For trades & subcontractors

Will your customer actually pay you?

UK trades lose millions a year to customers and main contractors who don't pay. Before you do a job on credit, check who you're working for, free, in seconds.

Free verdict / no card / they are never told you looked

Your trade

The same check, in the language of your trade, and the ways your trade gets stung.

• Checking customers for electricians You've been asked to do a full rewire, a board change, or a commercial fit-out. Materials on your card, days of your time, all on the promise of getting paid at the end. But you don't really know the customer, and you've heard the stories: job done, invoice sent, then nothing but silence and a chased phone that goes to voicemail. Read it →
• Checking customers for builders You've been asked to price up an extension, a full renovation, maybe a new build. It's months of your time, your materials, your lads on the wages, all fronted before you see a penny of the final bill. And the customer or the main contractor above you is someone you barely know. Read it →
• Checking customers for plumbers & heating engineers You've quoted the boiler swap, the full bathroom, or the commercial pipework, and now you're about to order the parts and put in the hours before you see a penny. On a first-time customer or a main contractor you don't really know, that's your money and your time on credit. The question is simple. Are they good for it, or are you about to do a proper job for someone who was never going to pay you? Read it →
• Checking customers for roofers You've quoted the re-roof, ordered the felt and battens, and you're up on the scaffold Monday morning. But you don't really know this customer, or the main contractor who put you on the job. If they fold or refuse to pay the final invoice, you're the one carrying the loss on materials and a fortnight's labour. Read it →
• Checking customers for subcontractors You're a subcontractor. You turn up, you do the work, and half the time you're on site for a main contractor or a customer you've never dealt with before, all on credit and all on trust. The scary bit is you don't get paid until the job's done, and by then it's too late to find out they were never good for the money. Read it →