Payment security for renovation professionals
Secure your projects, your deposits and your commissions without funds ever passing through your accounts.
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Challenges
The challenges facing renovation professionals
Control of funds
You need to secure your commissions without collecting the funds intended for tradespeople yourself. As soon as those funds pass through your accounts, your brokered sales risk being reclassified as professional sales, with the obligations that follow.
Financial risks
You are exposed to disputes and late payments with no safety net. In 2025, 85% of businesses in the construction sector faced late payments.
Complex cases
Several tradespeople, multiple milestones, different retrocessions, extras, change orders: more than 75% of administrative time is taken up by just 20% of projects.
Client reassurance
Your clients expect security before entrusting you with large sums: 33% of homeowners cite the risk of scams as a barrier to carrying out renovation work.
Professions
A clear benefit for every profession
Contractor-matching platforms
Secure your retrocessions without ever collecting the funds intended for tradespeople, deducted automatically at each validated milestone - and with no risk of reclassification as a professional sale.
Agents & business introducers
Receive your commission as soon as the project owner validates a milestone, without advancing or handling the funds intended for tradespeople.
Brokerage networks
Standardise the payment journey across all your branches or franchisees and keep real-time compliance control, to protect the brand and reduce fraud.
Building industry brands
Secure end-to-end payments for projects initiated on your platform, without ever bearing financial responsibility for the flows between your users and the tradespeople.
Our answer
How do we eliminate these risks?
Against fraud
Project owner's identity verified by video identification, tradespeople's compliance checked (bank details), funds held on a dedicated account until each milestone is validated.
Against reclassification
Money never passes through your accounts: only your retrocession is paid to you.
Against non-payment
Release is triggered when each milestone is validated: the amount due to the tradesperson and your retrocession are paid in one go.
In the field
Real-life use cases from the field
Multi-trade project
A broker manages a renovation project involving several tradespeople, with separate milestones and retrocessions for each, without ever handling the funds themselves.
Remote project owner
A project owner located in another region approves their renovation file and funds their dedicated account entirely online, without travelling.
Brokerage network and harmonised journey
A network of brokers rolls out a single payment journey across its branches to guarantee a security standard and a consistent customer experience.
Change orders and extras during the project
A contractor-matching platform handles change orders and extras during the project, adding or amending milestones without losing control of payments already committed.
Reassurance
Built for sensitive transactions
Compliance
A strict regulatory framework, in partnership with a licensed payment institution (Okali, a subsidiary of the Crédit Agricole group).
Document checks
The project owner is identified by remote video identification. CashSentinel checks the consistency of the tradesperson's bank details as well as the overall consistency of the file.
Fraud detection
Dedicated teams support sensitive files. Verification of the file's consistency and assistance in preventing known fraud patterns.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Answers to the most frequent questions from renovation professionals.