Hiring a cleaner should not cost a seat.
Tell us your team size. They are in the plan.
hello@crayon.softwareTRADES AND FIELD SERVICE
Tradify is an Auckland product with a strong local reputation and deep accounting integrations. It is also priced per user, and cleaning is one of the most headcount heavy service businesses there is.
Last checked 17 September 2026
Tradify is built for tradies, from NZ$48 per user a month on Lite to NZ$62 on Plus, excluding GST, with job management, scheduling, quoting, invoicing and Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks integration. Plus adds AI tools, service reminders and purchase orders.
Crayon includes your team in the plan. For a business where most of the people who touch the software are cleaners using it for a few minutes a shift, that is the whole economics of the decision.
THE DIFFERENCE
Every product on this page is a fixed shape. Where it matches how you work, it works well. Where it does not, you change how you work, pay a developer, or bolt on another tool. Crayon is the proven core for bookings, customers and payments, and the AI changes it when you ask. Rename what things are called. Add the field every job has to carry. Change what a button says.
SIDE BY SIDE
Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.
| Tradify | Crayon | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Tradies | Service businesses, operations first |
| Priced by | Per user, every user | Plan, with team size included |
| A team of ten | NZ$480 to NZ$620 a month, excluding GST | One plan price |
| Entry price | NZ$48 per user a month | $99 a month for the first year |
| Change the software itself | Settings and feature requests | Ask, review the change, approve it |
| Strongest at | Local trust, accounting integrations, ease of use | Fitting a business that does not run standard |
OUTGROWING IT
Per-seat pricing is fair for a business of estimators. It is expensive for a business of cleaners.
Software should not make hiring a cleaner a budget conversation. Crayon puts the team in the plan, and where the workflow is built for tradies rather than cleaners, you ask for it to change.
PRICING
Figures come from each vendor’s own pricing page, read on the date shown. Entry price is the cheapest published plan.
Tradify publishes these in New Zealand dollars excluding GST.
USD. Crayon is in early access, so this is founding pricing.
THE HONEST PART
KEEP COMPARING
Strong local trades product with unlimited users. Priced by jobs per month, which is the wrong meter for recurring cleaning.
Compare →Auckland built, 25,000+ trades businesses. Excellent at trade jobs, generic at cleaning.
Compare →Commercial and project heavy. Publishes no prices at all: every number comes from a sales conversation.
Compare →The biggest name in the trades. Does not list cleaning among the industries it serves, and does not publish a price.
Compare →Or see every comparison, what Crayon costs on pricing, and how changing it works on the AI.
Every figure above about Tradify comes from these pages, read on 17 September 2026.
Tell us your team size. They are in the plan.
hello@crayon.software