Contractor listing plans
Own your city before somebody else does.
Build a complete profile for free, and keep it free forever. Upgrade when you want the direct line to property owners, the promoted slot in your market, and your rate locked at today’s price.
No per-lead fees, ever. Paid plans deliver quote requests straight to your inbox, and an inquiry is never resold.
Paid placement changes visibility, not verification or endorsement status.
The plans
Free forever, or paid for position.
Every plan below keeps your profile complete, indexable, and honest. What changes is how directly a property owner can reach you, and how many markets you are promoted in.
Listing plan
Basic Listing
Best for: getting on the map. A complete factual profile that stays free with no time limit.
- Company overview and complete business details
- Your phone shown after a visitor clicks to reveal it, and your website domain shown as text
- Up to 4 service categories, plus property types, project types, and service area
- Company logo and up to 5 project photos
- Listed in 1 served city beyond your home city
- Contact form on your profile, with inquiries routed through the directory
- Customer reviews and star ratings
- Profile activity: 30-day views, clicks, calls, and quote requests
Listing plan
Pro Listing
Best for: one city, done properly. The direct line to owners, and promoted where you are based.
Also available at $490/year.
- Everything in Basic
- Tap-to-call phone, clickable website, email button, and social links
- "Get a Quote" form delivering leads straight to your inbox
- Your phone number shown on city and category directory pages
- Promoted in your home city: the sponsored strip at the top, and first in results
- Up to 6 service categories and 25 project photos
- Listed in up to 3 served cities beyond your home city
- Dedicated local company pages in eligible served cities
- Profile activity with 12-month month-by-month history
- Pro profile and result-card treatment
Listing plan
Featured Listing
Best for: a company working two markets. Promoted in your city and one more you choose.
Also available at $990/year.
- Everything in Pro, including the "Get a Quote" form
- Promoted in 2 cities: your home city plus one you choose
- Up to 10 service categories and 40 project photos
- Listed in up to 5 served cities beyond your home city
- Featured placement badge
- Featured placement strip on your category landing pages
- Project spotlight submissions, published after review
Listing plan
Sponsored Listing
Best for: a regional operator. Three promoted cities, the state and homepage rows, and your own written spotlight.
Also available at $1,490/year.
- Everything in Featured, including the placement badge and category strip
- Promoted in 3 cities: your home city plus two you choose
- First card in the strip on your category landing pages
- Sponsored row on your state page and the homepage
- One written company spotlight, published when you start
- Up to 14 service categories and 60 project photos
- Listed in up to 8 served cities beyond your home city
Your rate is fixed. A subscription stays on the price it opened at for as long as it runs — that is how the billing works, not a promise we are asking you to take on trust.
Before the plans
Start with what you are not paying for.
If you have used a lead network, you already know why this list matters more than the feature grid below it.
No per-lead fees. Ever.
Not on any tier, not at any volume. The big lead networks charge $20 to $150 every time someone fills in a form, whether or not the job was real and whether or not you won it.
Your inquiry is never resold.
One inquiry, one contractor. It is not sold to five of your competitors so you can race each other to the bottom on price before anyone has seen the lot.
No contract, no cancellation fee.
Cancel in Stripe in two clicks and you are not charged again. No annual lock-in, no percentage of the remaining balance, and we email you before every renewal so a charge is never a surprise.
A paid plan can't buy a badge.
License and insurance review is free on every tier and comes from documents we actually check. Paying moves you up a page. It never changes what we say we have verified about you.
Why now, honestly
Placement is finite. Your market is probably still open.
A city’s sponsored strip holds three cards. Not three per page, not three per search — three, for the whole city. Almost every city in this directory currently has none of the three taken, which is a fact about how early this is rather than a sales tactic, and it is the one thing on this page that genuinely will not last.
When the slots in a city are full, the higher tier takes them and longest-subscribed breaks a tie. Getting in early is not a discount — it is the position itself.
Take your cityPro — your home city
The sponsored strip at the top of your own city's page, and first position in its results.
Featured — your city plus one
Pick a second market you actually work in and be promoted there too, plus the strip on your category pages.
