Trade Leads With No Contract: How Pay-Per-Job Works
No monthly fee, no minimum term, £0 upfront. How pay-per-job work for UK trades, and why paying only paying on a confirmed job changes the maths.
- Most lead platforms tie you to a monthly subscription or minimum term. You pay whether work arrives or not.
- Pay-per-job has no contract, no subscription and no upfront cost.
- You pay one flat fee only when a customer confirms they chose you on the call.
- Quiet month? You pay nothing. Holiday? You pay nothing. The platform carries the demand risk, not you.
Why "No Contract" Matters More Than It Sounds
This guide is for tradespeople tired of being locked into monthly fees. GetTheCall is a B2B platform. It routes emergency calls to trades, it does not list trades for homeowners to hire. If you are a homeowner looking for a tradesperson, go to EmergencyLines instead.
Most ways of buying trade leads involve a commitment that runs in the background regardless of results, a monthly subscription, a minimum term, or a credit balance you topped up in advance. That commitment is the problem. It means the platform gets paid before you do, and independently of whether you do. In a busy month it feels fine. In a quiet January, on holiday, or off with a bad back, that fixed cost keeps leaving your account anyway.
How Pay-Per-Job Actually Works
Pay-per-job removes the commitment entirely. There is no monthly fee, no minimum term and nothing to pay to start. You register, set your trade and the areas you cover; eligible available members ring at once when a homeowner calls, and the first to answer connects. You pay a single, known Platform Fee only on a confirmed job.
Why This Changes the Maths
With a subscription, your cost per job depends on how many jobs happen to arrive that month, great when it is busy, brutal when it is not. A £140 monthly fee is cheap across eight jobs and painful across one. With pay-per-job, the cost per job is fixed and visible, and it simply scales with how much you win: more in a strong month because you earned more, nothing in a quiet one.
A subscription transfers the demand risk to you. You pay whether or not the work shows up. Pay-per-job keeps that risk with the platform, the only party that can actually influence how much work arrives.
There is a fuller breakdown in pay-per-job versus subscription, and a direct comparison in GetTheCall vs Checkatrade.
Who It Suits
No-contract pay-per-job suits any tradesperson with variable or seasonal income, which is most of them. Sole traders, small teams, anyone whose work spikes with the weather or the season, and anyone who simply does not want another fixed monthly bill. You can use it as your main source of callouts or switch it on only when the diary looks thin.
See how it works for roofing, plumbing, electrical and heating, pick your trade and area and start receiving local calls with nothing to pay upfront.
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