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The tools you actually need: House flipping

Most "best software" lists are written for everyone and therefore for nobody. This one is filtered to House flipping at €60,000–€150,000 of startup capital and 25–55 hours a week, which changes the answer.

Buy almost none of this in month one

At 10% net margin and 36 weeks to your first euro, every subscription you start today is a cost you carry through the unpaid months. The order that works is: get a customer, then buy the thing that customer made necessary.

Because you work locally

A house flipping is found, paid and invoiced differently from an online business. These are the ones that matter for that — and the one that matters most is free.

Website and store

Squarespace

we earn nothing

Websites for small business and portfolios

Visit Squarespace →

Wix

we earn nothing

Drag-and-drop website builder

Visit Wix →

Search and being found

Google Business Profile

we earn nothing

Your listing on Google Maps and local search

For a local trade this is worth more than every paid tool on the page combined, and it costs nothing. Nobody writes it up because nobody earns from it.

Visit Google Business Profile →

Money and invoicing

SumUp

we earn nothing

Card readers and payments for small traders

Visit SumUp →

Moneybird

we earn nothing

Dutch invoicing and bookkeeping

Visit Moneybird →

QuickBooks

we earn nothing

Accounting for small business

Visit QuickBooks →

Field and trade software

Jobber

we earn nothing

Quotes, scheduling and invoicing for field trades

Visit Jobber →

Housecall Pro

we earn nothing

Field service management

Visit Housecall Pro →

Whatever you start

Not specific to this trade. These are the ones almost every new business ends up paying for, listed so the total is honest rather than flattering.

Writing and AI

Claude (Anthropic)

we earn nothing

AI assistant, writing, code, analysis

Max users get guest passes and $10 credit per paid referral. That is a referral perk, not income. The Partner Network is enterprise co-selling, not links.

Visit Claude (Anthropic) →

Design

Canva

we earn nothing

Design, templates, brand kits

Visit Canva →

Website and store

Hostinger

we earn nothing

Web hosting and domains

Visit Hostinger →

Email and audience

Brevo

we earn nothing

Email, SMS and CRM for small business

Visit Brevo →

What else you have to buy

Software is the cheap half. These are the things this business cannot start without, and none of them are a subscription:

depositbridging financebuildersinsurancesurveys

How this page pays for itself, in full

Right now we earn nothing from any of the 12 tools on this page, and every card says so. As programmes are approved, the ones that pay us will be labelled individually. Claude, ChatGPT, Ahrefs, Midjourney and Google Business Profile have no affiliate programme at all, and they still appear where they belong. If a recommendation only ever pointed at things that paid us, the page would be worth nothing to you.

Before you buy any of it

Check the business clears your target first. Spending on tools for a model that doesn't fit your hours or your capital is the most common way people lose their first thousand euros.

Find what fits my budget → The guide Back to the numbers