Tradify vs NextMinute — and where Toolie fits

Tradify vs NextMinute, at a glance

Both are NZ-friendly job-management tools, but they're pitched at different crew sizes and bill differently. Tradify is priced per user — at the time of writing from about $48 per user / month (ex-GST) — which suits sole traders and small teams. NextMinute prices in crew bands: at the time of writing from about $199/month for 3–9 users and $349/month for 10–14 (ex-GST), which can work out better once you have a few people. Confirm current pricing with each vendor.

Where they're similar

Both handle jobs, quotes, invoicing, timesheets and scheduling, both are built with New Zealand trades in mind, and both sync with accounting. They'll both get a trade business off paper and spreadsheets.

Where they differ

• Pricing shape. Tradify's per-user pricing is simplest for one or two people; NextMinute's banded crew pricing is aimed at teams and project-based builders.
• Positioning. Tradify leans to fast, simple trade admin; NextMinute leans to project and job management for builders with crews.

Where Toolie fits — the NZ-Building-Code option

As with the Tradify-vs-Fergus question, the thing neither covers is the New Zealand Building Code. Toolie does the jobs, quotes, invoicing and scheduling, and adds automatic NZS 3604 take-off, the H1 6th edition and Healthy Homes, CCA 2002 retentions, NZ contracts and LBP Records of Work, 16 on-site calculators and a sketch-to-plan tool — for flat per-plan pricing, not per user — from $49/month (ex-GST) for a sole trader, or a flat $129/month for a crew of up to eight.

See Toolie vs Tradify, Toolie vs NextMinute, or how Toolie quotes a job. Competitor pricing is indicative and was current at the time of writing.