Every card has the same four parts: who it suits, the published price, what it does for you, and one watch-out.
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FieldHive
Suits: Sole-trader roofers and owner-run roofing firms of up to about 3 people, where you do the quoting, booking and invoicing.
Published price
Free plan · Business £14.99 a month or £144 a year, one price for the whole business.
- Save your tiles, membrane, battens and labour times as catalogue items, unlimited on the free plan. The next roof quote takes a few taps, not a fresh sum.
- Quote fixed-price, by the hour, or time and materials, and send a revised quote when the customer changes the job. PDF quotes and invoices carry your logo.
- Deposit invoices before you order materials, and progress claims on bigger roofs, on Business.
- Xero and QuickBooks sync with CIS, Stripe card payments and a customer portal, all on the free plan.
Watch-out: One login, for the person who runs the admin: staff don’t get their own accounts, job lists or timesheets. And FieldHive doesn’t measure roofs from satellite images; you measure the roof and enter the figures. If every roofer needs a login, Tradify or ServiceM8 suit you better; to estimate from drawings, Buildxact.
Start freeFree plan, no card needed. £14.99 a month flat for the whole business when you need more.
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ServiceM8
Suits: Service and call-out businesses on short jobs, such as roof repairs, priced by monthly job count rather than people.
Published price
Free for 1 user and 30 jobs a month · paid plans £25 to £269 a month by job volume, unlimited users.
- Unlimited users on paid plans. Add staff without adding seats.
- Xero and QuickBooks on every plan, including free.
Watch-out: Priced by how many jobs you do a month. A busy spell of repair call-outs can pass the free plan’s 30 quickly, and a busy month can push you onto the next plan.
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Powered Now
Suits: UK roofing firms that want forms and certificates in the same app as quotes and invoices.
Published price
Business £28 a month for one user · Professional £32 and Premium £40 per user a month · 14-day trial.
- Forms and certificates built in, from the Professional plan (£32).
- Pay-now links on invoices and a mobile card reader for payments on site.
Watch-out: The £28 plan is for one user. Teams, Xero and QuickBooks sync, and forms start on Professional (£32 per user); the customer portal is on Premium (£40 per user) only.
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Tradify
Suits: Roofing teams of 2 to 10 who schedule several people across the week.
Published price
£34, £37 or £44 per user a month · 14-day trial.
- Optional line items on quotes that the customer can accept or decline.
- Xero, Sage and QuickBooks on every plan, including Lite (£34); progress invoicing from Pro (£37).
Watch-out: The bill grows with every user. No customer portal found on its site; customers get emailed links.
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Fergus
Suits: Roofing contractors who want to see the profit on every job.
Published price
Essentials from £39 a month, Professional from £45 · timesheet users from £12 a month · 14-day trial.
- Job costing built around labour and materials.
- Xero and QuickBooks on both plans; card payments at 1.6% + 20p.
Watch-out: No customer portal. Customers get a payment page only.
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Buildxact
Suits: Roofing contractors and builders who estimate larger jobs from drawings, with an office running several projects.
Published price
Foundation £119 a month, or £89 billed annually · Pro £209, or £160 billed annually · Master £349, or £262 billed annually · unlimited users · 14-day trial.
- Digital takeoffs from plans, quote letters and digital signatures on every plan.
- Unlimited users on every plan, so the office and site can all log in.
Watch-out: Invoicing, accounting integrations, schedules and the client portal start on Pro (£160 a month billed annually, £1,917 a year). Annual plans need a 12-month commitment.
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Joblogic
Suits: Roofing maintenance contractors with office staff, planned maintenance and reactive leak repairs.
Published price
Standard from £45 per user a month, billed annually (5 users = £225 a month).
- Log repair calls and set response times against agreed SLAs.
- Invoice at the quoted value, time and materials or a schedule of rates, with live sync to Sage 50, Xero and QuickBooks.
Watch-out: Most customers sign 24- or 36-month contracts (12 months on request). Every office and field login is a paid user, and the customer portal is on Enterprise only.
