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Helping tradies succeed. Here's you'll find helpful tips, free resources, customer stories, and our latest news.

Business Tips
Why Kiwi Tradies Are Crossing the Ditch – and What It Means for NZ Construction

Thousands of Kiwi tradies are moving to Australia. Here’s why, what it means for NZ construction, and how businesses can keep talent at home.

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Business Tips
Job Management Software for Kiwi Tradies

Job management software built for Kiwi tradies. Quote faster, cut admin, track jobs and get paid quicker with NextMinute NZ.

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Business Tips
Top Tips to Streamline Your Construction Business in NZ

Streamline your NZ construction business with practical tips to save time, boost profit, and cut admin using NextMinute.

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Business Tips
The $10K Leak: Hidden Costs Killing Tradie Profit

Stop the $10K leak. See 7 hidden costs draining Kiwi tradies profits and how to plug them with better quoting, timesheets, and invoicing.

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Product Updates
Easier Ordering with NextMinute + PlaceMakers

PlaceMakers is expanding, so more Kiwi tradies can now enjoy the powerful NextMinute + PlaceMakers integration. Learn more here.

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Business Tips
Tradies: Keeping It All In Your Head? You Don’t Have a Business – You’ve Got a Job.

If it’s all in your head, it’s not a business — it’s a job. Learn how tradies can scale with systems, structure and smarter tools.

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Business Tips
Set Yourself Up to Thrive in 2025: A Guide for Builders and Tradies

Let’s talk about a few essentials to help you get set up for a cracking year.

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Company News
Meet Mat: The Tradie Who Swapped Tools for Tech

From plumber to software pro - meet our sales guy Mat. He's here to help you get your tradie business sorted.

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Business Tips
Labour Shortage? Here’s How to Keep Your Top Tradies Onboard

With skilled tradies in high demand, here's how you can keep your staff engaged and onboard for the long haul.

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Product Updates
Hidden Gem: Get Your Team on the Same Page with Digital Site Plans

A hidden gem in NextMinute is the ability to upload site plans and sketch on them right from the mobile app.

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Business Tips
How to Set Construction Labour Charge-Out Rates

Learn how to set the right construction labour charge-out rates with tips from pros, so you avoid underpricing and keep your business turning a profit.

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Product Updates
Feature Update: Add Photos & Charges On Your Timesheet

We’ve rolled out a feature update in NextMinute that’ll make life just that little bit easier when you’re adding timesheet entries.

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Product Updates
Product Spotlight: New Mobile App, Timesheet Break Improvements, And More...

Our team has been flat out making NextMinute even more useful for you and your crew. Check out what’s coming soon.

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Business Tips
Crafting Your Construction Brand: Logos, Consistency, and the Power of Identity

Craft a standout construction brand & logo! This guide offers step-by-step pro tips & examples to define values and attract clients.

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Business Tips
Mastering the Art of Residential Construction Project Management: Unconventional Wisdom and Real-World Insights

Unlock project management secrets for construction success. Learn unconventional tips from real industry experiences.

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Business Tips
Technology for your clients, are you doing all you can for them?

NZ and Australian Accountants & Bookkeepers have received more exposure when it comes to cloud accounting technology, but that does not mean that they have an advantage.

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Business Tips
Protecting Your Residential Construction Business

Simple Tips for Avoiding Client Disputes

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Business Tips
Preparing for Increased Demand: How Builders Can Help The North Island Rebuild After Severe Flooding

The recent severe flooding in the North Island of New Zealand, especially in Auckland and Tauranga, has caused widespread damage to properties...

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Customer Stories
How Admin Toolshed and NextMinute Solve the problem of time

Read about how Kirsty and the Admin Toolshed helped solve the problem of time for their trade clients.

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Customer Stories
How ManageMe & NextMinute helps Pimp My Garage turnaround more jobs

Pimp My Garage is a 100% Kiwi owned garage installation business started by Tod Crosby and Jeremy Davis.

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Customer Stories
The Trades Coach Solves The Big Issue Of Timely Recording Of Labour Hours

The Trades Coach is an industry-specific business coaching and advisory firm.

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Customer Stories
Xero Certified Advisors My Two Cents Streamlines and Automates Business

We talk to Haley about how a lot of their tradie clients used very manual job management processes before NextMinute, like excel spreadsheets, looking at ingoings and outgoings on bank statements, and even going as far as keeping everything in their heads.

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Customer Stories
How Free Up is able to deliver a lot of value for builders and trade businesses

Whilst my clients were making do with what they had, they weren't working in the best possible way.

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Customer Stories
Blomfield Signs Cuts The Paper Processes

With their focus on quality and excellent customer service, Jonathan and Office Manager Mel recognised that traditional paper-based systems no longer cut it. Paper was inefficient, time consuming and caused a massive amount of duplication.

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Business Tips
Builders can fix anything, except their own business

Tradies are out there fixing everyone else problems, but who is fixing theirs?

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Business Tips
Job management software: the tool that can streamline your workflow both on and off-site

Learn more here about how Job Management Software can help you both on and off the job

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Business Tips
Reporting - How is your business REALLY doing?

Reporting for Trade Businesses is traditionally overlooked, but shouldn’t be. It is crucial for any successful trade business to know how you are doing.

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Business Tips
Job Planning - Real visibility of large projects

We are happy to announce a new feature within NextMinute called Job Planning (Also known as a Gantt Charts, or Project Planning).

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Customer Stories
How Davcon stopped turning away the small jobs just because of admin

Jules thought, how the hell am I going to keep track of all the hours for the jobs? There’s got to be a better way.” So he went on the hunt and came through with NextMinute.

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Product Updates
Xero Bills Feed - track all costs against your Jobs

This exciting new feature allows you to pull through Bills from Xero into NextMinute and link them to a Job or Task.

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