Copper spikes. Lumber jumps. Diesel climbs. You find out after you've locked in a price. TradeWatch pings your phone the moment a material crosses your number.
Copper, lumber, rebar, drywall, PEX, refrigerant, fuel — choose what you actually buy on the job.
Enter the price that changes your quote. We watch it and do nothing until it moves.
Price crosses your target — you get an email and a notification on your phone or computer. Instantly.
Framing to finish, across every trade. New categories added as we go.
TradeWatch is a material price alert service for contractors and tradespeople. You pick the materials you buy, set the price that matters to your quote, and we notify you the moment it crosses — so you stop checking prices all day and never get caught by a spike after you have locked in a quote.
50+ materials across 9 categories: metals (copper, aluminum, steel), lumber and panels, concrete and masonry, roofing, drywall and insulation, plumbing (PEX, PVC, copper pipe), electrical, HVAC and refrigerant, and fuel and sitework (diesel, gasoline, propane). It suits plumbers, electricians, HVAC techs, roofers, framers, concrete crews and general contractors.
By email and by push notification on your phone or computer. Set a target price on each material; when the price crosses it, you get the alert.
Plans are in Canadian dollars with no GST/HST added at checkout: $49 per month, $129 every 3 months, or $490 per year. The annual plan works out to about $41 a month — two months free compared with paying monthly. There is no free trial.
TradeWatch checks public sources every hour. Fuel and metals such as diesel, gasoline, copper and aluminum use daily market prices; most building materials are estimated from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics producer-price indexes (via FRED), which are published monthly. Prices are indicative benchmarks in U.S. units, not supplier quotes — always confirm with your supplier before you quote or buy.
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A pop-up on this device the moment a price crosses. Works on desktop Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Android. On iPhone, add TradeWatch to your Home Screen first.
A text to your phone.
Lead funnel and material prices.
Fake businesses for demoing the funnel — reserved 555-01xx numbers and @example.com addresses, so they can never reach a real business even by accident.
Real businesses via Google's official Places API — not scraping. Needs GOOGLE_PLACES_API_KEY in .env (a paid API); no-ops with a clear error until that's set. Capped at 10/trade/day either way.
Paste a CSV (with a header row) or a JSON array — from a list you obtained compliantly.