Lock work booked in writing, at a price you set before you travel
Lock changes, uPVC door repairs and security upgrades. Customers book online, describe the door, and see the price before you set off.
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What they answer, and what you get
A booking form built for your trade, not a generic one adapted from something else. The answers land in your job sheet before you set off.
Questions they answer at booking
- ✓What the lock or door is doing
- ✓Door type (uPVC, composite, wooden, aluminium)
- ✓Whether the door still opens
- ✓Make of the existing lock, if they know it
- ✓Property type and postcode
Features built for locksmiths
- ✓A written, timestamped price the customer accepts before you travel
- ✓Same-day work flagged urgent, with an optional call-out uplift applied automatically
- ✓Deposits on planned work like cylinder upgrades and door mechanisms
- ✓Job photos and an itemised invoice naming the parts and the standard fitted
- ✓Repeat lock changes for letting agents kept against the customer record
Pre-built service menu
We pre-populate your services when you sign up. Edit anything, add your own, remove what doesn't apply.
Euro Cylinder Change
~30 min
£105–£150
estimate
Anti-Snap Cylinder Upgrade
~30 min
£137–£200
estimate
Mortice Lock Change
~90 min
£148–£220
estimate
uPVC Door Not Locking: Diagnose & Adjust
~45 min
£85–£120
estimate
uPVC Door Mechanism Replacement
~90 min
£150–£350
estimate
Window Lock Repair
~30 min
£69–£150
estimate
Security Survey & Written Quote
~45 min
Free quote
estimate
Why UK locksmiths use TradeBooked
Locksmithing has a reputation problem that is not yours and still costs you work. The customer has read the warnings about a price quoted on the phone and a different one on the doorstep, so by the time they call you they are half expecting to be had. A booking page that shows the price and puts it in writing before you set off answers that before you have said a word.
A good share of the work is not an emergency at all. A stiff handle that has been getting worse for weeks, an insurance renewal that wants a five lever mortice, a landlord changing the locks between tenants. That work is quotable, schedulable and repeatable, and it is the part a diary and a booking page are actually built for.
The van decides the job. A euro cylinder swap and a failed multipoint gearbox are different visits with different parts, and the difference between one trip and two is knowing before you drive. Job notes come in with the booking, and you can add photos and an itemised invoice naming the parts and the standard fitted, which is also the paperwork an insurer or a letting agent will ask for later.
For same-day work the customer can flag the job urgent, and you can set a call-out uplift that is added automatically. Emergencies still mostly arrive by phone, and nothing here pretends otherwise. What this does is take the planned half of the trade off your hands so the phone is free for the half that cannot wait.
Found in search - not behind a paywall
Your locksmith booking page ships with local-business structured data and is submitted in our sitemap, so Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and AI search tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) can index it directly. Customers searching for a locksmith in your area find you - not a marketplace lineup.
Is TradeBooked right for locksmiths?
A good fit if
- ✓You are a self-employed locksmith taking your own bookings, and you want them online 24/7 without playing phone tag.
- ✓You want customers to send job details, and a deposit, up front, so you arrive prepared and no-shows cost the customer, not you.
- ✓You want your own direct booking link and page, not a listing on a lead-generation marketplace.
Probably not, if
- –You want a marketplace to find you new customers. TradeBooked manages bookings from customers who already have your link. Pair it with Checkatrade or MyBuilder if you still want lead generation.
- –You run a large multi-branch or franchise operation. TradeBooked is built for solo locksmiths and small teams.
The facts
- •No commission, ever. Deposits and payments go straight to your own Stripe account. TradeBooked never takes a percentage and charges no per-lead fee.
- •Flat monthly subscription from £29/month, on the Solo, Pro, or Autopilot plan.
- •10-day free trial, no credit card required. You can be live and taking bookings the same day.
- •Your own booking page, indexed by Google, Bing and AI search, not a marketplace listing you share with competing trades.
- •Built only for self-employed UK tradespeople.
- •Operated by SDAN LTD, registered in England and Wales (company 17147199) and with the ICO (ZC214549). TradeBooked is a registered UK trade mark, UK00004402515. The only official domain is www.tradebooked.co.uk.
Frequently asked questions
The honest answer is that a booking page will not catch a lockout. Someone standing on their own doorstep at nine at night phones, and they should. What TradeBooked handles is the rest: lock changes, cylinder upgrades, uPVC door repairs, window locks and post-tenancy work, which is planned, quotable and a large share of the week. Taking that off the phone is what leaves you free to answer the emergencies.
Yes. You set a price or a price range per service and it is shown on your booking page before the customer confirms. You can also send a written quote they accept online, which is timestamped and kept against the job. For a trade where doorstep price changes are the main public complaint, having it in writing first is the point.
You can set a call-out uplift that is added automatically when a customer books a same-day job and flags it urgent. It is a single figure rather than a rate card that varies by hour or by day, so if you price differently at two in the morning than at teatime, that part is still on you.
No. Locksmithing is not a licensed trade anywhere in the UK, so there is nothing you are required to hold. If you are an MLA member or an approved company you can show that on your booking page on the Pro and Autopilot plans, the same as any other trade badge.
No, and you should be wary of anything that says it can. Locks are certified by the test house, not by the person fitting them: a cylinder carries its own TS 007 rating and a mortice its BS 3621 Kitemark. What you can issue is a clear record of what was fitted where, with photos and an itemised invoice naming the product and the standard it is certified to, which is what a homeowner needs for their insurance file and what an agent needs for theirs.
Yes, on the Pro plan via Stripe. It suits planned work like cylinder upgrades, multipoint mechanisms and full door hardware changes, where you are ordering parts. Funds go straight to your own Stripe account and TradeBooked takes no percentage.
Partly. Repeat lock changes are kept against the customer record with the history of what was fitted, so a second job at the same property is not starting from nothing. What it does not yet do is model an agent who pays for work at many different addresses as a single account, so today that is one customer record per property.
Yes. 10 days free, no credit card required. Most tradespeople are live and taking bookings the same day.
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