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Their licence sits next to their price.

You're about to let somebody onto your site, and right now that call gets made off a phone number a mate gave you. In Marketplace, the trade you invited puts their licence, insurance, white card and ABN on their profile, and you read it beside the number they've quoted instead of chasing it after you've said yes. Urban Pulse hasn't checked any of it. The network is open now, and what sits on a profile is the trade's own word, written down where you can go and check it yourself.

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what sits on a profile

What a trade puts on their profile

Every line below is something the trade typed in and stands behind. We record it and put it where the price is. We don't verify it, and we don't rank anybody.

Who you're dealing with

trading name on the profile

The trading name of the business behind the quote, on the profile before you award anything. Not a person who answered the phone. A business, named, with somewhere to send the contract.

Trade licence

licence recorded on the profile

The licence they hold, as they've recorded it themselves. Urban Pulse hasn't confirmed it with anybody, so read it as the number you need to look up rather than a tick we've handed out.

Insurance

insurance recorded on the profile

The cover they say they carry, sitting where you'll see it while you're still reading the price. Ask for the certificate before anyone starts. We don't chase it and we don't confirm it.

Jobs they've run here

jobs awarded and finished on the network

Work awarded through Marketplace and finished on the network stays attached to the profile. It's a thin picture early on, and it says nothing about the twenty years somebody did before they got here.

The invite, the quote, the award

quotes and awards on the job

You invited them, they put a number on it, you awarded it. That sequence is written down, so what was quoted and what was agreed doesn't come down to who remembers it better.

White card and ABN

white card and ABN on the profile

The white card for anyone going on site, and the ABN for the business. Both are typed in by the trade. Both are readable before you award, which is the only moment either of them is any use to you.

How much of it there is

how many jobs sit behind the profile

One finished job and twenty finished jobs don't read the same way, so the count is shown as a count. Nothing gets folded into a score, and nobody is ranked for you.

how much is behind it

A thin record reads as thin

Ten jobs finished on the network tell you more than one, so we show you the count and leave the weighing up to you. There is no mark out of five here and no badge. Early on, for most profiles, there won't be much to read at all.

Building

4 of 10 jobs finished on the network. Early days. Read it as a start, not as a history.

Established

10 jobs or more finished on the network, which is enough of a history to be worth reading.

Read it before you award the job

The network is open. Urban Pulse records what a trade puts on a profile and doesn't verify it. Live checks against each issuer are being wired in by source, and until they land, a licence number on a profile is the trade's word written down where you can read it. This is not a guarantee of any trade or any work, and the checks you would make before letting somebody on site are still yours to make.