Get more Google reviews. Win more fencing jobs. Built for fencing contractors.
See exactly where you rank for “fence installation near me” across your whole town — then climb to the top of Google with more 5-star reviews, a complete profile, and proof of your work. Set up in 5 minutes, all from your phone.
When someone searches “fence installation near me”, Google shows three businesses — and they get the calls. Everyone else is invisible.
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The fencing business down the road shows up in Google’s top 3 for every local search, so customers call them first. The difference? 80 reviews and a complete profile — you have 12. You never even know you lost the job.
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You mean to ask for a review after every job. But the moment passes, you’re onto the next call, and it never gets done.
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You know you should be on social media. But between jobs, invoices, and the family — when? It just doesn’t happen.
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You’ve paid $79/mo for a marketing tool that did nothing — and the contract auto-renewed before you could cancel. You’re done with that.
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You’re renting leads from Angi or Thumbtack — and the day you stop paying, they stop coming. The reviews and Google profile you build with Tradeloper are yours to keep.
How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself
Add the customer when the job is done.
Tradeloper emails them your Google review link.
You see the review count move, and hear about a bad one before your customers do.
Say your average job is $150. Tradeloper Starter: $19/month. Win one extra customer off the stronger review count and you’ve covered eight months of Starter. (Rank tracking and the heatmap are Pro, $49/month.) We’re too early to publish an average time-to-first-review we could stand behind — see the real numbers we do have.
Tradeloper is early. We are not going to quote you an average result we cannot stand behind, or testimonials you have no way to check. What we will tell you is exactly what it does today: it emails your customers a review request after each job, tracks your Google review count daily, and tells you when a bad review lands.
If that does not earn its keep, the money-back guarantee is there for precisely that reason.
Comparison
Your competitors pay far more for similar core features.
The big review tools are built for enterprise. Tradeloper is built for the one-van operator.
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Tradeloper
NiceJob
Podium
Birdeye
Broadly
Monthly price
From $19 (Pro $49)
$75–$125
Not published
$299+
$799
Setup time
5 min
~1 hr
Sales call
Sales call
Sales call
No annual contract
✓Yes
✓Yes
✕No
✕No
✕No
Built for solo operators
✓Yes
Partial
✕No
✕No
Partial
Posts in YOUR brand (Pro)
✓Yes
NiceJob logo
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AI social post creator (Pro)
✓Yes
Basic reshare
✕No
Basic
✕No
Before & after photo posts (Pro)
✓Yes
✕No
✕No
✕No
✕No
Runs on your phone
✓Yes
Partial
✓Yes
✓Yes
Partial
💡 NiceJob’s social posts: When NiceJob shares your review to social media, every post shows the NiceJob logo — not your business name. You’re paying $75/month to promote their brand. Tradeloper always puts your business name on everything.
+ See how we compare to trade-only review apps
Built for local businesses
Even the tools built for local businesses cost 10x more than us.
The other review apps do a similar job — for a lot more money. Here’s how Tradeloper lines up against them.
Tradeloper
The other review apps
Monthly price
From $19 (Pro $49)
$84–233
Get found on Google
On Pro — $49/month
Add-on / higher tier
30-day money-back
✓Yes
Varies
Start without a sales call
✓Yes
Often a demo first
✨ What makes us different: a full local rank heatmap across your whole service area at one flat price — no per-scan credits. Your best reviews turned into ready-to-post Facebook & Instagram captions, not just Google. And it’s built trade-first — mobile, one-tap, no marketing manager required.
💡 Why the gap? Most other review apps price for teams and pass an agency-style markup on to you. Tradeloper is built lean for the one-van operator and sold direct — so the same work costs a fraction of theirs: Review collection starts at $19/month; the get-found toolkit — local rank tracking, profile scores, job pins, AI posts and the reviews widget — is Pro at $49/month.
Competitor pricing based on publicly listed plans, verified August 2026 (a few not re-verified since June — each comparison page lists its own as-of date and source) and may vary. Feature comparisons reflect core review-collection and social-posting functionality.