Sponsored — 3 cities
Three promoted cities you choose, first card in the category strip, and the sponsor row on your state page and the homepage.
Compare plans
What changes with a plan — and what never does.
The rows that differ are what a paid plan buys. The rows that read the same on all four tiers are the ones we will not put behind a subscription.
Your profile and its facts
Search indexing, structured data, internal links
- BasicFree
- Included
- Pro$49/month
- Included
- Featured$99/month
- Included
- Sponsored$149/month
- Included
Service categories
Directory categories you can carry
- BasicFree
- Up to 4
- Pro$49/month
- Up to 6
- Featured$99/month
- Up to 10
- Sponsored$149/month
- Up to 14
Service area and local pages
Cities beyond your home city
- BasicFree
- 1
- Pro$49/month
- 3
- Featured$99/month
- 5
- Sponsored$149/month
- 8
Dedicated local company pages
- BasicFree
- Not included
- Pro$49/month
- Included
- Featured$99/month
- Included
- Sponsored$149/month
- Included
Photos and portfolio
Project photos published
- BasicFree
- Up to 5
- Pro$49/month
- Up to 25
- Featured$99/month
- Up to 40
- Sponsored$149/month
- Up to 60
Placement and visibility
Cities you are promoted in
- BasicFree
- None
- Pro$49/month
- 1 — your home city
- Featured$99/month
- 2 — home city plus 1 you choose
- Sponsored$149/month
- 3 — home city plus 2 you choose
Featured strip on category landing pages
- BasicFree
- Not included
- Pro$49/month
- Not included
- Featured$99/month
- Yes
- Sponsored$149/month
- Yes — first card
Sponsored row on state pages and the homepage
- BasicFree
- Not included
- Pro$49/month
- Not included
- Featured$99/month
- Not included
- Sponsored$149/month
- Included
Inquiries and leads
"Get a Quote" form delivered to you
- BasicFree
- Not included
- Pro$49/month
- After claim approval
- Featured$99/month
- After claim approval
- Sponsored$149/month
- After claim approval
Contact form on your profile
- BasicFree
- Routed through the directory
- Pro$49/month
- Direct to your inbox
- Featured$99/month
- Direct to your inbox
- Sponsored$149/month
- Direct to your inbox
Direct contact from your profile
- BasicFree
- Phone shown after a click
- Pro$49/month
- Call, email, website, social
- Featured$99/month
- Call, email, website, social
- Sponsored$149/month
- Call, email, website, social
Profile activity
12-month month-by-month history
- BasicFree
- Not included
- Pro$49/month
- Included
- Featured$99/month
- Included
- Sponsored$149/month
- Included
Project spotlights
Submit completed projects
- BasicFree
- Not included
- Pro$49/month
- Not included
- Featured$99/month
- Reviewed before publishing
- Sponsored$149/month
- Reviewed before publishing
Verification, badges, and trust
License and insurance review
- BasicFree
- Free on every tier
- Pro$49/month
- Free on every tier
- Featured$99/month
- Free on every tier
- Sponsored$149/month
- Free on every tier
Billing, changes, and cancellation
Monthly price
- BasicFree
- Free
- Pro$49/month
- $49/month
- Featured$99/month
- $99/month
- Sponsored$149/month
- $149/month
| Feature | BasicFree | Pro$49/month | Featured$99/month | Sponsored$149/month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your profile and its facts | ||||
| Search indexing, structured data, internal links | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Service categories | ||||
| Directory categories you can carry | Up to 4 | Up to 6 | Up to 10 | Up to 14 |
| Service area and local pages | ||||
| Cities beyond your home city | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Dedicated local company pages | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Photos and portfolio | ||||
| Project photos published | Up to 5 | Up to 25 | Up to 40 | Up to 60 |
| Placement and visibility | ||||
| Cities you are promoted in | None | 1 — your home city | 2 — home city plus 1 you choose | 3 — home city plus 2 you choose |
| Featured strip on category landing pages | Not included | Not included | Yes | Yes — first card |
| Sponsored row on state pages and the homepage | Not included | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Inquiries and leads | ||||
| "Get a Quote" form delivered to you | Not included | After claim approval | After claim approval | After claim approval |
| Contact form on your profile | Routed through the directory | Direct to your inbox | Direct to your inbox | Direct to your inbox |
| Direct contact from your profile | Phone shown after a click | Call, email, website, social | Call, email, website, social | Call, email, website, social |
| Profile activity | ||||
| 12-month month-by-month history | Not included | Included | Included | Included |
| Project spotlights | ||||
| Submit completed projects | Not included | Not included | Reviewed before publishing | Reviewed before publishing |
| Verification, badges, and trust | ||||
| License and insurance review | Free on every tier | Free on every tier | Free on every tier | Free on every tier |
| Billing, changes, and cancellation | ||||
| Monthly price | Free | $49/month | $99/month | $149/month |
Every limit, every rule, and what happens when a plan changes is documented on the plan comparison page.
