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Contractor Connect

Customer portals for
small UK construction businesses

Your customers. Your projects.One branded portal.

Bring the quotes you already write, your project documents, site photos, progress updates and your customer's decisions into one portal that carries your company name. Keep the quoting software you use today.

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  • Upload the quote PDF. No Xero or QuickBooks connection needed.
  • Customers accept with their name and a recorded confirmation.
  • Your logo and colours, with Contractor Connect in the background.

Example portalFictional company and customer

Oakfield Construction

Customer portal

Alex Harlow

Hello, Alex.

Your quotes and project documents from Oakfield Construction, all in one place.

Quote awaiting your approval

Kitchen extension

Reference OC-1048 · Version 2 · Valid until 28 October 2026

£42,600

Review quote

Your projects

  • Kitchen extensionActive
  • Garden landscapingActive

Latest update

Foundations poured

6 October 2026

2 photos attached

What you did

Uploaded from your quoting software

kitchen-extension-quote-v2.pdf

Reference, date and total read for you to check

Published to

Alex Harlow · Kitchen extension

Invitation emailed · opens in their browser

Who it is for

Small contractors who quote in PDF and want customers to feel looked after.

Contractor Connect is built for one-van and small-team businesses, not for main contractors with a back office. If you write quotes, send drawings and take photos on site, it fits.

Builders
Extensions, loft conversions and refurbishments where the customer wants to see the quote, the drawings and what happened on site this week.
Landscapers
Gardens, patios and driveways with a clear quote, progress photos and a record of what the customer agreed to.
Groundworkers
Foundations, drainage and site work where staged payments and dated updates keep everyone on the same page.
Similar small contractors
Any trade that quotes in PDF and would rather the customer had one place to look than a long email thread.

How it works

From the quote you wrote to the screen your customer opens.

Four steps the first time. After that, each new project is a PDF upload and an invitation.

  1. 01

    Upload the quote you already wrote.

    Export it from your quoting software as a PDF. Contractor Connect reads the reference, date and total for you to check.

  2. 02

    Publish it to your customer.

    Pick the customer, confirm the details, and publish. Only a published version is ever visible in the portal.

  3. 03

    Invite them by email.

    They open the invitation, create a login with that email address and land in a portal that carries your branding.

  4. 04

    They review, accept and follow progress.

    The acceptance is recorded with their name, the wording they agreed to and a fingerprint of the PDF. Then documents, photos and updates follow in the same place.

Want the contractor and customer sides step by step? Read how it works.

Example portal

See what your customers see.

A walk through the portal for a fictional kitchen extension by Oakfield Construction. The layout is the real product; the people, project and figures are made up.

Example portalOakfield Construction and its customers are fictional. The example shows the portal layout with sample content, not a real project.

Oakfield Construction

Customer portal

Oakfield Construction

Quote

OC-1048 · Version 2 · 28 August 2026

For Alex Harlow

Kitchen extension

  • Groundworks and foundations£6,400
  • Structure, roof and openings£18,900
  • Kitchen fit-out allowance£12,100
  • Decoration and making good£5,200
Total£42,600

In the real portal this is your uploaded PDF, opened through a short-lived link.

Scope summary

  • Single-storey kitchen extension to the rear
  • Structural opening into the existing kitchen
  • Roof, insulation and external doors
  • Fit-out allowance for units and worktops
  • Making good and decoration

Amount

£42,600

Awaiting your decision

What you gain

Less chasing, clearer decisions, and your name on the door.

Everything below describes how the product works today. Nothing is a roadmap.

A decision you can point to.

When a customer accepts a quote, the portal records who accepted, the exact wording they confirmed, which version of the PDF they saw and when. Revisions ask for a fresh acceptance and keep the earlier one.

Fewer “can you send that again?” messages.

Drawings, specifications and the quote itself sit together on the project. You choose which files are shared and which stay with your team.

Customers see progress without chasing.

Publish a short dated update with photos from site. Customers read it in the portal and your inbox stays quieter.

You know what needs doing.

A notification bell and an action list show what is waiting: a quote decision, a payment or a setup task. Reading a notification does not tick the task off; the underlying record does.

Your company name on the door.

Your logo, colours and contact details across the portal. Contractor Connect stays in the background.

Branding

Your company takes centre stage.

Customers see your logo, colours and contact details. Contractor Connect stays in the background while the portal carries the company they hired.

At setup
Logo, accent colour, contact details
Portal appearance
Preset, primary and accent colours, light or dark header, cover image
Copy
Welcome heading, intro and an “About us” description
Sections
Show, hide and reorder the welcome, updates, showcase and contact blocks
Showcase
Photos of previous work under “Our work”

Customers sign in at www.contractorconnect.co.uk/portal. Company addresses of the form yourcompany.contractorconnect.co.uk are reserved at setup but are not live yet. A custom hostname is an optional yearly add-on, billed separately from the monthly subscription and the setup fee.

Appearance presets

The three presets in the product. Choosing one changes the Oakfield Construction example; this website keeps the Contractor Connect colours.

Example portalFictional company

Oakfield Construction

Customer portal

Alex Harlow

Hello, Alex.

Kitchen extension · Quote OC-1048 · £42,600

Awaiting your decision

Sandstone patio
Oak porch
Loft conversion

“Our work” showcase

01632 960184

hello@oakfield.example

Why it exists

Built by someone who has sent the quote, then the drawings, then the photos, one email at a time.

Contractor Connect was created by Brandon, drawing on his first-hand experience running a construction and landscaping business.

Important project information tends to end up spread across emails, PDF attachments and separate conversations. Customers lose track of which quote is current, and contractors spend evenings forwarding files. Contractor Connect gives each customer one branded place for the quote, the documents and the progress, without asking the contractor to change how they price work.

More about Contractor Connect

Pricing

One monthly price, plus a one-time setup.

One monthly price per company for the branded customer portal, plus a one-time setup fee. No per-customer or per-project charges.

Platform subscription

Contractor Connect

£10/ month

Plus £10 one-time setup

First payment £20, then £10 a month.

  • A branded customer portal for every customer you invite.
  • Quote PDF upload, publication and a recorded accept or decline.
  • Project documents, site photos and dated progress updates.
  • A showcase of your previous work inside the portal.
  • Owner and staff logins. One subscription covers the whole company.
  • In-app notifications and an action list.
  • Email invitations for your customers.

Monthly subscription. Cancel at any time and keep access to the end of the paid period.

Amounts are shown before any tax that applies. Checkout shows the final total before you confirm.

Optional add-on, billed separately

£300/ year

£300 a year for one custom portal hostname. This is optional and separate from the £10 monthly subscription and the £10 setup fee.

Customer payments through your own Stripe account are separate.

Create your accountWhat is included and how cancelling works

FAQs

Questions, answered.

Get started

Give your customers one place to look.

Create your account, set up your company and branding, and publish your first quote. £10 a month plus a £10 one-time setup fee.

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