If you’re using Onlinetradesmen.ie
Onlinetradesmen.ie is one way to find work. Here’s the other.
A long-running Irish subscription job board with strict trade vetting. It sells you a homeowner’s job, shared with other trades who then compete on price. PlanningLeads works the other way round: it shows you the project the job came from, earlier, filtered to your trade, and never resold to a rival.
What Onlinetradesmen.ie does well
Predictable cost and the strictest verification of the lot: formal qualifications or regulatory-body membership are mandatory, across 450-plus categories, with invoicing and marketing tools included. If you want a fixed monthly cost and a vetted board, it delivers.
Where the model leaves you exposed
The vetting and the flat fee are genuinely better than per-lead bidding. But the jobs are still reactive homeowner requests that every other member can see and quote. You're not competing on credits any more, you're competing on being first and cheapest to a shared board.
The different approach
Own the pipeline, not one shared job
Ireland publishes every planning application and commencement notice. PlanningLeads assembles all of it, from all 31 authorities, and hands you the part that matters to your trade, first.
Earlier in the story
You see a project when it files for planning or a commencement notice, before it's ever advertised as a job.
Yours, not shared
It's the public pipeline, not a lead we resold to three rivals. Nobody else buys the same one from us.
Filtered and sized
Narrowed to your trade and your counties, with the modelled value of the work to you on every site.
Side by side
Onlinetradesmen.ie vs PlanningLeads
| Onlinetradesmen.ie | PlanningLeads | |
|---|---|---|
| When you hear about the work | When a homeowner posts a job to the board | At planning or commencement, first, before it's advertised |
| Who else gets the same thing | Every browsing member | Nobody. It's the public pipeline, not a resold lead |
| What you're competing on | Being first and lowest to a shared board | Being first, on bigger and earlier work |
| What you're paying for | A flat subscription from around €43/mo | From €29/mo for every project in your county |
| What you actually see | A board of homeowner jobs | Every project in your county, mapped, filtered to your trade and sized by what it's worth |
You don’t have to choose
Onlinetradesmen gives you a vetted board of reactive jobs at a fixed cost. PlanningLeads gives you the project pipeline upstream of those jobs. They cover different halves of the same problem.
See it working, no signup
Every figure links back to the official public record.
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