Local tradespeople. Your payment is held until you sign the work off.
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How it works
Four screens, and on every one you can see where your money is.
01 Describe the job02 Choose a quote03 The evidence04 Sign the work offSee the four screensFold them away
Each step below is playing the screen it happens on, and a click starts it again. Payment protection is on all four: not a policy you buy, and not something you have to remember to switch on.
01
Describe the job
Say what needs doing and where. It goes to the trades who cover your postcode.
02
Choose a quote
Compare them side by side, with the record behind each trade, and agree it in writing.
03
The evidence
Photographs when the trade arrives and when the work is done, timestamped and sealed. You do not have to ask for them.
04
Sign the work off
Check it against what you agreed. Nothing is released until you say so.
If the two of you disagreeYou raise it before you sign off, and nothing is released while it is open. We ask you both for what you have, the photographs, the messages, the scope you agreed, and we decide on that.
Hiring a trade costs nothing. Finding work, and looking after up to three homes, cost nothing too, and always will. For tradespeople, landlords and agents who want more for the business around the work, there are plans.
For tradespeople
Free
Every tradesperson, always
£0No monthly fee
5%of each Hyyryn job you are paid for, never more than £500 a job. Nothing to join, list or quote.
Nothing to post a job or read the quotes. You pay the price you agree with the tradesperson, and nothing is added to it. Hyyryn's fee is five per cent, taken from the tradesperson when the money is released, not from you.
How are the tradespeople checked?
Before a tradesperson can be paid, Stripe checks their identity and bank. The registrations and insurance they add are not checked yet: those checks are being built, and until they run, nothing on a profile is marked as checked. You can look up any limited company on the public register, free, with Hyyryn Records.
When does the tradesperson get paid?
When you sign the work off. Until then your payment is held against the job, and the tradesperson can see it is there but cannot take it.
What if the work is not right?
Say so before you sign off. Nothing is released while a disagreement is open. We ask you both for what you have, the photographs, the messages and the scope you agreed, and we decide on that.
Is Records free?
Yes. It reads the public register: whether a company exists, who runs it, how long it has been filing, and whether anyone has started to strike it off. It cannot tell you whether someone is any good at the work.
Your trade and areaWhat you do, where you work, a word about you.
Registrations and insuranceAdd them with their numbers. Hyyryn’s checks of them are being built.
IdentityChecked by Stripe, on Stripe’s own pages.
PayoutsYour bank account, connected through Stripe.
Quote from the day you join. A homeowner can pay you once Stripe has checked three and four.
For tradespeople
Quoted work, agreed in writing, and paid when it is signed off.
The jobs come from homeowners in your postcode who have already said what they want doing. The money is held at Stripe against the job before you start, so the only question is whether you want the work.