TradeOps is the operating system for trade businesses: AI estimates, e-sign proposals, invoicing, and a client portal in one flow. Quote in the morning, keep follow-up moving in the afternoon, and keep QuickBooks as the books when you scale.
BUILT FOR THE TRADES THAT KEEP THINGS RUNNING
Quotes in one app, invoices in another, payments chased by text, and everything keyed into QuickBooks a second time by hand. Growing trade businesses lose hours a week to the gap between field and books.
Every estimate and invoice gets re-typed into QuickBooks. It's slow, and one typo throws off your books at tax time.
Proposals sit unsigned. Invoices sit unpaid. You're the follow-up department, one text message at a time.
Enterprise platforms cost a fortune and need a full-time admin. Spreadsheets break the moment you add a second crew.
TradeOps connects the whole job in a single system, then keeps the money-side workflow ready for QuickBooks once production sync is verified.
Describe the job; TradeOps drafts a line-itemed, tiered estimate with your rates and taxes. Edit and send in minutes.
Turn estimates into branded proposals clients can approve and e-sign from their phone. No printing, no chasing.
Bill from the approved scope, keep payment status visible, and use the gated Stripe path after live keys, webhooks, and price IDs are verified. Retainage and GST/HST built in.
Customers log in to view estimates, approve work, see invoices, and pay, with the homeowner experience that wins the bid.
Every client, job, contract and receipt in one place, with change orders and audit history you can actually find.
Auto-nudge unsigned proposals and overdue invoices, trigger reminders, and let the system do the chasing for you.
TradeOps isn't a rip-and-replace. Your books stay in QuickBooks Online as your system of record. We run the field-to-finance workflow on top and keep the QuickBooks path explicit. Production sync remains gated until OAuth registration, runtime credentials, and a disposable-tenant sync are verified.
TradeOps is public and live, but we do not sell confidence with vague badges. The current launch gate is explicit: public runtime is healthy, pricing is aligned, and paid activation waits for Stripe and QuickBooks production proof.
The marketing site, app shell, API health, readiness checks, pricing API, crawler files, and deploy markers are verified from the public production surface.
Payment-return pages use neutral confirmation copy, invoice checkout is tenant-scoped, and Stripe webhooks fail closed until the live webhook secret is configured.
The QuickBooks callback route and integration code path exist. Production OAuth registration and the first disposable-tenant sync remain required before paid GTM activation.
Privacy and terms are published, support and privacy addresses are listed, and the launch runbook defines triage, rollback, and incident thresholds.
No public customer logos or testimonials are claimed until approved proof exists. Early buyers get a guided one-job proof run instead.
Final GO requires Stripe live keys, webhook and price IDs, QBO app registration, disposable-tenant money-path QA, and visible analytics proof.
No implementation team, no six-figure rollout. Start a trial, review the QuickBooks path, and send your first estimate the same day.
Create your account, add your rates and tax settings, and invite your crew. Import clients or start fresh.
Build an AI-assisted estimate, send a branded proposal, and let clients approve and e-sign from the portal.
Bill the approved work, keep payment status visible, and move to verified QuickBooks sync only after production activation proof is complete.
Most trade businesses are stuck choosing between scheduling-only apps that don't handle the money, and enterprise platforms built for $10M+ general contractors. TradeOps is the operations layer in between, and it's QuickBooks-aware.
| Capability | TradeOps | Light field-service apps | Enterprise platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimates → invoicing in one flow | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Client portal & e-signatures | Yes | Rare | Yes |
| AI-assisted estimating | Yes | No | Add-on |
| QuickBooks-ready workflow | Yes* | Limited | Varies |
| Starts at | $0 free | $39/mo | $499+/mo |
| Needs a full-time admin | No | No | Often |
* QuickBooks production sync is launch-gated until OAuth registration, runtime credentials, and disposable-tenant sync proof pass. Lower tiers run the full estimate-to-invoice workflow inside TradeOps.
Free forever for estimates & invoicing. Upgrade to Grow or Scale when your team needs more. Save two months with annual billing.
Free plan is permanent: no credit card, no expiry. Paid plans include a 30-day trial. Prices in CAD; save two months with annual billing.
No. TradeOps is QuickBooks-aware. Keep QuickBooks Online as your books and system of record. TradeOps runs the operations layer on top (estimates, proposals, invoicing, contracts, client portal), and the production QuickBooks sync path remains gated until OAuth registration, runtime credentials, and disposable-tenant sync proof pass.
Growing trade and construction businesses — electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, landscaping, renovation and general contracting — that have outgrown spreadsheets but find Procore and Buildertrend too heavy and too expensive.
Yes. The Free plan is permanent: unlimited estimates and invoices, 1 user, no credit card, no expiry. Paid plans (Grow and Scale) start with a 30-day free trial. You can upgrade, downgrade or cancel anytime.
Same day. There's no implementation team or long rollout: create your account, set your rates and tax, review the QuickBooks path, and send your first estimate within minutes.
Clients get a simple, branded portal link to view estimates, approve and e-sign proposals, see invoices and pay online, with no complicated setup on their end.
Start your free 30-day trial today. Send your first estimate this afternoon, and keep QuickBooks as the books when production sync is verified.