Check the licence before the job starts.
Trades record their licence, insurance, white card and ABN on their profile, and Urban Pulse doesn't check them with the issuer yet. Before you award work, ask the trade for them and check them yourself: the ABN on the ABR, the licence with your state regulator.
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What a trade puts on their profile
A trade records these details on their profile, in their words. Urban Pulse doesn't check them with the issuer yet, so ask for each one before you award.
Who you're dealing with
trading name on the profileThe 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 profileThe licence number the trade records. Ask for it and check it with your state regulator before work starts.
Insurance
insurance recorded on the profileThe cover the trade says they carry. Ask for the certificate before work starts.
Jobs they've run here
jobs awarded and finished on the networkWork 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 jobYou 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 profileThe white card for anyone going on site, and the ABN for the business. Both are typed in by the trade. Ask for these details before awarding work, and check the ABN on the ABR.
How much of it there is
how many jobs sit behind the profileOne 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.
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.
Check it before you award the job
Urban Pulse records what a trade enters on their profile. Live checks with each issuer are being added source by source. Until then, a licence number on a profile is what the trade entered, so make your own checks before anyone comes on site. It is not a guarantee of any trade or any work.