Platform Comparison
FieldHive vs Workever
FieldHive and Workever both help trade and field service businesses manage customers, quotes, bookings and invoices. But they are built around different levels of operational control.
FieldHive gives owner-managed trade businesses a focused mobile system for building reusable pricing, sending quotes, booking work and creating invoices. Workever provides a broader field-service platform for businesses that need separate users, team scheduling, detailed job records, timesheets, forms, assets and customer self-service now.
Workever currently has more total operational features. The important question is whether your business needs those wider tools today — or whether FieldHive gives you the structure you need without introducing a larger team-management system.
Workever
One person handles the main admin and you want a straightforward system for:
Customers
Reusable pricing
Fixed-price, hourly and time-and-materials quotes
Bookings
Invoices
Deposits and progress claims
Paid and unpaid invoice tracking
CIS support
Full mobile access on iPhone and Android
A focused option for getting pricing, quotes, bookings and invoices organised.
Several people need to work through the system and you require:
Separate office and field users
Individual staff schedules
Job assignment
Detailed job records
GPS and map views
Time tracking
Recurring jobs
Offline field access
Forms and signatures
Asset and stock management
A customer portal
Accounting connections
Desktop access
The customer is saved once. Pricing can be built once and reused. Bookings remain connected to the customer and quoted work. Invoices can continue from information already entered.
FieldHive currently operates through one main account. It can therefore suit a sole trader or a small business where the owner or administrator controls the pricing, bookings and paperwork.
A focused starting point when the immediate priority is consistent pricing and the main customer-to-invoice workflow.
Workever allows businesses to create and assign jobs, organise team schedules, maintain detailed job records, track fieldworker activity and manage information from both desktop and mobile devices. It also supports recurring jobs, custom job statuses, job templates and files attached to the work.
That makes Workever the stronger current fit when the software needs to organise each worker and job separately. FieldHive offers a more focused starting point when the immediate priority is building consistent pricing and keeping the main customer-to-invoice workflow organised.
Build Your Pricing Once
Each catalogue item can hold material cost, labour fit time, markup and the final customer price — not just a description and selling price.
Items can be organised into folders, edited and reused across future quotes, so the next quote starts from pricing already worked out. That keeps pricing consistent and makes it clearer when costs, fitting times or margins need adjusting.
Quote Different Types of Work Properly
Not every job should be priced the same way. FieldHive supports fixed-price, time-and-materials and hourly-rate quotes.
Quotes can use saved catalogue items or manually entered work. Totals are calculated inside the app and the finished quote can be previewed as a PDF and sent to the customer.
AI Quote Rewrite helps improve the clarity of descriptions. It does not set prices or make commercial decisions.
Keep Customer Records Together
Each customer record holds contact details, addresses, notes, quote history and invoice history.
When a customer returns, you can see what was previously quoted and invoiced without searching through old emails or folders. The history stays with the customer rather than being rebuilt each time.
Connect Quotes, Bookings and Invoices
A quote can move into a booking that stores the customer, work details, date and time. When the work is ready to invoice, the invoice can be created from the quote rather than typed out again.
Invoices can be presented as simple, detailed or materials-and-labour breakdowns, then recorded as paid or unpaid — giving a clear record of what remains outstanding.
Use Deposits and Progress Claims
FieldHive Business supports deposit invoices, progress claims and final invoicing.
A builder may request a deposit before ordering materials; an electrician may invoice after first fix, second fix and completion; a landscaper may split preparation, installation and finishing. The invoicing can follow how the work is delivered.
Start Without Paying
FieldHive Free costs £0 per month and includes up to five active quotes plus unlimited invoices, customers, catalogue items and bookings — with PDF documents, your company logo, CIS support, AI Quote Rewrite and 10 AI credits each month.
The limit applies to quotes that remain active, not an allowance of five per month. Once a quote is no longer active, it stops counting towards the limit.
