Stop chasing invoices
Chasing money is the quiet tax on a growing trade business. Here's how to build invoices straight from the job, turn day dockets into bills, and let the follow-ups run themselves.
Navigating Australia's new payday super reforms
Super now has to land in your employees' funds within 7 business days of payday, not quarterly. What that means for cash flow, compliance risk and your pay run.
Tax tips for tradies
What trade businesses and workers can claim: tools, protective gear, vehicle costs, home office, training and more, plus the record-keeping the ATO expects.
$1 per job, why we don't charge per user
Most trade businesses outgrow per-user pricing fast. Here's the maths, and why our pricing model is built around the work, not the headcount.
5 SWMS templates every trade business needs
Safe Work Method Statements you'll actually use. Free templates for working at heights, electrical, hot work, confined spaces, and excavation.
Why Integrating your Accounting Tools with Job Management Software is a Game-Changer for Tradies
Any business generates admin and tradies know all too well how time-consuming, yet crucial, the accounting side of things can be.
Why Mobile Access to Job Information is a Game Changer for Tradies
In a trade business, time is money and so is information.
Stop Wasting Time: Quote and Invoice On-Site to Win Jobs & Get Paid Faster
For tradies, time is money. Quoting and invoicing after hours cuts into personal time and billable hours, and slow replies lose jobs.
Why You Should Be Wearing Branded Work Clothes
Branded workwear is a game-changer for tradespeople, providing a professional look while offering practical benefits for both individuals and businesses.
How Do You Currently Order?
Take a second to think about your business and how you currently order your products.
Social Media: Why it's essential to be using it to maximise your trade business' brand awareness
In today’s digital world, social media is an indispensable tool for tradies.
Changes to income, Wages and Super this Year
On July 1, 2024, several changes to employment rates, thresholds, and limits in Australia came into effect, impacting both employees and employers.
4 Tips for Getting your Business Ready for the Christmas Period
While Christmas is an exciting and wonderful time, there can also a lot of stress involved, especially for those running a small business.
The Difference between a Contractor and a Subcontractor
What is the difference between a contractor and subcontractor? The trade industry is chock full of terms that require you to know what they mean.
Apps That Modern Tradies Need
As technology constantly improves and evolves, it’s important that you keep up with the changes, especially when it comes to apps for your trade business.
Aussie tradies aren't protecting against skin cancer
Tradies in Australia aren’t making enough of an effort to protect themselves from the sun even though they are statistically exposed up to 10 more times to ultraviolet radiation (UV) than the typical indoor worker.
5 More Lead Generation Tips for Tradies
Back in January 2021, we wrote a blog that gave 5 ways tradies could increase their lead generation so they can help grow their business and ensure they have a constant stream of new, quality leads coming through which you can read here.
Managing Subcontractors on Trak
Finding it difficult to schedule, manage, organise and communicate with the subcontractors your business works with?
Export your SimPRO Data & Import it into Trade Trak
Are you a SimPRO user who is looking for an alternative for all your job management needs? Then Trak could be the perfect alternative for you.
Native Apps Vs. Progressive Web Apps
Trak now has a native in-field app on iOS and Android, released in February 2025. This 2021 post explains the difference between native apps and progressive web apps.
How to Deal with Negative Reviews
Running a business is a difficult, arduous, time-consuming task that requires your full attention and devotion.
How to Create a Positive Work Culture
How often have you had an employee who comes to work and is clearly in a negative mindset? Are they consistently showing up to work late or complaining about the jobs they are assigned?
How to Avoid Burnout as a Trade Business Owner
Owning a business is stressful. Long hours, managing multiple jobs and employees, and significant financial risk are just some of the stressors you will face throughout your career.
6 Tips for Switching Off After Work
Are you finding that when you have a problem at work or are having a stressful day, you tend to bring that problem home with you?
Lead Generation for Tradies
As a tradie, you could provide the best service, have the most knowledgeable team, be the cheapest and most efficient in the business and all this could result in nothing without new customers.
Mental Health & Tradies
The average Australian tradie is often stereotyped as being strong, unemotional and easy going.
Employer Rights and Assistance During COVID-19
On the 8th of April 2020, legislation passed both Houses of Parliament for Workplace Flexibility and JobKeeper.
How to Tactfully Track Your Team
As a business owner, as much as you would like to be, you can’t be everywhere at once.
Saving Time and Money with Timesheets
While many tradies have already made the switch to take their businesses online with job management software, timesheets are often sadly forgotten in this process.
Tradie Tips: 7 Ways To Improve Your Invoicing Process
It should go without saying that in order to get paid, you need to be invoicing.
Four Reasons to Hire an Apprentice
All tradies need to start somewhere. For apprentices, the benefits are obvious.
Tradie Tips: Building a Trusted Business
Building a business that customers can trust should always be a top priority for tradesmen, and with so much competition on the market and available at the press of a button, it’s now more important than ever.
Tradie Tips: Following Up on Quotes
Regardless of whether or not you have given a potential client an estimate on the spot, or attended a site to inspect and quote, you need to be following them up.
The Importance of Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS)
Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) are vital in keeping you, your staff and your subcontractors safe at work when completing high-risk construction work, and are a central part of any worksite’s occupational health and safety procedures.
Tradie Tips: Managing Subcontractors
The performance of your subcontractors can reflect directly on your business, and as they aren’t full-time employees, it can sometimes be a tough job managing their responsibilities and keeping up motivation.
Tradie Tips: Taking Partial Payments
It’s every tradies nightmare to get to the end of a big job and have a client fall silent.
Why Your Company's Online Presence Matters
Have you been resisting taking your company online? You’re not alone.
Tradie Tips: Charging Deposits
Deposits are a necessary part of invoicing - if you’re not doing it, you need to be! Taking a deposit gives both the business and the customer a level of protection if a job falls through.
Modern Marketing for Tradies
When was the last time you checked the White Pages or your local paper to find a company? And when was the last time you even held either of these items? Most likely a long time ago.
5 Tips for Reducing Cashflow Problems
Every company has highs and lows with cash flow, this is a completely normal part of business.
How Going Paperless will Boost Business
Have you been dreaming of a workplace without paper? Job management apps such as Trak are making it easier for this to become a reality for you.
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