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Recurring revenue for trades

The customers you already have are worth more than the ones you are chasing.

You did good work for them once. Then they forgot your name and called whoever showed up first on Google. Not because you are bad at the job. Because nobody followed up, and the only one who could was you, and you were under a house. We build the system that follows up for you. A plan your customers pay every month, billing that renews itself, and reminders that go out without you remembering a thing.

We build it and run it. You own the customers and the money.
Example app
9:41
R Rivercity Heating & Air
Active
Comfort Club
Better
Member rate on repairs
15% off
Status
Member
Spring tune-up
Time to book. Tap to grab a slot.
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Straight talk first

An app will not find you new customers. We are not going to pretend it does.

What this is not

No app brings in strangers. Most people will never download one shop's app, and that is fine. This was never about chasing new business.

What this is

It is about the customers you already earned. The good ones. The plan keeps them paying, the app keeps you in their pocket, and your best repeat customers are the ones who keep it. Those are the ones worth keeping.

The plan is the engine. The app is how it stays on their phone. We would rather tell you the limit to your face than oversell you and lose you. You have been oversold before. Not by us.

The recurring-revenue engine, built and run for you

The system remembers your customers so you do not have to.

Every shop means to follow up. Almost none do. Because the owner is the one who has to remember, and the owner is on a roof. We set it up once and let it run.

01 / THE PLAN

A membership your customers buy

Three tiers, good, better, best, priced for your trade. A tune-up or two a year, a member price on repairs, and front of the line when it breaks at the worst time. We hand you the playbook to sell it and a one-page card for the van.

Why it mattersA member already paid to call you first. The other guy never gets the call.

02 / THE BILLING

Signup and renewals that run themselves

We set up the signup and the recurring billing right on your own website. The money lands in your account, and the customer stays yours. Monthly auto-pay, annual auto-renew. You are not chasing checks or rebilling anyone by hand.

Why it mattersRecurring money shows up in the slow weeks, whether the phone rings or not.

03 / THE APP

Your own branded phone app, where it all lives a tap away

Their plan, their next visit, and one tap straight through to their service history and warranty, all behind your name on their phone. The records live in your system. The app is the fast way in, so when a customer wonders when you were last out, the answer is a tap away, not a call to you.

Why it mattersThe easy path back is always to you, not a stranger.

04 / THE REMINDERS

Follow-up that fires on its own

They go out on a schedule, to the right customer, with nobody lifting a finger. Your tune-up is due. Your filter is due. Your warranty is running out.

Why it mattersThat is the work that fills your slow weeks, and it books itself while you are on the job.

You do not have to remember to call last spring's customers. The system does it for you.

Run the math

A plan member pays you whether the phone rings or not.

Say a tune-up plan runs thirty-five dollars a month. You already did the work to earn these customers once. This is getting paid for it again, on a schedule, without winning anyone new.

20 members$700 a month
100 members$3,500 a month
200 membersSlow season, gone

Example math on a $35 a month plan. Arithmetic, not a TA price or a promise.

Why it worksIt costs far less to keep a customer than to win one. General business research puts winning a new one at several times the cost of keeping one you already have. The membership is how you keep them on purpose, instead of by luck.

What it takesWe build the plan, the billing, and the app, and set the reminders to run. You keep working. It is live in weeks, not months, and then it runs without you.

What your customer sees

Your shop, in their pocket.

Examples of what a contractor's app looks like. Your brand, your trade, your plan.

Example
9:41
R Rivercity Heating & Air
Active
Membership
Comfort Club, Better
Your member rate
15% off repairs
What is included
  • Two tune-ups a year, booked for you
  • Member rate on every repair
  • Front of the line when it breaks
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The plan and the member price, always in front of them. A reason to keep the app, and a reason to stay a member.

Example
9:41
R Rivercity Heating & Air
RIVERCITY HEATING & AIR · now
Your spring tune-up is due
Tap to book before the summer rush. Members get first pick of times.
RIVERCITY HEATING & AIR · 2d
Time to change your filter
A clean filter keeps the bill down. Want one delivered?
RIVERCITY HEATING & AIR · 1w
Your warranty is expiring soon
Here is what it covers, and how to renew.
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Reminders they are glad to get, sent to the right person on a schedule. Useful, never spam. Push too much and they delete it, so we do not.

Example
9:41
R Rivercity Heating & Air
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One tap to everything, all behind your shop's name. The records live in your system; the app is the fast way in.

Is this an engine for your trade, or just a perk?

We will tell you straight.

This works when your customers have a reason to come back on a schedule. For some trades that is the whole business. For others, the app is a nice extra, and we will say so.

An engine

Trades people call again and again

HVAC seasonal tune-upsPlumbing water heater, drainsElectrical safety-check plansGarage door annual service

Your customers need you on a schedule. A plan and the app turn that into money you can count on, and a customer who calls you first because he already paid to.

A perk

Trades people call once

LocksmithRestorationGeneral contractor

When the work is a one-time emergency or a once-in-a-decade job, an app is a nice touch, not a paycheck, and we will not sell you one as if it were. For these, the real money is upstream, the phone getting answered and the job getting booked. If you run restoration, what you need is dispatch and insurance intake, and that is a different talk we are glad to have.

For HVAC especially

You are not just booking work. You are building a business you can sell.

A book of customers who pay every month, who come back on a schedule, and who stay when you are not the one answering the phone. That is the part of an HVAC business a buyer pays the most for. Every plan member you sign is worth more than the job, because it is worth something the day you sell.

2 to 3x

Small HVAC businesses typically sell for around two to three times owner earnings, and larger ones run on EBITDA at six to ten times and up. Industry figures, not a promise.

Higher

Buyers pay more for recurring maintenance-agreement revenue than for one-time work, often a half turn to a full turn higher on the multiple, because predictable revenue carries less risk for them.

1 to 3x

Many buyers value the contract book on its own, on top of the business. A common buyer approach is to price it around one to three times its yearly revenue, because a transferable base of members is exactly what they are buying.

2026

The private-equity buyers rolling up HVAC right now screen for three things: the share of recurring revenue, a customer database that transfers, and a business that runs without the owner. A plan program builds all three.

Nobody can promise a number. The figures above are how buyers and the industry generally talk about value, not a guarantee about your shop.

Thinking about selling one day? See the sell-your-business page →
Getting it on their phone

The download does not depend on anyone remembering.

Customers install at the one moment they are glad you showed up, the end of a job done well. Then the reminders take over on their own.

1

At the door

Your tech hands them the app, benefit first, and we give them the words: "Scan this. Your warranty and your next visit live here, and members get the member rate."

2

On the invoice

A branded code rides every invoice and the review request after it, so there is always a simple way in.

3

From then on, automatic

About a month out, the reminders start on their own, the tune-up, the filter, the warranty, sent to the right customer without you lifting a finger.

Not everyone you have ever served will install it, and they do not need to. Your best repeat customers and your plan members keep it, and those are the ones you cannot afford to lose.

Let's build the part that brings them back.

Tell us your trade. If it is an engine for you, we build the whole thing, the plan, the billing, the app, and the reminders, and run it. If it is not, we will say so, and we will not take the build.

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