Tradify alternative for Australian crews: flat-rate, live profit, built here

Why crews look for a Tradify alternative

None of this is a knock on Tradify. It is what Tradify says on its own pricing and features pages. Three things push Australian crews to look elsewhere.

1. Per-user pricing grows with every hire

Tradify's Australian pricing page lists three priced plans, Lite, Pro and Plus, every one of them per user, per month, ex GST, plus a Custom tier for large teams that you call them about. That is fine for a sole trader. For a crew it means the bill tracks your headcount: hire an apprentice, add a login, pay more. And the sticker is before GST, so what leaves your account is higher again. A flat-rate tool prices the business, not the people in it.

"$48 AUD per user/month. Ex GST." tradifyhq.com/au/pricing

2. Costing and timesheets start on Pro

Tradify's cheapest plan, Lite, is described on its own pricing page as the plan for tradies who just want the basics: job management, scheduling, quoting and invoicing, payments and accounting sync. Costing & Bill Tracking and Timesheets sit in the Pro and Plus columns. So if you want software that tells you whether each job made money, with the crew logging hours in it, the plan you are really comparing is Pro at $52 per user a month ex GST, not Lite.

"For tradies who just want the basics." tradifyhq.com/au/pricing, on the Lite plan

3. Profit is a report you go and open

To be clear, Tradify does job costing. Its features page describes it as tracking profit and costs with a snapshot analysis, and its job costing page talks about combining it with profit reports. What its features, job costing and pricing pages do not list, as at August 2026, is an alert that finds you when a job's costs climb towards the quote. The gap between a report you remember to open and a notification that lands in the owner's dashboard at 85 percent is the gap between fixing the job and doing the post-mortem.

"Determine the actual costs of a project and track profit and costs with our snapshot analysis." tradifyhq.com/au/features

Checked August 2026 against Tradify's Australian pricing page, features page, job costing page, scheduling page, mobile job management page and about page, and the Tradify listing on Google Play.

What a 3-person crew pays

Take a chippy with two on the tools: the owner, one qualified tradie and an apprentice. Everyone needs to log hours, and the owner wants to know where every job sits before the final invoice goes out.

On TrackYaTradie that crew is the Starter plan at $79 a month, flat, for up to 3 tradies. Add hours, jobs and photos and the bill does not move. Every login gets the app on whatever phone they own, and the owner sees live profit on each job.

On Tradify, everyone who logs in is a user. Three users on Lite is 3 x $48, or $144 a month ex GST. Three users on Pro, which is where Costing & Bill Tracking and Timesheets start, is 3 x $52, or $156 a month ex GST, and Plus is $186. Add GST for what actually leaves the account. On price alone the flat plan is well ahead for three, and the gap opens as you grow: Tradify adds a per-user price for each new login, while TrackYaTradie only steps up a plan when you pass the tradie limit.

Price is only half the sum. On Tradify the owner opens a profit report when they think of it. On TrackYaTradie labour and supply costs land against the job as they happen, the margin updates in front of you, and the at-risk alert goes off before the job is finished. Run your own numbers with the job profit calculator, and see every plan on the pricing page.

Tradify prices quoted from tradifyhq.com/au/pricing, checked August 2026. Per user, per month, ex GST.

Where Tradify is still the better pick

Be fair to it. Tradify wins in four cases.

• Bigger crews with a dispatch problem. Tradify's Scheduler is a proper crew tool: drag-and-drop scheduling, recurring jobs, assigning staff and subcontractors, Google Calendar sync and, in its words, "a real-time view of your team's schedule, so you can see who's booked, where they are, and where there are gaps". If you run a dozen vans on short jobs and the hard part of your day is who goes where, that is what it is built for. TrackYaTradie schedules by project days per tradie, not by dispatch.
• Forms, certificates and extras. Tradify's Pro and Plus plans list Health & Safety Forms and Compliance Certificates, Plus adds its SmartTools AI features (SmartRead for bills and SmartWrite), and there are paid add-ons for an Instant Website and SMS reminders. TrackYaTradie does not try to match that list.
• MYOB or QuickBooks. Tradify syncs with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks Online. TrackYaTradie syncs with Xero. If your books are on MYOB, that settles it.
• Track record. Tradify was founded in 2013, according to its about page, and its Android app shows over 100,000 downloads on Google Play. TrackYaTradie is younger and founder-run: a real person replies fast, but there are fewer years on the clock.

TrackYaTradie is the better pick in the mirror image: a crew of two to ten doing project work, where you want the margin before the job ends and one flat bill that does not change when the apprentice starts. Builder weighing per-user software against job costing? See how TrackYaTradie fits builders.

Common questions about switching from Tradify