Your business on BldFox

Any business serving people and companies in the UAE: contractors and trades, suppliers and equipment hire, consultants such as architects and engineers, and shops and showrooms.

Listing your business is free, forever. There is no commission and no paying for leads. Optional paid extras may come later, with notice; your listing stays free either way.

Open List your business. It takes three steps:

1. Business: the kind of business, its main category and anything else it covers, its name in English and, if you like, in Arabic, and where it's based.
2. Account: your name, a UAE mobile for calls and WhatsApp, your email and a password. You can sign up with Google instead.
3. Verify: enter the 8-digit code we email you, and your listing goes to its automatic check.

Add your logo, photos, services and contact details from your business panel afterwards. One account holds one business.

First, under What kind of business is it?, choose the card that fits: We do the work (contractors and service companies), We sell or rent materials and equipment (suppliers, traders and rental companies), We design, approve or inspect (consultants and designers) or We run a shop or showroom. If none of them fits, choose None of these fits my business, and it is listed under Other Businesses. Then search for your main category, the one customers would look under first.

Add any other categories you cover, and choose every service you offer. Directory search reads your services, so a service you leave out is a search you won't show up in.

You can change your category later under Details in your business panel; the change is checked before it shows. The jobs board is for the trades, so shops, showrooms and Other Businesses are listed on Shops & others and reach customers through their listing.

Usually in seconds. An automatic check reads your listing's name, words and pictures, and it goes live as soon as the check passes it.

If the check is unsure, a person on our team looks at it, usually within a working day. Your listing shows as Unverified until our team has checked your trade licence.

If it's waiting, the automatic check wasn't sure, and a person on our team will look at it, usually within a working day. You don't need to do anything.

If it wasn't put live, your panel says what the check couldn't publish. Change it and try again. If you think the check got it wrong, contact us and a person will look.

If our team took a live listing down, you'll get the reason by email and in your panel. Fix it with Edit listing, then Send it back to our team.

Open your business panel. Details holds what customers read (name, category, tagline, about and services) and your contact details. Photos holds your logo, banner and gallery.

Contact details, your website and your address save straight away. Changes to what customers read are checked first; if the check is unsure, your listing usually stays live as it was while our team looks at the changes.

Open Documents & badge in your business panel and upload your trade licence, as a PDF or a photo. Our team checks it, calls to confirm the listing is yours, and then adds the badge.

The badge is optional. Without it your listing still goes live, shows in the directory, receives job alerts and can quote on jobs, marked Unverified. If a licence isn't accepted, you'll see why and can upload a new one.

Yes. Under Documents & badge, choose Add a certificate: a quality or safety certificate, an authority approval, insurance, a membership or an award. It stays private until you turn on Show on profile.

Our team checks a certificate before it shows. On your profile it carries Checked by BldFox and its expiry date. One we can't show is marked Not shown in your panel, with our reason.

The jobs board lists open jobs from customers across the UAE. Once your listing is live and your account email is confirmed, you can read every job and reply, with or without the Verified badge.

Filter by trade, emirate, how soon and how many replies a job has, or search for words like “villa” or “kitchen”. Picked for you marks the jobs we alerted you to. Not for me moves a job out of your way without telling anyone.

The board is for the trades. Shops and showrooms, and listings under Other Businesses, reach customers through their listing.

You can receive alerts when a new job fits your services best: when a customer posts a job, up to five businesses that fit it best are told straight away, Verified or not.

An alert is a notification on your panel, and an email if your listing has an address for leads. Set it under Details, in Where should leads go?.

To fit more jobs, cover the right trades and choose every service you offer. Other open jobs are always on the jobs board.

Open the job and choose Send a quote: your price in AED, when you can do it and a note to the customer. Or choose Ask a question if you need to know more first. The customer sees your business name, rating and profile with your reply, and the conversation continues in Messages.

You can send one quote and one question per job. Update quote changes the price, timing or note up to 3 times, and the customer sees the old price beside the new. Withdraw quote is final.

Up to ten businesses can reply to one job. After that it shows as full.

Only if the customer shares it. Before you reply, you see how they prefer to be reached, such as a phone call or WhatsApp. After you reply, their number shows in the conversation while the job is open, if they chose Businesses that reply to this job. If they chose Only businesses I choose, they share it from Messages when they're ready.

A number is shared with you for that job only. Don't add it to marketing lists or broadcasts.

When the customer hires you, you get a notification and an email, and the job shows Hired you. If they chose someone else or aren't going ahead, you get a notification and the job shows Went elsewhere or Not going ahead.

Got the work but the customer hasn't recorded it? Once they've written back in the conversation, press I got this job and they'll be asked to confirm. Confirmed hires count towards the hires shown on your listing.

Your listing is a public profile page, in English and Arabic, that search engines and AI assistants can read. Customers find it in the directory under your trade and through directory search, and each finished project you show gets its own page too. A shop, a showroom or a business under Other Businesses is listed on Shops & others instead of under the trades.

You can also receive alerts when a new job fits your services best. And you can share your profile's address anywhere, on WhatsApp, Instagram or a business card.

Fill in what customers look for. Choose every service you offer, list the areas you cover, add your business name in Arabic and show photos of finished projects. Directory search reads your name, tagline and services, and we read your description when we match you to a job.

Upload your trade licence for the Verified badge, and reply quickly: your card shows how fast you usually reply. Listing strength on your panel's home shows what's still missing.

In your business panel, open Projects and choose Add a project. Give it a title, say what you did and add up to 12 photos of the finished work. You can pair before and after photos, add captioned photos from during the work, and say how long it took and how big it was.

Leave out prices, phone numbers and links. Each project is checked before it shows, and gets its own page linked from your profile. Once it's up, you can share it to the feed.

Suppliers and shops see Products in the same place, for what they sell.

No. Your profile can be your page online: services, areas, photos, finished projects, reviews and contact details in one place, at its own web address you can share on WhatsApp, Instagram or a business card. If you have a website, add its link to your profile.

Open Reviews in your business panel and choose Reply. Your reply shows publicly under the review once it has been checked, and you can edit or remove it later.

To ask a recent customer for a review, send them your profile with Copy your profile link. Customers who hire you through BldFox are asked for a review a week later. Don't offer anything in return for a review.

Reply publicly and calmly with your side; your reply shows under the review.

If a review breaks our rules, for example with insults, threats, private information, or about work you never did for that person, choose Report on it in your panel. A person reads every report.

Yes. The owner opens Team in the business panel, chooses Invite someone and enters their email. They join as a manager from Invitations, signed in with that email. A team can have up to 10 people, and an invitation lasts 7 days.

Managers can answer jobs and messages, reply to reviews, and edit the listing, photos and projects. Only the owner invites or removes people, or hands the business over with Make owner.

Home shows the last 30 days: Profile visits (times your profile was opened), Contact taps (visits where someone chose to call, WhatsApp, email or message you, or copied your number), Jobs won, your rating and your reply rate. It also lists jobs picked for you and reviews waiting for a reply.

Performance covers 30 or 90 days, including what happened to the jobs you were picked for and answered. Visits from your own team and from most bots aren't counted.