When Sean Ruel, owner of Golden Ruel Enterprises and Straight Edge Painting had an idea for a new website-based business, he called HATHWAY. With the goal of connecting homeowners with trustworthy, reliable contractors, Sean and HATHWAY bellied up to the drawing board. Soon after, Rate My Contractor was born.

Rate My Contractor, based in Sacramento, CA was created with the goal of helping homeowners connect with the right contractor for their project. With a free membership, the site allows users to the leave reviews for contractors in a variety of trades.

Members may also use previously posted reviews to search for quality, trustworthy service professionals along with access to the Rate My Contractor Call Center and educational emails. Contractors may also set up fee-based profiles and advertisements on the site.

Rate My Contractor was built by HATHWAY using Joomla, open source software. Joomla components, JReview and JomSocial were key in development giving the site review and community functionality.  The Rate My Contractor online payment system was custom programmed by HATHWAY using the Sassy payment processing system in conjunction with CimStorage.

Do you have an idea for a website-based business? Give HATHWAY a call. We can help.