How to cancel Checkatrade
To cancel Checkatrade you have to phone them. Call 0333 014 6190, or the number on your renewal message, during the renewal window. That window opens about a month before the term ends. Email does not count. Stopping the direct debit does not end the contract.
Source: Checkatrade: How to Cancel a Checkatrade Membership (February 2026)
- Phone Checkatrade on 0333 014 6190 in the renewal window
- Do not email, and do not only stop the direct debit
- After you leave, jobs come from your own website, Google Business Profile and Google Maps
Official Checkatrade cancel steps
Most Checkatrade memberships run for a fixed 12-month term and renew on their own unless you cancel in the window. Checkatrade says it sends reminders by email, SMS and push at the start of the window, halfway through, and one week before it closes. Replying to the renewal email is not a cancellation. You have to speak to their team.
Source: Checkatrade: How to Cancel a Checkatrade Membership (February 2026)
- Check your Checkatrade membership agreement for the end date, or ask Checkatrade to confirm it.
- Wait for the Checkatrade renewal window, which Checkatrade says opens about one month before that date.
- Call Checkatrade on 0333 014 6190, or the number on your renewal message.
- Speak to a Checkatrade team member. Checkatrade says email is not a valid cancellation.
- Get Checkatrade to confirm the cancellation and what happens next.
What does not cancel Checkatrade
Checkatrade is clear that three common moves do not work. Email is not a valid cancellation. Stopping the direct debit does not end the contract. Missing the window means the membership renews for another 12 months and charges apply.
Source: Checkatrade: How to Cancel a Checkatrade Membership (February 2026)
Checkatrade also says you cannot normally leave partway through the 12-month term. If you are unsure what your agreement says, they will check it when you call.
After you leave Checkatrade, own the next job
Checkatrade is useful when you have no website and want a place homeowners already search, with reviews tied to real jobs. The listing is still theirs. Checkatrade lists leads and search visibility as membership benefits, so when the membership ends those stop.
Source: Checkatrade: How to Cancel a Checkatrade Membership (February 2026)
The next jobs should come to you. That means a website in your name, a Google Business Profile, and showing up on Google Maps when someone nearby searches your trade.
A website that sends jobs to you
A trade website only works if it matches the Google listing. It needs the same name, phone and address, the services you actually do, the towns you cover, and photos of real jobs. That is the complete business information Google says it uses to match a local search.
Sources: Google: Get started with Business Profile, Google: Tips to improve your local ranking on Google
Tradehand's office team builds that website for you, then answers the enquiries it produces. How the free website works.
Ranking on Google Business and Google Maps
A Google Business Profile is free to create. It is how a trade business appears on Google Search and Google Maps. Google's own setup guide is the place to start the profile.
Source: Google: Get started with Business Profile
Google says local results are based mainly on relevance, distance and popularity. The same Google page titles that third factor Prominence: how well known the business is.
Source: Google: Tips to improve your local ranking on Google
Relevance
Fill the Google Business Profile completely: the right categories, the services you actually do, the towns you cover, photos of real work, and the same name and address as the website. Google matches that detail to the search.
Distance
You cannot outrank a closer trade on distance alone. Set the service area honestly. A website that names the towns you actually work in helps Google understand the same area.
Prominence
Google also calls this popularity. Prominence is how well known the business is: reviews, a website people visit, and other sites mentioning you. Ask for a Google review after every finished job. That is the part you control.
Tradehand does not sell a ranking trick for Google Maps. The office team builds the website and then answers the calls, texts and web chat those listings produce, so a Google enquiry becomes a booked job instead of a missed call.
Get found on your own site, then let the office take the call
Tradehand builds the website and answers every enquiry under your name. It quotes, books and chases payment. No monthly fee. The office team earns 5% of the invoices it collects.
See it run a job