Best Tradify Alternative New Zealand
The Tradify alternative for Kiwi 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.
While Tradify is a great fit for trades running quick service jobs, like electricians or maintenance techs, it’s not built for managing longer projects with multiple stages and crew members.
NextMinute is designed specifically for Kiwi residential builders, carpenters, landscapers, and other project-focused trades who need more than just job tracking.
With powerful tools for quoting, scheduling, timesheets, project planning, and real-time job costing, NextMinute helps you keep control from the first quote to the final invoice.
Whether you’re managing renovations, new builds, or multi-day site work, it’s the smarter choice for trades who think in stages — not service calls.
Reviews
Rated 4.9/5 in Reviews on Google and Facebook, with local Kiwi support that actually helps.
"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 Contacting Limited
Import your price books and use templates to save hours on quoting. Send to clients and get approval with one click.
Use your takeoff software or QS of choice, and quickly import takeoffs to NextMinute to start planning the job.
Easy-to-use Gantt chart for planning jobs. Assign jobs and tasks to crew to reduce confusion and get on with the job.
No more chasing timesheets or payroll errors. Talk-to-text notes, attach photos, and log time + expenses.
Your team can easily view plans on site. Ditch the paperwork and have less mistakes and confused tradies.
Crew can save photos to jobs so you have a leg to stand on and can keep the customer up-to-date.
Crew can easily log notes and photos against jobs and tasks to keep you & your client informed.
Manage your jobs from on-site or in the ute with ease. Plus, your crew can view jobs and tasks, and log time with ease.
With all your job costs in one system, you can easily send accurate progress or final invoices with a few clicks.
No more handshake agreements and client disputes. NextMinute makes managing and tracking variations a breeze.
Report on actuals vs estimates in real-time by job and stage. Spot blow outs early to protect your profit.
Set custom buy/sell rates for machinery and have your crew log the hours.
Easily add in job expenses to keep track of your actuals vs. estimates.
Easily send SMS, email, and in-app messages straight from NextMinute.
Pricing
Comparing NextMinute 1 Admin and 5 Team users vs. 6 users on the Tradify Pro plan
Easy to use mobile apps
Fully featured mobile app
Job Management
All job information in one place, available anywhere – contacts, files, notes, photos etc
Job planning
Fully drag and drop gantt chart including multiple jobs
Timesheets
Easy to use timesheets with configurable rate cards
Payroll integration
Accounting system payroll integration and standard payroll extracts for other systems
Invoicing
Quick job invoicing for both fixed price and cost plus, integrated to accounting system
Supplier invoice integration
2 way supplier invoicing sync, match supplier invoices to jobs for accurate cost allocation
Detailed back costing
Job and stage level profitability analysis incorporating all material and labour costs
Reporting
Full reporting suite including live WIP report, job profitability and timesheet analysis
Customer Portal
Customer facing portal incorporating progress updates, invoices, variations and customer interactions
Quoting
Template driven job quoting and workflows
600 companies choose NextMinute to manage their jobs and rate us 4.9/5
View ReviewsWe’ve answered the ones we hear most from builders and tradies.
NextMinute gives you a much deeper look into your margins. You can track actuals vs estimates for labour, materials, and equipment across specific job stages. Tradify is more suited to simple job tracking, whereas we help you see exactly where you're making or losing money on a renovation or new build.
Yes, we do. Unlike Tradify which uses a basic calendar, NextMinute features a drag-and-drop Gantt chart. You can plan out entire job stages, set dependencies, and if the NZ weather packs in and delays the slab pour, you can shift the whole timeline in a couple of clicks.
It sure is. While Tradify is now foreign-owned, NextMinute remains a local NZ and Australian company. This means our team actually understands the local industry, GST requirements, and the way Kiwi tradies prefer to run their crews.
Too right. We know variations are part and parcel of NZ residential work. NextMinute makes it a breeze to capture extra costs for labour and materials on the fly, ensuring they're tracked against the job and invoiced correctly so you aren't left out of pocket.
You bet. NextMinute allows you to import takeoffs directly from your preferred software or QS. This saves loads of time on data entry and allows you to turn those takeoffs into professional branded quotes or purchase orders in no time.
There is a 10-day free trial with no credit card required. It’s the best way to have a play with the Gantt charts and back costing tools to see how they stack up against your current setup before you make the switch.
Talk to a Real Person
Have a quick chat with our local team. We’ll walk through how you run jobs and show you how NextMinute fits.
Anna-Kate
Sales Manager
From the land of Guinness, she’ll help you work out if NextMinute’s a good fit. Straight talk, no sales BS, and a good sense of humour.
Mat
Former Plumber & NextMinute Pro
Mat’s a plumber, not a software guy. He’s been on the tools and shows you how to run jobs without the admin headaches.
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