Tradify: What the Base Plan Leaves Out

Tradify’s base plan, Lite, is $47 USD per user per month. The two things the pricing page tells you it leaves out are SmartTools, which Tradify states is “available on our Plus plan only”, and the $14 per user per month of unspecified capability that separates Lite from Plus at $61. Pro sits between them at $51. Everything else the page itemises appears at all three tiers.

Key points

• Tradify publishes three prices on its pricing page: Lite $47 USD per user per month, Pro $51, Plus $61.
• The only feature the page explicitly restricts by tier is SmartTools, which it says is available on the Plus plan only.
• The Lite-to-Plus gap is $14 per user per month, which is $168 per user per year, or $1,344 a year across eight users.
• All three tiers list the same three features on the page: job management with notes and tracking, scheduling with Google Calendar sync, and pricing and markups.
• The pricing page carries a repeated “$12 per month” line under each tier with no label attached to it, so it cannot be interpreted as an add-on price with any confidence.

What does Tradify actually charge per user?

Three per-user monthly figures, all quoted in USD on the vendor’s own pricing page. There is no published annual discount, no published minimum seat count and no published setup fee on that page.

Plan	Published price	What the page says is included
Tradify Lite	$47 USD per user/month	Job management, notes and tracking; scheduling and Google Calendar sync; pricing and markups
Tradify Pro	$51 USD per user/month	Job management, notes and tracking; scheduling and Google Calendar sync; pricing and markups
Tradify Plus	$61 USD per user/month	Job management, notes and tracking; scheduling and Google Calendar sync; pricing and markups, plus SmartTools

Source: Tradify pricing, read 27 August 2026.

Note what that table shows and does not show. The three listed feature bullets are identical across all three tiers, word for word, apart from one wording change: Lite and Pro say “manage margins on materials and jobs” while Plus says “manage markups on materials and jobs”. That is the page’s own text. Whether that is a real functional difference or a typo is not something the page settles, and we are not going to guess.

What does each plan cost at 1, 3, 5 and 8 users?

Multiply the per-user price by seat count, then by twelve for the year. No discounts are published, so the arithmetic is flat.

Users	Lite/month	Pro/month	Plus/month	Lite/year	Pro/year	Plus/year
1	$47	$51	$61	$564	$612	$732
2	$94	$102	$122	$1,128	$1,224	$1,464
3	$141	$153	$183	$1,692	$1,836	$2,196
4	$188	$204	$244	$2,256	$2,448	$2,928
5	$235	$255	$305	$2,820	$3,060	$3,660
6	$282	$306	$366	$3,384	$3,672	$4,392
7	$329	$357	$427	$3,948	$4,284	$5,124
8	$376	$408	$488	$4,512	$4,896	$5,856
10	$470	$510	$610	$5,640	$6,120	$7,320
12	$564	$612	$732	$6,768	$7,344	$8,784
15	$705	$765	$915	$8,460	$9,180	$10,980
20	$940	$1,020	$1,220	$11,280	$12,240	$14,640

Working, using five users on Plus as the example:

• $61 per user per month × 5 users = $305 per month
• $305 × 12 months = $3,660 per year
• Same five users on Lite: $47 × 5 = $235 per month, $2,820 per year
• Annual difference: $3,660 − $2,820 = $840

Assumption stated plainly: this assumes every seat is a paid seat for all twelve months. If you add a winter apprentice for four months, that seat costs four months, not twelve, and the table overstates your spend. Tradify does not publish its seat proration rules on the pricing page, so confirm that before you plan around it.

What does the upgrade actually cost you, per step?

Two axes here: how many users you have, and which upgrade step you are considering. This is the table that decides whether SmartTools is worth it.

Users	Lite → Pro /month	Lite → Pro /year	Pro → Plus /month	Pro → Plus /year	Lite → Plus /month	Lite → Plus /year
1	$4	$48	$10	$120	$14	$168
2	$8	$96	$20	$240	$28	$336
3	$12	$144	$30	$360	$42	$504
4	$16	$192	$40	$480	$56	$672
5	$20	$240	$50	$600	$70	$840
6	$24	$288	$60	$720	$84	$1,008
8	$32	$384	$80	$960	$112	$1,344
10	$40	$480	$100	$1,200	$140	$1,680
15	$60	$720	$150	$1,800	$210	$2,520
20	$80	$960	$200	$2,400	$280	$3,360

The step from Lite to Pro is $4 per user per month, which is the cheapest move on the page. The step from Pro to Plus is $10 per user per month, two and a half times larger, and it is the only step the page attaches a named feature to. So the money question is not “Lite or Plus”. It is “is SmartTools worth $10 per user per month”, because the first $4 buys you something the page does not describe.

How many hours does the upgrade need to save to pay for itself?

Reverse calculation. Take the Lite-to-Plus annual gap from the table above, then divide by an hourly rate to get the number of billed hours the upgrade must free up before it is neutral.

Users	Lite → Plus /year	Hours to break even at $75/hr	At $110/hr	At $150/hr
1	$168	2.2	1.5	1.1
2	$336	4.5	3.1	2.2
3	$504	6.7	4.6	3.4
5	$840	11.2	7.6	5.6
8	$1,344	17.9	12.2	9.0
10	$1,680	22.4	15.3	11.2
15	$2,520	33.6	22.9	16.8
20	$3,360	44.8	30.5	22.4

Working for the five-user row at $110 per hour: $840 ÷ $110 = 7.6 hours per year across the whole crew. That is about 38 minutes per person per year, or roughly three minutes a month each.

