Tradify, Fergus or glass software? Job management for glaziers. Tradify and Fergus run trade jobs well. Where they stop for a glazing business, what glass-specific software adds, and how to move across without retyping. GlazierEdge If most of your glazing is repairs, reglazes and the odd window, Tradify or Fergus will run it fine. A job card with a few quote lines and an invoice into Xero covers that work. The gap shows up when you start drawing the glass. A frameless shower or a deck balustrade is a set of panels with sizes, edgework, hinge notches and holes, and somebody has to turn that into a price, a supplier order and an install sheet. Neither Tradify nor Fergus lists glass design on its features pages, so that somebody is you, with a calculator and the supplier's order form. GlazierEdge Pty Ltd make GlazierEdge, a glass-specific system, so read this knowing which side GlazierEdge Pty Ltd is on. Every Tradify and Fergus fact below comes from their own pages, linked, and was checked on 5 November 2026. Prices move, so look again before you decide. What Tradify and Fergus do well. Both sell across New Zealand, Australia and the UK, and both run the office side of a trade business well. Tradify connects to Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks Online from its cheapest plan. Its app runs on iPhone, iPad and Android, takes card payments through Stripe, and the Pro plan handles deposits, progress payments and retentions. Fergus is strong on the merchant side. It has supplier partners such as Reece, Bunnings Trade NZ and Corys, and it imports and reconciles supplier invoices. It has its own payments product, Fergus Pay, with tap to pay on a phone. If your crew carry Android phones or your accountant lives in MYOB, both of them cover you today and GlazierEdge Pty Ltd don't. Tradify pricing, and Fergus's, for a glazing crew. Tradify charges per user on every plan, and its pricing page draws no line between office and field users: | Tradify plan | Price per user, per month | Worth knowing | | Lite | NZ$48 / A$48, ex GST | Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks sync | | Pro | NZ$52 / A$52, ex GST | Online quote acceptance, deposits and progress payments, job costing, timesheets | | Plus | NZ$62 / A$62, ex GST | Adds purchase orders and reporting | So a glass shop with one person in the office and four installers is paying for five users. On Pro that's $260 a month before GST, in either currency. Purchase orders sit on Plus, which takes it to $310. Fergus lists its Basic plan from $53 a month and Professional from $75 in New Zealand ($53 and $77 on the Australian page). The page doesn't say whether that's per user or a base fee, so ask. It does price field staff: timesheet users are from $26 a month each, and contractor users $4 a day. Purchase orders, GPS tracking and files and photos aren't on Basic. GlazierEdge is one plan at A$109 a month, no GST added. That includes 1 office user, and installers are free however many you have. Another office user or estimator is A$19 a month. Every feature is in the plan, so there's no tier to step up to for purchase orders. For the full table against Smart Glazier and GlassManager as well, see glazing software compared. Where generic job software stops on a glass job. Take a corner shower. In a general job system the quote is a line of text and a number you worked out somewhere else. You counted the hinge cutouts yourself, remembered that each hinge needs a matching cutout on the fixed panel, added the edgework by the metre and hoped the handle holes were in. Then the glass has to be ordered. Tradify's Plus plan builds purchase orders from quotes and emails them, which is handy for hardware lines. A glass supplier wants more than lines, though. They want each panel height x width, the glass type and thickness, the edge finish on each edge, and where every notch and hole sits. That's usually retyped onto their form, and retyping is where a 750 becomes a 705. None of that is a fault in Tradify or Fergus. They're general trade software, and most trades never send a toughener an order with a hinge notch on it. What a glass-specific system adds. In GlazierEdge you draw the job in the Glass Designer, which covers showers, balustrades and pool fences, splashbacks, mirrors, shopfronts and flat glass. Pick a glass-to-glass hinge and its cutouts go on the door and on the panel it hangs from. Pick a handle and the holes appear. The panels then price themselves from your own glass, edge, machining and hardware rates, and Create quote carries the price into a quote. The customer gets a secure link where they can spin the design round in 3D, see the drawings and line prices, and accept and sign on the page. Once it's accepted, the same panels become the glass order sheet: sizes, glass, thickness, machining and the edge finish per edge, with a DXF per panel if your supplier cuts from files. When the rack arrives you tick off each piece and flag anything damaged. Money follows the same job. You raise the deposit invoice from the accepted quote in one click, and glass and hardware orders wait until it's paid. If the customer wants to pay by card, that runs through your own Stripe account. The limits are real and worth knowing before you switch. GlazierEdge Pty Ltd connect to Xero only for now (QuickBooks Online is coming soon; there's no MYOB). The field app is iPhone only until the Android version is out. The designer handles single panes, so IGUs aren't covered. Who should stay where they are. Stay on Tradify or Fergus if glass is one trade among several in your business, or if your glazing is mostly service and repair work that never needs a drawing. MYOB users and Android crews should stay put too, for now. And if you buy a lot through Reece or Bunnings Trade, Fergus's merchant links are worth keeping. Move if you spend your evenings working out panel sizes, notch counts and supplier order forms by hand, or if you're paying a monthly fee for every installer just so they can see their day. Switching without retyping your clients. Most job software will export your client list to a spreadsheet; check your current system's export options. In GlazierEdge, Settings | Import data takes a CSV, Excel file or pasted cells for clients, suppliers, jobs and tasks. You map each column, and every row is checked before anything is written. You can update your glass, edge, hardware and machining prices the same way. Supplier hardware packs, such as Juralco's J7 frameless shower range, load from Settings | Supplier catalogues. Old quotes, invoices and payment history are moved across with its help. A demo client import at the Review step. One bad email address is flagged before anything goes in. Pick a cut-over date. New jobs start in GlazierEdge from that day, and jobs already under way finish in the old system, so no job gets invoiced into Xero twice. The help article on importing your records has the file limits and column details. Draw one real job you quoted last month and compare the price with what you sent. Start free trial. No credit card required.

The best quoting software for UK tradespeople in 2026. An independent, practical comparison of the leading quoting tools and job management software for UK sole traders and small trade businesses. If you are still producing customer quotes in Microsoft Word, typing numbers into WhatsApp, or calculating estimates on a paper carbon pad, you already know the frustration: quotes take too long to send, follow-ups slip through the cracks, and accepted jobs have to be completely re-typed when it's time to invoice. The UK market is flooded with quoting apps. Some are high-end enterprise systems built for 20-van fleets; others are simple prompt-based AI toys that generate a paragraph of text but leave you with no way to schedule the job or get paid. In this guide, GoTaskhub break down the best quoting software for UK tradespeople in 2026, evaluating pricing, UK tax compliance (VAT & CIS), customer approval features, and the complete quote-to-invoice workflow. Quick Recommendation: Which Software Fits Your Trade? * Best Overall for Sole Traders & Small Teams: GoTaskhub - Unbeatable value (Free plan available, Starter at £19/mo), integrated AI estimating, branded client approval portal, and 1-click quote-to-invoice workflow. * Best for Multi-Van Dispatch & Team Scheduling: Tradify - Powerful GPS fleet tracking and team timesheets, but higher entry price (£35+/user/mo). * Best for Larger Commercial Subcontractors: Fergus - Comprehensive job costing and back-costing for mid-size firms, though steeper learning curve. * Best for Pure AI Text Drafting: Sleepless Tradesman - Fast prompt-to-text generator, but expensive (£29.99-£59.99/mo) and lacks full job workflow depth. What makes great quoting software for UK trades? A great quoting tool should save you time without locking you into a complex system that requires hours of training. When evaluating options, look for these five non-negotiables: