Tradify and QuotingHub both help South African trades quote, schedule and invoice. The difference is focus: Tradify is a general job-management app used across many countries and trades, while QuotingHub is built in South Africa for electricians and for home automation, AV and CCTV installers. Here is an honest comparison.
Quick summary
- Choose Tradify if you want a well-known general scheduling and job app, mainly do service work, and use Xero or QuickBooks.
- Choose QuotingHub if you quote projects, claim monthly, issue COCs, run installer jobs with device registers and support contracts, or keep your books in Sage.
Pricing
Tradify charges per user per month. Its South African listing on the Xero app store shows the Lite plan at R480 per user per month at the time of writing, so a team of eight costs several thousand rand a month and grows with every hire.
QuotingHub charges per business, with up to 20 staff included: R999, R1,999 or R3,199 a month for electricians, and R2,999 or R4,499 for installers. Extra staff are R40/month each. All plans have a 30-day free trial.
Accounting integration
Tradify integrates with Xero and QuickBooks in South Africa. QuotingHub integrates with Sage Business Cloud Accounting, which many South African contractors already use.
Electrician-specific features
- COC: QuotingHub includes a digital SANS 10142-1 Certificate of Compliance linked to the job. Tradify is a general trades app without a built-in South African COC.
- Progress claims and variations: QuotingHub claims monthly against quoted lines and tracks variation orders against the original value. Tradify is aimed more at quote-schedule-invoice service work.
- GPS clocking: QuotingHub captures GPS coordinates when staff clock in and out on their phones.
Installer-specific features
QuotingHub's installer product adds room-by-room quotes with kits, good/better/best options, distributor price-list import, a device register (serial, MAC, IP, firmware, warranty), handover packs and support contracts that invoice automatically. These are not the focus of a general trades app.
Where Tradify is stronger
- A mature, widely used product with a large user base across several countries.
- Xero and QuickBooks integrations, if that is your accounting package.
- Suits a wide range of trades beyond electrical and installation work.
Verdict
For a South African electrical contractor or installer with a growing team, QuotingHub's per-business pricing gets cheaper than per-user pricing as the team grows, and it covers COCs, claims, device registers and Sage. For a small service business on Xero that wants a general job app, Tradify is a solid choice.
See QuotingHub for electricians, QuotingHub for installers, or the wider comparison of quoting software for electricians in South Africa.