MyBuilder (For tradespeople‪)‬ 4+

My builder provides continuous number of leads, easy to use, you can drill into what you do and how you specialise and potential customers can see that. You can gain reputation and feedback from customers, which then fuel’s recommendations. The charges are fair on the whole. Not wishing to bad mouth the competition but checkertrade is obscenely expensive by comparison. Only paying for the leads you get shortlisted for which is why I stay with mybuilder. Over all it is a very easy to use app based interstates job finder. Top marks on conceptualisation, usability and price.

I’ve been trying to gain work using my builder, but unfortunately have had people shortlist me and before I have a chance to quote for the work they have given it to someone else, this means that I then have to pay a shortlist fee and that can be from £3-£30, the market is saturated with the same trades and you will find 9-10 people with reviews showing interest for the same work. So far it’s cost me £25 to show interest in two jobs, the first one wouldn’t answer their phone after shortlisting me and cost me £14 and then £11 this morning without a chance to quote for the work and given to the person who just threw a quote in without looking at the work first.

There is no way to remove your account or information on the app which is worrying.

if you are going to use this app, I would recommend cheating and getting friends to sign up and pretend they have got you to do work for them and give you a positive review otherwise you will not win any work and these people will shortlist you forcing you to pay a fee without a chance at securing the work.

Really good app to use to get work when short or wanting to plan ahead, however with it being feedback based can be hard to get “shortlisted”as a new member as you don’t have any feedback so the customer will obviously choose the tradesmen with the most positive feedback, I feel like a feature needs to be added where the customer needs to state on the advert when they would like the job done as I’ve spent a lot of money on leads for the customer to turn round and say they want me to start “tomorrow” having this kind of feature would allow you to not shortlist yourself for a job that you can’t start when they want an save you some money, besides the points stated it’s definitely an app worth trying if your short on work or starting out by yourself.