Buildxact alternative for Australian trades.

How Buildxact charges

Buildxact charges a flat monthly fee per company, not per seat, and every plan comes with unlimited users. As at August 2026 there are three tiers on their Australian pricing page: Foundation at $199 a month, Pro at $399 and Master at $599, all ex GST, their page stating that all base plans and add-ons exclude and are subject to GST. Pay annually and you take 15% off, which brings Pro down to $339 a month, but their page is clear that all annual plans require a 12 month commitment. Some of their AI tools, branded Blu, are sold as add-ons of $99 to $149 a month on the lower tiers, so the headline price is not always the price you end up paying.

Where Buildxact is genuinely better

Digital takeoff priced off a live merchant catalogue. Upload the plans, scale them, measure on screen, and the quantities land in the estimate at your supplier's current prices, with the PO going back using their product codes. We do plan takeoff too, on both quotes and jobs, but ours prices off the list you maintain yourself. Their whole product is built around the drawings where ours is built around the job, and if every job you win starts with a set of plans that difference shows. Unlimited users on every plan, including the $199 one. One flat fee no matter how many people log in, so the bigger your outfit gets the better Buildxact looks against a per-seat product like ours. Live supplier price lists. Pricing comes out of your merchant's catalogue into the estimate and your POs go back with their product codes, so you are not quoting off a price list from six months ago or ordering the wrong item number. Their client portal is built for the custom-home conversation and has years of builders behind it. Ours does the same job: Selections with images, variations, invoices, appointment approvals and a comment thread, switched on per job. Theirs is the more settled tool for a long residential build. Xero, MYOB AccountRight and QuickBooks Online all supported, plus Deputy and QuickBooks Time for rostering, HazardCo for safety and Rendr for plan scanning. If your bookkeeper is on MYOB, Buildxact works and we do not. A mature product. Buildxact Onsite carries the site diary, to-do lists, photos and PDFs against the job, and their own site says they have been at this since 2011. We are on both stores too, but we are new and we have no long review history to point at.

Where people move to us

$99 a month ex GST covers the platform and your first Full Access user, and every feature of the CRM is on from day one. No tiers and nothing held back behind a bigger plan, with two extras we will state up front: Momo, our AI assistant, is a paid add-on per Full Access user and its price is not public yet, and texting is optional and pay as you go. Mobile Only seats at $29 a month, dropping to $23 from seat 21. Putting the apprentice and the labourers on the app costs less than a carton. Built for service trades. GPS clock on, JSAs and safety forms signed on the phone, photo capture against the job, dispatch off a schedule board, with timesheets, job costing and retentions behind it. Month to month, no lock-in, no setup fee, and a 14 day free trial that does not ask for a credit card. You do not have to sign a year away to get our best price. Seven days a week on the phone, 7am to 9pm ACST, out of Adelaide. If the schedule falls over on a Saturday morning there is someone to ring. One product, not a kit of parts. There is a public REST API with scoped keys if you want to wire something up yourself, but no add-on marketplace and no Zapier: quoting, jobs, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, purchase orders, subbie work orders, job costing, retentions, timesheets and margin and win rate reporting are all in the base price. The only paid extras we sell are Momo, our AI assistant, per Full Access user, price not public yet, and pay-as-you-go texting. We have not put a price on the newer AI tools either, so ring us about those.

Who Buildxact actually suits

A residential builder, renovator or shopfitter who starts every job with a set of drawings and a takeoff. Both of us do takeoff and both of us have a client portal with selections, so the split is elsewhere: Buildxact prices the takeoff off a live merchant catalogue, the whole product is shaped around the drawings rather than the job, and on our own arithmetic that flat unlimited user price works hard in your favour from about ten logins.

Who StackLyft actually suits

A service trade running a crew off jobs rather than drawings. Plumbing, electrical, gas, HVAC, cabinetry, resurfacing: the sort of outfit that needs a schedule board, blokes clocking on with GPS, JSAs signed on site, POs raised against the job and invoices landing in Xero without anyone retyping them. Under about ten people, on our own arithmetic, we are cheaper, and no part of the CRM sits behind a bigger plan. The extras are Momo, our AI assistant, which is a paid add-on per Full Access user with no public price yet, and texting, which is optional and pay as you go.

What sits behind a higher plan or costs extra

Job management, schedules, invoicing, accounting sync, timesheets, actual costings, the client portal and the Onsite mobile app all sit behind Pro at $399 a month. Foundation at $199 does takeoffs, estimate costings, quotes, lead management, supplier price lists and purchase orders, so it is a real pre-construction tool, but it is not job management software, and that catches a lot of people out when they compare the $199 figure against other job management software. User access controls are Master only, at $599 a month. Below Master, Buildxact's own comparison chart shows no user access controls at all, so there is no way to limit what staff can see, and if you do not want the leading hand looking at your margin you are on the top tier. Some of the Blu AI tools cost extra below Master. On Foundation the Estimate Generator is +$99/mo, and on Pro the Takeoff Assistant is +$99/mo and the Estimate Reviewer is +$149/mo, bought through their in-account marketplace. The Recipe Assistant is a tick on all three tiers, and Master includes the full Blu toolkit. Priority customer support is Master only. Their pricing page also states that all annual plans require a 12 month commitment, so the 15% saving is not available on a month to month basis.

Questions

How much does Buildxact cost in Australia?

As at August 2026 Buildxact publishes three plans on their own Australian pricing page, ex GST, their page stating that all base plans and add-ons exclude and are subject to GST. Foundation is $199 a month, Pro is $399 and Master is $599, and every plan comes with unlimited users. Pay for twelve months and you take 15% off, which drops Pro to $339 a month billed at $4,070, but all annual plans require a twelve month commitment. Some of their Blu AI tools are add-ons of $99 to $149 a month on the lower plans, so work out what you actually need before you compare headline numbers.

Which Buildxact plan do I need for job management and invoicing?

Pro, at $399 a month. Foundation at $199 covers takeoffs, estimate costings, quotes, lead management, supplier price lists and purchase orders, but their own comparison chart shows no job management, schedules, invoicing, accounting sync, timesheets, client portal or mobile app on that tier. That trips people up when they see $199 and assume they are comparing job management software. If you also want user access controls so your leading hand cannot see the margin, that is Master at $599.

Is Buildxact good for tradies, or just for builders?

It is built for residential builders and renovators and it shows in every part of the product. The whole thing runs off a set of drawings: you take off the plans, price the takeoff, turn it into a schedule and cost the build against it. If you are a sparky or a plumber knocking over thirty jobs a week off phone calls with no drawings involved, most of that machinery is not earning its keep. Service trades usually want dispatch, blokes clocking on and safety forms signed on site, which is a different shape of software.

Does Buildxact work with MYOB?

Yes. Buildxact's own financial tools page says you can connect to Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks to sync invoices and purchase orders, and their help centre lists Xero, MYOB AccountRight and QuickBooks Online as supported. One thing worth checking first: their help centre says the Import Bills function works for Xero and QuickBooks Online but not MYOB. StackLyft syncs with Xero only, so if your books live in MYOB, Buildxact wins that one outright and you should go with them.

Does Buildxact work offline on site?

Their own help centre says Buildxact Onsite needs an internet connection to log in and sync with the web app, so plan on having coverage. We are not going to score a point off that, because StackLyft's offline support is limited too. If your blokes are regularly working in a black spot, that is a real problem for both products. Test it properly on the free trial before you hand over a credit card to anyone.