Short version: tradies were losing a full working day every week to paperwork before they'd even sent an invoice for the work they actually do. We thought that was fixable.
Every good business decision starts with a number that bothers you. Here's the one that started this business:
Figures drawn from Xero's Small Business Insights research and Australian Bureau of Statistics data on hours worked by small business operators.
Add it up over a year and it's somewhere between 350 and 600 hours — the better part of two months, spent on invoicing, chasing payments, quoting, and the kind of admin that has nothing to do with the trade itself. None of it requires a trade skill. All of it has to happen anyway.
That admin burden is bad enough once a business is running. It's worse in the first few weeks, before a single invoice has gone out — because that's when a tradie has to become a registration clerk, a web designer, a bookkeeper and an IT department, all at once, usually in evenings after a full day on the tools.
A proper setup done the traditional way — an agency for the website, a separate registration service, a trip to a bank for a merchant account, hours reading government sites to work out what "sole trader" actually means — easily stretches into weeks, and easily costs several thousand dollars before a single customer has paid a cent.
Build your Biz answers 15 simple questions and turns them into a working business: registration guided step by step, a website built for your trade, a business email, a quoting and invoicing app configured and ready, card payments, a booking calendar, and a Google listing — all connected, all in your name, for one flat price.
What used to take weeks of evenings and several thousand dollars now takes a handful of days and one flat, upfront price — because software does the repetitive part, and a tradie's time goes back to being spent on the tools, not on a laptop at 11pm.
We don't automate everything, and we won't pretend to. Government identity checks mean the registration step has to be you — not us, not software. Everything else, we handle. We think that's a fair trade for getting a business fully set up in days instead of months.
Answer 15 questions. We build the rest.
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