Free to post. Pay only if you want more bids.
A steady stream for contractors.
Ocoro is a marketplace, not a lead broker. Posting is free for up to 2 bids, $5 for up to 4 bids, or $10 for up to 10 bids — pick what fits the job. That’s the only thing Ocoro charges homeowners. Contractors pay a flat monthly plus a small win fee on jobs they book.
Recurring tune-ups and service calls run on a different model than capital projects. We want regular maintenance to flow through Ocoro, so we don’t tax it.
Homeowners pay $8 to post a maintenance visit.
Contractors pay $7 flat per approved visit. No percentage.
Maintenance is a different beast than a bid project, so it runs on its own model. The homeowner’s post fee is $8 instead of $10. The contractor pays a flat $7 per approved visit, not a percentage of the ticket — kept low on purpose so it stays in line with the 3% standard fee at the $125 ceiling. Maintenance jobs are short, simple, under-an-hour visits priced between $49 and $125. Above $125, it’s a full job and routes to the standard 3% bid flow. Keeping maintenance tightly scoped is how homeowners get fast, cheap recurring help and how contractors build a steady book of small-ticket work.
Same contractor fee whether the visit is $49 or $125. Billed to your card on file the day the job clears.
Each contractor defines a maintenance ticket size range within the $49–$125 platform bounds, say $69–$99. Anything outside your range routes to your regular bid feed instead.
Quick visits, seasonal checks, small jobs your shop can knock out in under an hour. We surface your past customers' homes when service is due.
Boundaries published per trade. Anything outside them auto-routes to a standard bid, both sides know the rules upfront.
Real maintenance.
Capped at $125. Always.
Maintenance means a quick visit, under an hour, simple task. Maintenance pricing only applies up to $125. Anything above that, a full HVAC tune-up, hydro-jetting, a panel inspection, an annual generator service, is a full job and goes through the standard 3% bid flow. No exceptions. No back doors.
The structural difference between Ocoro and every other residential trade marketplace.
We will never charge contractors
per lead. Ever.
Pay-per-lead is the entire reason residential trade marketplaces are broken. It pays the platform whether or not the contractor wins, which means the platform’s incentive is to sell more leads, not better leads. Lower-quality leads are more profitable. The relationship rots from there.
We’re committing in writing, in our Contractor Agreement, Section 13 , that Ocoro’s contractor fees will only be:
Per-lead. Per-impression. Per-message. Per-rank-position. Per-introduction. None of it. The clause is enforceable, in perpetuity, and survives any sale or acquisition of Ocoro. If we break it, every contractor whose account predates the change is grandfathered out of it.
Pay-per-lead is broken.
So we don’t do it.
Contractors know their cost upfront. Eliminates the lead-tax anxiety. Budgeting works again.
Platform takes a cut only when the contractor takes a check. Same incentive. Same direction.
$485 cap on per-job fees keeps large work on the platform. We don't punish $25K rewires.
Posting starts free for 2 bids — no paywall to test the marketplace. Homeowners can pay $5 for 4 bids or $8 for 10 if they want a wider sample. Contractors only ever see homeowners who actively chose to post.