Comparison
When organizing the work is no longer enough.
A task board can show that work is done. An ERP can run almost every department. Spanstead does something narrower: it keeps the customer, property, fieldwork, costs, invoice, payment, and margin connected from the first call to the last.
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General work platforms organize activity.
They are excellent for projects, tasks, documents, chat, and flexible team processes. A service company can build customers, jobs, stock, and invoices out of custom fields, but somebody still has to design and maintain the rules that connect them.
ERP suites run the broad back office.
They are the right choice when the general ledger, manufacturing, payroll, or a big app marketplace matters more than a field crew's day. That breadth usually means a longer setup and more decisions before the system fits the work.
Spanstead runs the service transaction.
Customers, properties, estimates, scheduled work, crew time, materials, proof, invoices, payments, and job margin are all connected records. The workflow is already built, because the product knows what a service job is.
It does not have to replace everything.
Keep a general work platform for company projects if it already works for you. Keep QuickBooks for accounting and your payroll provider for withholding and filing. Spanstead is the record for the work that earns the money.
If you mainly need project management, choose a work platform. If you need full accounting or manufacturing, choose an ERP. Choose Spanstead when the job itself is what keeps breaking between systems.
Side by side
Compare the workflows you need.
Availability depends on the plan and configuration. Spanstead’s public Booking Channel is a paid add-on on Growth and Enterprise. Use this overview to identify what to check in a walkthrough.
Features vary by plan. A dash means not verified, not unavailable. Check the provider’s current offering. Jobber time tracking: official documentation (September 12, 2026).
| Capability | Spanstead Works | Jobber | Housecall Pro | FieldRoutes | Workiz | CompanyCam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduling, dispatch & job management | ||||||
| Estimates, invoicing & payments | ||||||
| Recurring service & route optimization | ||||||
| Customer portal | ||||||
| Online booking against live availability | ||||||
| Job photos tied to the job record | ||||||
| Job checklists | ||||||
| Revenue, hours & margin per person | ||||||
| Shareable photo report for a customer or adjuster | ||||||
| Win/loss reasons on lost bids, and who you lost to | ||||||
| Inventory & purchase orders | ||||||
| Equipment & vehicle records | ||||||
| Equipment fault notes, raised on site and tracked to resolution | ||||||
| Vehicle safety recall tracking (NHTSA) | ||||||
| Worker records & employment history | ||||||
| Timecards built from job time | ||||||
| Holidays, leave & accruals | ||||||
| Hiring, onboarding & policy sign-off | ||||||
| Credential tracking & expiry |
Reporting
Six questions, answered on one page.
Most reporting tells you what happened. What an owner needs at the end of the month is narrower: which jobs paid, which people earned, and whether the price you put on the last one was close.
Did I actually make money last month?
Three numbers, not one: what you collected, what you invoiced, and what you gave up chasing. Each is counted on its own date. A month where you invoiced $40,000 and banked $9,000 is not a good month, and one blended revenue line is how it ends up looking like one.
Am I quoting these jobs anywhere near right?
Every estimated job compares what you quoted against what it cost to deliver. If you are always eighteen percent light on labor, that stops being a feeling and becomes a number, with the worst jobs listed by name so you can go and look at them.
Why did we lose that one?
Every lost bid can record why, who won it, and what they charged. Over a quarter that turns “we’re too expensive” into something you can act on: which work you are pricing over the market, by how much, and who keeps taking it.
Which of my people are earning their day?
Hours, jobs completed, and revenue per person, built from the same job time that feeds their timecards. Nobody retypes anything, and the hours in reports are the hours you pay. Revenue per hour sits next to raw hours, because the two say different things about the same person.
Which work is worth taking on?
Revenue, cost, and margin grouped by service. The job type that fills the calendar and the job type that pays for the van are often not the same one, and you cannot see that until income is grouped the way spending already is.
Can I trust the number in front of me?
Each figure tells you what it counted and on which date. Where something is an estimate rather than a measurement, the page says so on the figure itself. An invoice covering three jobs has to be split across them somehow. The page is also plain that this is a management view for decisions, not a tax return.
The arithmetic
Most shops are paying for four or five of these.
Not because they want to, but because no single product covered the whole day. Here is what that stack usually costs, and what it looks like when it is one subscription instead.
Spanstead Works, from $99 a month.
Essentials covers three people and includes People Core, inventory, recurring work, fleet, and email campaigns. Growth covers eight and adds Advanced HR and larger usage allowances. Both are one bill, one login, and one set of records. Learning & Compliance is a separate add-on until Enterprise.
Seat overages apply above each plan’s included headcount, and the pricing page has the exact figures. Stack costs are typical published ranges for each category of tool, compiled August 2026. Check them against your own invoices, which is the only comparison that matters.
Ready when you are
Run your next job on one system.
Start with the customer and finish with the payment, the costs, and the margin still attached to the job.