About Hyyryn

Fair to both sides.

Hyyryn sits in the middle of a job. The money is held at Stripe until the work is signed off, so one side never pays and hopes and the other never works and hopes. Every step leaves a record both of you can see and neither of you can change.

The mark is the method

Two people, one record across the top

Both sides carry a risk, at different moments, so each ends up asking the other to go first. The record goes across both of them.

The record is laid across both of them: every step dated, sealed, and seen by both.

One post

The homeowner

Carries the risk before the work: paying for something they have not seen yet.

1 · Price agreedSees the full price, in writing, before paying anything.
2 · Money heldPays, but not to them. The money is held at Stripe against the job, and moves only as the terms say.
3 · Work recordedSees each photograph and message as it is filed, sealed with its time.
4 · Signed off, paidReleases the money when satisfied. Do nothing, and it is released when the time to check runs out.

The homeowner getsthe money held until they sign the work off.

The job

Read across: what each of them has at each step.

1Price agreedIn writing, before anything is paid
2Money heldBy Stripe, against this job
3Work recordedPhotographs and messages, sealed with the time
4Signed off, paidReleased to the tradesperson

The job is closed

The other post

The tradesperson

Carries the risk after it: doing the work and waiting to be paid for it.

1 · Price agreedKnows the job and the price are agreed, in writing.
2 · Money heldSees the money is there before starting.
3 · Work recordedFiles the work as it happens, so what was done is on the record.
4 · Signed off, paidIs paid by Stripe into their own account.

The tradesperson getsproof the money is there before starting.

What we are

Six claims, and what each can be checked against

A company, not a project.

A UK limited company trading as Hyyryn, registered in England and Wales. Small, and not pretending otherwise.

The register of companies

Name: HYPEBOX LTD
Number: 16355767
Registered in: England and Wales
Trading as: Hyyryn

Check itAt Companies House

The money waits at Stripe, not with us.

Accepting a price charges the card, and the payment is held at Stripe against the job. It is never paid out to a bank account of ours. It goes to the tradesperson when the work is signed off, the time to check it runs out, or a dispute decides; or it comes back to the homeowner.

Check itStripe Payments UK Limited, FCA 900461

Paid by one side, once.

5%from the tradesperson, when the money is released. Never more than £500. Nothing from the homeowner.

Try a job price

On a £2,400 job, the tradesperson pays £120. The homeowner pays £0.

Check itWhat it costs, in full

A record that outlives the argument.

Photographs and messages, each sealed with a fingerprint and the time it arrived, kept for six years after a paid job finishes.

Check itHow it works

Written down, or it did not happen.

A price, an acceptance, a change and a sign-off each leave a dated entry. Settled only on the phone is not settled.

Price sentMon 09:12
Accepted, money heldMon 18:40
Change agreed, +£40Thu 11:05
Signed off, paidFri 16:20

Check itEvery step leaves an entry (an example trail)

One job, one thread, and both sides read it.

No private versions. What you see is what the other person sees.

Check itThe same record, both ways round

What we will not do

Five things, never

Each one is a way a marketplace makes money that we have decided against. Written here so that it can be held against us.

Never
Sell a position in the results.
No tradesperson can pay to be listed higher, marked out, or shown first. What you see is what the search asked for.
Never
Charge for leads.
A trade pays nothing to quote and nothing to be contacted. A platform paid per lead is paid whether or not the lead was any good, which is the wrong incentive pointed at the wrong person.
Never
Pay your money to ourselves.
A payment is held at Stripe against your job and is never paid out to a bank account of ours. Our fee comes only from what the tradesperson is paid, and only when it is released. Terms, section 4
Never
Sell what you tell us.
Your job description, your address, your messages and your photographs are yours. They are not a product and they are not sold on. Privacy, in full
Never
Claim a check we have not done.
Where something is not built yet, this site says so on the page it belongs to, in the same words, rather than in a footnote. The current example is below.

Where we actually are

What is running, what is being built, what is next

Said on the page it belongs to, in the same words, rather than in a footnote.

Now Live

The payment, the record and the disputes

Built and running: the payment held at Stripe, the time to check the work, the evidence and its fingerprints, and a dispute that freezes the money where it is.

How payment protection works

Now Live

Checking right to work, credentials and insurance

Nobody is shown or can send a price until their right to work in the UK is checked. A person looks at the registrations and insurance a tradesperson adds, and a profile shows only what was checked and is in date. Still being built: stopping anyone without Gas Safe or Part P from pricing gas or electrical work, at any value, because those are the law.

Meanwhile, check a company on Records

Later, perhaps Being explored

Spreading the cost of a bigger job

Letting homeowners with a good record on Hyyryn pay for a larger job in instalments, with the tradesperson still paid in full. Not available, and nothing on this site offers it. If it comes, it will be through a lender authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, and it will say so here first.

An idea, not an offer

If a line here is wrong, tell us, and the correction goes on the record too.

For homeowners Post a job, and the money is held until you sign the work off Post a job For tradespeople Quote for free, and see the money is there before you start Join as a tradesperson