Best Tradify Alternative Australia
The Tradify alternative for Aussie builders and tradies
Looking for Tradify alternatives, or want to compare it to NextMinute? Read our helpful, transparent comparison of both products below.
Looking for Tradify alternatives, or want to compare it to NextMinute? Read our helpful, transparent comparison of both products below.
Short story: if you're a sole sparkie knocking out service calls, Tradify's a fair shout. If you're running multi-stage builds, renos or landscaping jobs with a crew, NextMinute's built for exactly that. Your crew costs less, and nothing's locked behind a top tier.
Tradify does a good job for trades running fast-turnaround work. Its own website leads with electricians, plumbers, gas, HVAC and property maintenance.
But if your jobs run for weeks with multiple stages and a crew on site, a calendar-based scheduler only gets you so far. NextMinute is designed for Aussie residential builders, carpenters, landscapers and other project-focused trades.
You get a proper drag-and-drop Gantt chart for planning stages, timesheets that flow through to payroll, variations and progress claims, purchase orders on every plan, and live actual-vs-estimate costing by job and stage.
That means you spot the blowout while there's still time to fix it, not when the accountant tells you three months later.
From the first quote to the final invoice, the whole crew runs the job in one place. On site, in the ute, or back at the office.
Your crew on the tools don't pay full price. On Tradify, the apprentice pays the same rate as the boss.
Two-way sync, including MYOB. Bills, invoices and timesheets flow through without keying it twice.
Plan every stage of a build visually. Assign the crew, and when dates shift, drag the whole timeline at once.
Track actual vs estimate on framing, fit-out, whatever the stage. Protect your margin before the job's done, not after.
POs, variations, reporting, equipment charges. Every feature on every plan, no paying the top tier just to unlock the basics.
A Sydney-based team (Duncan, Ryan & Tarsha) who get tradie life. Setup, data import, training and help for life.
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"We are extremely happy as a small company it has made our lives so much easier. Keeping track of individual job costs and reporting made easy. Not to mention how easy it is to sync timesheets to payroll with one click. Could not recommend this app enough for big or small companies you won’t regret it."
Hayley Rouse
Rouse Contracting Limited
We’ve answered the ones we hear most from builders and tradies.
Switching is straightforward because we do the heavy lifting with you. Our Sydney-based team runs one-on-one onboarding, helps import your existing clients and job data, connects your accounting software, and trains the crew so everyone's confident from day one. Start with a 10-day free trial with no credit card required, or book a 15-minute intro and we'll walk through how you run your jobs.
Absolutely, that's the whole point. The mobile app is simple enough that the whole crew actually uses it. They can log timesheets against jobs or stages, snap progress photos, check plans and fill out the site diary from a phone or tablet. Meanwhile you can send quotes, purchase orders and invoices from the ute between jobs, without heading back to the office.
Tradify is owned by The Access Group, a UK-based software company that acquired it in October 2024. NextMinute remains locally owned and focused purely on tradies in Australia and New Zealand, so product decisions and support stay close to the people using it. If local ownership and support matter to you, get in touch with our team or book a 15-minute intro and talk it through with a real person.
Yes, and by stage, not just by job. NextMinute tracks actual costs against your estimate across labour, materials and equipment as the job runs, so you can spot a blowout on the framing stage while there's still time to fix it. Tradify offers job-level costing, but there's no stage-by-stage breakdown for multi-stage builds. Learn more about back costing and financial reporting in NextMinute.
NextMinute has two-way sync with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks. Invoices, bills and timesheets flow between systems without keying anything twice, and supplier invoices are matched to jobs for accurate back costing. Tradify syncs with the same three, but it’s a simpler connection and there’s no supplier invoice matching for stage-level back costing. Browse our integrations overview or see the MYOB integration in detail.
It sure does. NextMinute includes a full drag-and-drop Gantt chart, while Tradify uses a calendar-based scheduler. You can plan out every stage of a build, assign tasks to the crew, and when dates shift you drag the whole timeline at once instead of rebooking everything by hand. It's the difference between managing a project and juggling appointments. Have a look at our planning and scheduling tools to see how it works.
Yes, every NextMinute plan includes every feature. Quoting, Gantt planning, timesheets, purchase orders, variations, back costing and reporting all come standard, no matter the size of your crew. On Tradify, purchase orders, job tasks, bulk invoicing and reporting sit on its top Plus plan only, so you pay the premium rate for every user just to unlock the basics. Check what's included on our pricing page or book a demo to see it in action.
NextMinute uses crew-based package pricing, starting from A$199 a month for a crew of three, with every feature included and no lock-in contracts. Tradify charges per user, roughly A$48 to A$62 per user each month ex GST depending on the plan, so the bill climbs with every hire and its top features need the dearest plan. For a crew of six, NextMinute usually works out cheaper with more included. Get the full rundown on our pricing page.
The main difference is the type of work each is built for. Tradify suits service trades running quick jobs, like electrical callouts and property maintenance. NextMinute is built for project trades running jobs with stages, crews and variations. That means proper job planning and scheduling with a Gantt chart, progress claims, purchase orders on every plan, and live cost tracking so you can see your margin while the job is still running.
NextMinute is the best Tradify alternative for Aussie builders and project trades. Tradify is built for quick service jobs, while NextMinute is designed for multi-stage work like new builds, renos and landscaping projects. You get drag-and-drop Gantt planning, live job costing by stage, and crew-based package pricing from A$199 a month. It's rated 4.9/5 across Google, the Xero App Store and Facebook. See how it stacks up against other platforms on our comparison hub, or start a free trial.
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