No monthly fee, no sign-up cost, nothing to cancel. You pay when money moves, and you pay nothing when it doesn’t.
What it costs
Taken as the job goes, not in one lump at the end. Your client pays nothing. Your trades pay nothing.
Why it’s worth it
You buy materials and pay wages before the client pays you. That money comes from somewhere.
Invoice at the end and hope.
Materials and wages come out of your pocket for weeks. If they’re slow, you chase. If they don’t pay, you’ve already spent it. And the next job waits until this one clears.
An overdraft or invoice finance bridges the gap.
It’s a facility to apply for, usually with a personal guarantee, and the debt sits on your name whether the client pays or not.
Your client’s money sits with us before the work starts.
They approve a stage, the money goes out — to your trades and to you. £200 on a £10,000 job. Nothing to apply for, nothing to pay back, and no exposure if the client changes their mind.
What you get for it
The rest of it
Projects are 2%. Day-rate bookings work differently.
| Who pays | What for | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Builder | Booking someone for a day | 5% of the booking |
| Homeowner | Booking someone for a day | 6% of the booking |
| Homeowner | Being the client on a project | 0% |
| Tradesperson | Any booking, or working on someone else’s project | 0% |
Worked together before? If you and the other party have already finished and paid for a booking on Cabin, the next booking between you is 2.5%.
Discount codes, when we run them, come off the standard booking rate on a first booking only.
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What you pay depends on what you’re doing on the job, not what it says on your account.
It’s your client, you take their money, and you pay the other trades out of it. That’s running the job, so you pay what someone running a job pays — 2%. Doesn’t matter whether you signed up as a builder or a tradesperson.
Turn up, do the work, get paid. That’s free, and it stays free however many projects you work on.
Not a fee
Goes to HMRC. We just do the sums.
Yours. We collect it and hand it over.
Want to know what a day rate actually leaves you with? Put it in the calculator — rate in, status picked, see what lands.
Download the app and start a project — there’s nothing to sign up for and nothing to buy on this page.