We don't hide from
the competition
Directories, job software, lead marketplaces — here's how ServicePay.uk stacks up against the tools UK tradespeople actually use.
What the table cannot show
Four things none of them do at all
Three of the four can quote, and two of them can invoice — that part is a commodity now. What none of them do is treat the kit you own as something worth recording.
Your tools on a register
Serial numbers, receipts, purchase price and which van it is in — the things an insurer asks for and nobody has to hand. With a warning before a tester goes out of calibration.
>A tag anyone can scan
QR or NFC on any tool, van, ladder or panel. No app and no login, so a buyer, a site manager or an officer can check it from any phone. Unlimited tags, never charged per tag.
>A break-in becomes paperwork
One crime reference, tick what has gone, and you have the itemised list the officer asks for and the priced schedule the insurer asks for. Ninety seconds, not an evening.
>Certificates that chase themselves
Gas safety records, EICRs, EPCs and alarm checks tracked against the property that needs them — and it tells you what is missing, not just what you hold.
At a glance
Two of these are lead marketplaces and two are job software, so they are not like-for-like — the rows say what each one actually does. Tap any column for the full breakdown.
Competitor pricing re-checked against their own sites on 2026-08-20 · how we award ✓ ~ ×
From getting the job to proving the work, getting paid and winning the next one.
| Feature | CheckatradeDirectoryFree, £30/mo, from £59/mo | JobberField-service softwareFrom $49/mo — priced in USD | TradifyTrade software£34–£44 per user/mo | MyBuilderLead marketplaceFee per shortlist, shown up front | ServicePayUK trade platform£39/mo flat |
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| Getting found and getting leadsGet found and bring work in.Two of these are marketplaces. Two are software. They are not trying to do the same job. | |||||
| Listed in a public directorySomewhere a homeowner searches | Yes | No | No | Yes | YesGotAPal |
| Homeowner brand recognitionWhether the public has heard of it | Yesa household name | Nosells to trades | Nosells to trades | Yesnational marketplace | Nowe are new — this is theirs |
| What a lead costs youPer job, or per month | Yesflat membership | Nonot a lead source | Nonot a lead source | Yesshown before contact is shared | Yesno per-lead charge |
| Standalone business websiteA site of your own, not a profile page | Noprofile page only | Yesincluded, all plans | Yes£10/mo add-on | Noprofile page only | Yesfed by your jobs |
| Quotes, jobs and moneyQuote it, deliver it, invoice it, collect it.The commodity layer. Most of these do most of it — the differences are in the detail. | |||||
| QuotingBuild and send a priced quote | Yesfree in the app | Yes | Yes | PartialQuote Tool, nothing round it | Yes |
| InvoicingVAT, numbering, chasing | Yesfree in the app | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Take a card paymentBuilt in, not bolted on | Yes1.29–1.79% | Yes1.4% + 20p | Yes1.7% + 20p inc VAT | No | Yes2.9% + £1, or your own Stripe |
| Staged and deposit invoicingTake a deposit, bill in stages | No | Yesprogress invoicing | YesPro and above | No | Yes |
| A customer portalSomewhere they log in, not a link | No | YesClient Hub | Noemailed links only | No | Yes |
| Priced in poundsWhat you are billed in, not what you invoice in | Yes | NoUSD only, no UK price list | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Team, scheduling and the roadGet the right person there with the right kit.Where a bigger, older product has had longer to build things out. | |||||
| UK text messagingTwo-way, to a UK number | Partialin-app messaging | Yesselected plans, no MMS | Yes10p per message | No | Yesincluded |
| Vehicle GPS trackingWhere the van is, live | No | Yesvia fleet integrations | No | No | Nonot built — theirs is better |
| Third-party app marketplacePlugging in tools we did not build | No | Yeslarge app marketplace | PartialXero, Sage, QuickBooks | No | Partiala short list, honestly |
| Your tools, your van, and what happens when they goKnow what you own and where it is.None of the other four treat the kit you own as something worth recording. | |||||
| A register of the tools you ownOnly hereSerials, receipts, what it cost | No | Nono equipment register | Nocustom fields only | No | Yesunlimited |
| Scannable asset tagsQR or NFC, on the tool itself | No | No | No | No | Yesnever charged per tag |
| Turn a break-in into a claimOnly hereCrime reference, itemised list, priced | No | No | No | No | Yesin about ninety seconds |
| What is on the van right nowStock by location, not one big pile | No | Nothird-party app only | No | No | Yes |
| Compliance and the property itselfKnow what is valid, missing or due.Issuing a certificate is common. Knowing what a property is still missing is not. | |||||
| Issue a safety certificateGas, electrical, building regs | No | No | YesPro and above | No | Yes |
| Track what a property is missingOnly hereNot what you hold — what has expired | No | No | Nono per-property status | No | Yes |
| CIS and the VAT reverse chargeDomestic reverse charge on a construction invoice | No | Nogeneric tax rates only | Partialvia Xero or Sage only | No | Yesbuilt in |
| A landlord or agent portalThey see their properties, not your business | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Reviews and reputationTurn finished work into what wins the next job.Two separate questions: is a review tied to real work, and who controls the record. | |||||
| Review linked to a paid job recordNot just 'we asked a customer' — attached to the payment | Partialvetting, not job-linked | Partialrequests, not verification | Nono review feature | Partiallinked to a shortlist | Yestied to the paid job |
| Who controls the review recordIf you leave, does it come with you | Noperpetual licence to them | Yesyour own account | Nonothing to own | Noperpetual licence to them | Yesyours, and portable |
Every one of these is a good product at what it was built for. ServicePay connects the commercial side of a job — the quote, the schedule, the money — to the physical things that job depends on: the tools that do the work, the van they live in, and the certificates that prove it was done properly. None of the others joins those two halves. Where one of them does something well, it gets the tick — Tradify issues UK gas and electrical certificates, Jobber does progress invoicing and ships a website on every plan, Checkatrade quotes and invoices for free inside its app.
