Get found on Google. Win more local jobs. Built for painters.
See exactly where you rank for “painter 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 “painter near me”, Google shows three businesses — and they get the calls. Everyone else is invisible.
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The painting 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 painters get the call.
Painting is a before-and-after trade, and the reveal is one of the most satisfying moments in home services - which makes it the perfect time to earn a review. Homeowners also weigh trust heavily, because a painting crew is inside their home for days. Before they book, they search "painter near me" and read the reviews to see who is reliable, clean, and worth letting in. Tradeloper turns every finished job into a review request at the right moment, and on Pro it tracks where you rank so the calls keep coming.
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.
The reveal is the perfect moment to ask - and it is easy to miss.
When the customer sees the finished room or the fresh exterior, their reaction is exactly the feeling that produces a 5-star review. Ask that day, not next week. Tradeloper sends the request while the wow is fresh.
Customers let you live in their home for days - reviews prove you are safe to.
Trust is a big part of the decision. A deep, recent review history showing you are tidy, respectful, and on time is what convinces the next homeowner to hand you a key.
Painting is project-based, so every customer counts.
You do not have hundreds of small jobs a week - you have a steady stream of meaningful projects. Missing a review on any one of them is a real loss, so Tradeloper makes sure every customer gets asked.
Last reviewed August 2026.
How to
How to get Google reviews for a painting and decorating business
Painting is one of the few trades where the customer lives inside the work for several days. They are reviewing the whole experience, not just the finish.
Cleanliness is judged daily, not at the end
Dust sheets, masking, where the tins live overnight. A customer who has stepped around your mess for four days remembers it regardless of how good the walls look.
Ask once the room is back in use
Furniture moved back, pictures rehung, the smell gone. That is when they see the room rather than the job.
Preparation is invisible and worth explaining
Filling, sanding, priming and the two coats nobody counts. Say what you did or the customer assumes it was one coat and a quick roll.
Color changes are a conversation, not a complaint
Customers who chose the color themselves sometimes hate it. Handling that well is exactly what a good review describes.
A professional exterior job holds 7–10 years. Without proper surface preparation most last 3–5. That gap is the entire argument for your price, and it is invisible to the customer unless you tell them. By material: wood 3–7 years, aluminum around 5, stucco and vinyl about 10, painted brick 15–20.
Painting trade guidance (CertaPro, Angi), read 2026-08-25 · as of August 2026
Tradeloper emails the request after the job, so a job that ran into a second week still ends with an ask.
Get found
The right Google category for a painters
Primary category
Painter
Straightforward, with one oddity: Google's list also contains a near-identical entry simply called “Painting”. Pick Painter and do not agonize over it.
Watch out
Google spells drywall as two words: “Dry wall contractor”. Type “drywall” into the picker and you will conclude the category does not exist.
Yes - the visible transformation makes painting one of the easier trades to get reviews for, as long as you ask at the reveal while the customer is still admiring the work. Tradeloper sends the request automatically so you never miss that window.
Right at the final walkthrough, when the customer sees the finished result. That is the peak of their satisfaction. Add them to Tradeloper at job close and the request goes out at the right moment.
It builds the two factors you control - review volume and recency - on any plan. Pro adds a Google Business Profile score and map-pack rank tracking so you can watch your ranking climb.
Yes. Any customer with a name and email can be added, and property managers or GCs can review your commercial work too. Use Notes to track the type of job.
Yes, as long as you ask everyone and do not cherry-pick only the happy ones - Google and the FTC both require that. Tradeloper asks every customer you add, so you stay compliant by default.
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.