About
The work happens in two places. The paperwork shouldn’t happen twice.
For Australian trade businesses of ten to a hundred people, Worksted is the system of record — captured on the phone where the work is, run from the office where the money is.
Why it exists.
A trade business runs in two places at once, and the gap between them is where the money leaks.
Hours get texted in at the end of the week. A receipt lives in the glovebox until someone remembers it. A variation is agreed on site, verbally, and nobody writes it down. Then the invoice goes out light, or late, or wrong, and the margin on the job is a guess long after it could have been fixed.
Most software picks a side. Office tools ask a tradesman standing in a roof cavity to fill in a form built for a desk; field apps capture beautifully and then hand the office a pile of exports to re-key. Worksted is one record instead: quoted on site, scheduled from the desk, costed as the work happens, invoiced from what is already there. Nothing typed twice, and the money always reconciles.
What we take a position on.
Every one of these is a decision that cost us something, and every one is visible in the product rather than in a pitch.
Everyone goes on it
Priced per person, with no roles locked behind a higher tier. A first-year apprentice gets the same software the owner does, because a system half the business is kept off is a system nobody trusts.
History never rewrites itself
Quote and invoice lines copy your price book the moment they are raised. Put your rates up tomorrow and last year’s quotes stay exactly as you sent them — which is the only way an old document is worth anything in a dispute.
Australian invoices, properly
The words Tax Invoice, your ABN, GST on its own line, BSB and account for payment — on every invoice, without anyone having to remember. Built for the ATO you actually answer to, not localised after the fact.
And nothing is held back to sell you later. There are no modules and no add-ons — both plans carry the whole product, and the difference between them is accounting sync, not features rationed out.
What you get on day one.
Not a roadmap. This is the software as it stands, and you can put a real job through all of it this afternoon.
- The work
Quote it, schedule it, run it from the field app, log the hours, photograph the dockets. One job carries its own history from the first call to the last visit.
- The money
Compliant tax invoices with the ABN and GST broken out, costs against every job, and margins you can see while the work is still running rather than at the end of the quarter.
- The control
Roles that decide who sees what, sign-off before money moves, and compliance documents gated on the transitions that need them.
- Today
A 14-day trial, self-serve. Put your own jobs through it this afternoon without speaking to a salesperson.
Who you’re dealing with.
The whole thing is built in Australia, for Australian conditions — GST, ABNs, the ATO and a working week that starts at six. It is not an overseas product with a localisation pass over the top, and the positions above are ours to keep rather than a roadmap handed down from somewhere else.
The people who build the software are the people who answer the email — and that is the advantage, not a caveat. Write to support@worksted.co and you are not opening a ticket in a queue — you are talking to someone who can change the thing you are complaining about.
Get in touchSee whether it fits your jobs.
Fourteen days with your own clients, sites and rates in it. That answers more than any about page can.