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We actively invest our own marketing budget to support our Featured & Recommended businesses. When a local category has businesses occupying the 'Recommended' or 'Featured' slots, we run dedicated ad campaigns targeting homeowners in that specific town or city who are actively searching for your exact trade. By driving this local traffic to our "Post a Job" system, we aim to deliver a steady flow of leads straight to our top-tier trades.

Both. When you subscribe to a paid tier, your business gets a profile page on Rated Traders that appears in your chosen trade category and service area. Homeowners find you through that page and contact you directly, with no middleman forwarding or filtering. Enquiries come straight to you.

Each plan covers one trade in one town or city.

• Pro at £79/yr (+VAT): a profile page that appears in search results, ranks above free listings and is optimised for AI search, with your Google rating shown, unlimited free direct enquiries and quote requests, and AI help replying to your reviews, plus dofollow links to your website and a Trust Badge for your website, all manageable on the go in the Rated Traders app for iPhone and Android. One annual payment that does not auto-renew, and we remind you before it expires.
• Featured at £99/mo (+VAT): everything in Pro, plus positions 2 to 5 in the rankings for your trade and town or city, a Featured banner, an enhanced profile (photo gallery, video and extended bio), your services listed so you show up in more searches, ID and Trust Verification included, and your ratings and review counts from selected other platforms counted once we have checked them. You also get half of local Post a Job leads, free, once you have passed ID and Trust Verification. New leads, quote requests and direct messages can also reach you by WhatsApp, SMS text or both, as well as by email. Monthly, cancel anytime, with account manager support. Only four Featured places per trade in each town or city.
• Recommended at £149/mo (+VAT): everything in Featured, plus the #1 position for your trade and town or city with a prominent Recommended badge, the most visible slot on the site. You also get every local Post a Job lead, free, once you have passed ID and Trust Verification. Monthly, cancel anytime, with account manager support. Only one Recommended place per trade in each town or city.

No. The Pro plan is a one-off annual payment that does not auto-renew: we send you a reminder before it expires so you can choose whether to renew. Featured and Recommended are monthly subscriptions with no minimum term, cancel anytime.

For the Pro plan, your listing goes live automatically after payment, and you'll be guided through a quick 3-minute setup. Featured and Recommended go live as soon as you pay when a slot is free in your trade and town or city. If the slot is taken you join the waiting list and we confirm within 24 hours.

We currently cover all major UK cities and towns. If your area isn't listed yet, get in touch: we're adding new locations regularly.

On a paid listing, your profile displays your phone number, website, and contact links, plus a direct message and quote request facility. A homeowner browsing your profile can call you, visit your site, send you a message, or request a quote, and those messages and quote requests come to you directly at no extra cost. They are included in every paid tier.

No. Direct messages and quote requests through your profile are unlimited and included in your subscription. There are no per-enquiry charges and no commission on work you win. You pay your tier subscription and nothing more for profile enquiries.

There are two separate things, and it is worth being clear about the difference. Profile enquiries (free and included in every paid tier) are homeowners contacting you directly via your listing, as described above. Post a Job leads come from our separate homeowner Post a Job form, where a homeowner describes a specific job they want quoting. These are supplied free of charge to traders on the Featured and Recommended plans once they have passed ID and Trust Verification (both included in those plans), with no per-lead fees and no commission on work you win. To ensure homeowners are not overwhelmed and traders have a high chance of winning the work, every lead is strictly capped at a maximum of three local businesses.

Direct enquiries reach you in real time the moment a homeowner submits them, with no scheduling or batching. Post a Job leads are forwarded as they arrive, under the three-business cap: the Recommended business for the trade category and service area receives every relevant lead, and the remaining two places are shared between the Featured businesses in that area, so each Featured member receives a share of the local leads. Leads start once a business has passed ID and Trust Verification, which are included in both plans. Each lead is emailed to you with the homeowner's contact details and also appears under Leads in your dashboard, and you can choose to get it by WhatsApp or SMS text as well.

By email, every time, on every paid plan: each new Post a Job lead, quote request and direct message is emailed to you straight away. On the Featured and Recommended plans you can also get them by WhatsApp, SMS text or both, so you can respond first. Add your mobile number and choose how you want them on the Notifications page of your dashboard. Pro listings are notified by email.

Three differences, and they are the ones that cost you money:

• We never charge for an individual lead. You pay one flat monthly fee.
• We never send a job to more than three local businesses, so you are quoting against two others at most.
• There is no minimum term on the monthly plans. You can cancel whenever you like.

You are paying for a slot in your trade and town rather than for each lead, so a busy month costs you no more than a quiet one.

No - any business can get listed regardless of review count. Where Google ratings exist they're displayed on your profile and help customers choose you, but they're not a requirement to join.

Yes, on the Featured and Recommended plans. Send us a link to your profile on another platform and our team will check it. Your rating and number of reviews there then count towards your position in our rankings (weighted slightly below Google reviews) and towards the minimum rating for Featured and Recommended, and they are added to the rating and review count shown on your profile. We re-check them every six months. You don't need a Google Business Profile to use this, and any Google rating you have still shows on its own in the Google Reviews section of your profile.

Once listed you can apply for ID Verified or Trust Verified status. ID Verified confirms your identity and contact details. Trust Verified is a more thorough check covering credentials, insurance and customer feedback - businesses with this badge typically receive significantly more enquiries.

Every listing carries one badge, shown on its profile page and on its search result and ranking cards:

• Not Verified (grey): we have not yet verified the business. Every listing starts here, claimed or not.
• ID Verified (teal): the owner has passed our ID check, which confirms identity and contact details. The grey badge is removed.
• Trust Verified (gold): the business has passed Trust Verification, our review of credentials, insurance and customer feedback. It includes the ID check, so it replaces the ID Verified badge.

ID Verification is a one-off add-on and Trust Verification an annual one; both are included in the Featured and Recommended plans.

Yes. Every paid plan includes the Rated Traders app for iPhone and Android, so you can run your listing from the van, the job or the sofa. See new quote requests and direct messages the moment they arrive, plus your Post a Job leads on the Featured and Recommended plans, then call, text, WhatsApp or email the customer in a single tap. Sign in with the same email and password you use for your dashboard.

Google Local Services Ads are the pay-per-lead adverts at the very top of Google, above the map, carrying the Google Verified badge. Google runs its own checks on the business before the ads can show. For a monthly management fee we set up your Google verification, optimise your Google Business Profile and build the campaign. Ad spend is extra and paid to Google directly. The add-on is available on any paid plan (Pro, Featured or Recommended), in the trades Google covers, from the Google Local Services Ads tab on this page.

See the trades Google covers

If you have claimed or upgraded your listing, you can log in to your profile at https://dashboard.ratedtraders.com