Owner-operator programme · third intake
Ghar Setu routes plumbing, electrical and appliance work to 340 owner-operators. You bring the trade licence and the driving; we bring the jobs, the parts and the collections.
See how it startsA real exchange from our operator line, shared with permission. Names changed.
Hi — I run a two-person electrical outfit in Whitefield. Six years now. Work is fine, but I spend half my day chasing payments. What does joining actually change?
The chasing stops — customers pay us in the app before a job closes, and we settle to you every Friday. Beyond that, three things change:
And what does it cost me? I have heard some of these franchise things take 30%.
A one-time joining fee of ₹1,85,000, which covers the van wrap, the tool top-up kit, the tablet and four weeks of training. After that we take 18% of job value. No monthly minimum, no advertising levy.
For an electrician working five and a half days, that has meant ₹92,000–₹1,25,000 a month take-home in Whitefield over the last year. I can send you the actual job logs from the two operators nearest you.
Please send them. And can I keep my own two staff?
Yes — most operators run one or two technicians under them. They stay your employees, on your books; we only require they clear our safety module before they touch a Ghar Setu job.
Volume mix across the Bengaluru clusters, last quarter.
Leaks, geysers, bathroom fittings. The highest repeat rate of anything we send.
Wiring faults, fan and light installs, inverter and UPS work.
AC service contracts, washing machines, refrigeration. Peaks March to June.
Carpentry, mounting, door and lock work. Good filler for a thin afternoon.
Forty to forty-six jobs, averaging ₹1,840 in job value. After our 18% and your parts cost, operators clear roughly ₹26,000–₹31,000 in a good week. Diesel and the van EMI come out of that — budget ₹4,500 a week for both if you finance the vehicle through our lending tie-up.
Your first six weeks will be thin — around twenty-five jobs a week — because the routing engine gives new operators smaller loads until completion and rating data settles. Nine operators in ten cross forty jobs by week ten. One in ten does not, and we buy the van wrap back at half price if you leave inside six months.
Anonymous quarterly survey, 340 operators, 81% responded.
The Friday settlement is the whole reason I joined and it has never once been late. Eleven months in, I have not chased a single payment.
Job flow is good and the depot is genuinely fast. My only gripe is that the app pushes AC work at me in April when I would rather stay on plumbing.
I was sceptical about the 18%. Then I worked out what my old ad spend plus unpaid invoices came to. It was more than 18%.
You will speak to someone from the operator team who has run a cluster themselves. Bring your questions about money — they can answer them.