Tradify Review (2026)
The best operations tools remove repetitive work quietly — the win is fewer dropped balls and less manual oversight, not more dashboards. So where does Tradify actually fit?
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What Tradify does
Specialized job management software for trade businesses. Handle quoting, scheduling, and invoicing from the field.
Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 16 Aug 2026
Per user, per month, quoted in USD on their own pricing page and re-verified 2026-08-16: Lite $47, Pro $51 and Plus $61 per user, plus a Custom tier for large teams that is priced on request. The 14-day free trial includes all features. The Instant Website add-on is $12 a month. There is no free plan and no volume ladder published on the page — the per-user rate is flat within a plan. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
What the price did
We capture Tradify’s own pricing page every month and keep the figures, so this is our record of the page — not a forecast, and not someone else’s summary.
Tradify's pricing page is the steadiest one we track. Our July and August 2026 captures are byte-for-byte identical — the same page fingerprint, the same $47, $51 and $61 per user a month and the same $12 Instant Website add-on — and re-reading it on 16 August 2026 returned those same figures again. Three readings, no movement.
What the pricing page doesn’t say
Per-user pricing is honest and simple, but it means the cost scales linearly with headcount — a ten-person crew is a real monthly number, not the single-seat sticker. It's purpose-built for trades job management (quoting, scheduling, invoicing), so it's not a general project-management or accounting suite; you'll still run Xero or QuickBooks alongside it. For a trades business that's a feature, not a flaw.
What buyers report about Tradify
Recurring themes from Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice and the Xero App Store, read in August 2026. We have not run Tradify ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.
- • Quoting speed is the standout — several reviewers report quotes going from 30-45 minutes to under 10. 4.6 on Capterra across 200+ reviews.
- • Field and office stay on the same page without anyone chasing paperwork.
- • On the Xero App Store, where every reviewer is a verified Xero user, the two-way sync is the single most-named benefit — reviewers describe it as the reason they left a system that only pushed one way, and one notes their accountant sees the job and invoice data without seeing the diary.
- • Reporting does not slice the data the way owners need it at quarter-end or tax time.
- • Custom fields and flexible job workflows run out for anyone with complex service agreements.
- • $47-$61 per user per month with no free plan and a 14-day trial only.
- • Larger multi-department businesses outgrow it, and a minority report teething problems connecting third-party payroll.
- • The accounting complaint that matters is specific: a bookkeeper reports that a customer deposit lands in Xero as two invoices, one for the payment and one for the balance, which makes a single purchase order for the job awkward. Test that with a deposit during the trial if you take them.
- • The recurring reservation from larger operators is reporting: one reviewer with a maintenance business calls the financial and site reporting too limited and the customisation minimal, and another in April 2026 says plainly that it does not suit mid-size to large businesses.
- • Regional support has burned at least one long-term subscriber, whose Xero invoice and purchase-order feed broke and who was told their region was not supported.
Where the ratings disagree. The Xero store is the friendliest room Tradify has, and that is worth knowing in both directions: the sample is people who already run Xero, which is the setup Tradify is built for, so the integration praise is real but self-selected. Tradify replies publicly to the critical reviews there, which is more than most platforms show you.
When the paid plan is worth it
There is no free tier, only a 14-day trial, so the real question is which of three plans. Read on their own pricing page on 2 August 2026, per user per month in USD: Lite $47, Pro $51, Plus $61, plus a quote-only Custom tier. The $4 step from Lite to Pro is the one almost everyone should take. Lite covers job management, scheduling, quoting, invoicing and accounting sync — and stops there. Pro adds job photos, recurring jobs, templates, appointment reminders, progress invoicing, job costing, timesheets and subcontractor scheduling. If you run more than one person or bill in stages, Lite will not do it, and you are arguing over the price of a coffee. The $10 step to Plus is the one to think about. It buys purchase orders, bulk invoicing, kit bundles, job service reports, service reminders and the SmartRead and SmartWrite AI tools. That earns its keep on materials-heavy trades with supplier bills to process; on a labour-only business it mostly does not. An Instant Website add-on runs $12 a month on any tier.
How to actually use Tradify
Tradify's trial is 14 days with all features on, which means it starts you on the top plan — so judge the tier you will actually buy, not the one you are trialling. Note which features you lean on, then check them against the Lite and Pro lists before the trial ends. Connect the accounting package first. Lite already includes accounting sync, and the invoicing side is where the software either saves you an evening a week or does not. Push one real invoice end to end before you migrate anything else. Then load a real job, not a test one. Quote it, schedule it, add the photos, invoice it. The features that separate the tiers — progress invoicing, job costing, timesheets — only show their value on a job with actual stages and actual labour against it. Distilled from Tradify's own pricing page and plan-comparison help articles, read 2 August 2026
Tradify vs ServiceM8, side by side
Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.
The natural comparison is Jobber or ServiceM8 — close trades/field-service peers — compare on per-user cost and which accounting integrations you already run. Decide by which one fits the job above, not by the louder brand.
More on Tradify
Everything we publish about Tradify links back here — the review stays the honest hub:
The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does Tradify remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.
Frequently asked questions
Is the Tradify free trial really free, and what do you get?
Fourteen days with all features included, per their own pricing page on 16 August 2026, and no plan is free after it. One thing to know before you judge the trial: Tradify also issues a free Connect account for subcontractors, and that one only shows scheduling and appointments. Tradify's own reply to a reviewer on the Xero App Store confirms a Connect account cannot link to Xero until you start a trial or upgrade — which is what people who report ‘it will not connect’ have usually run into.
What does Tradify cost per user?
Lite $47, Pro $51 and Plus $61 per user a month in USD, with a Custom tier quoted on request for large teams, read 16 August 2026. The Instant Website add-on is $12 a month on top. We have found no published volume discount: within a plan the per-user rate is flat, so ten users cost ten times one.
Does it really work with Xero, or is that a checkbox?
The two-way Xero sync is what buyers on the Xero App Store single out most often, several of them saying it is why they switched from a system that only pushed one way. The reservation on the same platform is about accounting detail rather than connection: one bookkeeper describes a customer deposit arriving in Xero as two invoices — one for the payment, one for the balance — which makes a single purchase order for the job awkward. Worth testing with a deposit during the trial if you take them.
Does Tradify replace my current setup or sit on top of it?
Usually it sits on top rather than replacing everything. Tools in this class tend to become the layer where work is tracked and handed off, while your existing systems stay the source of truth for their own data. Before you buy, map which tools it would replace outright and which it would merely sync with. If the answer is that it syncs with all of them, you are adding a layer rather than removing one.
Who should not use Tradify?
Skip it if you're a solo operator who invoices from a spreadsheet happily, or you need heavy project-management/accounting depth rather than trades job management. Buying a tool to fix a problem you don't have yet just adds cost and another login to manage.
Is this a hands-on review of Tradify?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is genuinely good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Buyer reviews on Capterra, GetApp, Software Advice and the Xero App Store, read August 2026.
- Tradify’s own published pricing page.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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