It saves you the evenings.
Then it makes you money.
Software for trades usually sells you a calendar and calls it transformation. Gaffer is built around the two things that actually change a trade business: the admin you stop doing, and the work you start winning without trying.
Before and after, job by job.
Six ways the system goes and gets work.
None of these need a marketing budget or a new hire. They need the data you already have — customers, certificates, quotes — and a system that acts on it.
Every certificate with an expiry date is next year’s job. Gaffer texts the customer a booking link before it lapses. A gas engineer with 300 landlord certificates on the books has 300 jobs a year that nobody has to sell.
The customer who fills in three forms at 9pm books whoever replies first. Gaffer replies first, every time, and puts the lead in front of you in the morning.
Same-day quotes with good-better-best options, a branded acceptance page and a deposit button convert better than a PDF three days later. Tiered options lift the average job value without a harder sell.
A review request after every completed job, a referral link every customer can share, and a public trade profile that shows the results. Repeat and referred work costs nothing to win.
Labour, materials and time costed against each job. Profit per job, per engineer and per customer. Price the next one on what the last one actually cost.
A live feed of public-sector opportunities matched to your trade and area, a tender writer that drafts the response from your bid library, and the accreditation guidance to qualify.
Put your own numbers in.
Put your own figures in and see what the system gives back — in hours and in turnover, kept separate, with every assumption written down underneath.
- Extra jobs won from same-day quotes
- £1,260 of work
- 3
- Renewals rebooked automatically
- from certificate and service reminders
- £1,637
- Working capital released, once
- a one-off effect as debtor days fall from 32 to 10 — cash in the bank sooner, not extra profit
- £24,006
Assumptions: Gaffer removes 60% of admin time; one extra job per engineer per month from faster quoting; 1 in 10 jobs carries a renewal and half rebook when reminded; debtor days fall to 10 with Pay Now links and automatic reminders. Turnover is not margin, and saved hours are not cash — they are kept apart above for that reason. Your numbers will differ: this is a model, not a promise.
Start your free 14-day trialWhat “everything included” actually means.
Most job-management tools charge per user, gate the useful features behind a higher tier, and treat compliance as a form builder you fill in yourself. Gaffer’s whole pitch is the opposite.
See pricing| Gaffer | What you usually find instead |
|---|---|
| One flat price, unlimited users, every trade pack | Tradify, Jobber and Commusoft charge per user — price up six engineers there and here. ServiceM8 charges by monthly job volume instead, which bites at a different point |
| 58 trades with real certificates built in (913) | Usually a form builder you populate yourself, or a separate certification app |
| Offline-first field app with strict-order sync | Offline support varies a lot — ask what happens in a basement, and test it in the trial |
| Renewal, review and follow-up automation included | Often a paid add-on, or a separate marketing tool on top |
| EnterpriseTender finding, writing and accreditation guidance | Rare at any price — most job systems stop at the quote |
| VoIP line and AI receptionist | A separate phone system and a separate number |
| Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Stripe, GoCardless, calendars | Usually some of these, rarely all, sometimes on a higher tier |
Our own summary of the market, not an independent one, and it will go out of date. Every rival’s pricing page is public — check ours against theirs before you believe either of us.
We won’t show you invented testimonials.
Gaffer is new. The first 100 businesses get 50% off for as long as they stay subscribed because they are helping build the track record, not because a marketing department needed a headline. What we can show you is the product — every screen on this site is a real screenshot of the live system with demo data — and a 14-day trial that costs nothing to run on a real job.
Run the next job on Gaffer.
Full platform, 14 days free, no card needed. Set up in an afternoon, import your customers in a few clicks, and send your first quote today.
Founding members: first 100 businesses get 50% off every paid plan, for as long as they stay subscribed.