A clear path from first search to completed project.

Search directly for a trade or service, or describe the problem in ordinary language. BuildPair can help narrow the likely trade and organise the information into a clearer starting brief.

Browse profiles using trade categories, services, location, service radius, experience, work examples, reviews and other available information. You can request a quote from a specific profile or post the job to the wider marketplace.

Quotes do not have to be produced from photographs alone. Homeowners and tradespeople can discuss the job in person. Where a proper price needs inspection, the tradesperson can propose a site visit through BuildPair. The homeowner confirms it and privately shares the address. A confirmed visit is marked complete before the post-visit structured quote is sent.

Marketplace jobs can receive structured quotes from suitable tradespeople. You can keep quote requests manageable, and the homeowner can pause new quotes as soon as they have enough to compare. Existing quotes remain available for discussion, revision, acceptance or decline. The homeowner can reopen quote intake while the job is still unawarded and there is room for more active quotes.

The homeowner can decline individual quotes or accept the one they want. Once a quote is accepted, the job is awarded to that tradesperson, other active quotes move out of the live comparison and those tradespeople are notified that another quote was chosen. Non-winning quotes are retained in the project record rather than being physically deleted.

Before accepting a quote, the homeowner can propose a different service-stage split or completion point without silently changing the tradesperson’s quoted total or materials amount. If the homeowner changes the staged schedule, the tradesperson must accept the revision before the quote can be awarded.

Homeowners and tradespeople arrange payments privately after agreeing their quote and terms. BuildPair can record each party’s own payment confirmations, but cannot verify, protect, transfer or recover money paid directly. BuildPay protected payments are coming soon.

The job remains visible on both dashboards with the agreed quote, messages, payment stages, variations, timeline and next actions. If scope, price or timing changes, a variation should record and agree that change before the additional work proceeds.

When the agreed work and outstanding variations are resolved, the project can be completed. The accepted quote, messages, timeline, payment record and review context remain attached to the job where applicable.