How do you handle state contractor licensing requirements?

We map the licensing requirements for your specific service categories during discovery — plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and other regulated trades all carry state-specific requirements. Provider credential upload, licence verification, and expiry tracking are built into the onboarding and operator dashboard.

Can the provider app track location without draining the battery?

Yes. We tune location update frequency against shift length and accuracy requirements from the start, since continuous GPS at maximum frequency drains a phone before a full working day ends. The trade-off between update frequency and battery life is a configuration decision made during discovery, not discovered after a provider complains.

Can you build subscription home maintenance plans?

Yes. Recurring service memberships with automatic scheduling, subscription billing through Stripe, and customer-facing plan management are a distinct feature set from on-demand booking. We scope subscription and on-demand together from the start since they share the same provider calendar and dispatch infrastructure.

How is this different from the Marketplace App page?

The Marketplace App page covers marketplace apps broadly — products, services, and B2B. This page is specifically about home services: the trust requirements of letting a stranger into a home, state contractor licensing by trade, background check integration, and the GPS and dispatch infrastructure that home services operations require.

On-Demand Home Services App Development

A home services app asks customers to do something most consumer apps do not: let a stranger into their home. That trust decision is made before the booking, based on everything the platform communicates about how providers are vetted, insured, and held accountable for their work. A home services app that cannot answer those questions clearly before the first booking loses customers to a platform that can, or back to the phone calls and referrals they used before.

For service companies managing their own teams, the problem is operational. Scheduling a cleaning crew, dispatching a plumber, and tracking a landscaping team across multiple jobs on the same day involves coordination that spreadsheets and phone calls handle badly at scale. A branded service app built around how the company actually runs gives customers real-time visibility into when someone is arriving and gives operations managers real-time visibility into where everyone is.

01

Service Booking and Quoting

Service category selection, availability checking, instant or request-based booking, and upfront pricing or quote request flows built for the homeowner’s decision timeline.

02

Scheduling, Dispatch, and Tracking

Provider availability management, automated or manual job assignment, real-time GPS tracking from departure to arrival, and job completion confirmation the moment the work is done.

03

Provider Vetting and Management

Background check integration, licence and insurance verification, provider profile management, and the credential status tracking that an operations manager needs at a glance.

A two-sided platform connecting homeowners with independent providers across multiple service categories, with provider onboarding, marketplace payments, and customer-facing booking.

A branded app for a company managing its own employees or contractors, with scheduling, dispatch, job tracking, customer communication, and work completion documentation.

A recurring service membership for regular home maintenance — cleaning, lawn care, seasonal servicing — with subscription billing, automated scheduling, and renewal management.

A homeowner who has used TaskRabbit or Handy arrives at a new platform with a specific checklist. They want to see the provider’s photo, rating, and review count before confirming a booking. They want a confirmation that tells them who is coming and when. They want to track the provider on a map from departure so they know when to be home. And they want the payment to process without intervention the moment the job is confirmed complete rather than requiring a phone call to settle.

The compliance layer is what most home services founders discover later than they should. Background checks are not optional for a platform allowing strangers into homes — they are what distinguishes a trusted platform from a liability. State contractor licensing requirements apply to plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and other trade services, and dispatching an unlicensed contractor for regulated work exposes the platform to liability regardless of whether the provider misrepresented their credentials. We map the requirements for your service categories before building.

05 features

Service category selection and booking
Provider profile, rating, and review view
Real-time arrival tracking and notifications
In-app payment with automatic completion trigger
Job history and rebooking with preferred provider

Booking, scheduling, and job tracking for a company managing its own team across one or two service types. These typically fall in the mid five-figure range and take twelve to eighteen weeks.

A two-sided marketplace for one service category with provider onboarding, background checks, and marketplace payments. These sit in the mid to high five-figure range with a sixteen to twenty-four week build.

A full home services marketplace across multiple categories with credential verification per trade, subscription features, and enterprise dispatch tooling. These run into the six-figure range.

These are market ranges, not fixed quotes. We give you an itemized number after a short discovery call.

01Discovery

We map your service categories, your provider sourcing model, your licensing requirements, and your dispatch workflow before any design decisions are made.

02Design

We prototype the homeowner booking flow and the provider job acceptance experience before development starts, testing the trust signal presentation specifically.

03Development

We build in sprints with regular check-ins so your operations team can review real dispatch flows and background check integrations rather than waiting on a final delivery.

04Testing

Every build is tested with real dispatch scenarios and background check provider sandbox flows before release so scheduling and credential gaps are found before customers find them.

We build home services apps in React Native for iOS and Android. Real-time provider tracking uses continuous background GPS with battery management tuned to shift length. The backend runs on Node.js with PostgreSQL for bookings, job records, and provider data. Payments process through Stripe Connect for marketplace splits and provider payouts. Background checks integrate through Checkr or Sterling. Maps and routing use Google Maps Platform for arrival estimation.

React Native
TypeScript
JavaScript
Node.js
PostgreSQL
Redis
GraphQL
Stripe Connect
Background Checks
Google Maps
AWS
Firebase

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Background Check Integration From Onboarding

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Licensing Requirements Mapped Per Service Type

03

GPS Architecture Built For Full Shift Battery

04

Support Through Every Category And Region Change

A home services platform is trusted or it is not used. We build the background check, the credential verification, and the real-time tracking as primary features rather than additions after the booking flow is complete.

A home services platform is trusted or it is not used. We build the background check, the credential verification, and the real-time tracking as primary features rather than additions after the booking flow is complete.

A home services platform is trusted or it is not used. We build the background check, the credential verification, and the real-time tracking as primary features rather than additions after the booking flow is complete.

A home services platform is trusted or it is not used. We build the background check, the credential verification, and the real-time tracking as primary features rather than additions after the booking flow is complete.

01

Background Check Integration From Onboarding

02

Licensing Requirements Mapped Per Service Type

03

GPS Architecture Built For Full Shift Battery

04

Support Through Every Category And Region Change

Yes. We integrate with background check providers including Checkr and Sterling through their APIs, building verification into provider signup with credential status tracked in the operator dashboard. The specific check requirements depend on your service categories and any state licensing obligations.

On-Demand Home Services
App Development

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