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Quoting → Jobs → Invoicing → Payments
£39
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14-day trial · connected website available
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lead fees
No pay-per-lead charges, ever
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you own your reviews
Verified against a paid job, and yours to keep
Detailed comparisons
What each one is actually good at, and where we differ. Every figure came off their own site on 2026-08-20.
Homeowner visibility and trust at national scale.
Discovery and trust vs the whole operation
Checkatrade is genuinely good at being found and at reputation, and it now quotes and invoices free inside its own app. ServicePay goes further down the other end: your assets, your compliance record and your own acquisition channel, all attached to the job.
Choose Checkatrade if your biggest problem is being found, not running the work.
Full comparison →Mature field-service software with deep automation and a large integration ecosystem.
Mature field-service software vs UK-built
Jobber is excellent, proven software — a website on every plan, UK card payments at 1.4% + 20p, UK two-way texting on selected plans. ServicePay is UK trade-specific, and joins tool identity, theft response and property compliance into the same workflow.
Choose Jobber if you want the bigger integration ecosystem and proven field-service automation.
Full comparison →Established UK trade job management with mature quoting, scheduling and accounting integrations.
Strong UK job management vs the wider estate
Tradify does UK trade job management well, including gas and electrical certificates and an optional £10 website. ServicePay differs on flat team pricing, physical asset identity, the theft workflow, and knowing what a property is still missing.
Choose Tradify if you want proven per-user UK trade software with strong Xero and Sage integration.
Full comparison →A working lead marketplace with pay-per-shortlist economics and no membership fee.
Winning the lead vs owning what happens next
MyBuilder is a strong lead marketplace with a free quote tool, and the fee is shown before contact details are exchanged. ServicePay is about everything after the lead — the job, the money, the kit and the record.
Choose MyBuilder if you mainly need another stream of marketplace leads when the diary is empty.
Full comparison →Choose ServicePay if you want to run the job and also connect vans, assets, compliance, payments and reputation.
Try what the table means
Don’t take our word for the unusual rows
The three rows nobody else ticks are the three hardest to believe. All of them are live on the feature pages, with working demos rather than screenshots.
Before you ask
Fair questions about these comparisons
Are these comparisons fair?
We only make claims we can point at. Where a competitor publishes a price we quote their published figure and say how it is billed. Checkatrade publishes three tiers, Tradify publishes per-user pricing, Jobber publishes in dollars and has no UK price list, and MyBuilder charges a variable fee it shows you before contact details are exchanged. Where a figure is a range or a typical case we say so rather than quoting it as a fixed price. Every figure on these pages was re-checked against the competitor's own site on the date shown above.
Why are lead marketplaces and job software on the same table?
Because tradespeople genuinely weigh them against each other. Someone with £100 a month to spend is choosing between buying leads and running their business properly. The table labels which category each one is in so the comparison stays honest.
What can ServicePay do that none of the others can?
The honest answer is that no single row on that table is magic — it is the combination. Jobber does progress invoicing; Tradify issues gas and electrical certificates; Checkatrade quotes and invoices free inside its app. What none of them join up is this, and it all comes from one idea: your own kit and your own paperwork are worth recording. A tool and equipment register with serial numbers and receipts. Scannable QR or NFC tags on anything, never charged per tag. A break-in turned into an itemised police list and a priced insurance schedule in about ninety seconds. Property compliance tracked against what is missing, not just what you hold. And a portal for the letting agent who keeps chasing you. Five things, not seven — staged invoicing and CIS both exist elsewhere in some form, and the table says so.
Is ServicePay cheaper?
Not always, and we would rather say so. ServicePay Pro is £39 a month with three team members included and extra seats at £9. If you are a sole trader who only needs quoting and invoicing, cheaper tools exist. The gap opens up when you add a website, card payments, reviews, SMS and the asset and compliance side, because with the others those are separate line items or simply not available.
Do I have to leave Checkatrade or MyBuilder to use ServicePay?
No. Plenty of trades run ServicePay alongside a directory listing while their own pipeline builds up. ServicePay does not charge per lead, so keeping both costs you nothing extra on our side.
How often are these pages checked?
Every quarter, and immediately whenever a competitor changes their pricing publicly. The date stamp above the table is the last time a human re-read every competitor's own pricing page.
We're not trying to replace everything
Checkatrade is great for visibility. MyBuilder can kickstart your pipeline. Jobber and Tradify are solid operational tools. But none of them give you the complete picture — a professional website, quoting, job management, invoicing, card payments, automated reviews, and a customer portal, all in one UK-built platform.
ServicePay.uk isn't the biggest. We're the most complete for UK tradespeople who want to run their business properly — from the first enquiry to getting paid.
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