sit on your contractor profile, alongside your service areas — if your primary trade changes, you can request an update, which is reviewed before it takes effect, keeping the matching accurate for everyone in the marketplace.

Each job in your marketplace dashboard gives you enough to decide whether it is worth quoting, without exposing anything that is not yours to see:

• The client’s trade category, location and property details.
• A description of the job and what the client is looking to have done.
• The client’s stated budget range and timing — their own indication, not a company’s internal costing.
• How the job was matched to you, and how many other contractors it was also matched to.

Once you decide a job is worth pursuing, you submit your quote directly on the platform as one of three types — a fixed price, a price range, or “need to inspect” where the job needs a site visit before you can commit to a figure.

Alongside the price, you add your availability, an estimated duration, and a clear message covering what is included and excluded — the same information you would give a client directly, just structured for the marketplace so it is easy for them to compare.

From there, it is the client’s decision — you follow up the way you would with any other enquiry, and the job proceeds outside the marketplace once you have come to an agreement.

Joining the marketplace and browsing leads does not require a paid subscription. Instead, contractors fund a wallet, and a fee is charged per lead you are matched to — priced dynamically based on factors like the job’s size and how urgent the client’s timing is.

That means you are not paying a flat fee just to be listed — you are paying for the leads that are actually put in front of you, and you can review a job’s details before deciding whether to pursue it.

The marketplace suits contractors and tradies who want a steady, matched source of new client enquiries without running their own advertising — from sole traders picking up residential jobs to small companies filling gaps in their pipeline between larger tendered work.

It works alongside the rest of your work, not instead of it — most contractors treat marketplace leads as one channel among referrals, repeat clients and their own tendering, rather than their only source of new jobs.

It is worth being clear about what the marketplace is not. It is a matched-lead feed for client jobs — typically smaller, direct-to-homeowner work — rather than the tender marketplace where companies browse and bid on larger, formally tendered projects.

• Marketplace jobs vs tenders — marketplace leads are matched to you individually based on trade and location; tenders are formal, priced submissions competing against other bidders on a defined scope.
• What you see vs what a company sees — as a contractor you see the client’s own job details and budget; you never see another contractor’s bid, or a company’s internal rates and margins on any job you work for them.
• Payment model — marketplace leads are paid for individually from your wallet as you are matched to them; tender and estimating tools sit on My Trade Hub’s regular subscription plans.

A few things are worth checking before you commit time to a marketplace lead:

• Confirm the client’s budget range is realistic for the scope described before you invest time preparing a detailed quote.
• Use “need to inspect” honestly where a fixed price genuinely is not responsible without seeing the site.
• Keep your registered trades and service areas current, so the leads you are matched to are ones you actually want.
• Respond promptly — response history is one of the factors that affects which leads you are matched to over time.