Own website and back office for trade businesses

Every enquiry costs you

Fees per enquiry
Lead platforms charge for each enquiry, whether you get the job or not.
Seat fees
Job software charges per user, so every hire costs more.
Lock-in
Your customers and your job history live in their system.

What enquiries and seats cost you

Paid enquiries, per month

Price per enquiry (€)

Users of your job software

Price per user, per month (€)

About €4,680 a year, €23,400 over five years.

Example values: change them to yours. Hosting your own app costs $4 a month on Caffeine's Host plan; your written offer says what the build costs.

How switching works

Send your site
Your web address and what you pay now. That's all we need.
Get an offer
We look at it and send a written offer. The pilot is free: we move your data and put it live.
It's yours
It runs in your own account, under your name. You pay the hosting directly.

CraftDesk

Your own website and back office for gardeners, plumbers, electricians and handymen. Jobs arrive ready to quote, customers accept your quote online, and no lead platform charges you per enquiry. Our second pilot, still in progress: we're looking for the first businesses to set it up with, free.

Requests you can quote
You set the questions for each service, like hedge length, height and access. Often you can quote without a site visit.
Quote to invoice in one place
Your price book and quote templates, a schedule showing who does which job, and a record of every invoice and what's been paid.
Fewer calls
Customers follow their job with a tracking code: status, appointment, quote and messages. Your team signs in with their own access.

See the demo website

Questions

Who owns the app?

You do. It runs in your own account, under your name and web address.

What does it cost to run?

Caffeine's Host plan, currently $4 a month, which you pay directly to Caffeine from your own account. No commission, no seat fees. We can pay it for you and bill you, but then you'd be renting from us, so we suggest you don't.

What if you disappear?

The app keeps running. It doesn't depend on us or our servers, and it belongs to you.

Can I stop working with you?

Yes, at any time. The app is in your own account and keeps running without us. You can look after it yourself or have someone else do it, and your data is already in your account.