Trade Scopes

Trade Scopes describe the specific types of work a vendor is engaged to perform — such as carpentry, electrical, plumbing, or general building. When trade scopes are enabled, TradesField automatically checks that each vendor holds the correct licences and certifications for the work they do in each state they operate in.

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How trade scopes work

Each trade scope maps to the licence classes that are required to perform that work in a given jurisdiction. For example, a vendor declaring they perform Electrical work in Queensland must hold a current QBCC Electrical licence. A vendor declaring Plumbing work in NSW must hold a current NSW Fair Trading Plumbing Work contractor licence. When a vendor’s trade scopes and jurisdictions are set, TradesField evaluates their compliance records against the rules for each combination and raises alerts if anything is missing or invalid.

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Jurisdictions

Jurisdictions are the Australian states and territories a vendor performs work in. Trade scope compliance is checked per jurisdiction — a vendor may be fully licensed in QLD but not hold the equivalent NSW licence, and TradesField will reflect that accurately. Supported jurisdictions: QLD, NSW, VIC, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT.

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Collection modes

You can control how trade scopes are collected in Admin > Trade Scopes. When set to Off, no trade scope information is collected and no licence-mapping checks are performed.

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Assigning trade scopes during an invite

When the collection mode is set to Staff-led or Staff and vendor, the invite flow includes a step for selecting the vendor’s jurisdictions and trade scopes. You can search for scopes by name or description. If you are not sure which scopes apply, you can leave this empty and update them later from the vendor profile.

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Compliance assessment

Once trade scopes and jurisdictions are set for a vendor, TradesField evaluates their compliance records against the rules for each scope and jurisdiction. Each assessment returns one of the following statuses: Fail results generate alerts on the vendor’s record. Depending on your vendor type policy, these may be warnings or blocking (critical) issues.

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Vendor type configuration

Trade scope compliance is configured per vendor type. Even when the collection mode is enabled at the organisation level, each vendor type must have trade scopes enabled before assessments and alerts are generated for vendors of that type. For each vendor type you can control:

• Enabled — whether trade scope checks are active for this vendor type
• Enforcement level — how failures are treated:
  • Collect only — scopes are recorded but no alerts are raised
  • Warning — failed assessments raise a warning alert
  • Required — failed assessments raise a critical (blocking) alert
• Required for approval — whether at least one trade scope must be selected before a submission can be approved
• Minimum scopes — the minimum number of scopes a vendor of this type must declare

Vendor type trade scope settings are managed in Admin > Trade Scopes, under the Vendor Types tab.

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Admin settings

Trade scope settings are managed in Admin > Trade Scopes. From here you can:

• Set the collection mode for your organisation
• Configure trade scope enforcement per vendor type
• View all available trade scopes and the jurisdictions they cover
• See how many of your vendors are using each scope
• View the licence rules that apply per scope and jurisdiction using View Rules

Trade scope names and licence mappings are globally maintained by TradesField and updated as regulations change. You cannot add custom scopes, but you can disable individual scopes so they do not appear in vendor forms or compliance checks for your organisation.

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Current coverage

Trade scope licence verification is currently supported in QLD (under the QBCC) and NSW (under NSW Fair Trading). We are continuing to expand coverage to additional states and territories. For scopes or jurisdictions outside current coverage, assessments will return an Unknown status rather than Pass or Fail.