Real humans behind this
Email us, and we'll usually write back within 4 hours (Mon–Fri).
No call centers. No "submit a ticket" forms. No live chat bots. Just real humans who reply personally during business hours — same-day fixes when something breaks.
Try free for 14 days — no credit card. Review collection starts at $19/month; the get-found toolkit — local rank tracking, profile scores, job pins, AI posts and the reviews widget — is Pro at $49/month. Prices are in US dollars; Paddle adds VAT, GST or sales tax at checkout where your country requires it.
Starter
Collect more 5-star Google reviews — for solo operators getting started
✓30-day money-back · Cancel anytime · No contracts
🔒 Secure payment by Paddle (Merchant of Record). Cards processed in their iframe — Tradeloper never sees your card details.
Why it matters
Why Google reviews decide which fencing contractors get the call.
When a homeowner's old fence is leaning after a storm, or they just bought a house with a dog and no yard barrier, they search "fence installation near me" and start calling the names with the most 5-star reviews. Fencing is a big-ticket, mostly one-time job, so people are not picking from memory - they are picking from Google, and they compare three or four contractors before anyone drives out to measure. Tradeloper asks every customer for a Google review the moment the last post is set and the gate swings clean, so your review count keeps climbing through the busy season. On Pro it also tracks where you rank for "fence company" and "fence installation" across the towns you actually serve, shows you the map-pack grid so you can see the neighborhoods where you are invisible, and turns your finished fence photos into social posts, because a sharp cedar privacy fence is what sells the next one.
The numbers behind local rank
Reviews are roughly 16–20% of Google map-pack ranking, and Google now weights recent reviews over older ones.
A complete, active Google Business Profile is about a third of local ranking — category, completeness, and posting activity.
Source: Whitespark Local Search Ranking Factors, 2026.
A fence is a big-ticket, once-in-a-lifetime buy, so reviews carry the whole trust load.
A new fence runs $2,000 to $10,000 and most homeowners install one maybe twice in their life, so they have no gut feel for a fair price or a solid crew. They lean entirely on what other homeowners say - straight lines, no callbacks, cleaned up the yard when they left. A wall of recent 5-star reviews is the difference between the estimate call and the voicemail nobody returns.
Proximity decides who even gets the drive-out.
Nobody wants a fence crew towing a trailer 40 minutes each way, and Google knows it - the map pack favors contractors close to the searcher. If you rank well in your home town but go invisible three neighborhoods over, you are missing jobs you could easily reach. Tradeloper's geo-grid rank heatmap, on Pro, shows you exactly which areas you own and which ones you are quietly losing.
Seasonality makes your reviews spike, then flatline.
Fence work booms spring through fall and goes quiet in winter, so reviews come in waves and then stall for months. A profile that has not seen a new review since October looks stalled by the time spring shoppers start calling around. Automating the ask on every job keeps a steady drip year-round, so you head into peak season looking busier and more trusted than the guy who forgot to ask.
Last reviewed August 2026.
Google reviews, explained
How Google review counts actually work.
A lot of people arrive on this page trying to check the rating or review count of one particular business — a fence company they are about to hire, or a competitor across town. Here is how to read those numbers properly and what makes them move.
To be straight with you: Tradeloper is software a business owner runs on their own Google Business Profile. We cannot look a listing up for you, and we do not host a directory of other people’s ratings. The steps below take about ten seconds and work for any business on Google.
Checking any business’s review count yourself
Search the business name together with its town on Google or in Google Maps — the way you would type Ironwood Fence & Gate followed by the city. The town matters: trade names repeat across the country, and without it you may be reading a different company’s profile entirely.
Read the number beside the stars. The figure in brackets is the total number of reviews published on that Google Business Profile at that moment — not lifetime reviews, and not reviews from Yelp, Facebook or anywhere else. Each platform keeps its own separate count.
