Handoff 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. ^{[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]}

Compared with Handoff: Invoice Fly is a lighter estimate and invoice app at $8.99 a week or $98.99 a year, with every feature on both plans and a 3-day trial. You price from your own saved items, and payments run through your own Stripe or PayPal account. Handoff drafts and prices residential estimates with AI and adds project tools on team plans billed annually or monthly. ^{[6][7][8][10][2][3]}

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Buildertrend

Good fit for: Established home builders, remodelers and specialty contractors running five or more projects a year with a team

Price: Custom quote; free personalized demos instead of a free trial

Construction management with estimates built from cost catalogs, takeoff and sub bids, proposals clients e-sign in a portal, progress invoicing, change orders, scheduling, daily logs and budgets, for unlimited users. It integrates with QuickBooks and Xero. Its payments FAQ lists client card payments at 2.99% and ACH at $15 per payment. ^{[13][14][15][16][17][18]}

Compared with Handoff: Buildertrend is a construction management platform priced by custom quote, with every feature and unlimited users included; its FAQ says it offers free personalized demos instead of a free trial. Estimates are built from your cost catalogs, takeoff and sub bids. Handoff lists a price for each plan, offers a 7-day trial and drafts estimates with AI. ^{[13][14][15][19][3][2]}

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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. ^{[20][21][22][23]}

Compared with Handoff: Contractor+ starts with a free plan of up to 5 estimates or invoices a month, and its paid plans start at $49 a month, or $29 a month on the annual plan. From Pro, its Estimatic AI prices estimates from your cost book, supplier prices and a labor-rate index, close to Handoff’s mix of supplier catalogs and your own rates. It also has a CRM, scheduling and a QuickBooks Online connection. ^{[20][21][22][3]}

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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%. ^{[24][25][26][27]}

Compared with Handoff: Jobber is field service software for home-service businesses, built around scheduling, routing, quotes, invoices and payments, from $49 a month billed monthly, with a 14-day trial. Quotes are priced from your own products and services list, its pricing page lists a retailer integration for current store prices, and Jobber AI can create quotes by voice. Handoff is aimed at residential construction, with AI-priced estimates, change orders and, on Scale, takeoffs. ^{[25][24][28][29][1][2][4][3]}

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Joist

Good fit for: Small home-service contractors who want low-cost estimates and invoices with room to grow

Price: From $10 a month billed monthly; 14-day free trial

An estimate and invoice app on iOS, Android and web. AI Estimate drafts an estimate from a typed or spoken description for you to review, and e-signatures are on every plan. Upper plans add reports, change orders and job scheduling, and it syncs with QuickBooks. Card payments are 3.49% + 49¢ in the US. ^{[30][31][32][33]}

Compared with Handoff: Joist is a smaller estimate and invoice app from $10 a month billed monthly, with a 14-day trial. Its AI Estimate drafts from a typed or spoken description, while prices come from the items you enter, and upper plans add change orders and job scheduling. Handoff says it prices estimates from supplier and labor data, and it adds team project tools, from $119 a month billed annually. ^{[30][31][34][3]}

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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. ^{[35][36][37][38][39][40]}

Compared with Handoff: Like Handoff, BuildWell’s AI builds estimates from a description, photos or a floor plan, and its prices come from real data: materials come from stores near the job and labor from local BLS wages. It’s one plan at $7.99 a week or $79.99 a year after a 3-day trial. It lacks Handoff’s team tools: no scheduling, CRM, time tracking or QuickBooks sync, and no free plan. ^{[36][35][2][3][5]}