The worst part of a burst geyser isn’t the water. It’s the phone calls.
Ringing around. Asking the estate group. Waiting for a callback that never comes. Letting a stranger into your house and hoping. Mendly replaces all of that with one request and the providers who actually want the work.
- Free to browse and request
- Only pay when you confirm a booking
- Your number stays private
The way you do it now takes eleven messages and most of a morning.
And at the end of it you still have no real idea whether the person arriving at your gate has ever replaced a geyser in their life. A name passed down a group chat isn’t a qualification — it’s a guess with a phone number attached.
Three steps, one request
Describe the job, see who’s actually available near you, and get a price in writing before anyone sets foot in your home.
Request a Service
Let tradespeople come to you
What do you need done?
Describe it once. To everyone.
Pick a service category and describe the job in your own words. Your request goes out to qualified providers near you at the same time — instead of you calling them one by one, in whatever order you happen to think of them.
Request a Service — Matched Providers
Plumbing · Hillcrest
They come back to you. With names.
Not a directory of two hundred listings — the providers who cover your service, near your address, with their rating and how far away they are.
Quote QT-0219
From K’s Plumbing · valid until 16 Aug 2026
Line Items
Includes removal and disposal of the old unit. Certificate of Compliance issued on completion.
A R35 booking fee applies when you confirm. You pay K’s Plumbing directly for the work.
A price in writing, before anyone touches anything.
Every line item, quantity and price, a subtotal, a total, and a valid-until date. You accept or decline — nothing happens without your say-so.
R35. Once. When you confirm.
That’s the only thing Mendly ever charges you. The work itself you pay your provider directly — Mendly does not hold or release job payments.
A rating that actually means something
Only someone who booked and paid through Mendly can leave a review, so nobody can buy a reputation and nobody can lose one to a stranger with a grudge. What you write goes onto your provider’s profile, where the next person searching your suburb will read it.
Track the job live
Booked, confirmed, on the way, on site, in progress, complete — each status updates as it happens, so you’re not left guessing between “sometime this morning” and a knock on the door.
Keep the whole record
The quote, the invoice, the messages and the job history all stay attached to the booking — useful if anything needs to be checked later, or if you just want to book the same provider again.
Next time is easier
The providers you’ve used before are one tap from being booked again. The first job is the hard one — after that, you already know who to call.
Questions clients ask
What does Mendly cost me?+
Browsing, posting a request and receiving quotes are all free. You pay a R35 booking fee once, at the moment you confirm a booking. That's the only thing Mendly charges you — the work itself you pay your provider directly.
What if nobody responds?+
Then you've lost a couple of minutes and no money. Providers pay a monthly subscription to be on Mendly, so an unanswered request is money they're wasting — the incentives point the right way.
Do I have to pay through the app?+
No. You pay your provider directly for the work, exactly as you would have anyway. Mendly does not hold or release job payments — it keeps the booking record, not the money.
What if the job goes wrong?+
Raise a dispute from inside the booking. The quote you accepted, the job progress, the messages and the invoice are all attached to it already.
Do I need to download anything?+
No. Mendly opens in your browser. Use it twice and your phone will offer to add it to your home screen, where it behaves like any other app.
Post the request now. Read the quotes tonight.
It’s free to describe the job and see who’s available. You only pay when you’re ready to confirm.