Plumber Business AppsBuild business apps for your plumbers and customers, so nobody rings you asking when the plumber will arrive.
Plumber business apps are the simple screens your plumbers and customers use instead of phoning you: the next callout, the parts on the van, the arrival time, the photos of the finished job. This page is for plumbing business owners who want to build their own business apps on their own data, shaped around how their jobs run, starting from the free Tradies App.
The week this is about
Sound Like Your Plumbing Business?
Customers ring the office to ask where the plumber is
A homeowner with no hot water or a leaking pipe wants to know when help arrives. With no simple way to see the booking or the plumber on the way, they ring, then ring again. The owner or the office answers the same question all day while the next emergency call waits.
Plumbers chase job details by phone between jobs
The plumber finishing a callout rings the owner for the next address, the access notes, whether the customer has a backflow device or which supplier has the valve in stock. Every answer comes from the owner's phone or head, so the van sits outside while the details get worked out.
Paper job sheets never make it back to the office
The work is written in a carbon book, the materials list is on the back of a supplier docket and the photos are on a personal phone. Paper gets wet, lost or forgotten in the van, so invoices go out late, parts never get charged and compliance paperwork is rebuilt from memory.
Every call about arrival times and missing job details costs the owner time on the tools, and every lost job sheet is a part or an hour never billed.
Data First Coaching
Plumber Business Apps, Built on Your Own Data.
Data First Coaching starts from your own job and finance data. On that data you build the systems, software and business apps your plumbing business actually needs, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy, and AI agents take the office work. Greg Allan works it through with you.
How most coaching works
Most coaching for plumbers starts with the owner explaining the business.
- The first hours go on the owner describing the plumbing business to a coach: the jobs, the crew, the customers, the money.
- The picture is out of date within weeks, because the numbers move every week.
- So the advice treats what the owner happened to notice, which is usually a symptom.
- Too often it comes from someone who has never run a plumbing business, or any trade business at all.
- The owner pays for the explaining, then pays again when the advice does not fit.
Data First Coaching
Data first starts from your plumbing business's numbers, not your memory.
- The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance systems first.
- It sees your quotes, jobs, time on site and money as they are this week, the way plumbers actually make and lose it.
- It finds where the problem actually starts, not where it shows up.
- You put in the system that fixes it at the root, and the data shows whether it worked.
Which of these is the root cause in your plumbing business?
- Customers ring the office to ask where the plumber is
- Plumbers chase job details by phone between jobs
- Paper job sheets never make it back to the office
Usually one of them is causing the others. Data first means your own numbers answer that before anybody guesses, so the fix goes where the problem starts.
| Rented software | Built on your own data | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Every trade at once | How your jobs actually run |
| Your data | Lives in somebody else's system | Yours, and it answers your questions |
| The cost | A subscription per seat, every month | What you build, kept as long as it earns its place |
| When it does not fit | Work around it, or wait for an update | Change it, because you built it |
| The office work | Still lands on you or an office wage | AI agents do it your way, people stay on customers |
| Where you start | A sales demo | Your own numbers, read by the Trade Business Intelligence Agent |
Fix the root cause, once
The data names the real problem, so the system you put in fixes it once instead of patching the same symptom every month.
Own your software
Build your own tools on your own data, shaped around how your jobs run and how your customers buy. Cancel the subscriptions and agencies that were never built for your business.
A more human business
Agents do the non-billable work: the quoting, invoicing, chasing and reporting. Your people spend the day on customers and the crew, so relationships get better and the team performs.
Business apps, built by you
Here Is What We Do About It.
You start with the free Tradies App, then Greg Allan's Data First Coaching goes further. The Trade Business Intelligence Agent reads your job management and finance data, so the business apps you build run on your real jobs, not a template. With Greg and the group you build apps for your crew and customers: an arrival update for the homeowner, a job screen with parts and access notes, a close-out with photos and the certificate.
The Tradies App
Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
Data First Coaching
Greg Allan and the Trade Business Intelligence Agent start from your own job and finance data, then you build what fixes the root cause.
The Academy waitlist
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.
How it works
Three Steps, Starting Tonight.
Start in the free Tradies App
Lessons, the members community and the tools, free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
Build the screens your people need
Today's jobs for the crew, a quote to approve for the customer, the numbers for you, all on your own data and built around how your jobs run.
Put an agent behind each one
An agent fills the gaps a screen cannot: chasing the missing photo, sending the reminder, updating the job, so the app keeps itself current.
Why Greg
You speak to the owner who has already done it.
Greg built Response Electricians in Perth into a 30+ staff business with 1,950+ five-star reviews. A general manager runs it.
He has trained 9,000+ trade business owners across Australia and New Zealand.
He grew a coaching company to 35 staff, a CEO and 15 coaches, then cut it back so every owner deals with him directly.
Most coaching companies hand you to a salesperson, then to a coach who has never run a trade business. Here you get the owner.
What changes for you
The old way. The new way.
More customers meant more people doing the computer work, and more wages nobody invoices.
You stay with your customers and your team. The office stops landing on you.
The old way
More jobs. More paperwork. Less of the owner left.
Most trade businesses grow the same way.
More jobs means more quoting, invoicing, chasing and scheduling.
None of it gets paid for.
So the owner does it at night, after a full day on site.
Or hires an office person to do it.
The office grows. The wages grow. The margin does not.
And the owner is still the one everything waits on.
Where we take you
More work. More profit. More of you left.
The phone rings with the jobs you want, at the price you set.
You grow when you're ready, never faster than the business can carry.
Every job is priced to make money, so the busy months show up in the bank.
The best tradies in your area want to work for you, and they stay.
The chasing, the paperwork and the 9pm admin stop landing on you.
The business runs the day. You pick which parts of it you're in.
Bigger, without the headaches. Getting bigger stops meaning getting busier.
What changes
What Plumbing Business Apps Actually Changes.
Three things plumbing business owners walk away able to do.
Send every customer an arrival update without anyone picking up the phone
Give each plumber the address, access notes and parts list before they leave
Capture photos, materials and certificates on site so invoices go out that day
Questions
Plumber Business Apps, Answered.
Can a plumber build a business app without any technical skills?
Which business app saves a plumbing business the most phone calls?
Can customers book and approve plumbing quotes through a business app?
Where do plumbers start if they have never built a business app?
Plumbers
The Other Ways We Help Plumbers.
Plumber Business Training
Structured training that turns what plumbers know on the tools into a business that runs properly.
CoachingPlumber Business Coach
Greg Allan in your corner, holding plumbers to the plan. By application.
SystemsPlumber Business Systems
Systems plumbers build on their own data, so the work runs properly without them standing there.
SoftwarePlumber Business Software
Software plumbers build on their own data, instead of renting tools built for every trade at once.
AIAI for Plumbing Businesses
AI agents that do the office work for plumbers, their way, so people stay on customers and the crew.
Marketing and leadsPlumber Business Marketing
How plumbers get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.
Pricing and profitPlumber Business Pricing
The number plumbers should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.
Hiring and teamPlumber Business Hiring
How plumbers build a crew that does it right without being watched.
Join the Waitlist to Work With Greg.
The Crew, daily Q&A and starter courses. Free for trade business owners. No card, no trial clock.
The Academy is at full capacity. Join the waitlist and when a place opens, Greg interviews the owners who look like the right fit.