Assumption stated plainly: the hourly rates above are illustrative billing rates, not figures from Tradify. They are there so you can find the row nearest your own rate. Tradify publishes no rate data and none is implied. Also, this treats a saved hour as a billable hour, which only holds if you have work waiting to fill it. If your crew is not turnover-constrained, a saved hour is worth your labour cost, not your billing rate, and the break-even hours roughly double.

The point of the table is the scale. Even at twenty users the upgrade needs about 22 to 45 hours a year across the entire business. That is a low bar in absolute terms. It is still not automatically worth paying, because the page does not tell you what SmartTools does in enough detail to predict whether it saves any hours at all.

What does the base plan leave out, precisely?

One named thing: SmartTools. Tradify’s pricing page states “Just Landed: SmartTools. Work smarter, not harder! Available on our Plus plan only.”

That is the entire published tier restriction. The page does not publish a feature matrix showing which of its other listed capabilities sit on which plan. Tradify’s site lists these features across the product generally, not per tier: quoting, estimating, customer inquiries, instant website, scheduling, timesheets, subcontractor management, job tracking, invoicing, online payments and SmartTools.

So the honest statement is this. The pricing page confirms SmartTools is Plus-only. It does not confirm that quoting, timesheets, invoicing, online payments, subcontractor management or the instant website are available on Lite. It also does not confirm they are excluded. If any one of those is load-bearing for your electrical business, that is a question for Tradify’s sales team, and you should get the answer in writing before you sign up at the Lite price.

What could not be verified?

Several things, and they matter more than the parts that checked out.

The “$12 per month” line. The pricing page carries a line reading “$12 per month” under each of the three tiers, and twice under Plus. No label attaches it to a product, a user count or an add-on. It could be an add-on seat type, a module, or a rendering artefact of the page. We are not going to assign it a meaning. Do not budget for it and do not assume it is absent; ask.

Per-plan feature matrix. Beyond SmartTools, the page does not state which features belong to which tier. Every conclusion above about what Lite “leaves out” is therefore limited to SmartTools plus $14 per user per month of unspecified difference.

Annual billing discount. No annual price is published. The three figures are monthly, per user. If Tradify offers a discount for paying yearly, it is not on this page, and the annual columns in our tables are simple monthly figures times twelve.

Payment processing fees. Tradify lists Stripe as an accounting add-on and lists online payments as a feature. It publishes no card processing percentage or per-transaction fee on the pricing page. Any figure you see quoted elsewhere for Tradify card fees did not come from this page. Processing costs are typically set by the payment provider, not the software, so budget them separately and get the rate from the processor.

Minimum seats, contract length, cancellation terms. None published on the pricing page.

Currency and tax. Prices are marked USD. Whether sales tax is added at checkout is not stated.

We could not identify any vendor whose pricing we needed and failed to verify: this article uses one vendor, Tradify, and its published prices were readable in full.

Two things people get wrong about Tradify’s pricing

Misconception one: “the base plan is the cheap way in, so start there and upgrade later.” The arithmetic makes the first upgrade almost free. Lite to Pro is $4 per user per month. For a three-person shop that is $12 a month, $144 a year, less than the cost of one call-out. If Pro contains anything you will want within the year, starting on Lite to save $144 is a false economy, and you will have spent the difference in switching friction. The step that carries real money is Pro to Plus at $10 per user per month, and that is the one worth deliberating over.

Misconception two: “per-user pricing means I only pay for my field techs.” Per-user means per seat, and office staff who need to raise invoices or schedule work need seats too. A three-electrician business with one person doing the books is four seats, not three. That is $188 a month on Lite rather than $141, and $244 rather than $183 on Plus. The difference over a year is $564 on Lite and $732 on Plus, which is the same as adding a whole extra sole trader’s subscription. Count your seats before you compare Tradify against anything else, and count them the same way for both products.

When these figures will be wrong for you

If Tradify changes its prices. These are the numbers published on 27 August 2026. Software pricing moves. Check the live page before you commit.

If you are outside the US. The page quotes USD and Tradify lists a Delaware registered address, but it also has a regions selector. Prices in other currencies may not be a straight conversion of these figures.

If you do not need twelve months of every seat. Seasonal crews change the annual maths substantially. A shop that runs five seats in summer and three in winter is not paying the five-seat annual figure in our table.

If the unlabelled $12 line turns out to be a real per-user charge. In the worst reading, $12 per user per month on top of $47 would make Lite $59 per user per month, close to the published Plus price. That would invert the entire upgrade calculation. We do not believe that is what the line means, but we cannot rule it out from the page, which is exactly why you should ask.

If you rely on a feature the page does not tier. If quoting or timesheets turn out to be Pro-and-above, the Lite column in our cost tables stops being a real option for you and the relevant comparison becomes Pro versus Plus, a $10 per user per month gap rather than $14.

What to check before you buy

Use the 14-day free trial that Tradify says includes all the features. That is the only way to see SmartTools without paying the Plus price, and it is the single largest unknown in this comparison.

Before the trial ends, get written answers on five points:

1. Which plan includes quoting, invoicing, timesheets, online payments, subcontractor management and the instant website. The pricing page does not say.
2. What the “$12 per month” line on the pricing page refers to, and whether it applies to your account.
3. Whether there is an annual billing discount, and what it is as a percentage.
4. What happens to a seat you remove mid-cycle: refund, credit, or nothing until renewal.
5. What card processing costs you will actually pay through Stripe, taken from Stripe’s own published rates rather than from Tradify.

Then run your own seat count through the tables above. Find your row, take the annual figure, and compare it against what you pay now including the hours your current process burns. If you are at three seats, the whole decision is a $504-a-year spread between the cheapest and most expensive plan. If you are at fifteen, it is $2,520, and it deserves proportionally more scrutiny.

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