# Fergus

> Job management for trade businesses, from a New Zealand company

Fergus is job management software for trade businesses such as electricians, plumbers, builders, HVAC and roofing contractors, made by a company based in Auckland, New Zealand. Job cards carry each job from quote through scheduling, timesheets, materials and purchase orders to the invoice, with an app for the crew. It is billed monthly per full user, and cheaper timesheet-only users cover site staff.

- **Category:** Field Service Software
- **Made by:** Fergus
- **Website:** https://fergus.com/us/
- **Runs on:** Web, iOS
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 18, 2026

## Pricing

Fergus is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $31 per full user / month and up, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Basic | $31 per full user / month and up, billed monthly | Called Essentials in the FAQ. Job cards, quotes, scheduling, timesheets and invoicing, with email and chat support. Shown at $5.30 under a 90% offer. |
| Professional | $44 per full user / month and up, billed monthly | Marked most popular and aimed at growing the business; adds phone support. Shown at $7.50 under the offer running until December. |
| Enterprise | Custom | A custom plan for businesses with more than 10 staff, arranged through sales. |

Read from https://fergus.com/us/pricing/ on Oct 18, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Fergus before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **90% off until December** (Other savings): A limited offer on the pricing page takes 90% off until December; the US page shows Basic at $5.30 and Professional at $7.50 a month under it. Source: https://fergus.com/us/pricing/

## Key features

- **Quotes and price books:** Build quotes and estimates from price books with tiered pricing, and pull in supplier prices and invoices through supplier integrations.
- **Job cards:** Each job card keeps notes, files, photos, materials and job phases together, from the first enquiry to sign-off with the customer's signature.
- **Scheduling and timesheets:** A calendar schedules jobs and crew, GPS tracking shows where staff are, and timesheets feed job costs and pay summaries.
- **Invoicing and payments:** Invoice from the job card, take card payments through Fergus Pay, raise purchase orders, and sync with Xero, QuickBooks or MYOB.
- **Certificates and safety forms:** Pre-filled gas and electrical certificates, hazard records and safe work method statements are kept with each job; certificates cost extra.
- **AI assistants:** Fergus Assistant answers questions about jobs, costs and numbers, and the mobile assistant lets staff type or speak on site to update jobs and time.

## Good for

- Electrical and plumbing businesses that track materials and costs per job
- Trades that need gas or electrical certificates and safety forms
- Teams mixing office users with cheaper timesheet-only site staff

## Worth knowing

- Billed monthly only, per full user; timesheet users start at $26 a month and contractor users cost $2.50 a day.
- Certificates cost $30 for 1–9 staff or $80 for 10+, texts $15 per 100, and card payments 2.95% + $0.30 each.
- Basic comes with email and chat support only; phone support needs Professional.
- The 90% offer runs until December, but the $5.30 and $7.50 it shows match the New Zealand prices, not 90% off the US ones.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 18, 2026. Fergus carries each job from quote to invoice on one job card, with timesheets, materials, purchase orders and gas and electrical certificates, which suits electricians and plumbers. Be careful with the price: it's $31 per full user billed monthly, and the 90% offer on its US page shows figures that don't add up.

- **Value for money: C.** Basic is $31 per full user a month, billed monthly only, so three of you pay $93 ($83 if two only need timesheets at $26). That's mid-pack here. The 90% offer shows $5.30, which matches the New Zealand price, not 90% off the US one, so we graded the full price.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A 14-day trial with no card needed. No free plan.
- **Features: B.** Quotes from price books, job cards from enquiry to sign-off, crew scheduling with GPS, timesheets that feed job costs, invoices, purchase orders and Fergus Pay, plus gas and electrical certificates. The whole job, though certificates cost extra.
- **Ease of use: C.** No App Store rating on record for it. Price books, supplier links and certificates take some setting up before the job cards pay off.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and iPhone, with Xero, QuickBooks, MYOB, Zapier and Groundplan. There's no Android app in its listing, which matters if your crew carries Android phones.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Fergus's own pages on 18 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among field service apps

- Fergus's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 6 of the 15 other field service apps we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on features (B, above 7 of 15) and worst on ease of use (C, above 1).
- Its paid plans start at $31 a month for each person, against a middle price of $49 for the category: 3 of the 10 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 3 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/field-service

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** The plain part of Fergus you could make: job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing and time tracking. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It costs $372 a year.

- You could make: Job scheduling, quotes and estimates, invoicing and time tracking: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: A real app for iOS. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB among them.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Xero, QuickBooks, MYOB, Zapier, Groundplan

**Tags:** Job scheduling, Quotes and estimates, Invoicing, Time tracking, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Tradify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tradify): Job management for trade businesses, priced per user. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fergus-vs-tradify)
- [ServiceM8](https://toolgpa.com/tools/servicem8): Job management for trades, priced by jobs a month, not users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fergus-vs-servicem8)
- [Jobber](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jobber): Quotes, scheduling and payments for home service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fergus-vs-jobber)
- [Housecall Pro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/housecall-pro): Scheduling, quotes and payments for home service businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fergus-vs-housecall-pro)
- [Joist](https://toolgpa.com/tools/joist): Estimates, invoices and payments app for solo contractors. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fergus-vs-joist)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 18, 2026:

- https://fergus.com/us/pricing/
- https://fergus.com/pricing/
- https://fergus.com/us/
- https://fergus.com/us/features/on-the-job/
- https://fergus.com/us/accounting-partners/
- https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fergus-go/id1484018778

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/fergus
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