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Tradify
Job management for one to twenty person trade businesses
As of 31 August 2026, Tradify starts at $47/month. A New Zealand job management app aimed squarely at electricians, plumbers and builders running under twenty staff. Softwr lists it under Field Service. Tradify is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Tradify does
Tradify is job management software for small trade contractors: enquiry, quote, schedule, timesheet, job notes, invoice and payment. It was built in Auckland for the New Zealand and Australian trades market and expanded into the UK and Ireland, which is now one of its largest territories. The product is deliberately narrow. It does not attempt dispatch optimisation, inventory depth or service agreement management, and it leans on Xero or QuickBooks for the accounting rather than doing its own ledger. What distinguishes it commercially is the deliberate ceiling. Tradify targets businesses of roughly one to twenty users and prices flat per user with no tiering by volume, so a five person firm pays five times the headline and a forty person firm pays forty times it. Against ServiceTitan or FieldEdge, which quote privately and charge implementation fees in the thousands, Tradify publishes its rates, has no setup fee and can be live in a day. Against Jobber and Housecall Pro it is closer in shape but priced per user rather than by plan tier, which changes the arithmetic sharply once you pass about five seats. Buyers are owner-operators and small trade firms in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and Ireland, usually already on Xero. The trade-off is the headline price is not the bill. SMS messaging is charged per message, the Instant Website add-on is extra, and card payments carry Stripe fees on top. A Pro user on the website add-on sending a couple of hundred texts a month can pay close to double the advertised per-user figure.
What people use it for
- A three person electrical contractor on Xero wants quotes, timesheets and invoices in one app and refuses to sit through a demo or pay a setup fee.
- A plumbing firm needs technicians recording labour hours against jobs from a phone so the invoice reflects what was actually spent rather than what the office guessed.
- A UK trade business wants published pricing in pounds it can budget against, instead of the quote-only approach ServiceTitan and FieldEdge take.
- A builder wants to send professionally branded quotes fast enough to be first to respond, where the win rate depends on turnaround more than on document sophistication.
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Tradify.
- Pricing is flat per user with no volume tiering, so a twenty person firm pays twenty times the headline rate and the economics get worse, not better, as you grow into the top of its stated market.
- The advertised per-user price excludes SMS, which is charged per message, the Instant Website add-on at roughly ten pounds a month, and Stripe card processing fees, so a Pro seat sending two hundred texts a month can cost close to double the sticker price.
- There is no free tier and no permanently free single-user plan, so a sole trader testing the water is paying from the end of the trial.
- Inventory and stock control are minimal: it can bundle kits and raise purchase orders but will not track stock levels on vans or in a store, which rules it out for firms carrying real parts inventory.
- It has no service agreement, recurring maintenance contract or flat-rate pricebook functionality, so HVAC and other maintenance-contract businesses outgrow it quickly and end up moving to FieldEdge or ServiceTitan.
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What people choose instead of Tradify
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- TradifyvsHousecall Pro
Housecall Pro: If you run a residential service business and want consumer booking, marketing automation and payments bundled rather than per-user seats.
- TradifyvsServiceTitan
ServiceTitan: If you have outgrown twenty users and need dispatch optimisation, service agreements and flat-rate pricebooks, accepting quote-only pricing and a real implementation project.
Pricing
What Tradify costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Lite
$47 /mo
- Jobs, notes and job tracking
- Scheduling with Google Calendar sync
- Quoting and invoicing
- Accounting sync
- Priced per user, billed monthly
Pro
$51 /mo
- Everything in Lite
- Custom branding on documents
- Automatic appointment, quote and payment reminders
- Priced per user
Plus
$61 /mo
- Everything in Pro
- SmartRead for bills and SmartWrite AI tools
- Purchase orders, job tasks and kit bundles
- Bulk invoicing, service reminders and reporting
Custom
On request
- Negotiated for larger teams
- Contact sales
Capabilities
Features
Quoting
Build and send branded quotes from templates with markup and kit bundles
Scheduling
Drag and drop calendar with Google Calendar sync and staff visibility
Job tracking
Notes, photos, documents and history attached to each job
Timesheets
Staff clock on and off jobs from the mobile app for costing and payroll
Invoicing
Convert quotes and timesheets to invoices, including progress and bulk invoicing on higher plans
Purchase orders
Raise POs against suppliers and cost them to jobs, on Plus
SmartTools
AI bill reading and drafting assistance on the Plus plan
Accounting sync
Two way sync with Xero, QuickBooks Online and MYOB
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
How much does Tradify actually cost per month?
Around 47 US dollars per user per month on Lite, 51 on Pro and 61 on Plus, or roughly 34, 37 and 44 pounds in the UK. Multiply by every user, then add SMS and any add-ons.
Does Tradify replace my accounting software?
No. It syncs invoices and contacts to Xero, QuickBooks Online or MYOB, and you still need one of them.
Is there a setup or implementation fee?
No. Unlike the enterprise field service platforms there is no onboarding charge, and most firms configure it themselves.
How big a team can it handle?
It is designed for roughly one to twenty users. Beyond that the flat per-user pricing and the lack of dispatch optimisation and service agreements start to hurt.
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