Looking for a Tradify alternative?

Tradify is a well-known job management tool. If you're weighing up alternatives, here's what My Apprentice offers: the whole quote-to-cash workflow — quoting, jobs, scheduling, invoicing, online payments, timesheets and materials — built in Perth, Western Australia, for Australian trades, with straightforward per-seat pricing and every feature included at every seat.

What you get with My Apprentice

• Quoting with materials, labour, GST and margin protection — accepted online by the client
• Jobs as mission control: crew, shifts, to-dos, photos, notes and materials in one record
• Scheduling & dispatch with recurring shifts and clock-in/clock-out
• Invoicing with automatic reminders and Xero integration
• Online card payments through your own Stripe account
• A client portal included on every plan — no login needed for your customers
• Timesheets with approval locking and payroll export
• Materials & inventory with stock by location and OCR supplier invoices
• Role-based permissions for owners, supervisors, admin, finance, tradies and apprentices

Straightforward per-seat pricing

One price per seat, per month in Australian dollars — every feature included at every seat, so there is no premium tier to upgrade into for the features you need. Your first 2 months are free, annual billing saves 20%, and there is no setup fee and no lock-in contract.

See the full pricing page.

What to check when you're comparing

The differences that actually change your week aren't feature-list length — they're these five. Our answers are below; check Tradify's current plans for theirs, because tiers move.

Where Tradify might suit you better

We'd rather you found this out here than three weeks in. There are things we don't do yet:

• Accounting beyond Xero. We're Xero-only today — no MYOB or QuickBooks. If your bookkeeper is on either, that's a real blocker.
• A native Android app. We have a native iOS app; on Android the full product runs in the phone browser. Every feature works, but it isn't an app from the Play Store.
• SMS to customers. We do email and iOS push. If you text your customers job updates today, we can't replace that yet.
• A compliance module. No SWMS or certificate management — you get job photos, notes and a full audit trail, and that's it.
• Progress and staged billing. Deposits and progress claims aren't in yet, so long project work with staged payments is a poor fit right now.

All of it is on the roadmap and none of it is a promise with a date on it. If one of those is how you run your business, stay where you are — you'll be happier.

Built here, for how trades work here

My Apprentice is built in Perth for Australian trade businesses — GST on quotes and invoices, Xero for accounting and payroll, prices in AUD, and wording your clients already understand. There are two of us behind it, so when you ring, you get someone who can actually change the thing you're ringing about.

Try it before you commit

Sign-up is instant and self-serve with a free trial — no credit card required — and there's a live demo you can poke around without creating an account. See how the workflow feels with your kind of work before moving anything across.