Licensing-first home services.
Most marketplaces hand your job to whoever pays for the lead. HandyMatch only routes work to pros who are legally eligible to do it — because in Florida, sending the wrong pro is a real risk, for you and for them.
The right pro isn’t just the cheapest one. It’s the one allowed to do the work.
Florida has no general “handyman” licence. Someone without a trade licence may lawfully handle smaller jobs, but bigger or specialized work needs the right credential — and getting that wrong has consequences that land on the homeowner, not just the pro.
HandyMatch was built around that reality. Instead of blasting your request to anyone who’ll pay for it, we work out what your job legally requires in your ZIP and only match pros who qualify. When no one does, a person on our team steps in. We never loosen the rule to fill a slot.
What that means for you
Trust built into every request.
Eligibility-checked matching
Before a request reaches any pro, we determine what it legally requires and match only those holding the right credential for that work in your area.
Contact stays private
Pros see the job, photos and an approximate location — never your name, number or exact address until you select one.
Credentials we review
Pros upload their licence, insurance and ID. Our team checks them against the issuing board or county record before licensed work goes live. Pending never counts as approved.
You’re always in control
You compare proposals and choose. Nothing becomes a job, and no pro gets your details, until you select one.
Jurisdiction-aware
Rules differ by county, and permits differ by city. We don’t treat a ZIP as the whole answer — the eligibility check accounts for where you actually are.
Grounded in the law
Our eligibility rules are built from Florida Statutes and county records, not blog posts — and we keep the language accurate so no pro is described in a way that puts them at risk.
The details other platforms blur.
A few specifics from Florida law that shape how HandyMatch routes work. We keep them straight so the match is honest.
An unlicensed pro can do small jobs — not everything
Under Florida Statutes 489.103(9), work performed without a contractor licence is capped at $2,500 in total per job, and that total can’t be split across invoices to stay under the line. Beyond it, the right licence is required.
Electrical is different — a licence, at any price
The $2,500 allowance covers general construction work. It does not cover electrical, alarm or low-voltage work: Florida Statutes 489 Part II (489.503) has no small-job dollar exemption at all. So an unlicensed pro may lawfully swap a faucet on a small job but may not swap a light switch at any price. We encode that difference instead of glossing over it.
Two dollar figures that get mixed up
The $2,500 licensing exemption and the $5,000 Miami-Dade permit pathway are unrelated rules about different things — one about who may do the work, one about permits. Being permit-exempt doesn’t make a job licence-exempt. We treat them separately.
Words matter under the statute
Florida law (FS 489.103(9), and FS 489.105(3), which counts “submits a bid to” as contracting) means that describing an unlicensed pro as a “contractor” can itself void their exemption. That’s why our public copy is careful about how it describes pros who don’t hold a licence.
See it work for your job.
Describe what you need — we’ll only route it to pros who are eligible to do it.