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Kolab Trade · Artizan In build

From WhatsApp enquiry to signed handover

Kolab Trade turns the phone in your pocket into the office: enquiry to survey, quote to install, handover to invoice. Built for electricians, plumbers, aircon installers, solar fitters and the workshops that make and fix.

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Job cards born from a WhatsApp message
Quotes in rupees, from your own price book
The week's jobs planned on the island map
Handover photos and a client signature on every job

Made for

ElectriciansPlumbersAircon and refrigeration installersSolar installersAluminium and steel workshopsAppliance repairers

The artisan's office is a phone

A Mauritian artisan does not have a back office. The jobs live in WhatsApp threads, the measurements in a notebook, the quote gets typed at the kitchen table at 21:00, and the deposit is remembered or it is not. Good work, held together by memory.

Artizan accepts that the phone is the office and makes the phone enough. An enquiry becomes a job card. The site survey captures photos and measurements. The quote builds itself from your price book, in rupees, with the materials list attached. The week lands on a map, the install gets its checklist, and the handover ends with photos and a signature instead of a shrug.

Then the part most tools forget: the aftermath. Warranties registered, service reminders that bring the aircon client back every six months, deposits and balances chased by the app instead of by you. The repeat work is where a small trade business becomes a solid one.

Built on the installer job-card brick

Artizan is in build, and its spine already works: the installer job-card brick runs survey to quote to install checklist to handover photos today.

Survey, quote, install checklist and handover photos: the job-card brick is built and working
Week planning on the island map reuses the built route-app brick
Price-book quoting reuses the tailor orderbook pattern: a small shop's numbers, remembered

Modules

Everything inside Kolab Trade

Every module is a brick. Start with what hurts most, snap on the rest when you are ready.

Job Cards

One card per job, from first contact to final photo, so nothing lives only in your head.

WhatsApp Intake

An enquiry on WhatsApp becomes a job card with the client, the address and the photos already attached.

Site Surveys

Photos, measurements and notes captured at the site visit, attached to the job forever.

Quotes & Price Book

Rupee quotes built from your own materials and rates, with the materials list ready for the shop run.

Week Planner

The week's jobs on the island map, ordered so Tuesday is not Grand Baie, Souillac, Grand Baie.

Install Checklists

Per-trade checklists: pressure test done, earth tested, vacuum pulled, so every install finishes the same way.

Handover & Signatures

Before and after photos plus the client's signature on the screen, stored with the job card.

Warranty & Service Reminders

Warranties registered, servicing reminders sent: the six-month aircon visit becomes recurring revenue.

Invoices & Deposits

Deposit requests, balance invoices and receipts in rupees, tied to the job card they belong to.

Clients & Sites

Every client with their sites, equipment and history, so the second visit starts smarter than the first.

Materials per Job

What the job needs, what you bought, what it cost, including the morning quincaillerie receipt.

Payroll Link

Hours from job cards flow to Kolab HR for the small team's payroll, PAYE and CSG included.

A closer look

How Kolab Trade feels day to day

Intake

A WhatsApp message becomes a job card

Clients already write to you on WhatsApp, so Artizan starts there. The enquiry, the photos and the address land on a new job card, and your reply books the survey. Nothing gets lost in the scroll.

Enquiries never sink under family group messages again
Photos from the client attach straight to the job
One tap books the survey and confirms it back

Quotes

Price-book quotes in minutes, not evenings

Your materials, your rates, your margins live in the price book. A quote assembles from the survey in minutes, in rupees, with the deposit line built in, and goes to the client as a clean document with a link to accept.

Materials list doubles as the shopping list
Deposits requested with the quote, not remembered after
Prices updated once, correct on every future quote

The week

Plan the week on the island map

Jobs land on a map of Mauritius, and you drag the week into an order that respects geography and the Port Louis traffic. The van drives less, the day fits one more job, and clients get honest arrival windows.

Group jobs by region, stop criss-crossing the island
Each stop carries the job card, no paper in the van
Running late? The next client hears it on WhatsApp

After the job

Warranty and servicing become revenue

Every install registers the equipment, its warranty and its service interval. When the six months come round, Artizan reminds the client for you, and a booked service appears in your week. The install book quietly becomes a client book.

