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.
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.
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.
Your crew on the tools don't pay full price. On Tradify, the apprentice pays the same rate as the boss.
Two-way sync with all three, plus supplier invoices matched to jobs so back costing sorts itself. Bills, invoices and timesheets flow through without keying anything 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.
An Auckland-based team (Duncan, Ryan & Tarsha) who get tradie life. Setup, data import, training and help for life.
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Rated 4.9/5 with 100+ reviews on Google and Facebook, with local NZ 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 Contracting Limited
We’ve answered the ones we hear most from builders and tradies.
NextMinute uses simple crew-based package pricing in NZ dollars, with every feature included on every plan and no lock-in contracts. Rather than charging full whack per user like Tradify does, we quote one package price based on your crew size, so the apprentice doesn't cost the same as the office. Pricing scales as your team grows. See current NZD packages on our pricing page, then try it free for 10 days.
You'll get one-on-one help from a local team who know the trade, not a ticket queue. We handle setup with you, import your existing clients and job data, connect your accounting software and train the crew so nobody's left guessing. Support stays free for life, and you'll deal with real people who understand how NZ building businesses run. Book a 15-minute intro and we'll map out the move together.
Sweet as, it does. NextMinute has a two-way Xero integration that syncs invoices, bills and timesheets, and matches supplier invoices to jobs for accurate back costing. Timesheets flow through to payroll with a click, so payday stops being a paper chase. We also sync with MYOB and QuickBooks if your books live elsewhere. Browse the full list on our integrations overview.
You bet. NextMinute lets you import takeoffs straight from your quantity surveyor or preferred takeoff software, so there's no re-keying hundreds of line items. From there you can turn the takeoff into a professional quote, plan the stages and raise purchase orders without double handling. It's a big time saver on new builds and larger renos. Learn more about takeoff imports and quoting in NextMinute.
Yes, because you're not waiting until the end of the job to invoice. NextMinute makes progress claims easy to raise as you hit milestones, and variations are captured and tracked separately so extras get invoiced instead of forgotten. That keeps cash coming in across the life of a build rather than in one lump at handover. Have a look at invoicing in NextMinute to see how claims and variations work.
NextMinute tracks your actual costs against estimates in real time, broken down by job and by stage. Labour from timesheets, materials from supplier invoices and equipment hours all land against the right stage, so you can see exactly where the margin sits while the job is still running. Tradify's costing works at the whole-job level, which makes it hard to spot which stage is bleeding money. Get the full picture on our back costing page.
Yes, that's exactly what NextMinute is built for. Lay out every stage of the build on a drag-and-drop Gantt chart, assign tasks to the crew, and when the weather turns on you and the slab pour slips, shift the whole timeline in a couple of clicks. Tradify's calendar scheduler can't do that. See how planning and scheduling works, and how tasks flow through to crew timesheets.
For builders running multi-stage projects, NextMinute is the better fit. Tradify is designed around quick service jobs, so it schedules on a calendar and tracks costs at the job level. NextMinute handles staged work properly, with Gantt-based job planning, progress claims, variations and stage-level cost tracking. If your jobs run for weeks with a crew on site, you'll feel the difference in the first fortnight. Rated 4.9/5 across Google, the Xero App Store and Facebook.
No, Tradify was acquired by The Access Group, a UK-based software company, in October 2024. It started out in Auckland, but ownership and direction now sit overseas. NextMinute remains locally owned and focused only on tradies in New Zealand and Australia, so the product gets built around how Kiwi crews actually run jobs. If that matters to you, have a yarn with our team and ask us anything about how we work.
NextMinute is the best Tradify alternative for Kiwi builders and project-focused trades. Tradify does a solid job for quick service work, but NextMinute is purpose-built for multi-stage residential projects like new builds, renos and landscaping jobs. You get drag-and-drop Gantt planning, back costing by stage, and one simple crew-based package price with every feature included. Compare us against other platforms on the comparison hub, or give the free trial a crack.
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