Get found on Google. Win more local jobs. Built for HVAC companies.
See exactly where you rank for “ac repair 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 “ac repair near me”, Google shows three businesses — and they get the calls. Everyone else is invisible.
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The HVAC 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 HVAC companies get the call.
HVAC is the most seasonal trade there is. The first 95-degree day of summer or the first hard freeze sets off a flood of "ac repair near me" and "furnace not working" searches - and the homeowner sweating in a hot house calls whoever sits at the top of the map pack with the most reviews. The HVAC company that has been quietly collecting 5-star reviews all year wins those panic calls. The one that forgot to ask is invisible exactly when demand peaks. Tradeloper builds that review base automatically, and on Pro it shows you where you rank before the season hits.
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.
Demand spikes overnight - your ranking needs to already be there.
You cannot build a review base during a heat wave; you need it before. Tradeloper asks every customer year-round so that when the calls surge, you are already the top result instead of scrambling.
Your installs are high-ticket and emotional - the best reviews you will ever get.
A new AC or furnace is thousands of dollars and a huge relief. That customer is thrilled and motivated; Tradeloper captures the review the same day instead of letting the moment cool off.
Maintenance customers are your most loyal reviewers - capture them once.
Service-contract and tune-up customers see you twice a year and trust you most, but each person leaves one Google review. Tradeloper tracks who has already reviewed so you ask the contacts who have not, instead of pestering the ones who already did.
Last reviewed August 2026.
How to
How to get Google reviews for an HVAC business
HVAC demand arrives in two spikes a year, and so does customer gratitude. The maintenance visits in between are where most reviews are quietly lost.
The first hot day and the first cold night are your review season
When someone has been sweating for two days waiting for a part, restoring their comfort is worth more to them than the price. Ask then, not three weeks later.
Maintenance visits need a different ask
Nothing was broken, so nothing feels solved. Give them the finding instead: the capacitor reading, the filter state, what you cleaned. That is the review.
Commercial work: the site contact, not the finance office
Accounts approved the invoice and never met you. The facilities lead stood in the mechanical room while you diagnosed it.
Install jobs deserve a delayed ask
A new system is judged on the first full month of running cost and comfort, not on the day the van leaves.
Furnaces run 15–25 years, air conditioners 12–15, heat pumps 10–15. What moves those numbers most is not the brand: maintenance quality is worth an estimated 5–7 years and installation quality 3–5. Climate matters too — the same AC lasts 13–16 years in Phoenix and 20–25 in Seattle.
Manufacturer guidance (Bryant, Carrier) and HVAC trade sources, read 2026-08-25 · as of August 2026
Tradeloper sends the request automatically after each completed job, including the maintenance ones nobody remembers to ask about.
Get found
The right Google category for a HVAC companies
Primary category
HVAC contractor
Correct when you do both heating and cooling. If you truly only fix air conditioning, Air conditioning repair service describes you more precisely and Google tells you to pick the most specific fit.
Watch out
Adding all four AC categories plus all three heating ones does not make you more findable. It makes your profile a list of synonyms, which is exactly what Google's guidelines tell you not to do.
Yes, especially after installs and emergency repairs - the relief of getting heat or AC back makes people want to help. The key is asking within a day, which Tradeloper does automatically so you never miss the window.
Review volume and recency are two of the biggest factors Google weighs, and they take time to build - so you collect them in the off-season. On Pro, Tradeloper also tracks your position for searches like ac repair near me so you can see your ranking climbing before summer.
You do not have to stop and do it. Add the customer when you close out the job, or batch the day in the evening, and Tradeloper sends the request for you - even on your busiest days.
Yes. Property managers and facility contacts can leave reviews too, and a strong profile wins the residential service calls that fill your schedule. Use Notes to track which side each customer is on.
Yes, as long as you ask everyone and do not filter for only the happy ones - that is required by Google and the FTC. Tradeloper asks every customer you add, so you stay compliant automatically.
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.