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While Tradify is a great fit for trades running quick service jobs, like electricians or maintenance techs, it’s not built for managing longer projects with multiple stages and crew members. NextMinute is designed specifically for residential builders, carpenters, landscapers, and other project-focused trades who need more than just job tracking.
With powerful tools for quoting, scheduling, timesheets, project planning, and real-time job costing, NextMinute helps you keep control from the first quote to the final invoice. Whether you’re managing renovations, new builds, or multi-day site work, it’s the smarter choice for trades who think in stages — not service calls.
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NextMinute helps keep your crew in the loop and up-to-date with what needs to be done.
Project Management
The NextMinute app enables you and your crew to get your admin done anywhere, anytime on mobile or tablet.
Mobile App
NextMinute makes creating and sending final and progress payment invoices easy.
NextMinute Invoicing
Place supplier orders with a few clicks.
Set custom buy/sell rates for machinery and have your crew log the hours.
Create and send estimates or import take-offs from your QS/software.
Quoting Software for Trades
Easily import takeoffs from your software or quantity surveyor of choice.
Takeoff Imports
Easily add in job expenses to keep track of your actuals vs. estimates.
Expense Tracking
Easily communicate with your crew within the NextMinute app.
Your crew can easily view site plans – anywhere, any time.
Pricing
Comparing NextMinute 1 Admin and 5 Team users vs. 6 users on the Tradify Pro plan
Easy to use mobile apps
Fully featured mobile app
Job Management
All job information in one place, available anywhere – contacts, files, notes, photos etc
Job planning
Fully drag and drop gantt chart including multiple jobs
Timesheets
Easy to use timesheets with configurable rate cards
Payroll integration
Accounting system payroll integration and standard payroll extracts for other systems
Invoicing
Quick job invoicing for both fixed price and cost plus, integrated to accounting system
Supplier invoice integration
2 way supplier invoicing sync, match supplier invoices to jobs for accurate cost allocation
Detailed back costing
Job and stage level profitability analysis incorporating all material and labor costs
Reporting
Full reporting suite including live WIP report, job profitability and timesheet analysis
Customer Portal
Customer facing portal incorporating progress updates, invoices, variations and customer interactions
Quoting
Template driven job quoting and workflows
600 companies choose NextMinute to manage their jobs and rate us 4.9/5
View ReviewsNextMinute is built specifically for residential builders, carpenters, and project-based trades running longer, more complex jobs. Unlike apps like Tradify that are designed for quick service work, NextMinute gives you tools to plan out every stage of a job, assign tasks to your crew, and track labour, materials, and costs in real time.
With features like Gantt charts, live job costing, and easy communication between site and office, it helps you keep projects on time and on budget. Plus, it works across all devices, integrates with Xero, MYOB, and QuickBooks, and includes local support to help you get set up right.
If you’re building homes, managing renos, or coordinating multi-day jobs — NextMinute is made for that.
Yes — NextMinute gives you more detailed and flexible cost tracking than Tradify. You can break down costs by job and by job stage (like framing, cladding, tiling), and see actuals vs estimates in real time. Tradify is great for simpler service jobs, but it doesn’t offer the same level of visibility for multi-stage builds. If you need accurate back-costing to keep jobs on budget, NextMinute is the better fit.
Yes — we can help you migrate your job info, contacts, and other important data so you can hit the ground running with NextMinute.
Both platforms let you create and send invoices, but NextMinute gives you more flexibility for progress claims and staged billing — ideal for longer jobs and construction projects.
With NextMinute, you can invoice by job stage, or percentage completed. It’s designed to suit the way builders and tradespeople actually work — especially when clients are billed across multiple milestones.
Tradify handles simple invoicing well, but it’s geared more towards quick, one-off jobs. If you need to manage progress payments across a multi-week or multi-month project, NextMinute is the better fit.
We’re all about unbeatable service and close relationships with our customers. Instead of leaving you to figure things out alone, we work side by side with you to ensure NextMinute is the right fit for your business and get you up and running with minimal stress. Our team can import your jobs or quotes, walk you through the system, and help you trial it effectively—saving you time in the long run and ensuring you get the most out of NextMinute from day one.
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