Pricing
Ten dollars a month. That's the price.
One plan with everything switched on, fourteen days free before it starts, and no card to begin. There is no cheaper tier missing the booking calendar and no dearer one that unlocks it.
One plan. That’s the whole menu.
Flat. Every month, from the first one.
Canadian dollars, per site. Cancel any month, from your dashboard.
Fourteen days free before any of that, so you can build the site, publish it and show it to your mother without a card on file.
Start with your tradeNo card to start · $10 a month after the trial · Cancel any month
Everything is included. There is nothing to upgrade to.
Month one buys the same site as month twenty. Every design, the booking calendar, the photo quotes and the job book are all in the ten dollars.
- Your website, live at an address that works
- All ten designs — switch any time
- Your colours, heading font and corners
- Online booking on your real hours
- AI photo quotes from your customers
- Before-and-after photo galleries
- Reviews you collect and approve
- Licence, insurance and credentials block
- Service areas, hours and emergency line
- Contact form and tap-to-call bar
- One inbox for every lead
- A job book for every booking
- Quoted, collected and still-owing totals
- Cash, card or e-Transfer, written down
- Private notes on any job
- Search setup written for your trade
- Visits, taps to call and jobs, counted
- Unlimited edits and re-publishing
- Email us at hello@tradeforge.app
What you get for it
A website, an inbox, and a book for your jobs.
Everything below is in the product today. Anything we haven't built yet is further down the page, marked as such.
The website customers see
Built from answers about your work, live at an address that works, and yours to change from the van.
- Online booking on your real hours, with the notice you need and the weeks you're away blocked off
- Photo quotes: a homeowner sends up to four photos and gets a first look back, never a price
- A gallery with before-and-after sliders, and reviews you approve before anyone reads them
- Licence number, insurance, service areas, hours and a tap-to-call bar on every phone
- Ten designs, your colours and your heading font — switch as often as you like
Every lead in one place
Contact forms and photo quotes stop being texts you meant to answer.
- One inbox, newest first, with the number ready to tap and the photos they sent
- What the AI made of the photos, on the card, so you know whether it's a Tuesday or a today
- Move a lead from new to contacted, quoted, won or lost, and filter on any of them
- Job types written for your trade, so they tell you what the job is before you ring back
The job book
A booking is a job. It carries the work, the hours and the money — and nothing else has to be kept anywhere.
- The address, the job type, what they said was wrong, the crew and the hours you logged
- Your hourly rate worked out into a labour figure you can drop straight into the total
- What you quoted and what it came to, side by side
- Mark the invoice draft, sent, paid or overdue — then say how you were paid: cash, card, e-Transfer or cheque
- A private note on any job. The gate code, the dog, what you replaced last winter
- Your week added up: jobs, booked hours, quoted, collected, and what is still owed you
The web address
Where your site lives, and where a name of your own stands.
This is the part people ask about last and worry about most, so here it is in the state it is in today rather than the state we would like it in.
You get an address the minute you publish, and it costs nothing.
Press publish and your site is live at tradeforge.ca/s/your-business, with your business name in it. Nothing to buy, nothing to set up, nothing to renew — it is part of the ten dollars, it works on a phone, and you can hand it to a customer this afternoon.
It keeps working later too. If you do put a name of your own in front of it one day, this address still opens the same site, so nothing you have already written on a card stops working.
A .ca or .com of your own is written, and you can't get one yet.
Both halves are finished code — pointing a name you already own at your site, and buying one from your dashboard. Neither is switched on. What is missing is an account and its credentials at our end, not the work, and until that is sorted the buttons in your dashboard say the same thing this page does.
So today: you cannot buy a domain from us, and you cannot connect one you already own. We would rather you read that here than find it out on a Thursday with the name already in your hand.
When it is switched on, here is how it will work: a name you buy goes on your own card at the registry's price with nothing added by us, and it points at your site by itself; a name you already own needs one record added wherever you bought it, and then we serve your site on it.
No date, and no price from us until then. The registry sets what a name costs and anything we printed here today would be a guess.
The one thing to be clear about
We don’t take your customers’ money.
TradeForge is not a card terminal and never touches a job payment. You get paid the way you always have — cash at the door, a tap on your own machine, an e-Transfer that evening — and the job book is where you write down that it happened. We keep the record. You keep the money, all of it, and nothing is taken off the top.
The ten dollars is the only payment we process, and it goes from your card to Stripe.
Making it look like yours costs nothing.
All ten designs, your two colours, your heading font, square or rounded corners, how much room your logo gets. Change any of it as often as you like — there is no design upgrade, no premium template and no charge for switching. It is part of the ten dollars now and it stays part of the ten dollars.