Remove the Quote Limit Without Rebuilding
FieldHive Business costs £14.99 per month or £144 per year, adding unlimited quotes, deposit invoices, progress claims, availability indicators, automated reminders, 100 AI credits and removal of FieldHive branding.
Moving to Business does not mean starting again — your customers, catalogue and previous quotes and invoices all remain in place.
Use the Full App on iPhone and Android
FieldHive is an installable mobile app for iPhone and Android, designed around phone use. Create quotes, check bookings and issue invoices from the customer’s property, a site, the van, the merchant or home.
FieldHive is currently mobile-only and does not provide desktop or browser access.
Use UK Trade Support
CIS support is included from the free plan, alongside VAT and tax settings, hourly rates, currency and regional settings, company details, company logo and document branding.
FieldHive launched first for the UK market, although the product is not positioned as UK-only.
Separate Users and Team Scheduling
Workever allows businesses to create users for office administrators and mobile fieldworkers, and one licence can give the same person access to both the desktop system and fieldworker app.
Its scheduling includes drag-and-drop scheduling, timeline/day/week views, team management, GPS and map views, business hours and events, job filtering and individual job assignment — across Base and Ultimate.
FieldHive does not currently provide separate staff logins, individual engineer schedules or team dispatch.
Detailed Job Records
Workever gives each job a fuller operational record with custom job statuses, custom fields, job templates, notes, files, images, all-day bookings, job reports and recurring jobs.
It is designed to keep the office and field team updated as work is assigned and completed.
FieldHive connects customers, quotes, bookings and invoices but does not yet provide the same depth of individual job management.
Fieldworker Tracking and Offline Access
Workever provides iOS and Android fieldworker apps with offline working, job status updates, time tracking, photos, notes, documents, customer signatures and quotes and invoices from the field. Ultimate adds staff permissions, mobile timesheets, expenses, form filling and a manager’s app.
FieldHive provides its full current workflow on iPhone and Android but does not currently support offline work, individual fieldworker accounts or staff time tracking.
Recurring Jobs and Service Contracts
Workever supports recurring jobs across its plans, so repeated work can be created on a regular schedule rather than rebuilt manually. Ultimate adds service contracts that can automatically generate the work attached to them — suited to annual servicing, planned maintenance, routine inspections, regular cleaning, asset servicing and repeat site visits.
FieldHive currently supports individual bookings but does not offer recurring-job automation or service contracts.
Forms, Assets and Stock
Workever Ultimate adds a forms library, custom form building, pre-populated form data, mobile form completion, asset registers, asset history, assets linked to customers and jobs, stock management and purchase orders. Assets and service contracts can be used together to organise repeated maintenance.
FieldHive does not currently provide forms, asset management, stock control or purchase orders.
Customer Portal
Workever Ultimate includes a customer self-service portal where, depending on permissions, customers can request a quote or job, view and accept or reject quotes, view job information and invoices, make payments when Stripe is enabled, and send and receive messages connected to jobs, quotes and invoices.
FieldHive keeps customer records and document history inside the business account but does not provide customers with their own portal.
Desktop and Mobile Access
Workever is web-based for office users and provides mobile field apps for iPhone and Android, so office staff can work through the desktop system while fieldworkers receive and update jobs through their phones.
FieldHive currently provides its main product through its iPhone and Android apps.
