Switching from Ascora
Looking for a Ascora alternative?
Ascora is priced per user and aimed at contractors with 5 to 50 technicians. Crewzy is priced once for the business, with up to 20 active crew a month included and $10 a month for each one above that who worked. Both do progress claims and retention, and both work offline. Here is a fair comparison.
Who Ascora suits
- Ascora says it is built for trade businesses with 5 to 50 technicians running complex work, in trades such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing and construction.
- It has Essentials, Elite and Enterprise plans, priced per user each month, with a 14-day free trial, no credit card and no lock-in contract.
- Its pricing page lists progress claims and retentions on every plan, project stages on Elite and Enterprise, offline mode for its mobile app, and sync with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks.
- It offers to migrate your data from a CSV or flat file.
- It suits a growing contractor that wants MYOB or QuickBooks as well as Xero, and where per-user pricing works for the team.
Where Crewzy is different
- One price for the whole business: up to 20 active crew a month are included, and only workers above that who worked in the month are charged.
- Each progress claim prints your state's security of payment statement, and the builder's payment schedule and RCTI are tracked against it.
- Plans start with a sole trader, at $49 a month for the business.
Crewzy and Ascora side by side
What Ascora's own pages said when we read them on 27 October 2026.
| Topic | Crewzy | Ascora, from its own pages |
|---|---|---|
| How it is priced | One price for the business, from $49 to $249 a month in Australia, GST included. Up to 20 active crew a month are included on every plan; each active worker above 20 is $10 a month, up to 50, with a quoted plan past that. You also pay for office logins (1, 3, 10 included, more at $10 a month each). | Per user, per month, on each plan, with Enterprise priced for the team. Its pricing page did not say whether prices include GST. |
| Free trial | 30 days with everything switched on. No card needed. | 14 days, no credit card. |
| Projects and claims | Projects with stages, variations, progress claims that print your state's security of payment statement, payment schedules, RCTIs and a retention ledger, from $99 a month on Connected. | Progress claims and retentions on every plan, and project stages on Elite and Enterprise. |
| Working offline | The crew app works with no signal on Android and iPhone, and syncs when back in range. It installs from the browser. | Offline mode for mobile on every plan. |
| Accounting | Xero: invoices, payments both ways, credit notes, supplier bills and contacts go across by themselves. | Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks. |
Moving from Ascora
- Export your customers, price list and jobs from the old system as CSV files.
- In Crewzy, open Settings, Import, and pick what each file holds. The columns are matched for you, and you can point any field at a different column.
- Bring customers in first, then sites and jobs, so they link up. Unpaid invoices come across as the balance still owed, and are never posted to your books a second time.
- Check the summary. The last import can be undone if something looks wrong.
- Photos, notes and forms usually do not export in bulk, so keep a final PDF of any open job you need them for.
- Bring in your data, in the help centre
- How to switch from Tradify or ServiceM8
- Job sheets and timesheets: what to record
- How to get paid faster
Where these facts come from
Read on 27 October 2026. Prices and features change, so check Ascora's current pages too.
Tradify, ServiceM8, Fergus, Simpro, AroFlo, Ascora, NextMinute are trademarks of their owners. Crewzy is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, any of them.
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Free 30-minute setup call, and we'll bring your data across
From Tradify, Fergus, ServiceM8 or a spreadsheet. On the call we set up your business, price list and crew with you, and answer your questions.
Export your customers, sites, jobs, price list and unpaid invoices as CSV files and we bring them in with you. Unpaid invoices come across as the balance still owed. Photos, notes and forms do not export in bulk from most apps, so they stay behind.
To book, email hello@getcrewzy.com with a day and time that suits and the app you are moving from.
Try Crewzy alongside Ascora for a month
30 days free with everything included. Up to 20 active crew a month are included on every plan.
Free 30-minute setup call, and we'll bring your data across from Tradify, Fergus, ServiceM8 or a spreadsheet.