What counts as multi-trade?

Running more than one kind of service work — plumbing, HVAC, electrical, appliance, handyman, or general contracting — whether you do it under one brand or several. If a normal week includes two or more trades, you are a multi-trade operator, and MasterBuilds is built to keep each kind of work on its own color-coded lane instead of one undifferentiated list.

Do I need a separate account for each trade?

No. One workspace, one login, and one flat $99-a-month bill cover every trade and every crew member you run. Each trade lives as its own entity inside that single workspace — its own color, its own board, its own books — but it is never a separate account or a separate subscription. What it costs to run one trade is what it costs to run all of them.

How do jobs stay sorted by trade?

MasterBuilds color-codes every job by the entity it belongs to. Set each trade up as its own entity and its jobs carry their own edge color on the shared board, so plumbing work, HVAC work, and electrical work each read as a distinct lane at a glance. Status is a separate channel — the fill of the card — so you always see both what state a job is in and which trade it is.

What if my trades are separate legal businesses?

Then you are really running multiple businesses, not just multiple trades, and MasterBuilds handles that too. Each business becomes its own entity with its own separate books, and you can invoice one of your businesses from another when their work crosses over. That is the multi-business setup, covered in depth on the field service software for multiple businesses page.

Industries · Multi-trade

Run several trades from one workspace

Plumbing one day, an HVAC changeout the next, an electrical panel on Friday — plenty of operators do all of it. MasterBuilds puts every trade you run on one status board, each one its own color, so the work never blurs together. One login, one flat price, every trade in one place.

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One workspace

Plumbing, HVAC, and electrical on one board

Software built for a single trade wants your whole operation to be that one thing. The moment you take on a second and a third kind of work, it has nowhere to put them — so multi-trade jobs pile into one flat list with no way to tell a drain call from a condenser service from a panel upgrade.

MasterBuilds gives every trade its own color. That color rides the edge of the card and a dot beside the name; it never fills the card, because the fill is reserved for status. Read one board and you see two things at once — what state each job is in, and which trade it belongs to. It is the combo view a single-trade tool structurally can't give you.

One board3 trades

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Drain callout — 5 Birch Ct

PlumbingJust now

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Condenser service — Bldg C

HVAC

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Panel upgrade — 8 Pine Ave

Electrical2.0 hrs logged

Multi-trade vs multi-business

Multi-trade vs multi-business, explained

These sound the same and aren't. Multi-trade is about the kind of work — you do plumbing and HVAC and electrical. Multi-business is about how you're set up — you own two or three separate companies, each with its own name on the invoice and its own books. A handyman who does every trade under one brand is multi-trade, one business. An operator who owns a plumbing company and a separate HVAC company is multi-business.

MasterBuilds covers both, because it sorts everything by entity. Run several trades under one brand and each trade becomes an entity — its own color and lane on the board. That's this page. Run several separate legal businesses and each company becomes an entity with its own separate books, plus the ability to bill one from another. That's the setup our pillar, field service software for multiple businesses, is built for end to end — start there if your trades are really separate companies.

Who it's for

Built for the handyman and the multi-service operator

The clearest fit is the operator who never picked one lane: the handyman who does plumbing, small electrical, and the odd HVAC swap; the general contractor whose crew covers whatever a property needs; the property-maintenance outfit that fixes it all. Your day already crosses trades — your software should keep up instead of forcing every job into one bucket.

It also fits the operator on the way to something bigger. Set each trade up as its own entity now, and when one grows into a real separate business the split is already there — no migration, no re-entering a year of jobs.

Organized by trade

Per-trade boards and books, one flat price

Each trade is an entity, and every entity keeps its own board slice and its own books. Filter to just the HVAC work when that's the day's focus, or read all three trades together when you're planning the week. Numbers roll up per trade, not into one blended total, so you always know which line of work is paying.

All of it is one flat price: $99 a month, unlimited crew and unlimited trades, with no per-technician fee and no charge for adding the next kind of work. That's the whole point of flat-rate pricing — the bill for a plumbing-only shop and a shop running four trades with a full crew is exactly the same.

Pick your trade

Want the detail for one line of work? Each trade has its own page — the same workspace, framed for how that trade actually runs.

Questions about running multiple trades

What counts as multi-trade?: Running more than one kind of service work — plumbing, HVAC, electrical, appliance, handyman, or general contracting — whether you do it under one brand or several. If a normal week includes two or more trades, you are a multi-trade operator, and MasterBuilds is built to keep each kind of work on its own color-coded lane instead of one undifferentiated list.
Do I need a separate account for each trade?: No. One workspace, one login, and one flat $99-a-month bill cover every trade and every crew member you run. Each trade lives as its own entity inside that single workspace — its own color, its own board, its own books — but it is never a separate account or a separate subscription. What it costs to run one trade is what it costs to run all of them.
How do jobs stay sorted by trade?: MasterBuilds color-codes every job by the entity it belongs to. Set each trade up as its own entity and its jobs carry their own edge color on the shared board, so plumbing work, HVAC work, and electrical work each read as a distinct lane at a glance. Status is a separate channel — the fill of the card — so you always see both what state a job is in and which trade it is.
What if my trades are separate legal businesses?: Then you are really running multiple businesses, not just multiple trades, and MasterBuilds handles that too. Each business becomes its own entity with its own separate books, and you can invoice one of your businesses from another when their work crosses over. That is the multi-business setup, covered in depth on the field service software for multiple businesses page.

Run every trade from one workspace

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