ServiceM8 alternative for Australian trades.
If you are a small crew at steady job volume and ServiceM8 fits how you work, it will cost you less than we will. People move when quoting eats into their job limit, because every quote counts as a job, or when the thing they need is on a higher plan or a paid add-on.
Two different meters
ServiceM8 does not charge per user. Every paid plan carries unlimited staff logins, and the plan you need is set by how many jobs you run in a month: Free covers 30 jobs for one user, Starter at $29 covers 50 jobs, Growing at $79 covers 150, Premium at $149 covers 500, and Premium Plus at $349 covers 1,500 or more, all per month and inc GST as they publish them. Every quote is a job card and uses one of those jobs, won or lost. Go past your plan's jobs and you get seven days, then a prompt to move up a plan, and only Premium Plus sells extra jobs, at 20c each. StackLyft charges the other way round: $99 a month ex GST for the platform with your first Full Access user included, then $69 for each further Full Access user and $29 for each Mobile Only seat, with no job caps at all.
What sits behind a higher plan or a paid add-on
On ServiceM8, job costing and markup billing sit on Premium and above, while asset management, electronic forms and proposals start at Growing. Purchase orders come through the MyPO add-on, which is free for a month and then needs its own subscription. On StackLyft, job costing and purchase orders are on every account from the first day, whatever size you are.
Every quote counts as a job
ServiceM8 counts every new job card against the month's allowance, and a job can start as a quote, so every quote you create uses one whether you win it or not. Turning an accepted quote into a work order does not use a second. Send 200 quotes in a month and win 60, and you need the 500-job Premium plan, because Growing stops at 150. StackLyft does not count quotes or jobs at all.
Where ServiceM8 is genuinely better
It is cheaper than us for most small operators, and we would rather say so here than have you find it out on a call. Unlimited staff logins on every paid plan. If you are putting a lot of people on the tools and not running many jobs, nothing else on the market prices like that. Genuinely good offline. Field staff can open job details, take photos and collect signatures with no signal and it syncs when they are back in range. Ours does not do that yet. A deep add-on library and Zapier, so it plugs into far more third-party software than we do. A long-established Australian product with a large installed base, mature apps and years of reviews behind it. We are new.
Where people move to us
Job costing and purchase orders are in from day one, rather than sitting behind a higher plan or a paid add-on. Two exceptions we will not hide: 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. No job caps, no per-job charges, and quotes are never counted. A flat-out month costs the same as a quiet one. Subcontractors are built in: requests for quotes, work orders they sign online with your markup carried through to the customer, and a portal on each work order for their photos, safety paperwork and invoices. If a workflow does not fit your trade we change it for your account, at no extra charge, usually inside a week. You ring Adelaide and get the people who wrote the software, seven days, 7am–9pm ACST.
Questions
Is ServiceM8 cheaper than StackLyft?
For most small operators, yes. ServiceM8 is priced on how many jobs you run rather than how many people you have, so a small crew at low job volume pays very little. The comparison turns when you quote a lot, because every quote uses one of the month’s jobs whether you win it or not, or when the things you need, like job costing and purchase orders, sit on a higher plan or a paid add-on.
Do quotes count towards ServiceM8’s job limit?
Yes. ServiceM8 counts every new job card against the month’s allowance, and a job can start as a quote, so every quote you create uses one whether you win it or not. Turning an accepted quote into a work order does not use a second. Send 200 quotes in a month and win 60, and you need the 500-job Premium plan, because Growing stops at 150. StackLyft does not count quotes or jobs at all.
Does ServiceM8 work on Android?
Yes. ServiceM8 released a full Android app in September 2026, and their pricing page describes it as almost identical to the iOS app. Their help centre lists what stays on iPhone, including Room Scan, AR measuring and drawing diagrams. StackLyft is the same app on iPhone and Android.
What does ServiceM8 do better?
Offline work and the add-on marketplace, plainly. Their field app keeps working with no signal and syncs later, and there are around fifty add-ons plus Zapier into hundreds of other apps. We do not match either of those today.