Trades
CPD and training software for licensed trades
Howio is training software for the people who don't sit at a desk. Regulators use it to run licence CPD online, and trade businesses use it to show their teams how each job is done, with a record of who's completed it.
7,339
practitioners completed the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board's online CPD on Howio in 2025
4 years
The Board has run its CPD on Howio for four licensing years
Training software for your trade
Plumbers and drainlayers
Show every plumber and drainlayer on your team how you want the job done, and keep a record of who's completed it.
Gasfitters
Turn appliance manuals and commissioning steps into short courses your team completes between jobs.
Electricians
Set out how your business does testing, isolation and installs, and see who has been through each one.
Builders and construction companies
Induct your own crews and every subcontractor before they reach the gate, with no account for them to set up.
How licence CPD works in New Zealand
Every year
Plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers
CPD set and delivered by the Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board. Its online programme runs on Howio.
Every two years
Electrical workers
A competence programme made up of e-learning modules and a course with a training provider.
Every two years
Licensed building practitioners
Skills maintenance: compulsory reading with quizzes, plus elective activities each practitioner chooses.
From a manual, your existing docs and videos, to a completed course in four steps
Build
Describe what you want, or drop in a manual, a video or your photos, and the AI course builder turns it into a draft course you can edit.
Send
Send a link by email. Each person opens the course in their phone browser, with no app to install and no account to set up.
Track
Search for anyone by name and see what they've completed, the date and their score.
Certify
Issue a certificate when a course is completed, and renew it automatically when it's due.
Case study
How a national regulator put CPD online for 15,000 tradespeople
The Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board runs its whole annual CPD syllabus online on Howio. Practitioners sign in through the Board's own website and work through it in a browser, on whatever device they have, and each module is recorded as it's finished.
Who uses Howio
Regulators
Running licence CPD
Associations
Training their members
Employers
Training their own teams
Manufacturers
Training the people who install their products
Questions about CPD and training software for trades
- What is Howio?
- Howio is training software. You use it to build courses, send them to people who work on site and keep a record of who has completed them.
- Is Howio a training provider?
- No. Howio is the software. The regulator, association or business that uses it writes and owns the training.
- Can Howio run licence CPD for a regulator?
- Yes. The Plumbers, Gasfitters and Drainlayers Board in New Zealand runs its online CPD on Howio, and 7,339 practitioners completed it in 2025.
- Can a trade business use Howio for its own training?
- Yes. Trade businesses use it for inductions, their own way of doing common jobs, and safety refreshers.
- Does training on Howio count towards my licence?
- It depends on the licence. Each one has its own rules, and the pages for plumbers, gasfitters and drainlayers, electrical workers and licensed building practitioners set them out.
See it with your own training
Start a free trial and build your first course from something you already have, or book a demo and we'll show you how it would work for your trade.