Clear Agreements, Certain Payments
PledgePay tackles a problem every tradesperson, freelancer and customer will recognise: payment disputes that start with vague agreements and money changing hands at the wrong time. Customers worry about paying too early; professionals worry about being paid at all.
PledgePay puts clarity in place before the work starts:
- Agree the job: the scope, price and expectations are written down.
- Commit the payment: the client secures the funds before work begins.
- Do the work: the professional gets on with the job knowing the money is there.
- Confirm and release: payment is released when both sides are satisfied.
If something does go wrong, both sides have a calm, structured way to raise a concern, linked to what was originally agreed rather than to who remembers what.
How It's Built
The platform is made up of two parts: a marketing site at pledgepay.net, and the PledgePay app itself, a Progressive Web App that customers and professionals can install on their phone and use like a native app.
Both are built with Nuxt JS. The app uses Firebase for sign-in and data, with Stripe handling the payments. PledgePay is currently in beta.