What is Tradify?
Tradify is a field service management application built specifically for tradespeople in New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom. It targets the same audience as QuotCraft — electricians, plumbers, HVAC engineers, builders and other trade contractors — and has earned a well-deserved reputation for its job scheduling, field dispatch and mobile job card functionality. Tradify helps trade businesses manage their workflow from enquiry through to invoice, with a strong focus on scheduling teams, tracking job progress and managing customer communications.
The app is particularly strong at the operational side of running a trade business: managing multiple jobs simultaneously, scheduling technicians to the right locations, tracking time on site and capturing job notes with photos. These features have made Tradify a popular choice among growing trade businesses that need to coordinate field teams efficiently.
Tradify has a well-established presence in the UK market through its expansion from the Antipodean market, and it understands the specific language and workflow of trade businesses better than most generic tools.
What is QuotCraft?
QuotCraft is a platform developed specifically for trade contractors across Europe, with strong UK market support. Like Tradify, QuotCraft targets electricians, plumbers, HVAC engineers, carpenters and other trade professionals. Where QuotCraft differentiates is in its focus on the commercial and compliance dimensions of running a trade business: creating professional quotes with live wholesaler prices, obtaining legally binding digital signatures, and issuing invoices that comply with the UK's Peppol PINT UK standard.
QuotCraft integrates directly with Rexel UK, allowing electricians and installers to pull current catalogue prices into their quotes without manual data entry. The AI quote writer helps tradespeople write professional, detailed quote descriptions efficiently. The milestone billing feature structures payments across project phases, and the free plan makes QuotCraft accessible to sole traders and small trade businesses without upfront investment.
The core difference
Both Tradify and QuotCraft are built for tradespeople, which makes this comparison genuinely interesting. The distinction comes down to emphasis. Tradify excels at the operational job management side: scheduling, dispatch, field team coordination and job tracking. If you run a large team of field engineers across multiple simultaneous jobs, Tradify's scheduling engine is a genuine strength.
QuotCraft excels at the commercial and compliance side: building a winning quote with live Rexel UK prices, getting it signed digitally before work begins, and issuing invoices through the Peppol PINT UK network for compliant electronic invoicing. For trades businesses that want a stronger quoting workflow, AI-assisted quote writing and wholesaler price integration, QuotCraft offers capabilities that Tradify does not currently match.
Where QuotCraft wins for trade contractors
QuotCraft brings several capabilities that give UK trade contractors a significant commercial advantage. The integration with Rexel UK means that an electrician can build a materials list directly from the live Rexel catalogue, with their account pricing, without switching between apps or maintaining a separate spreadsheet of current prices. This alone saves substantial time on every quote.
The AI quote writer generates professional scope descriptions that would take considerable time to write from scratch, helping tradespeople win more work with better-presented proposals. Digital signatures under the eIDAS regulation are legally binding across the EU and in the UK under the Electronic Communications Act 2000 — customers can sign a quote on their smartphone before work commences, giving the contractor proper documented approval. Peppol PINT UK e-invoicing ensures compliance with the UK's growing electronic invoicing requirements. Milestone billing structures payments around practical points in a project's progress.
Where Tradify does well
Tradify has built a genuinely capable field service management platform. The scheduling and dispatch engine is well-developed for businesses with multiple field engineers: assigning jobs to the right person, tracking travel time and notifying customers of arrival windows. The mobile job card captures time, materials used on site and job notes in a format that flows directly into the invoice.
The customer communication features in Tradify — automated appointment reminders, job completion notifications and customer portal access — are polished and reduce the administrative burden of keeping clients informed. For trade businesses where team coordination and scheduling are the primary operational challenges, Tradify addresses those needs effectively.
Who should choose Tradify?
Tradify is the better choice for established trade businesses with a large field workforce where job scheduling and real-time dispatch are the primary operational challenges. If your main pain point is coordinating ten or fifteen field engineers across dozens of simultaneous jobs, Tradify's scheduling and job management features are its core strength.
Tradify is also well-suited to businesses that have built their operations around its workflow and are satisfied with its quoting and invoicing capabilities as they stand.
Who should choose QuotCraft?
QuotCraft is the right choice for UK trade contractors who want a stronger quoting workflow, live wholesaler price integration with Rexel UK, AI-assisted quote writing and Peppol PINT UK e-invoicing compliance. Sole traders, small electrical and plumbing businesses, and contractors who win work on the quality of their proposals will find QuotCraft's quoting capabilities genuinely valuable.
The free plan of QuotCraft covers quotes, invoices, digital signatures and client management — a complete commercial toolkit at no cost. The paid plan adds Peppol PINT UK e-invoicing, AI features, wholesaler integrations and advanced project planning. QuotCraft is particularly well-suited to contractors looking to build a more professional quotation process.
Switching from Tradify to QuotCraft
Migrating from Tradify to QuotCraft is straightforward. Customer data and job histories can be exported and imported. The QuotCraft onboarding team assists with initial configuration, including setting up your Rexel UK account integration and configuring Peppol PINT UK e-invoicing. The transition can be managed gradually, with QuotCraft introduced first for the quoting workflow before migrating job management.
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