Terms of Service

A hosted platform for running a trade contracting business: quoting, scheduling, time tracking, job costing, purchasing, invoicing and a customer-facing site. We provide it as a service over the internet; you do not receive a copy of the software.

You are responsible for the accuracy of your account details, for keeping credentials secure, and for what people you invite do with the access you give them. Tell us promptly if you believe an account has been compromised.

• New organizations get a 14-day trial with no card required.
• After the trial, subscriptions are billed monthly or annually in advance, at the plan and per-seat rate shown when you subscribe. A seat is a person who can sign in — employees who never log in are not billed.
• Adding people during a billing period adjusts your subscription accordingly.
• Fees are non-refundable except where required by law. We may change pricing with at least 30 days' notice before it applies to you.

A failed payment does not lock you out immediately. There is a grace period during which the service continues and we attempt to collect.

If it is not resolved, the account becomes read-only: you keep access to your records and can export them, but cannot create new work. Work already in progress can still be closed out — a crew clocked in when an account lapses can still clock out, because hours already worked are wages and not leverage.

You own the business records you put into Blue-Trades. We claim no ownership of them and use them only to provide the service, as described in our Privacy Policy.

You can export your data at any time while your account is active. On cancellation we retain it for a limited period so an account can be recovered, then delete it.

You agree not to:

• use the service unlawfully, or to store unlawful content
• attempt to access another organization's data, or probe or breach our security
• resell or provide the service to third parties as though it were your own, without our agreement
• interfere with the service's operation, including by overloading it
• reverse engineer the software except to the extent the law permits

You may connect third-party accounts, such as QuickBooks Online. Doing so authorises us to exchange the data those features need on your behalf. Those services are governed by their own terms, we are not responsible for them, and you can withdraw a connection at any time from your settings.

We work to keep Blue-Trades available and to protect your data, including backups. We do not promise uninterrupted service: maintenance, third-party outages and faults happen. No specific uptime is guaranteed unless we have agreed one with you in writing.

Blue-Trades is a record-keeping tool. It is not legal, tax, accounting or payroll advice, and it does not determine what you owe anyone.

Overtime calculations, job costs, tax figures and payroll exports are computed from what you enter and the settings you choose. You remain responsible for paying your people correctly and meeting your own legal obligations, and for checking that the figures are right before relying on them.

To the fullest extent the law allows, Blue-Trades is provided “as is” without warranties of any kind, and we are not liable for indirect, incidental or consequential damages, or for lost profits or data.

Our total liability for any claim relating to the service is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.

You may cancel at any time; the subscription runs to the end of the period you have paid for. We may suspend or terminate an account for a material breach of these terms, or for non-payment, and will give notice and a chance to put it right where it is reasonable to do so.

We may update these terms. Material changes will be notified to account owners before they take effect, and the date at the top will change. Continuing to use the service after that means you accept the revised terms.

Questions about these terms can be sent to support@blue-trades.com.