Buildertrend alternatives

Invoice Fly

Good fit for: Contractors and freelancers who set their own prices and want simple estimates and invoices plus time and expense tracking

Price: $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year; 3-day free trial

A phone-first estimate and invoice app with a web app. Estimates come from your saved items and markups, clients e-sign from a link, and estimates convert to invoices. Its e-signature page says its AI can generate an estimate. Payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account. It adds automatic follow-ups and overdue reminders, recurring invoices, time tracking, an expense tracker with receipt scanning and reports. ^{[8][9][10][11][12][13][14]}

Compared with Buildertrend: Invoice Fly focuses on estimates and invoices from your own item list, with client e-signatures and payments through your own Stripe or PayPal account, at a listed $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year after a 3-day trial. Buildertrend covers whole projects, with scheduling, budgets, change orders, a client portal and accounting sync. ^{[8][9][10][11][12][14][6][1]}

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Contractor+

Good fit for: Contractors who want to start free and grow into CRM, scheduling and project management

Price: Free plan; Pro $49 a month, or $29 a month on the annual plan

A contractor business platform with a free plan of up to 5 estimates or invoices a month. From Pro, Estimatic AI drafts estimates from a description, photos, blueprints or another quote, priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index, using AI credits. Contracts and e-signatures also start on Pro. ^{[15][16][17][18]}

Compared with Buildertrend: Contractor+ is also a business platform, with CRM, scheduling, project management and its own payment processing. It lists its prices, starting with a free plan of up to 5 estimates or invoices a month, then Pro at $49 a month, or $29 a month on the annual plan. From Pro, its Estimatic AI drafts estimates priced from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index. ^{[19][20][15][16][17]}

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Handoff

Good fit for: Residential builders and remodelers with a team who want AI estimating inside a project platform

Price: From $119 a month billed annually (2 users); 7-day free trial

Builds residential estimates with AI from a typed or spoken scope, photos or plans, priced from supplier catalogs and localized labor rates, then proposals, e-signatures, milestone invoices and payments, with two-way QuickBooks Online sync on every plan. Pro adds project management, time tracking and unlimited AI credits; Scale adds AI takeoffs. ^{[21][22][23][24]}

Compared with Buildertrend: Like Buildertrend, Handoff is built for residential builders and remodelers working as a team, but it starts from AI estimating priced from supplier catalogs and local labor rates. Its plans are listed, from Flex at $119 a month billed annually for 2 users, after a 7-day free trial. Project management, scheduling and daily logs come on Pro and Scale, and a subcontractor portal on Scale. ^{[23][22][21][1]}

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Housecall Pro

Good fit for: Home-service companies that book, schedule and dispatch techs

Price: From $79 a month billed monthly, or $59 a month billed annually; 14-day free trial

Field service software with online booking, scheduling and dispatch on every plan, and estimates priced from a price book that can start from Profit Rhino’s ready-made one. Customers approve and e-sign estimates from their phone or email, with optional deposits and progress invoicing. Online invoice payments are 2.99% and bank payments 1%. ^{[25][26][27][28][29][30]}

Compared with Buildertrend: Housecall Pro is field service software for home-service companies: online booking, scheduling and dispatch on every plan, estimates from a price book, deposits and progress invoicing. It lists its prices, from $79 a month billed monthly or $59 billed annually, with a 14-day free trial. Its help center lists online invoice card payments at 2.99% and bank payments at 1%; Buildertrend’s lists 2.99% and a flat $15. ^{[25][26][28][29][30][7]}

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Jobber

Good fit for: Home-service businesses running crews and recurring work

Price: From $49 a month with no commitment, less on a one-year commitment or billed annually; 14-day free trial

Field service software for scheduling, quotes, invoices and payments, with QuickBooks Online and Xero sync on Connect and higher plans. Clients approve quotes in a client hub, can draw or type a signature and pay a deposit as they approve. Progress invoicing is on every plan. Card payments are 2.9% + 30¢ and ACH is 1%. ^{[31][32][33][34]}

Compared with Buildertrend: Jobber is field service software for home-service businesses, with scheduling, quotes, invoices and payments, and its pricing page lists QuickBooks Online and Xero sync from the Connect plan. It lists four plans from $49 a month with no commitment, after a 14-day free trial. Clients approve quotes in a client hub and can pay a deposit as they approve, and payment schedules are on every plan. ^{[32][31][33][35][34]}

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BuildWell

Good fit for: Contractors who want each estimate priced from local store prices and wages, then signed and paid

Price: $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year; 3-day free trial

Describe a job by voice, text, photos or a floor plan; the AI picks the work and quantities, and prices come from stores near the job and BLS wages plus your overhead and markup. Clients sign on their phone, estimates become invoices with deposits and progress payments, and card or bank payments go through Stripe at cost. iPhone, Android and web; English or Spanish. Not a scheduling, CRM, time-tracking or accounting tool. ^{[36][37][38][39][40][41]}

Compared with Buildertrend: BuildWell covers one part of what Buildertrend does: pricing a job, getting it signed and getting paid. Its AI plans the work and prices it from stores near the job and local wages, at $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year after a 3-day free trial. It has no scheduling, CRM, time tracking or QuickBooks or Xero sync, and no free plan, so it won’t replace Buildertrend for running whole builds. ^{[37][38][39][40][36][6]}