FieldHive vs Workever at a Glance
Area | FieldHive | Workever |
|---|---|---|
Best fit today | Owner-managed trade businesses where one person handles the main admin | Businesses needing broader fieldworker, job and service management |
Permanent free plan | Five active quotes with unlimited invoices, customers, catalogue items and bookings | No permanent free plan listed |
Paid starting price | £14.99 per month | Base at £29 per user per month |
Pricing model | One main account currently | Priced per user |
Reusable pricing | Material cost, labour fit time, markup and final customer price | Saved cost items for quotes, jobs and invoices |
Quote methods | Fixed price, hourly, and time and materials | Branded quotes, conversion to jobs and saved cost items |
Scheduling | Bookings managed through one account | Team scheduling, assignment, GPS and map views |
Mobile access | Full iPhone and Android app | iPhone and Android fieldworker apps |
Desktop access | Not currently available | Web-based office system |
Detailed jobs and recurring work | Not currently available at Workever’s depth | Job records, templates, statuses and recurring jobs |
Forms, assets and stock | Not currently available | Available on Ultimate |
Payments and integrations | Payment-status tracking only | Stripe, Xero, QuickBooks and calendar add-ons |
Workever’s exact functionality depends on the selected plan and any add-ons.
FieldHive Free — £0 per month
Includes five active quotes and unlimited invoices, customers, catalogue items and bookings.
FieldHive Business — £14.99 per month or £144 per year
Adds unlimited quotes, deposit invoices, progress claims, availability indicators and automated reminders.
FieldHive currently operates through one main account.
Workever’s current UK pricing (per user):
Base — £29 per user per month
Ultimate — £39 per user per month
Base includes job management, scheduling, quotes and invoices, fieldworker management, iPhone and Android apps and access to accounting connections. Ultimate adds form filling and building, stock, assets, service contracts, the customer portal, timesheets and expenses.
Users | Base | Ultimate |
|---|---|---|
1 | £29/mo | £39/mo |
3 | £87/mo | £117/mo |
5 | £145/mo | £195/mo |
The current product begins with customers, pricing, quotes, bookings and invoices.
As the workload increases, FieldHive Business removes the active-quote limit and adds deposits, progress claims, availability indicators and automated reminders. The aim is to give useful structure without setting up full fieldworker, stock and asset-management processes before they are needed.
Workever already provides a broad range of staff, job and service-management functions.
A business that needs separate users, individual schedules, recurring jobs, forms, assets, stock and customer access can select those tools now.
Its subscription is charged per user, with Ultimate adding the more advanced operational functions.
It may suit you when
One person controls the quoting and invoicing
Reusable pricing based on material costs and fit times matters
You want to start without paying
You mainly manage the business from your phone
You need CIS support
You want deposits and progress claims
Other workers do not need separate access
You do not need asset or stock management
You want a focused system at a lower starting price
FIELDHIVE APPROACH
Imagine an electrical business with four people: the owner, two electricians and one apprentice. The owner handles customer records, pricing, quotes, bookings, invoices and payment-status checks.
The electricians carry out the work but do not need separate software accounts or individual schedules. FieldHive can manage the main admin through one account.
Workever approach
Now imagine each electrician needs to log in separately, view an individual schedule, receive assigned jobs, open a detailed job record, add notes and photographs, collect customer signatures, record working time, update the job status and work when the signal is poor.
The office also needs to see the whole team schedule, track workers and jobs on a map, manage recurring visits, build forms, track customer assets, issue purchase orders, share information through a customer portal and connect invoices to accounting software.
Workever already provides that structure
Separate office and field users with individual schedules
Job assignment, GPS and map views
Detailed job records and recurring jobs
Offline field access and staff time tracking
Forms, signatures, assets and stock
Customer self-service and accounting connections
One person handles the main admin
Reusable pricing based on materials and labour fit times matters
You want fixed-price, hourly and time-and-materials quotes
You want unlimited invoices, customers, catalogue items and bookings on a permanent free plan
You need CIS support
You mainly manage the business from your phone
You want a lower-cost paid option
You do not need full fieldworker and asset management yet
Separate office and field users
Individual staff schedules
Job assignment
GPS and map views
Detailed job records
Recurring jobs
Offline field access
Staff time tracking
Forms and signatures
Asset and stock management
Purchase orders
Customer self-service
Accounting connections
Desktop access
The choice comes down to what the software needs to organise today. Choose the system that fits the way your business currently works.
