Claude Checkatrade connectorWhat Claude can do in your Checkatrade account.
The Claude Checkatrade connector exposes 2 tools. 1 reads, finding rated local tradespeople from a UK postcode, 1 writes, booking a fixed-price Express job, and 0 are left undocumented. Below: what Claude searches, what it books, and where it hands over.
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What changes once Claude can search Checkatrade
Instead of browsing trade categories and comparing profiles tab by tab, you tell Claude what is wrong and where you live in the UK. It searches Checkatrade's network for you and returns a ranked shortlist, and for a handful of common jobs it can walk you through a fixed-price booking right up to payment.
Get a shortlist for a leaking tap. A tenant in Leeds describes the drip and gives a postcode. Claude calls findTradespeopleV1 and comes back with ranked local plumbers, their star ratings, review counts, badges, phone numbers and profile links.
Compare before calling anyone. Because each result carries ratings and review counts, you can ask Claude to set two electricians side by side and pick who to ring, still inside the same conversation.
Book a boiler service at a fixed price. For a small set of everyday jobs, bookExpressJobV1 lets Claude collect your details and preferred time slots for a Checkatrade Express option, then hand you over to a secure payment step.
What it will not do: Claude does not take payment in the chat, and fixed-price booking covers only routine work such as boiler servicing, gas safety certificates, heating upkeep and basic plumbing or electrics. Bigger projects stay at the shortlist stage. Nothing runs by itself either. To see how other publishers handle their connectors, browse the Integrations hub or the Claude activecampaign connector page.
Five words before you connect
The vocabulary around this connector, in one minute.
- Connector
- A link you set up once between Claude and an outside service, so Claude can use that service while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named thing the connector lets Claude do. Claude picks the ones it needs on its own, and the directory lists each one by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen where a service hands Claude its access. Checkatrade says no account or login is needed for this one.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that has consequences, shown in the conversation at that moment.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Checkatrade.
Connect Checkatrade to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Checkatrade in Claude
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and look for Checkatrade in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to enable it before members can use it.
- 02
Launch the connection
Click Connect on the Checkatrade row. If it stops responding one day, click Disconnect, then connect again: that is the official way to repair a link that has gone wrong.
- 03
Check what the access covers
With most services, this is where you read the authorization screen before accepting. Checkatrade states that no account, sign-up or login is needed, so there is nothing of yours to unlock at this stage.
The 2 Checkatrade tools, one search and one booking
Checkatrade gives Claude 2 tools: 1 that read your account, 1 that change something in it.
Both tools are described on the connector's directory sheet by Checkatrade itself. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 1 read
- 1 write
What Claude reads (1)
1 toolOne search into the Checkatrade network that books nothing.
findTradespeopleV1
Searches Checkatrade's vetted members near a UK postcode for the job you describe, and returns a ranked list with star ratings, review counts, Checkatrade badges, phone numbers and direct profile links.
What Claude books (1)
1 toolOne tool that sets up a fixed-price Express job. No source spells out a confirmation for it, so the general rule below applies.
bookExpressJobV1
Approval: see the ruleTakes you through a fixed-price Checkatrade Express booking, up to a secure payment step outside the chat.
What Claude checks with you first
By default, Claude stops and asks before each action it takes on someone's behalf, and the prompt appears in the conversation when it matters.
Here the action that counts is the booking. Checkatrade describes it as a guided flow: Claude collects your details and preferred slots, then hands over to secure payment, so the money step is not done by Claude in the conversation. On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners decide whether members may let some actions pass without a prompt, and they can cap what a connector may do for the whole organization, for example keeping search open and booking shut. Nobody overrides that from their own account.
Which Claude plans include Checkatrade
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows its availability by plan. Connector by connector, that information is published nowhere.
The general rule is sourced: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner opens a connector before members can use it. For the live state of this one, check its sheet in the official directory. Note that only Checkatrade documents this connector; no Claude help page covers it.
Where the Checkatrade connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools only while it answers you, so nothing happens on its own when a new tradesperson joins your area.
The two tools on the sheet are an observed floor, not a ceiling: an administrator can open actions no public sheet shows. The publisher's own page about Claude could not be read during our review, so everything here comes from the directory sheet. The partner badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it does not guarantee tools behave as announced.
When you book, the details Claude collects for you go to Checkatrade, so share only what the job needs.
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