Find a Pro: Booking a Contractor, and Getting Found as One

Customers: find a contractor who serves your ZIP code, book a time on their page and pay through Seayora. Contractors: switch on Find a pro and appear for your trades in the ZIP codes you serve, for free.

Find a pro, at seayora.com/find-a-pro, lists contractors on Seayora by trade and ZIP code. Anybody can search it, with no account. Each result opens the contractor’s own booking page, where you book a time or ask for a quote.

Free for customers and for contractors. Seayora earns only its processing fee when a customer pays a contractor through Seayora.

For customers: finding and booking a pro

Choose what you need — or leave it on Any trade — and enter your five-digit ZIP code.
Each result shows the contractor’s trades, the ZIP codes they serve, a few of their services, their lowest published price, and whether you can book a time online or send an urgent request.
Star ratings come from that contractor’s customers after a finished job, over the last 365 days. An average is shown from 5 ratings up; below that the result says “New on Seayora — not enough customer ratings yet.”
Each result says whether a license and insurance are on file. “On file” means the contractor gave them to Seayora; Seayora says it checked a license only where it did, and an expired one is shown as expired.
Press Book to open their page. Book a time or ask for a quote there; they confirm by email, and the link in that email lets you see, move or cancel it.
Pay through Seayora by card or bank account once the job is invoiced.

How results are ordered

Contractors who can be booked for a time online come first, then those with the best customer ratings. Nobody pays to be placed higher, and ties take turns day by day.

Each contractor is an independent business. Seayora lists them, takes the booking and handles the payment; the contractor does the work and is responsible for it.

Pages by trade and town

Every trade has a page for each town where a listed contractor serves at least one ZIP code — seayora.com/find-a-pro/plumbing/brooklyn-ny, for example. The town is the name the post office gives a ZIP code, so the Brooklyn page lists the plumbers who serve any Brooklyn ZIP code. It shows the same contractors, in the same order, as a search, then other trades in that town and the same trade in towns nearby.

A page with fewer than 3 contractors still opens, but asks search engines not to list it until more join. Town names come from GeoNames (geonames.org), under the CC BY 4.0 license, and each page says so.

On the phone, and in your AI assistant

On the iPhone and Android apps, Tools → Find a pro searches by ZIP code and opens a contractor’s booking page, and Tools → My repairs lists the jobs you described and where each stands.
In Claude or ChatGPT, the Seayora connector can find contractors who serve a ZIP code (the find_pros tool), with no Seayora account needed. It gives you each contractor’s booking link; it never books anything itself.

For contractors: appearing in Find a pro

Switch on “Show my business in Find a pro” in your booking page settings — Work → Online booking on the website, or Tools → Online booking → Booking page settings on the iPhone and Android apps. It is off until you switch it on.

You appear once all of these are true. Your booking settings say which ones are still missing:

Seayora has approved your business account.
You are taking new work.
Your booking page is switched on and has an address.
At least one service customers can see.
The ZIP codes you serve are listed (a page set to “anywhere” cannot be found by ZIP).
Your trades are chosen, or can be read from your trade.
Your payout account is set up, so customers can pay you through Seayora.
“Show my business in Find a pro” is switched on.

Your trades come from the trades you chose for your company, or are read from the trade you gave when you signed up. You appear for each of them, in each ZIP code you list.

What customers see about you

Your business name and logo, your trades, the ZIP codes you serve, your public services and prices, whether your license and insurance are on file, and your customers’ star ratings once you have five. Never your email, phone or address.

Your 0–100 reputation score is never shown to customers. It stays on your own Reputation screen.

Trades you can be found for

General maintenance, Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC / refrigeration, Heating & boilers, Carpentry & joinery, Roofing, Masonry & concrete, Painting & decorating, Flooring, Glazing & windows, Insulation & weatherproofing, Appliance repair, Elevators & lifts, Fire & life safety, Locks & access control, Security & CCTV, Low voltage / data, Cleaning & janitorial, Landscaping & grounds, Snow & ice removal, Pest control, Pools & spas, Waste & recycling, Water & fire restoration, Asbestos & lead abatement, Solar & energy, Moving & hauling, Inspection & surveying.

