Websites for handymen and small home maintenance businesses that show your rates before anyone picks up the phone, let a customer send their whole list of odd jobs in one go, and make it clear which work you're licensed to take on.
Hardly anyone calls a handyman for one thing. There's usually a list stuck to the fridge: a door that sticks, a wobbly handrail, a flat-pack wardrobe still in its box, a few frames to hang. What they want from your site is a rough idea of the cost, an easy way to send that list, and some confidence that you'll turn up when you say you will.
Your hourly rate, the minimum charge or first-hour fee, whether travel is included, how you bill for materials and any after-hours rate. A customer who can work out roughly what three small jobs will cost doesn't have to ring you just to find out. If you'd rather quote every job, the page explains how you price instead.
Instead of one message box, the form lets someone add jobs one at a time, attach a photo to each, note which room or part of the yard it's in, and pick preferred days and morning or afternoon. Before you call back, you can tell whether it's a two-hour visit or a full day and what to put in the van.
A list of everyday jobs in the words people type into Google: patching plaster, rehanging doors, assembling furniture, repairing fences, putting up shelves and curtain rails, replacing broken palings. The same section says plainly that electrical, plumbing and gas work goes to a licensed tradesperson unless you hold that licence yourself, which saves you both a wasted visit.
If you hold a contractor licence, its number goes at the bottom of each page. NSW requires the licensee's name and licence number in all advertising for licensed work, and the QBCC asks Queensland licensees to show their licensed name, licence number and a statement that they're licensed under the QBCC Act, legibly and reasonably prominently. Your public liability cover sits alongside, with a note that you can send a certificate of currency.
A request form and a call-back suits a diary you plan around suburbs, so you're not driving across town between small jobs. Open booking suits fixed-length work, like a two-hour furniture assembly slot. We can build booking into the site, quoted per job, or link the online booking in the job management app you already use.
Homeowners, landlords, property managers and older people living at home each want something a little different. Property managers want to know you'll arrange access with the tenant and send an invoice with before-and-after photos; older customers want to know who will knock on the door. If you do home maintenance for NDIS participants, say whether you're a registered NDIS provider.
Handyman visits are short, so travel time eats into every job. Name the suburbs you cover, and if you'll go further for a booking of half a day or more, say so in a separate line.
None of our clients is a handyman business. The two closest share the features that matter most here: Phoenix Housekeeping publishes its prices and covers a named list of suburbs, and Western Sydney Stump Grinding runs on a single page with two quote forms and tap-to-call.
A family-run cleaning business around Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and the Central Coast, not a handyman. Its site publishes pricing, has service pages and suburb pages across its service area, and the quote form offers a discreet call-back.
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A family-owned tree service in Western Sydney. One page carries the services, a service-area list, customer reviews and two quote forms, with tap-to-call throughout: a layout that suits a sole handyman too.
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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Our suggestion for sole handymen
$399
Your rates, the jobs you take, a jobs-list form with photo uploads, the suburbs you cover, and your licence and insurance details, all on one page.
$899
A home page, a services and rates page grouped by room or type of job, and a page for landlords and property managers explaining how you report back.
$1,499
Home maintenance businesses with a few staff: pages for repairs, assembly, outdoor work, property managers, older clients and NDIS work, plus rates and service areas.
That depends on the state, the value of the job and the kind of work. In NSW, you need a contractor licence to carry out, advertise or contract for residential building or trade work worth more than $5,000 in labour and materials (GST included), and for specialist work such as electrical wiring, plumbing and gas fitting at any value. Queensland's QBCC lets a handyman work without a licence while the job is worth no more than $3,300, isn't electrical or plumbing work and doesn't need an occupational licence. In Victoria, registration with the Building and Plumbing Commission is needed for domestic building contracts worth more than $10,000, unless the job involves only one listed trade, such as painting. Check with your state regulator; we word the site around what you actually hold.
If it's fairly fixed, we'd suggest it, alongside the minimum charge, how materials and travel are billed, and what a typical half-day visit covers. People with a short list of small jobs often want a ballpark before they ring. When your rate changes, send us the new figure: text changes on existing pages are covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Yes, in either of two ways. We can build online booking into your site, quoted per job, or link the booking page of a scheduling app you already use. Because handyman jobs vary so much in length, a request form where the customer suggests days and you confirm the time is often the easier fit, and we can set it up either way.
That's your call, and we won't promise it brings in more work. What it does give you is a place in your own name, where past customers and the neighbours they mention you to can find your number, rates and licence details without going back through an app. If your reviews live on a marketplace profile, the site can link to it.
A sole handyman usually needs only the one-page site at $399: rates, jobs, suburbs and the jobs-list form fit comfortably. If you want separate pages for property managers or for different kinds of work, the 3-page site at $899 suits. Businesses with a few staff and several customer groups fit the 8-page site at $1,499.
Yes. Our team is on Hutt St in Adelaide, and we work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email; current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. Send us your rates, job list and a few photos of finished work, and we'll send back a link to your draft.
Send us your rates, the jobs you take on and the suburbs you cover. We'll come back with a quote, build the draft, and you pay once you've approved it.
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