Open the reviews and sort by Newest. This is the part most people skip, and it is the most useful. A profile with 400 reviews where the newest is two years old tells you something quite different from one with 60 reviews where the newest is from last week.
Why a profile shows the rating it does
The star rating is a plain average of the reviews currently on the profile. Nine 5-star reviews plus one 1-star average to 4.6. That is why one bad job drags a young profile down hard while an established one barely registers it — and why volume is a defense, not a vanity metric.
A review count can go down, and usually nobody deleted anything. Google removes reviews that break its content policies, and reviews go with a profile when it is merged, moved or closed. A count that drops is normal housekeeping far more often than it is foul play.
Counts are per location, never pooled. A company with three branches has three profiles and three separate review counts, so the one you are reading may cover only the branch nearest you.
Recency is weighted, not just volume. Reviews are roughly 16–20% of what decides the Google map pack, and recent reviews carry more weight than old ones — which is why a steady trickle beats a one-off burst. Source: Whitespark Local Search Ranking Factors, 2026.
Fencing has one timing advantage almost no other trade gets: the customer looks at your work every time they pull onto the drive. A request that goes out a few days late still tends to land well, because the fence is right there reminding them. Most trades lose that window within a day.
If the profile you are checking is your own
Then everything above is just the scoreboard, and there is only one way to move it: ask every customer, on every job, while the work is still fresh in their mind. That is the part almost every fencing business stops doing the moment the week gets busy — and it is the job Tradeloper does for you, automatically, by email after each job is closed out.
Review collection starts at $19/month; the get-found toolkit — local rank tracking, profile scores, job pins, AI posts and the reviews widget — is Pro at $49/month.
No credit card. 30-day money-back guarantee on every paid plan.
How to
How to get Google reviews for a fencing business
A fence is the most public thing most trades build. It faces the street, the neighbors see it, and it is one of the few jobs where the customer's satisfaction is visible from the sidewalk.
Ask at the reveal, not at the invoice
There is a moment when the last panel goes in and the line finally reads straight. The customer is usually standing there. That is the ask.
Neighbors are your second audience
Property-line work means the people on both sides watched the whole build. A review that mentions how you handled the neighbor's side carries weight with the next buyer.
Spring and summer bunch your reviews
Demand concentrates, so your review flow does too. The profile you carry into next spring is built from the asks you made this one.
Say what the customer cannot see
Post depth, concrete, the rot you found in the old line. The bit underground is what separates you from the cheapest quote they turned down.
Pressure-treated pine lasts 10–15 years, cedar and redwood 15–25, chain link 15–20, vinyl 20–30, aluminum 30–50+. What actually decides it is the part nobody sees: properly set posts, drainage and the right fasteners.
Fencing supplier and installer guidance (Fence Deck Supply, Summit Fence), read 2026-08-25 · as of August 2026
Tradeloper emails the request after each job, so a full summer of fences does not end with three reviews.
Get found
The right Google category for a fencing contractors
Primary category
Fence contractor
This is the exact wording, and it catches people out: Google's category is “Fence contractor”, not “Fencing contractor”. Type “fencing” into the picker and you get Fencing salon and Fencing school — the sport.
Watch out
There is no gate-specific category. Gate work belongs under Fence contractor, described in your services list rather than added as a category.
Yes - a new fence is a visible, high-pride purchase people are glad they made, and homeowners love showing it off. The catch is timing and actually asking. Most crews pack up and roll to the next job without ever asking, so the happy customer never gets around to it. Tradeloper sends the request automatically the day the job wraps, while the fresh fence is still the best thing in the yard, which is exactly when people say yes.
That is exactly why it is worth it. Because fencing is a one-time job, you cannot lean on repeat business - every new customer comes from someone finding you fresh on Google. Reviews and map-pack rank are your whole pipeline, so each 5-star review is not about that customer coming back, it is about winning the next ten who are searching right now.
