Job management software compared.
Straight comparisons against the seven job management products Australian trades actually shortlist: ServiceM8, Tradify, Simpro, AroFlo, Fergus, Ascora and Buildxact. Every price and feature comes from the other product's own site, dated, with a link so you can check us. Where they are cheaper or a better fit for your outfit, we say so on the page. Two of them publish no rate at all, and we say that too rather than guessing one.
StackLyft vs ServiceM8
ServiceM8 does not charge per user. Paid plans carry unlimited staff logins and the plan you need is set by how many jobs you run each month, with every quote counting as one of those jobs. It is cheaper than us for most small operators, and its offline support and add-on marketplace are both better than ours. People move to us when quoting eats into their job limit, or when job costing or purchase orders turn out to sit on a higher plan or a paid add-on.
StackLyft vs Tradify
Tradify charges a flat rate for every user, so a phone-only apprentice costs the same as the person quoting. Under about three people Tradify is cheaper. The maths turns once most of your crew only needs a phone, because a Mobile Only seat with us is $29 a month rather than a full licence. Purchase orders, timesheets and reporting sit on their upper plans and are included on every StackLyft account.
StackLyft vs Simpro
Simpro is the deeper system: their app genuinely works with no signal, they link to MYOB, QuickBooks and Reckon as well as Xero, and their planned maintenance, stock control and project accounting go further than ours. What you will not get is a price. Simpro publishes no rates on their pricing page, so you book a demo, sit through a sales process and wait for a quote before you know what it costs.
StackLyft vs AroFlo
AroFlo is the deeper product and in several places it flat out beats us: four accounting packages against our one, a field app that keeps working with no signal, live pricing from connected wholesalers like Reece and Rexel, GPS hardware for your vans and tools, and proper Gantt charts, progress claims and retentions for construction work. What you can't do is work the monthly cost out yourself, because their pricing page carries no rate, only a "Request Pricing" button, and their FAQ puts the Smart Start start-up cost at $1,450 to begin with and $2,900 with implementation on top. StackLyft is the pick if you want the numbers in front of you first, with no setup fee and no 3 user minimum, bearing in mind Momo our AI assistant is a paid add-on we haven't priced publicly yet; AroFlo is the pick if you're on MYOB, run big builds, or your crew works where there's no reception.
StackLyft vs Fergus
Fergus is cheaper than us for a sole trader or a small two-hander, publishing Essentials from $53 a month on their Australian pricing page as at 28 August 2026 against our $99, and they sync to MYOB and QuickBooks as well as Xero. They have iPhone and Android apps that keep working when the signal drops, a supplier invoice feed off Reece and Tradelink, and a track record since 2012 that we do not have. We get competitive once you have people on site who do more than clock on, because our $29 Mobile Only seats carry the photos, materials and safety forms Fergus charges a full user rate for.
StackLyft vs Ascora
Ascora wins on two things that matter on site: their app works offline properly, and they sync two way with MYOB and QuickBooks as well as Xero. They are cheaper than us for a small crew, and they have been building in Perth since 2010, so there are customers you can ring before you sign. We get cheaper once most of your crew only needs the phone, and every feature is on from day one rather than sitting behind an Elite tier, with Momo, our AI assistant, and pay-as-you-go texting the only extras on top.
StackLyft vs Buildxact
Buildxact does the thing we do not do at all: proper digital takeoff off a set of PDF plans, priced off live supplier catalogues, with unlimited users on one flat fee, so if you are a residential builder or renovator who starts every job with drawings it is the better tool, and from about ten people, on our own arithmetic, it is cheaper than us as well. Where we win is smaller service outfits: $99 a month covering the platform and your first Full Access user, $29 seats for the blokes on site, GPS clock on and JSAs signed on the phone, and no plan you have to upgrade to before invoicing works. Every feature of the CRM is on from day one, with two extras we will not hide: Momo, our AI assistant, is a paid add-on per Full Access user and we have not published its price yet, and texting is optional and pay as you go.
Why we publish the losses too
Every comparison here lists the rows we lose as well as the ones we win. ServiceM8 works offline and we do not. Tradify syncs with MYOB and QuickBooks and we only do Xero, and it has thousands of reviews behind it where we are new. A comparison that concedes nothing is worth nothing to someone actually choosing, and overstating a competitor's shortcomings is how you end up on the wrong side of Australian Consumer Law.