Get more Google reviews. Win more locksmith calls. Built for locksmiths.
See exactly where you rank for “locksmith 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 “locksmith near me”, Google shows three businesses — and they get the calls. Everyone else is invisible.
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The locksmith 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 locksmiths get the call.
When someone is locked out of their car in a parking lot or standing on their porch at midnight without a key, they grab their phone and search "locksmith near me" and call the first trustworthy name they see. Because most people only need a locksmith once every few years, they have no regular guy, so they pick almost entirely on Google reviews and how close you are. Tradeloper helps you get found for those searches: it asks every customer for a Google review by email after the job is done, and on Pro it tracks where you rank on the local map for "locksmith near me" across your service area, and shows you the profile fixes that push you higher. Pro also turns your rekeys, lockouts, and lock installs into social posts that keep your name in front of your town. More 5-star reviews and a higher map rank mean the panicked person on the curb calls you, not the out-of-town call center.
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.
People only call a locksmith in a crisis, so they pick on reviews and distance alone.
Unlike a plumber or a shop they visit every year, most of your customers have never needed you before and have no referral to go on. When they are locked out or just got broken into, they open Google, and the locksmith with the most recent 5-star reviews sitting at the top of the map gets the call. If you are not there, the job goes to whoever is, even if your work is better. Tradeloper gets you the reviews and the rank so you are the obvious choice in that moment.
The trade is full of fake listings and bait-and-switch call centers, and it makes honest locksmiths look guilty by association.
Customers have heard the horror stories, the $19 ad that turns into a $250 bill, the "local" number that routes to an out-of-state dispatcher who sends an unlicensed subcontractor. That fear is your biggest obstacle. A wall of real, named, local 5-star reviews is the fastest way to prove you are a real person in their town who charges what you quote. Tradeloper makes collecting that proof automatic instead of something you always forget to ask for.
Most locksmith jobs are one-and-done, so your reputation has to do the repeat business for you.
A lockout or a rekey is usually a single visit, and that customer may not need you again for years. Your growth depends on being the name strangers find and property managers remember. Every completed job that turns into a public review and a higher map rank compounds, and on Pro, Tradeloper's job pins and AI social posts keep your recent work visible so the next person searching sees a busy, trusted locksmith, not a quiet listing.
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 locksmith 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 Turnkey Mobile Locksmith 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.
Locksmith reviews are a race against relief. A lockout customer is stressed when they call you and calm again ten minutes after you leave, and that feeling fades faster than in almost any other trade. If the request does not go out the same day, it usually does not go out at all.
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 locksmith 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 locksmith business
Locksmith work is emergency work with a trust problem attached. Your customer is locked out, stressed, worried about being overcharged, and comparing you against a page full of national lead-generation sites.
Ask at the moment of relief
The door opens and the whole thing is over. Ninety seconds later they are back inside and thinking about something else.
Quote before you start, every time
The single biggest source of bad locksmith reviews is a price that changed at the door. A customer who paid what they were told is a customer who will say so.
Reviews are your defense against the lead sites
Prospects searching in a panic scroll past the ads to find someone real and local. A profile with genuine local reviews is what stops them clicking a call center.
Say what you fitted
ANSI grade, the cylinder brand, deadbolt versus smart lock. Security work is bought on specifics, and specifics are what make a review persuasive to the next person.
ANSI/BHMA grading is a real test, not marketing: Grade 1 survives 250,000 cycles and ten hammer blows at 75 ft-lb, Grade 2 does 150,000 and five, Grade 3 does 100,000 and two. Most locks sold in hardware stores are Grade 3 — which belongs on an interior door, not a front door.
ANSI/BHMA standards as published by locksmith trade sources (ACME Locksmith, PDQ), read 2026-08-25 · as of August 2026
Tradeloper emails the request after the job so an emergency call at 2am still turns into a review the next morning.
Get found
The right Google category for a locksmiths
Primary category
Locksmith
One category, and it is the whole trade.
Watch out
Locksmith is one of the most aggressively policed verticals on Google Maps because of a long history of lead-gen spam. Expect a stricter verification, and never list an address you do not occupy.
Yes, especially after an emergency. Someone you rescued from a midnight lockout or a break-in is grateful and relieved, and that is the best moment to ask. The problem is timing and remembering to ask at all when you are already driving to the next call. Tradeloper sends the review request by email automatically right after you close the job, so you capture that goodwill while it is fresh instead of losing it. SMS review requests are coming soon.
Two ways. It builds up the steady flow of fresh 5-star Google reviews that Google rewards with higher local ranking, and on the Pro plan it tracks exactly where you land on the map across your whole service area with a geo-grid heatmap, so you can see the neighborhoods where you are invisible and fix them. It also scores your Google Business Profile and tells you the specific changes that move you up the map pack.
That is exactly why it is worth it. When customers only need you once and have no regular locksmith, they choose entirely on what they see on Google, reviews and rank. You do not get a second chance from a referral, so being the top, best-reviewed result is the whole game. Tradeloper is built to win that first-impression search when someone is standing there with their phone out.
Starter is $19/mo ($179/yr) for review collection and daily Google review tracking. Pro is $49/mo ($449/yr) and adds local rank tracking, the geo-grid rank heatmap, Google Business Profile scoring, job pins, AI social posts, and auto-posting to Facebook. It is self-serve, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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.
No, collecting reviews is only half of it. The other half is getting found, and that half is Pro: it tracks your local map rank, shows a geo-grid heatmap of where you rank across town, scores your Google Business Profile, and turns your jobs into social posts. Plenty of tools ask for reviews. Tradeloper connects those reviews to actually ranking higher and winning the search when someone types "locksmith near me".
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.