The best job software for plumbers, with merchant pricing
Prices checked · best for plumbers
Our pick
The cheapest fit depends on the size of your crew
- Solo Tradify Pro, $52 a month, for 15 jobs a week.
- 4 people ServiceM8 Growing, $72 a month, for 30 jobs a week.
- 8 people ServiceM8 Premium, $135 a month, for 60 jobs a week.
If you buy from Reece or Tradelink, Fergus Professional is the pick for a crew: it syncs merchant price books, invoices and purchase orders automatically, and with three on timesheet seats a crew of four comes to $155 a month. On your own, Ascora Elite at $59 per user ex GST has a Reece price feed plus forms. ServiceM8 costs less again but relies on price lists that merchants email to you.
Who pays us: ServiceM8, Tradify and Jobber run referral programmes that can pay us if you sign up through our links; none has paid us anything yet. Ascora, Fergus, Fieldmagic, AroFlo and simPRO pay us nothing. The order is always cheapest fit first and never changes for commission. How we rank
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What plumbers would pay
A month, ex GST, on each app’s cheapest plan that includes timesheets, custom forms and certificates and supplier price lists. Lowest in each column in green.
Job software costs for plumbers
| App | Sole plumber, 15 jobs a week | Crew of 4, three on timesheet seats | Crew of 8, six on timesheet seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tradify | $52Pro | $208Pro | $416Pro |
| Ascora | $59Elite | $236Elite | $472Elite |
| ServiceM8 | $72Growing | $72Growing | $135Premium |
| Fergus | $77Professional | $155Professional | $310Professional |
| Fieldmagic | No plan fits | No plan fits | No plan fits |
| AroFlo | Not costed | Not costed | Not costed |
| Jobber | Not costed | Not costed | Not costed |
| simPRO | Not costed | Not costed | Not costed |
If you buy from Reece, Tradelink or another plumbing merchant, the question is less which app is cheapest than which keeps your quotes on current trade prices without retyping them. Only some of these apps name a direct merchant link.
Why plumbers get a different answer
A direct merchant link is the deciding feature
Fergus names Reece and Tradelink and syncs them automatically on Professional; on Essentials the supplier link is manual. Ascora includes a Reece integration for automatic price updates on every plan. AroFlo names Reece among more than 600 connected suppliers. (Fergus, checked )
The cheaper apps use imports instead
Tradify imports supplier pricing from CSV files on every plan, and ServiceM8 imports price-list updates that suppliers email you. Both work, but you depend on the file or email arriving rather than a live connection. (ServiceM8 pricing, checked )
Apprentices on cheaper seats
A plumbing crew often has one or two people quoting and several on the tools. Fergus prices those field staff as timesheet users from $26 a month, which is how a four-person crew on Professional comes in under Tradify Pro for four. (Fergus pricing, checked )
How each app gets your merchant prices
- Ascora (names Reece): Supplier catalogue importing and a Reece integration for automatic price updates, on every plan. (Ascora, checked )
- Fergus (names Reece and Tradelink): Syncs with Australian suppliers including Reece and Tradelink; automatic on Professional, manual on Essentials. (Fergus, checked )
- ServiceM8: Automatically imports price-list updates that suppliers email you, on every plan. (ServiceM8, checked )
- Tradify: Import supplier pricing from CSV files into your own price lists. (Tradify, checked )
- AroFlo (names Reece and Rexel): More than 600 connected suppliers, including the trade suppliers Reece and Rexel. (AroFlo, checked )
- simPRO: Vendor catalogues and price comparisons, with three supplier data feeds in the base plan. (simPRO, checked )
The features that matter here
Where each app includes what plumbers need
| Feature | Ascora | Fergus | Fieldmagic | ServiceM8 | Tradify | AroFlo | Jobber | simPRO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Timesheets | All plans | All plans | Not listed | All plans | Pro and up | All plans | Connect and up | All plans |
| Custom forms and certificates | Elite and up | Professional and up | Professional and up | Growing and up | Pro and up | All plans | Not listed | Paid add-on |
| Supplier price lists | All plans | All plans | Not listed | All plans | All plans | All plans | Not listed | All plans |
Questions
Which job management apps work with Reece?
On their own pages, Fergus, Ascora and AroFlo each name Reece. Fergus also names Tradelink and AroFlo names Rexel.