Describe the job and we find you a pro

Describe the job once. Seayora sends it to up to three contractors on Seayora who serve your ZIP code for that trade. They see the job, not who you are. The first to accept takes it, and we email you who they are and a link to see your booking. Your email and phone stay with Seayora.

On seayora.com/find-a-pro or a trade-and-town page, press “Describe the job” (on the apps: Tools → Find a pro → Describe a job): choose the trade, how soon you need it, your ZIP code and address, and say what is wrong in a sentence or two. If anyone is in danger — fire, a gas smell, flooding near electrics — call 911 or the utility first.
Nothing is sent to any contractor until you confirm from the email we sent. The confirmation link works for 3 days. Signed in with a verified email, your request goes at once. You can send up to 3 requests a day.
Up to 3 pros who serve your ZIP code for that trade are offered it at a time. Each has 2 hours for an emergency, 24 hours for a job needed in the next few days and 48 hours for a job needed within a few weeks to accept; a pro who passes or does not answer in time is replaced by the next one.
The first contractor to accept takes the job. The others are told it has been taken.
The pro who takes it gets your name, address and the job. Seayora keeps your email and phone, and emails you who took it and a link to your booking. When they set a visit time, we email you; the same link lets you move or cancel it.
If nobody takes it within 7 days, the request ends and we tell you once.
Your requests are in the email we sent, and — signed in — at seayora.com/my-repairs and in My repairs on the iPhone and Android apps. You can withdraw one there until a pro takes it; after that, cancel the visit from the booking link we emailed you.
We delete your name, email, phone, address and what you wrote from the request 180 days after you send it.

For contractors: receiving jobs customers describe

Switching on “Show my business in Find a pro” also offers you jobs customers describe for your trades in the ZIP codes you serve. They appear in Online booking → Find a pro on the website, and in Tools → Repair requests on the iPhone and Android apps, with an alert and an email.

You see the job and the ZIP code. Accept to take it: the customer’s name and address appear, and the job lands in your booking requests, where setting a visit time emails them. Seayora keeps their email and phone.

Take a job or pass before its time runs out — 2 hours for an emergency, 24 hours for a job needed in the next few days and 48 hours for a job needed within a few weeks. The first contractor to accept takes the job. The others are told it has been taken. Passing is private: the customer is not told. Offers go first to the pros offered one least recently, so they are shared out.

Receiving a job is free. Seayora earns its processing fee when the customer pays your invoice through Seayora.

What Seayora does and does not do

Seayora lists contractors, takes the booking request and processes the payment. It does not do the work, employ the contractor or guarantee the result.
Nobody pays to appear or to be placed higher.
A booking is between you and the contractor; their own booking terms, if they set any, are shown before you send it.
If a contractor stops taking new work, switches the listing off, or their payout account is no longer active, they leave Find a pro at once. Their own booking link may keep working.

Related features and guides

The receptionist on your booking page — Documentation. A chat on your booking page that answers customers’ questions from your own facts and hands them a time to book or a quote to ask for.
Online Booking for Your Business — Documentation. Let customers book every kind of job online — an exact time, an arrival window, a quote, an urgent call, a repeating visit or a job over several days — on your Seayora page or inside your own website, and confirm each one onto your job board and into your books.
Customer Retention & Contractor CRM — Feature. Maintenance reminders, recurring maintenance contracts, VIP landlord tracking, seasonal upsells, promo codes, referral tracking, and campaigns — the repeat-business layer.
Contractor Payroll & Wages — Feature. Wage tracking, payroll records, W-2 export and geofence-verified hours — driven by the same timesheets that feed job costing. Seayora keeps the record; you pay your crew the way you already do.
Customer campaigns and referrals — Documentation. Email your own customers once or automatically after their last job, with follow-ups that stop when they book or pay, and reward the customers who refer someone new.
Contractor Invoicing & Payouts — Feature. Turn completed work into an invoice automatically and get paid online, with a 4% processing fee applied only when you get paid.