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The problem
The work is the easy part.
Most of a trade business runs on memory, group chats, and a folder of photos. Trabalo puts the whole job in one place.
Right now
Photos sitting in the camera roll
Quote retyped from a text message
Timesheets on the back of an envelope
GST in a shoebox of receipts
Invoicing on Sunday night
With Trabalo
Photos land on the job as you go
Quote built from your price book
Hours flow straight into the pay run
GST, bills, and P&L next to the jobs
Invoice from the lines you already quoted
02
Product
Built around the job, not the paperwork.
01
Quotes
Build a quote out of parts you already priced.
Pull labour and materials from your price book. GST is worked out as you go, and the customer accepts on their phone.
Public link, no login for the customer
Draft the first pass with AI
02
Jobs
One job, from the first call to the final photo.
Scope, schedule, crew, hours, forms, and files sit on the job. Open it six months later and the whole story is still there.
Hours logged against the estimate
SWMS and checklists signed off on site
03
Calendar
Know what the week actually looks like.
Everything booked in one view, with the site, the customer, and the job behind every slot.
Day, week, and month views
Reschedule without losing the job history
04
Customers
Every site, job, and quote under one customer.
Save the sites once and every future job already knows where it is going.
Multiple sites per customer
Job and quote history at a glance
03
Crew & payroll
Pay the people who did the work.
The hours are already in Trabalo, so payday stops being a night of retyping.
Pay runs
Run the wages off the hours already logged.
Timesheets from the job flow into the pay run. Trabalo works out the hours, tax, and super, then flags what needs a look.
Weekly or fortnightly pay schedules
ABA bank payment file when it is approved
Your people
Everything about a crew member in one record.
Pay rate, tax code, bank account, leave balances, payslips, and licences, all in the one place.
Leave balances tracked as they accrue
Licence and ticket expiry kept visible
Their login
They see Trabalo for their role, on their phone.
Onboard from Team and send a join invite. They register to your workspace, then log in to the same app with only the pages they are allowed to use.
Each person uses a billed seat on your plan
Works on a phone in the van
04
Workflow
From the first call to the last dollar.
01
Take the call
Save the customer and the site once. Every job after this one already knows where it is going.
02
Quote it
Pull lines from your price book and send a link. They accept on their phone.
03
Do the work
Book it in, log hours, and take photos as you go. It all lands on the job.
04
Get paid
The accepted lines become the tax invoice, with your bank details on it.
05
And the rest
Everything else you were doing by hand.
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4
Quoted
Scheduled
On site
Complete
Updates from the crew
Reception stays open
Working from the store room end · 10:24 am
Before photos added
4 photos · 7:02 am
A portal that answers "any update?" for you
Your customer watches the job move from quote to completion, with photos, in one link.
This GST period
GST collected
$1,240.50
ReadyGST on purchases
$318.00
Profit this month
$8,410.00
Books, without a separate accounting app
GST, supplier bills, payments, and a simple profit and loss live in Trabalo. Xero stays optional.
Price book
Licensed electrician labour
Labour · hour
$125.00
2.5mm TPS cable
Material · m
$4.20
LED downlight
Material · each
$28.50
A price book that does the maths
Labour and materials priced once, pulled into every quote with GST worked out.
Due or overdue
Ford Transit Custom
VAN-12 · Jordan Hale
3.6m fibreglass ladder
EQP-04 · inspection 5 days
Milwaukee impact driver
TLS-18 · warranty 21 days
Every tool and van, with its paper trail
Rego, WoF, warranties and receipts on the asset, with due dates flagged before they bite. A QR tag on each one shows who has it.
Personal and contact
Pay, bank and super
Licences and files
Send join invite from their record
Onboard a new hire without the paper chase
A six step wizard collects their details, pay setup and licences. Send a join invite from their employee record when you are ready.
This week
3 shifts
Hours logged
18.5
They log in and see Trabalo for their role
They register to your workspace, then log in to the same app. The sidebar only shows what their role allows.
Isolate and test
Signed on site
SWMS and forms
Signed off on site, stored on the job.
New Zealand
GST 15%
Australia
GST 10%
Local rules, handled
The right GST rate and the wording the tax office expects.
Invoice overdue
Quote follow-up
Automations that chase for you
Follow up overdue invoices and quiet quotes without remembering to.
Paid this month
$661.25
GST collected
$86.25
Reports
What you quoted, won, and the GST collected.
06
Books
The ledger lives in Trabalo.
Books
Built inGST, supplier bills, payments, and a simple profit and loss live in Trabalo so you do not need Xero to run the books. If you already use Xero you can still connect it later and push invoices across.
GST this period
ReadyCollected
$1,240.50
On purchases
$318.00
Invoices still carry your bank details and PayID so customers can pay you directly. Xero stays optional if you already live there.
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The beta