Tradespeople spend over £20 billion annually on materials, tools and fuel. We’ve built the payment infrastructure to support this network.
Partnered with the UK's leading brands.
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ProTradePay (PTP) is the UK’s first spend network exclusively built for Tradespeople, creating the largest Trade Buying Group in the UK.
Historically underserved by traditional finance and written off as ‘high risk,’ tradespeople are in fact the backbone of the economy, driving billions every year in materials, tools and fuel purchases.
The traditional Trade Account model hasn’t changed since the 80s and no longer reflects how tradespeople buy, manage cashflow, keep loyalty or seek value.
We’re consolidating the annual trade spend on materials, tools and fuel into a platform that rewards those trades and creates measurable growth opportunities for the brands and merchants they choose.
We’ve been building quietly over the last year, investing heavily into our network and distribution routes for market wide release.
Our Trade Card is provided by VISA commercial in the UK and Europe. This enables Trades of prime contractors and now independent trades to spend at all Building Merchants, Hardware, Marketplaces, Insurers and Fuel Stations Nationally without direct integrations. Providing 99.99% coverage for Trade spending in the UK.
Shell and UKF work with PTP to provide our Trades access to discounted Diesel, Unleaded and EV substations, nationwide. This means our Trades benefit from the combined buying power of millions of litres of fuel every month, providing fleet level discounts to individual tradespeople on a pay as you go basis.
Our unique business is backed by some of the worlds largest suppliers of Trade Credit Insurance, Allianz. We've built, control and manage our own payment infrastructure allowing ProTradePay to act as an issuer, acquirer and settler of it's own trade accounts to Merchants, Trades and Brands alike.
ProTradePay has deployed and controlled the spend of Tradespeople nationwide quierlty for the past year.
Our estimated spend for the financial year 2025/26 on materials, tools and fuel is expected to exceed £500m.