An assistant you can ask about your work.
We’re building an assistant you can talk to about your customers and your calendar, and in time about changing the look of your site as well. It is not in the product yet, so we are not going to tell you what it costs or when it lands. When it works, you’ll be able to try it and decide.
Nothing on this page depends on it, and the ten dollars does not go up because we are working on it.
The money, in order
Exactly what leaves your card, and when.
Three lines. If any of them surprise you in month two, we have written them badly.
- 1
The day you sign up
Nothing. The trial runs fourteen days and we don't ask for a card to start it, so there is nothing to charge.
- 2
The day you subscribe
$10, and your site stays public. If your trial still has more than two days left, the $10 waits until the trial ends rather than going through that afternoon.
- 3
Every month after
$10 on the same date, until you cancel. The same ten dollars in month twenty as in month one, and your dashboard shows the next date in plain words before it happens.
Being straight with you
What ten dollars does not buy.
A short list, so nobody finds out the hard way in week three.
- The ten dollars doesn't include a domain name, and today it can't buy you one either. Your tradeforge.ca/s/your-business address is part of the plan; a .ca or .com of your own will be a separate yearly cost, and buying or connecting one isn't switched on yet.
- We don't take payments from your customers. You get paid the way you always have — the job book is where you write down that it happened.
- We don't write your reviews, and we won't invent them. You collect them from real customers.
- We don't send invoices for you. You mark a job draft, sent, paid or overdue so you know where it stands; the invoice itself is still yours to send.
- We don't do your bookkeeping, your taxes or your WSIB paperwork.
The billing bit
What happens to your money and your site.
The things worth knowing before you put a card in, answered the way they actually work.
Ten dollars. Is that the whole thing?
Ten Canadian dollars a month for the site and everything on this page, on the same date each month. No setup fee, no annual contract, no cheaper tier with the booking calendar missing and no dearer one that unlocks it. Month two is ten dollars, the same ten dollars as month twenty.
The trial ends. Then what, exactly?
Fourteen days from the day you sign up, counted in your dashboard so there is no guessing. When it runs out you either subscribe at ten dollars a month or you don't, and your site stops being shown to the public. There is no automatic charge at the end of the trial, because we never took a card in the first place.
Can I cancel, and what happens the day I do?
You cancel from your dashboard, which opens Stripe's billing page. It takes about four clicks and no phone call. Your site stays up for the rest of the month you have already paid for, then comes down, and you are not charged again.
If I stop paying, do I lose my site and my photos?
Offline is not deleted. Your pages, photos, reviews, bookings and leads stay in your account exactly as you left them — subscribe again and the site is back up as it was, which matters if your trade is seasonal. If you never come back we hold the content for thirty days and then clear it out, same as the privacy page says.
My card fails on a Tuesday. Is my site down on Tuesday?
No. A card expires, a bank blocks something, it happens. Your site stays up for two weeks while the payment is retried, your dashboard shows you the exact date it would come down, and updating your card any time before then clears the whole thing.
Do I keep my own domain?
If you own one, it stays yours — it was never ours to keep. What you cannot do yet is point it at us: connecting a name, and buying one from your dashboard, are both built and both switched off, so right now your site lives at tradeforge.ca/s/your-business and that address is part of the ten dollars. When names do get switched on, the name is still yours and the site is the part you rent from us.
Questions
Everything else people ask about the price.
Do I need a credit card to start the trial?
No. You start building straight away and we ask for payment details when the trial is up. Nothing charges itself in the meantime, because there is nothing on file to charge.
Is there a cheaper plan, or a bigger one?
Neither. There is one plan at ten dollars a month with everything switched on. One price is easier to explain on a Thursday and harder to feel cheated by in November.
Can I run two businesses on one account?
Yes. Each site is its own ten dollars a month — one site, one subscription, one web address — and the bookings, leads and reviews never mix between them. Start the second one the same way you started the first, and a switcher appears in the dashboard to move between the two.
I already have a website. Is this worth switching?
If yours takes bookings and you can change it yourself in two minutes, no. If it's four years old, you can't edit it, and the phone number on it is wrong, then yes — build this one during the trial, look at both, and keep the one you'd rather send a customer to.
Does changing the look cost anything?
No, and it never will. All ten designs, your colours, your heading font and your corners are part of the ten dollars — switch as often as you like and your words, photos, reviews and bookings come with you.
Fourteen days free. Then ten dollars a month.
Build the whole thing, publish it, look at it on your phone in the van. The card comes out when you're ready and not before.