No commission vs. lead fees: what trades actually pay, compared
Most trade marketplaces charge per lead or take a commission on every job — so the more work you win, the more you pay, forever. HomeSorted charges one flat monthly subscription instead: the same fee whether you win zero jobs this month or fifty, with zero commission on any job, ever.
Two models dominate trade marketplaces today. A commission model takes a percentage of every job you win — so your biggest jobs cost you the most, and the fee never stops. A per-lead-fee model charges you for every lead you're offered, whether you win the job or not — so a slow month of leads that don't convert still costs money.
HomeSorted's model is different: a flat monthly subscription, and nothing else. Zero commission on any job, forever — you keep every cent the homeowner pays you. No per-lead charge either, whether you win the lead or not.
Quoting itself is built to take minutes, not evenings: tell Casey the price by voice note — "quote Mary 650 for the hall repaint" — and it becomes a proper quote, ready to send, with no typing and no laptop required.
The real tier prices, read live from the same pricing data every other page on this site uses, never retyped by hand.
The real tier prices
- Flex€24.99/month
- Growth€44.99/month
- Pro€69.99/month
Prices shown are exclusive of VAT.
No contract. No cancellation fee.
Worked example: 3 jobs this month at €200 each = €600 earned, on Flex.
HomeSorted: the flat €24.99/month Flex subscription — the same whether you win zero jobs this month or fifty. Prices shown are exclusive of VAT.
Commission model: jobs you win this month × your average job value × the commission rate you set above.
Lead-fee model: jobs you win this month × the per-lead fee you set above, assuming one paid lead per job won. A real lead-fee marketplace that also charges for leads you don't win would cost more than this estimate, not less — this calculator is deliberately on the conservative side.
Questions worth asking any trade marketplace
- Is the fee flat, or does it scale with how much work I win?
- Do I pay for leads I don't win?
- Is there a cancellation fee, or a minimum contract length?
- Can I quote and invoice without opening a laptop?
- Is the price shown ex-VAT or inc-VAT?
Sources
- src/data/pricing.ts — TRADE_TIERS, WORKED_EXAMPLE, VAT_NOTE, CANCELLATION_NOTE (fenced; read, never edited)
- src/data/tradeCalculator.ts — METHODOLOGY_HOMESORTED_LINE, METHODOLOGY_COMMISSION_FORMULA, METHODOLOGY_LEAD_FEE_FORMULA
- src/data/tradeInsight.ts — CASEY_QUICK_ACTIONS (the voice-quote example, verbatim, checked against casey-companion-app core/paperLogic.ts)
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