What paid plans sell
Compete for more attention without paywalling the facts.
Claimed Basic profiles can already publish a complete business record, appear in the cities they serve, carry a working contact form, and see what their listing is doing. Their phone number is shown to a visitor who clicks to reveal it and their website domain is shown as text. Paid plans add the direct line — a tap-to-call number, a clickable website link, an email button, and social links — plus quote requests delivered straight to the contractor’s inbox, wider category and city coverage, larger portfolios, dedicated local pages, month-by-month activity history, reviewed project spotlights, and promoted placement in a limited, clearly disclosed set of cities.
Nothing that makes a listing complete or findable is behind a plan. Every published profile is eligible for search indexing, structured data, and internal links whatever it pays, and every claimed listing can see its own activity — you should not have to buy a subscription to learn whether the directory is working for you.
The questions worth asking before you pay
Is it worth upgrading this early?
That depends on what you want from it, and we would rather be straight about the trade. The directory is young: traffic is growing but it is not yet sending a flood of inquiries to anyone, and we do not publish claims suggesting otherwise. What upgrading buys today is position — a promoted slot in your city while the city is still open, your rate fixed at today's price, and a profile that is working on your behalf in search while the site grows. If you need calls this week, spend the money on Google Ads instead and come back to us. If you are building a presence over the next two years, this is the cheapest it will ever be to own your spot.
Do I have to pay to appear at all?
No, and a basic listing stays free with no time limit and no card required. It publishes your full business record, appears in the cities you serve, carries a working contact form, and is eligible for search indexing exactly like a paid listing. What a paid plan adds is the direct line — a number a property owner can tap, a clickable website link, an email button, and quote requests delivered to your inbox rather than ours.
Does a paid plan put me on top of every page?
Deliberately not, and this is the part most directories get wrong. A plan promotes you in a set number of cities — Pro in your home city, Featured in two, Sponsored in three — and you choose which. In every other city you serve you still appear, you just rank on your merits. A directory where every paying company sits on top of every page stops being useful to the property owners it exists for, and a directory nobody uses is not worth advertising in.
What happens on a city page if I'm not based in that city?
City pages keep companies based in the city separate from companies serving it from elsewhere, on every tier, and paid placement never moves an out-of-town company into the local roster. What a promoted city buys is a card in the labelled sponsored strip above both groups. It is honest about what you are — a company that covers the area — rather than pretending you have an office there.
Will my price go up?
Not while your subscription runs. Stripe holds a subscription on the price it opened at, so your rate is fixed for as long as you stay on the plan — that is a property of how the billing works, not a promise we are asking you to trust. We are not advertising a scheduled increase or a countdown, because we do not have one.
What happens to my listing if I cancel?
It stays published. Your listing reverts to Basic limits and standard placement, nothing you wrote or uploaded is deleted, photos over the Basic limit are kept but stop showing publicly, and any dedicated local city pages permanently redirect to your main profile so nothing you earned in search is thrown away. We also email you 7 days and 3 days before any renewal.
Questions about a plan?
Talk to a person first.
Not sure which plan fits your service area, or whether your listing is already in the directory? Call (925) 302-5253 and leave a message, or email hello@thepavementdirectory.com. No obligation — a free claimed listing stays free.