Can StreamsApp replace Tradify?

StreamsApp does not include scheduling, timesheets, job costing or purchase orders. It does stop jobs closing without the evidence they need, and runs processes that are not jobs at all.

StreamsApp runs alongside other tools: it imports CSV and has an inbound API. It suits the processes that need enforcing, like compliance sign-off, warranty claims or staff onboarding.

Can I bring my Tradify customers across?

Export them to CSV and import them into Contacts, mapping the columns to fields.

StreamsApp compared with Tradify

Tradify manages trade jobs. StreamsApp enforces a process

StreamsApp starts from a different place to Tradify. You write the process as stages, decide what each stage has to produce, and the job cannot move on until it has. It is not trade-specific, so it runs processes that are not jobs as readily as the jobs themselves.

Side by side

Product features change. Check anything here against Tradify before you decide. Tradify prices and limits checked on 20 October 2026.

Can a stage refuse a job until something is attached?

Tradify: Jobs move through statuses. We could not confirm from Tradify's own pages whether a status change can be blocked until a field is filled, so ask them.
StreamsApp: Yes, where you switch it on. Mark a field required at a stage and the job stays put until it has a value, and the person is told what is missing.

Can it run things that are not jobs?

Tradify: It is built for trade jobs, with health and safety and compliance forms from Pro.
StreamsApp: Yes. Any repeatable process gets its own stream: onboarding, inspections, claims, a sales pipeline, each with its own stages and fields.

Scheduling and timesheets?

Tradify: Scheduling on every plan, with Google Calendar sync. Timesheets and subcontractor scheduling from Pro.
StreamsApp: No. Neither is built.

Phone app?

Tradify: iPhone, iPad and Android apps.
StreamsApp: Any phone browser, nothing to install. Needs a connection; no offline mode.

Quotes, invoices and accounting?

Tradify: Built in, with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks Online sync on every plan. Online quote acceptance and progress invoicing from Pro.
StreamsApp: Built in on every plan, including Free, with GST, online quote acceptance and sync to Xero or QuickBooks. No card payments on invoices.

Can customers follow their own job?

Tradify: Online and card payments on every plan. Appointment reminders and an enquiry form from Pro.
StreamsApp: A customer portal with no password: a private link in your emails shows each customer their own jobs step by step and only the fields you choose, and they can reply from the page.

Is there a free plan?

Tradify: No. A 14-day free trial.
StreamsApp: Yes. Two users, every plugin, no card and no time limit.

How is it priced?

Tradify: Per user per month, AUD ex GST: Lite $48, Pro $52, Plus $62. Custom on request.
StreamsApp: Per organisation, AUD a month: Basic $29 for 5 users, Standard $79 for 20, Pro $199 for 50.

What it costs a team of five

Five people on Tradify Pro is 5 x $52 = $260 AUD a month ex GST. StreamsApp Basic covers the same five for $29. At twenty people, Tradify Pro is $1,040 a month ex GST and StreamsApp Standard is $79.

That gap is real, but it is not like for like. Part of what you pay Tradify for is scheduling, timesheets and job costing, which StreamsApp does not have. Tradify's numbers are from its own pricing page on the date shown above.

Where a gate earns its keep

The jobs that cost money are rarely the ones nobody did. They are the ones that were nearly done: closed without the compliance certificate, invoiced without the variation signed off, handed over without the photos.

A stage with a required field turns each of those into something the software checks rather than something someone remembers. You choose which stages do it. The rest let jobs straight through.

How much of this you switch on is up to you

Nothing here is required until you say so. A new stream starts with no requirements at all, and a stage that asks for nothing lets a job straight through.

Most businesses end up running both kinds side by side. A compliance job can insist on the slab certificate, so it cannot reach the frame stage without one. A sales enquiry in the same account can have nothing required at all, because chasing a lead is not a process and a rule there is only friction.

That is the real difference. Not that the software is strict, but that you get to decide where it is, one stage at a time, and change your mind later without starting again.

See the difference

Tick one box and a record cannot leave a step until the work behind it is actually done: the quote sent, the invoice raised, the customer told. Excel lets you type Done. Trello lets you drag the card. Neither of them knows nobody was ever billed.

Questions

Can StreamsApp replace Tradify?: StreamsApp does not include scheduling, timesheets, job costing or purchase orders. It does stop jobs closing without the evidence they need, and runs processes that are not jobs at all.
Can I use both?: StreamsApp runs alongside other tools: it imports CSV and has an inbound API. It suits the processes that need enforcing, like compliance sign-off, warranty claims or staff onboarding.
Can I bring my Tradify customers across?: Export them to CSV and import them into Contacts, mapping the columns to fields.

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