What is the best Joblogic alternative in the UK?

It depends what you want more of. Tradehand suits a trade chasing more booked work: £0 a month, 5% of what Tradehand collects after the fee-free allowance. Tradify for accounting sync, Powered Now for certificates, Joblogic for multi-site maintenance.

Why do UK trades leave Joblogic?

Joblogic is priced per user per month, billed annually, so you commit a year at a time. Planned maintenance, route scheduling and the customer portal sit on Joblogic's higher tiers.

Does Joblogic answer the phone?

Yes. Joblogic sells an Out-of-Hours Helpdesk where UK agents answer in your company's name and log the job into Joblogic, plus a VoIP phone system. The difference: Joblogic's helpdesk is a staffed service bought on top. Tradehand answers every call itself, instantly, included.

Is Tradehand cheaper than Joblogic?

Tradehand earns 5% of collected invoice payments after the fee-free allowance and nothing else, so a quiet month costs nothing. Joblogic charges per user per month, billed annually, paid or not.

Can I move my data from Joblogic to Tradehand?

Tradehand imports your customers and price list, and a person does it for you. Tradehand does not import historic jobs or issued certificates, so export those from Joblogic.

Does Tradehand do certificates like Joblogic?

Tradehand includes ten certificate types free, signed and countersigned from your phone, and writes the job report up from the trader's notes. Joblogic goes deeper, tying gas and F-Gas compliance to asset history.

Can Tradehand handle planned maintenance contracts?

Partly. Tradehand puts repeat customers on recurring service plans, covering annual services and landlord gas checks. Tradehand has no PPM module and no SLA tracking, so Joblogic fits multi-site planned work better.

How does Tradehand win me more work?

Tradehand answers every call and message instantly and chases the customers who go quiet, including ones you never quoted. The day optimiser reassigns jobs between traders to cut driving, and booked times never move.

Joblogic alternative UK

The Joblogic alternative for UK trades who want more work, not more system.

Joblogic is good software, badly matched to a small firm. It is sold per user, billed annually, and the parts most buyers wanted sit on the tiers above. Stay if you run planned maintenance across sites. Leave if the problem is a quiet phone.

Blake FolgadoCo-founder, Tradehand

Published 25 July 2026

The short answer

Job management software gets judged on how fast you clear admin. Wrong scoreboard when the diary is thin. Better question: which of these four wins you more work?

Why Tradehand only earns after you have been paid

Those tiers are trying to do a person's job: answering, quoting, booking, chasing. So the honest comparison is a person, not a price list.

An office admin

£25,000 /year

Starter UK office-manager salary, before NI and pension. Paid whether or not the invoices land.

Source: Office manager salary

Tradehand

£0 /month

No monthly fee, no setup fee, no add-ons. 5% of what Tradehand collects for you after the fee-free allowance.

Salary: National Careers Service. Joblogic bills per user, annually, and notes an onboarding fee in some cases. Tradify and Powered Now bill per user too, so the bill climbs when you hire.

Side by side

	Tradehand	Joblogic
Answering the phone while you are on the toolsSource: Joblogic helpdesk	TradehandIncluded. Answers instantly, quotes, books	JoblogicStaffed UK helpdesk, bought separately
Chasing the customer who went quietSource: Joblogic features	TradehandChases quiet leads, even unquoted ones	JoblogicNot marketed on its features pages
Keeping the customer updatedSource: Joblogic customer alerts	TradehandSMS, email, voice, live ETA on the job link	JoblogicCustomer Alerts by SMS, email, portal, post
Turning one-off jobs into repeat revenueSource: Joblogic pricing	TradehandRecurring service plans, billed automatically	JoblogicPPM contracts, Premium tier up
Certificates for the job just finishedSource: Joblogic features	TradehandTen types, free, signed and countersigned	JoblogicGas and F-Gas, tied to asset history
Depth for a multi-site maintenance contractorSource: Joblogic features	TradehandNo PPM module, SLA engine or asset register	JoblogicAssets, certificate trail, SLAs, audits, stock
How the bill worksSource: Joblogic pricing	Tradehand5% of invoices collected. Quiet month, nothing	JoblogicPer user per month, billed annually

A Tuesday

The same missed call, handled without your phone.

Joblogic runs the maintenance contract beautifully once you have won it. This page is about who wins it, and that work gets done by an office admin, by you at nine at night, or by your assistant.

So which should you pick?

Stay on Joblogic if…

·You run planned maintenance with several engineers
·You need asset history with a self-updating certificate trail
·You have an office and a contracts manager

Choose Tradify if…

·You want Xero and QuickBooks Online sync on every plan
·You want per-user software a team picks up fast
·You need timesheets and purchase orders higher up

Choose Powered Now if…

·Digital forms and certificates on Professional cover your work
·You want its quote and invoice chasing, on Premium
·You will buy its AI Receptionist separately

Choose Tradehand if…

✓Your problem is a thin diary, not a shallow asset record
✓You want calls and messages answered, quoted, booked and chased for you
✓You want service customers on repeat plans, certificates free
✓You want the day planned: parking per job, parts run overnight
✓You would rather pay nothing in a quiet month

Where Joblogic beats us, and not narrowly: PPM contracts, SLA scheduling, asset history with a certificate trail that updates itself, audits, stock and five accounting integrations. For a contracting business with planned maintenance obligations, that depth is the right buy.

Leaving Joblogic without losing your compliance history

Do not switch cold. Run both, keep Joblogic as the record of certificates already issued, cancel at renewal.

Day 1
Export customers, sites and prices
Export customers, sites, pricing, issued certificates and asset history from Joblogic. Tradehand does not import historic jobs.
Day 1
We do the import for you
A person at Tradehand imports your customers and price list, then sets up your number, rates and diary.
Day 2 to 7
Run both, judge it on jobs won
Missed calls forward to Tradehand, which answers, quotes and books as your business. Count calls answered, invoices paid.

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