Independent handyman business platform
Build the handyman business that builds the future you want.
You already have the skills. Now build a business that's yours — one that can support your family, give you control of your time, and grow with every customer you serve. Ohana connects the tools to help you win more appointments, do great work, earn reviews, and keep customers coming back.
Make your Grand Opening count. Announce your business to the people who already trust you and aim for at least 2–3 additional first-week appointments — with 8–10 per week as your full-time target.
Invest about 2 focused hours in launching the business you've worked toward. Have your ID, payment and payout details, Google/social logins, and customer contacts ready so you can make the most of your Grand Opening.
The business engine
You should not have to start over after every job.
The point is not one appointment. The point is turning good work into a stronger business every time.
Create demand
Contacts, past clients, advertising, Google, social, referrals, local pages, and marketplace opportunities.
Convert it
Instant quoting, your live calendar, customer booking, and a clear path back to you.
Do great work
Real job tools, timer, scope changes, photos, notes, sign-off, and documented closeout.
Build proof
Reviews, before/after work, job history, local relevance, and a stronger public presence.
Follow up
Keep your business in front of customers instead of starting from zero after every job.
Grow again
Repeat work, referrals, stronger search visibility, and a larger customer base feed the next cycle.
More than one source of work
Build demand from the assets you already have — then keep adding to them.
A durable business does not depend on one app, one advertiser, or one source of customers. Ohana helps you organize, activate, and keep building the channels around your business.
Start building yoursPeople you already know
Upload past customers, friends, family, leads, and open estimates, then use the guided launch to send your first customer blast.
Your advertising
Drive your own campaigns and mailers into a booking path tied to the hours and areas you actually make available.
Google + local search
Build your Google presence, reviews, local pages, and useful proof around the work you actually complete.
Social + referrals
Turn before/after work, customer success, and referrals into more reasons for people to choose your business.
Ohana marketplace opportunities
Marketplace demand can supplement the business you are building. It is another source, not the foundation you have to depend on.
One connected platform
Do the work you are good at. Stop rebuilding the business machinery around every customer.
Build demand under your name
Business page, local landing pages, contact outreach, Google, social, reviews, referrals, and repeat-customer follow-up all point back to your business.
Control the work you accept
Set your services, service area, working days, hours, minimum notice, and Premium Hours. Customers can only book inside the availability you provide.
Run the appointment professionally
Quoting, scheduling, cards, payments, job history, photos, customer sign-off, warranty records, and follow-up stay connected.
Make one job strengthen the next
A completed appointment becomes proof, a review opportunity, customer history, follow-up, repeat work, referrals, and stronger local visibility.
The economics are built around the work
No monthly platform fee. No paying for a list of maybe-customers.
For a standard on-site appointment, Ohana's normal 40% share of the first billed hour is prepaid when the appointment is committed to your calendar. At completion, you receive 100% of the customer's first billed hour because that platform share was already handled. Later eligible labor uses the standard 60/40 split.
Local-market rates
The customer's service ZIP determines the current canonical market rate.
Premium Hours
You choose whether to open eligible short-notice, evening, overnight, or weekend windows.
Your own customers
Properly attributed pro-generated business can earn separate referral compensation under the current program terms.
Cancellation protection
24+ hour cancellations refund or void the prepaid claim amount; late cancellations protect reserved earning time under the policy.
Use your real market
See the standard-job math for your ZIP.
The calculator uses the current local-market rate rather than a generic nationwide number.
Real local-market math
Pro earnings calculator
Enter the service ZIP and choose whether you want to offer your customers a sale. The calculator assumes the current model: you are generating your own customers, so every properly attributed appointment includes the normal 60/40 service economics plus your separate referral-partner compensation.
Choose whether to run a sale. Your customer pays the selected discounted rate, and your separate referral-partner percentage automatically follows the existing 0% / 5% / 10% / 15% tier.
Billing uses 15-minute increments after the first hour.
The claim fee is simply Ohana's prepaid 40% split of the customer's first billed hour. It is not a second charge and it is not extra handyman income. When the job is completed, you receive the full first billed hour because Ohana's share of that hour was already prepaid. Across the completed appointment, your normal service earnings are still 60% of collected labor.
If the customer cancels at least 24 hours before the appointment, the appointment is unwound and that prepaid claim amount is refunded or voided. Inside 24 hours, the customer owes one effective appointment hour for your lost reserved time unless you choose to waive that customer-facing charge; Ohana retains the already-paid claim fee under the existing cancellation policy.
Enter an active service ZIP to calculate real local-market earnings.
Professional safeguards
A stronger business needs protection for both sides.
Cards, cancellation rules, documented scope, before/after proof, customer sign-off, warranty records, material-payment rules, and platform terms exist so a professional appointment is treated like a real commitment.
Secure payment flow
Cards and Stripe payment records reduce the need to chase money personally.
Documented work
Before/after photos, notes, scope changes, and time records create a factual appointment history.
Reserved-time protection
Customers are taught why 24-hour notice matters: the professional reserved earning time that may be impossible to replace.
Proof that compounds
Customer sign-off and review opportunities help completed work strengthen the next sale.
The guided path starts here
Understand the model. Apply. Build the setup. Train on the real system. Start growing.
Complete the Yardstik intake, then keep moving while the report processes. Your saved payment method is the application account step; Stripe Connect comes later for payouts. The guide then takes you through setup, your first customer blast, training, and launch.
Independent 1099 business opportunity — not an employee job application.