Service reminders go out by WhatsApp, in the client's language
Equipment history makes the second visit faster than the first
A full service round is a day of work you did not chase

Local by design

Made for trades on this island

The climate, the geography and the way Mauritians actually book an artisan are all in the product, not bolted on.

Post-cyclone triage

After a cyclone the phone does not stop: tarps, pumps, generators. A triage board sorts urgent from can-wait and keeps your promises honest.

The six-month service

Aircon in this climate needs servicing twice a year. Reminders go out on time, and the service book becomes your steadiest income.

Deposits in rupees

Deposit and balance tracked per job, payable by bank transfer, Juice or my.t money, receipted properly.

Clients live on WhatsApp

Enquiries in, confirmations out, arrival notices, service reminders: the whole conversation on the channel Mauritius reads.

Kreol chat, French quote

Chat with the client in Kreol, send the quote in French or English. Everyone reads what they are comfortable reading.

Island-sized routing

The week planner thinks in regions, because a Grand Baie morning and a Souillac afternoon is a day lost on the motorway.

Boost for small crews

Kolab Boost gives a two-van team the same recognition a big firm gets, with points for the habits that build a reputation.

First-time-right installs

Jobs with no callback within 30 days earn points for the crew that did them.

Photo-complete jobs

Every job closed with before and after photos and a signature earns its points, because proof protects everyone.

On-time arrivals

Arriving inside the promised window builds a streak, and a reputation that wins the next referral.

More about Kolab Boost

In the wild

What it looks like in real businesses

An aircon installer of 3 in Grand Baie

Every install registers its service interval. Six months later the reminders go out, the calendar fills with service visits, and the quiet months stop being quiet.

An electrician working with his son

Quotes that took the evening now take fifteen minutes from the survey photos, and the deposit request goes out with the quote instead of after the awkward call.

An aluminium workshop of 8 in Quatre Bornes

Survey measurements go straight to the workshop job card, and handover photos with a signature ended the "it was scratched at delivery" conversations.

Pricing

Kolab Trade pricing, in rupees

Indicative launch pricing, per person per month, from 2 people, VAT excluded. Nothing is charged before general availability, and early customers lock their launch price for two years.

Artizan Jobs

The job card, done properly.

Rs 79 / person / month

Job cards with WhatsApp intake
Site surveys with photos and measurements
Install checklists per trade
Handover photos and signatures

Start with Jobs

The working setup

Artizan Pro

Office in the pocket, week on the map.

Rs 139 / person / month

Everything in Jobs
Quotes, price book and materials lists
Week planner on the island map
Invoices, deposits and receipts

Start with Pro

Artizan Suite

Everything, including tomorrow's work.

Rs 189 / person / month

Everything in Pro
Warranty register and service reminders
Post-cyclone triage board
Payroll link to Kolab HR, priority support

Go Suite

Prices per person per month, VAT excluded. Annual billing takes two months off. Indicative pricing: nothing is charged before general availability, and pilot customers lock their launch price for two years.

Questions

Asked all the time

I work alone. Can I still use it?

Yes. Plans start at 2 seats, so a solo artisan pays the 2-seat minimum, Rs 158 a month on Jobs. The second seat is ready for the helper, the apprentice or the person who does your paperwork.

Does WhatsApp intake need a special number?

It runs on an approved WhatsApp Business channel with a business number we help you set up. Your personal number stays personal, and the job history stays with the business.

Can the client really sign on my phone?

Yes, with a finger on the handover screen. The signature is stored with the photos, the checklist and the time, on the job card it belongs to.

What about materials I buy on the way to the job?

Snap the quincaillerie receipt onto the job card and the cost lands on that job. At month end you finally know which jobs actually made money.

Does it work on a roof or in a basement, offline?

The job card, checklist, photos and signature all work without signal and sync when the phone finds some. Quotes and WhatsApp need a connection, as you would expect.

What is built today, honestly?

The installer job-card brick is built and working: survey, quote, install checklist, handover photos. The week map, price book, reminders and WhatsApp intake are in build, and early customers decide the order they arrive.

Family

Make the phone enough

Bring your price list and your WhatsApp, and Artizan does the rest. Early customers shape the build and lock their launch price.

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