Oneflare is gone: where Perth renovators get leads in 2026

Airtasker bought Oneflare in May 2022 and ran it as a sister brand.[3] In 2026 it decided to retire Oneflare and focus only on Airtasker. The last day was 30 June 2026. After that, the Oneflare website and mobile app were redirected to Airtasker.[1] We checked on 20 October 2026: oneflare.com.au still forwards to airtasker.com, and Oneflare’s own closure notice now opens on Airtasker’s support site.

The run-down for businesses went like this.[2]

• 1 June 2026: auto-renewals switched off, so nobody was charged again on the way out.
• 21 May to 30 June 2026: businesses that moved to Airtasker were offered no service fees, and their Oneflare review rating carried across.
• Credits: members were told to use existing credits as normal until the shutdown. KingTradie found no published terms for credits still unspent after that. If you held some, put the question to Airtasker support in writing.

Two things went with the platform: your Oneflare profile, and any reviews not carried to Airtasker. The customers did not go anywhere. Every client you won through Oneflare is in your invoices, and they are the cheapest renovation leads you will find this year. More on them below.

Before you pay any platform, fix the one listing you own outright. Google says local results rest on three things: relevance (how well your profile matches the search), distance (how far you are from the searcher) and prominence (how well known you are). The number of reviews you have and your ratings count toward prominence, and Google recommends replying to them.[9]

For a renovator in Perth, that turns into a short list:

• Use the most specific category Google offers for the work you want most, and add your other renovation services underneath it.
• Set your service area to the suburbs you actually work, not the whole metro area. Relevance and distance do the rest.
• Post finished-job photos with the suburb in the description: a Baldivis ensuite or a Rockingham kitchen, not “another happy customer”.
• Ask every finished client for a review, with a direct link, the day you hand over. Reply to every review, good and bad, in a sentence or two.
• Answer the phone the profile rings, or text back within a minute when you cannot. A profile that ranks and then rings out is free leads thrown away.

Our free Google Business Profile audit scores your listing against these in a couple of minutes.

Every source above sends you a lead and then stops. Whether it becomes a job is up to you, and the data on that is consistent.

Buildxact, the estimating software, published its State of the Customer report in March 2026. Estimates sent to clients within 2 days had a 32% win rate, and after 2 days the win rate kept falling at a steady rate.[10] That is Buildxact’s own customer data across the countries it sells in, not an Australia-only study, so treat it as a direction rather than a promise. The Australian baseline is older. In Buildxact’s Australian data for January to June 2021, renovation estimates were won at an adjusted 18 to 19%, and new builds at 16%.[11] Put those side by side and the message is plain: the typical renovation quote loses about four times in five, and the quick ones do much better.

Three things move that number without buying a single extra lead:

1. Answer every enquiry, including the ones that ring while you are on the tools. On a shared lead the first reply usually gets the site visit. A text back within a minute of a missed call holds the job until you can ring. If you are weighing a person to answer instead, here is what an answering service costs Australian tradies.
2. Get the quote out inside two days, then follow it up. A renovation quote is a big decision and it goes quiet for ordinary reasons. A short follow-up on day 2, 7 and 21 brings back the ones that were waiting on a partner, a bank or a second price.
3. Text past clients once a season. Everyone you renovated for through Oneflare, hipages or word of mouth is still on your books. One relevant text, with your business named and a working opt-out, is legal under the Spam Act and is the cheapest job you will book. The customer reactivation guide has the consent rule and templates.

That is the work we do, and only that. Flat Out Automations does not sell leads. We set up the missed-call text back, the quote follow-up and the past-client texts on the enquiries you already get, from whichever platform or profile they come. Setup is $999 for our first three founding clients, then $1,500, plus $197 a month, and your first 8 booked estimates are free. How it works for renovation businesses is on the renovators page.

1. Week 1: count what Oneflare was worth. From your invoices, list the jobs that came through it in the last year and what you paid in credits. That cost per job won is the number any replacement has to beat.
2. Week 1: fix your Google Business Profile. Category, service-area suburbs, ten finished-job photos, and a reply to every review you have not answered.
3. Week 2: pick one paid source, not three. Match it to your jobs: a territory or pay-per-lead if you want control of spend, a subscription only if you can work a full month of leads. Read the term and renewal before you sign.[5][6][7]
4. Week 2: set a ceiling. Decide the most you will pay per job won, and a date in 90 days to check it.
5. Week 3: fix your reply speed. Every enquiry answered or texted within minutes, every quote out within two days.[10]
6. Week 3: start following up. Every open quote gets a message on day 2, 7 and 21.
7. Week 4: text past clients. One message to everyone you have renovated for, and a review request to the happy ones who never left one.
8. Week 4: check the southern corridor. If you work Rockingham, Baldivis or Mandurah, see our Rockingham renovators page.