The Builder's Verdict

Tool

Would job management software pay for itself?

Your charge-out rate, your admin hours, a real software price, and the honest arithmetic. Nothing is collected, every assumption is on the page, and the default saving estimate is deliberately conservative.

30% . Our default of 30% is deliberately conservative; adjust to your scepticism

Default £34 = Tradify Lite, the cheapest full per-user plan we've verified (13 Jul 2026). ServiceM8 starts at £0 to £25; Powered Now at £28.

Your result

+£226/month

Net gain, roughly £2,710 a year

Your admin time is worth
£866/mo
Time recovered at 30%
6.5 hrs = £260/mo
Software pays for itself after
0.8 saved hrs/mo

Assumptions: 4.33 weeks/month; time saved is valued at your charge-out rate, which assumes you'd bill (or want back) the recovered hours; excludes cashflow gains from faster invoicing and any extra jobs won by quoting sooner, so the real upside, if the software fits, is likely higher than this number. Arithmetic, not financial advice.

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