Trade Supplies
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Trade Supplies finds live prices for construction materials, trade consumables, and building supplies from regional merchants. Search for one item, compare prices across suppliers, or estimate a multi-item materials basket before you request a quote or place an order.
It uses live shopping results localised by country and ranks known trade merchants first: Screwfix, Travis Perkins, Wickes, B&Q, Toolstation, Home Depot, Lowes, Bunnings, Leroy Merlin, Bauhaus, Hornbach, and similar suppliers by region.
What you can do
- search_supplies — find current product listings for a material or trade supply with supplier, price, availability, and link
- compare_prices — sort priced listings cheapest-first and calculate savings against the highest priced option
- estimate_materials — price a bill of materials by multiplying live unit prices by quantities, with job, VAT, markup, collection, and accounting fields for quoting workflows
- check_local_availability — check real merchant branch stock where supplier APIs are implemented, currently Toolstation and Screwfix UK branch/stock endpoints, with explicit unsupported status for other suppliers
- find_branches — find the nearest physical branches of trade suppliers to a postcode, with address, distance, opening hours, phone, and a directions link (location only — not stock-checked)
- optimize_material_pickup — choose a supplier stop for a materials basket using verified branch stock, price, pickup SLA, and route/location hints
- supplier_coverage — see preferred suppliers and currency assumptions by country
Who it's for
Builders, renovators, quantity surveyors, facilities teams, and contractors checking current material costs before ordering or quoting work.
How to use it
- Start with supplier_coverage if you want to see which suppliers are preferred in your country
- Use search_supplies for a specific item with size/spec, such as "15mm copper pipe 3m"
- Use compare_prices when price matters more than supplier rank
- Use estimate_materials for a basket of materials with quantities
Search live shopping listings for trade supplies and building materials…
Compare live supplier prices for a single trade supply item and…
Estimate a bill of materials by searching live prices for each item…
Find the nearest physical branches of trade suppliers to a postcode…
Search live shopping listings for trade supplies and building materials with regional supplier ranking, prices, availability, and product links.
Compare live supplier prices for a single trade supply item and identify the cheapest priced listing with savings against the highest result.
Estimate a bill of materials by searching live prices for each item, selecting a priced supplier listing, and multiplying by requested quantities with job, VAT, markup, and accounting metadata.
Check local pickup evidence near a postcode. Toolstation and Screwfix UK branch stock is verified through real merchant endpoints with per-branch quantities and collect-today status; unsupported suppliers return explicit unverified status instead of placeholder branches.
Find the nearest physical branches of trade suppliers to a postcode, with address, distance, opening hours, phone, and a directions link. Location only — branches are not stock-checked.
Choose the best supplier stop for collecting a materials basket using local availability evidence, route locations, pickup SLA, price, and strategy constraints.
Show regional supplier coverage and currency assumptions used by Trade Supplies before running live material price searches.
- Slow supplier searches now get more time to finish instead of failing
- estimate_materials now prices every item in a bill at the same time, so multi-item estimates return much faster.
- A temporary supplier-search hiccup on one item no longer fails the whole estimate — that row is returned for retry while the others are priced.
- Large bills that reach the response time budget now return a partial estimate with the not-yet-priced rows under pending_items, instead of timing out; set max_wait_ms to tune the budget.
- Initial release with live trade supply search, price comparison, multi-item material estimates, and regional supplier coverage.
- Added local availability and pickup optimisation skills with branch stock evidence fields, direct merchant links, pickup SLA, store metadata, and explicit checkout-confirmation caveats.
- Toolstation UK now uses public merchant branch and stock endpoints for real postcode-aware branch quantities; unsupported suppliers no longer receive placeholder branch rows.
- Prices, in/out-of-stock status, and product codes are now read directly from the supplier’s own product page for Screwfix, Wickes, Travis Perkins, B&Q, TLC Direct, and more — not just from shopping results — so quotes use merchant-confirmed figures and verified buy links.
- New find_branches: find the nearest branches of trade suppliers to a postcode with address, distance, opening hours, phone, and directions.
- supplier_coverage now shows which suppliers have merchant-verified online availability versus real branch click & collect stock.
- Screwfix: check_local_availability now returns real per-branch stock quantities and collect-today / next-day status near a postcode, alongside Toolstation.
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