Check the licence before the job starts.
Trades record their licence, insurance, white card and ABN on their profile. Urban Pulse doesn't check them with the issuer yet. A trade's business name and ABN show on their Marketplace profile exactly as typed, but their licence, insurance and white card details aren't shown to hirers today. 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
business name the trade recordsThe business name a trade records. It shows on their Marketplace profile, but it's only what they typed in. Look the business up by its ABN on the ABR before you award anything. You want a business, named, with somewhere to send the contract, not a person who answered the phone.
Trade licence
licence number the trade recordsThe licence number the trade records. It isn't shown to hirers today, so ask for it and check it with your state regulator before work starts.
Insurance
insurance cover the trade recordsThe cover the trade says they carry. It isn't shown to hirers today, so ask for the certificate and check it with the insurer 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 the trade recordsThe white card for anyone going on site, and the ABN for the business. Both are typed in by the trade. The ABN shows on their Marketplace profile as typed, and has only passed a number-format check, not a check against the ABR. The white card isn't shown to hirers today. 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 is only 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.