Built by tradies.
Built for the trade.
HIVE Trade Network exists because small trade businesses deserve big-operator pricing. We built the network that earns it.
Good operators were getting squeezed.
And not because they weren't buying enough. A supplier's pricing reflects what it costs them to service an account. Small orders, phone quotes, chased invoices, one-off deliveries — that's expensive to run, and it shows up in the price a smaller builder gets. The big builders aren't just buying more volume. They're cheaper to deal with.
HIVE closes that gap. Orders come through clean, accounts run predictably, and admin drops on both sides. Suppliers get a lower cost to serve. Members get the pricing that comes with it — every member, no matter their size. And if you're already on a better deal with a supplier, you keep it. You never go backwards by joining.
No cost to join. No catch. Suppliers fund HIVE through a modest 2% fee on member spend — you get better deals, they get consistent, quality trade customers.
Built for the trade. Run by people who know it.
Most tradies are running two businesses.
Nobody signed up for the second one.
The pricing problem gets all the attention. But quietly bleeding just as much is everything that happens after the job — the bookkeeping, the BAS, the payroll, the invoicing, the chasing, the reconciling. Somebody's doing it. More often than not, it's the tradie's partner. The backbone of the back-office. Fitting it around their own day, waiting on answers from site, working with software they were never trained on, and trying to hold the whole thing together — on top of everything else they're already carrying.
HIVE starts by cutting the double handling. Your business details go in once and get used everywhere. Your quotes, purchase orders and jobs live in the HIVE App, and every order is tracked in one place. Less chasing, less re-keying, so whoever's been carrying that load gets some of their time back for the work that actually pays.
Your craft built the business. HIVE helps you run it smarter.
Built on four principles.
Everything we do at HIVE comes back to these.
Same pricing as operators who've always had the advantage — earned by being the customers suppliers want.
No hidden fees, no fine print. You know exactly how HIVE works and what it costs.
Central Coast tradies backing each other. The stronger the network, the more suppliers want in.
Every member is vetted and financially healthy. That's what gives the network its leverage.
Trade quality work. Trade quality systems. Same standard, different team.