On Pro it tracks your local rank for the searches that book jobs - "fence company," "fence installation," "vinyl fence installer" - across every town you serve, and maps it on a geo-grid so you can see where you show up and where you vanish. Pro also scores your Google Business Profile and tells you what to fix - photos, service areas, categories - so you climb the map pack. That get-found half is what separates it from a plain review tool.
Right now Tradeloper sends review requests by email, which works well for fencing since most homeowners hand you an email on the estimate anyway. Text-message requests are coming soon. Email lands because a fence customer is an involved, at-home buyer who checks their inbox, and the request goes out the moment the job is done and the yard looks great.
Search the business name together with its town on Google or in Google Maps, then read the number in brackets next to the star rating - that is how many reviews are published on its Google Business Profile right now. Tap that number to read them, and sort by Newest to see how recent they are. One thing to be clear about: Tradeloper cannot look a business up for you. It is software you run on your own Google profile, not a directory of other people's ratings.
Usually nothing sinister. Google removes reviews that break its content policies, and reviews go with a profile when it is merged, moved or closed, so a count can fall without anyone deleting anything themselves. Because the star rating is a plain average of the reviews that remain, a removal can shift the rating as well as the count.
Fence photos are gold, and on Pro, Tradeloper turns each finished job into a ready-to-post social update with the caption written for you, so a clean cedar privacy job or an aluminum pool fence keeps working after the trailer pulls away. Pro also auto-posts it to your Facebook Page, which keeps your business visible between jobs - not just a photo dump, but proof-of-work that helps you get found.
Yes — signing up is free and we don’t ask for a card. You get a 14-day free trial: add customers and send real Google review requests right away, so you can watch it actually work before you pay. Rank tracking and AI are capped during the trial — the geo-grid heatmap runs on a sample map instead of your own scan, you get one tracked keyword and one manual rank check, and 3 AI generations in total across posts, photo captions and review replies — and they live on Pro once the trial ends, not on Starter. When the trial ends, pick a plan ($19/month Starter for review collection, or $49/month Pro to keep rank tracking, AI posts and replies) to keep sending — and every paid plan is backed by a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can cancel from Settings whenever you like: pick a reason, confirm, done.
That depends on how many jobs you finish, because every completed job is one review request — your job volume sets the pace, not us. We would rather be straight with you than quote an average: Tradeloper is new, and our members are still too few to draw one from honestly — we publish their actual, live review numbers on our results page instead of advertising a figure we cannot stand behind. What we can promise is the mechanism — ask every customer right after the job, follow up once if they don’t act, and watch your review count daily so you can tell inside a couple of weeks whether it is working for you.
No. Email review requests are included in your subscription — no per-message fees, no surprise overages, no matter how many customers you add.
Most aren’t. The request is short, friendly, uses your business name, and reads like it came from you — not a marketing blast. It’s a single polite ask with a one-tap link and an easy opt-out. If you’ve already done good work, customers are usually happy to help.
The email review request arrives in their inbox with a one-tap link — many older customers tap it from a laptop at home. A polite follow-up goes out a few days later if they haven’t left a review yet. If a customer has no email, just ask them in person on your next visit.
Add them whenever you remember. The customer never knows when you set up the request — they just get a review request from you. Whether you add them 10 minutes after the job or 3 days later, it sends as soon as you tap Send. Most owners batch the day’s customers in the evening over a coffee.
Yes. As long as you have the customer’s name and email address and they’ve agreed to be contacted, you can add them. A mobile number is optional today — text requests are coming soon. Plenty of Tradeloper users run mixed residential/commercial books. Use the Notes field on each customer to track which side they’re on if it matters for your workflow.
Asking right after a job well done — when the customer is happiest — is the single biggest lever on review quality, and it is what Tradeloper automates. You can also pause review requests for any individual customer in one tap from your customer list. We never filter who gets asked (that’s illegal under the FTC’s Consumer Review Rule), but timing matters enormously.
Get found on Google — starting today.
Create your account, add your Google review link, add your first customer. Tradeloper sends the request and turns your best reviews into posts — so you show up and win the call.