Estimating, scheduling, variations, drawings, a login for your client, and a complete site-safety system. One platform, not six subscriptions taped together.
Your clients and trades are never charged for access
The platform
The daily reality of building, scheduled, logged and visible. Everything your site team records becomes the paper trail that protects the company.
Money is computed in exact cents from estimate to receipt, tax-aware end to end, with every approval e-signed and on the record. No rounding drift. No "who approved this?"
Three portals over one database. Clients feel informed instead of calling you. Trades get exactly their scope. Nobody ever sees a number that isn't theirs to see.
Safety, built in, not bolted on
A complete work-health-and-safety layer ships with every plan: method statements with crew sign-on, worker credentials with expiry warnings, digital site sign-in, incident reporting with corrective actions, permits, plant prestarts and toolbox talks. When the inspector walks on, you open a dashboard, not a filing cabinet.
Built for anywhere
Construction is local. Terminology, tax and safety law change at every border. Buildify PM is built so the core platform is universal and compliance is a regional pack, not a rewrite.
GST on every figure, variations, schedule-of-values progress claims, and the full WHS safety pack: SWMS, White Cards, notifiable incidents.
LIVEExact-cents arithmetic with a tax layer you can swap. GST today, with VAT and sales tax as configuration rather than a rewrite.
IN THE CORENew Zealand, UK and North America packs on the roadmap, each carrying its own terminology, tax and safety templates over the same platform.
ROADMAPPricing
or A$4,560 a year
For the builder running one job at a time
Complete for that job, not cut down
or A$9,360 a year
For a builder with a couple of staff
Everything in Tradie, plus
or A$14,880 a year
For a company answering to somebody else
Everything in Team, plus
All prices in Australian dollars and exclude GST. A year paid up front is 20% off the monthly rate.
The cards above say what each plan is for. This is what is in them. Every line here is built and working today; nothing on the roadmap is listed.
| Feature | Tradie | Team | Business |
|---|---|---|---|
| Running the job | |||
| Estimating with cost codes and markup | Included | Included | Included |
| Gantt programme with milestones | Included | Included | Included |
| Critical path and task dependencies | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Company-wide schedule across every job | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Drawings with revision control | Included | Included | Included |
| Site diary with photos and weather | Included | Included | Included |
| Checklists and inspections | Included | Included | Included |
| Defects and punch lists | Included | Included | Included |
| To-dos | Included | Included | Included |
| Files and photos | Included | Included | Included |
| Full access from a phone on site | Included | Included | Included |
| Project, estimate and programme templates | Included | Included | Included |
| Money | |||
| Invoicing and recording payments | Included | Included | Included |
| Variation orders | Included | Included | Included |
| Client selections and allowances | Included | Included | Included |
| Approvals signed on screen | Included | Included | Included |
| Job budget, costs to date and cost to complete | Included | Included | Included |
| Xero and QuickBooks connection (in final live testing) | Included | Included | Included |
| Invoices built from the estimate and variations, with reminders | Not included | Included | Included |
| Purchase orders, supplier bills and payments | Not included | Included | Included |
| Work orders | Not included | Included | Included |
| Company costbook | Not included | Included | Included |
| Progress claims | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Timesheets and labour hours | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Work in progress across every job | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Company reporting: profitability and job scorecard | Not included | Not included | Included |
| People and paperwork | |||
| Messages and announcements | Included | Included | Included |
| Meeting minutes and action items | Not included | Included | Included |
| Submittals and approvals | Not included | Included | Included |
| Insurance certificate expiry tracking | Not included | Included | Included |
| Company-wide safety reporting | Not included | Included | Included |
| RFIs | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Bid packages and tender comparison | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Warranty register and service appointments | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Your clients and trades | |||
| Client portal: the build, approvals and photos | Included | Included | Included |
| Client portal: invoices and claims as well | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Subcontractor portal | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Your logo and colours on the portals | Included | Included | Included |
What a residential builder gets, and what it really costs, next to the three names Australian builders ask us about most.
| Buildify PM | Buildxact | Wunderbuild | NextMinute | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price from (per month, ex GST) | A$475 (Tradie) | A$199 (Foundation) | A$112 (Starter, 1 active job) | A$299 (up to 5 users) |
| Extra costs on top of the plan | Optional add-ons only. Site safety, client portal and unlimited users are included | Site safety through HazardCo from A$219/mo on a 12-month term, plus A$190–380 per project after 3 a year. AI tools A$99–149/mo | Price rises with the number of active jobs | A$30/mo per user after 5. Onboarding help offered; price not shown |
| Small builder, 5 jobs a year, with site safety | A$475/mo | ≈ A$650–681/mo (Pro + HazardCo Premium + 2 extra projects) | A$226/mo; safety module not shown | A$299/mo; safety module not shown |
| Unlimited users and unlimited jobs on every plan | Yes | Yes | Job limits on lower plans | 5 users, then A$30 each |
| Client portal | Yes, every plan | Yes, Pro and up | Yes | No client portal |
| Client approves variations online, with an audit trail | Yes, every plan (name, IP and time recorded) | Signature; audit trail not shown | Signature; audit trail not shown | Accept button; audit trail not shown |
| Site safety: SWMS, inductions, incidents, QR site sign-on | Yes, every plan | Through HazardCo (paid separately) | Not shown | Not shown |
| Site diary that fills in the weather | Yes, every plan | Diary on Pro and up; weather not shown | Diary; automatic weather not shown | Diary; weather not saved |
| Defects and punch list with photos | Yes, every plan | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown |
| Pins on drawings that create a defect or to-do | Yes | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown |
| Subcontractor portal | Yes, Business | Onsite app and quote requests | Quote requests only | Not shown |
| Xero and QuickBooks | In final live testing | Yes, plus MYOB (Pro and up) | Xero and MYOB | Yes, plus MYOB |
| Phone app in the app stores | Coming soon | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Checked 14 November 2026 against each company's public website, help centre and app-store listing. Prices in Australian dollars excluding GST (Wunderbuild's published GST-inclusive prices divided by 1.1). "Not shown" means we couldn't find it on their public pages. Features and prices change, so check with each provider. Trademarks belong to their owners.
Fair questions
Buildify PM was engineered in Australia, where the compliance bar for builders is among the highest anywhere: variations, tax-inclusive claiming, SWMS law, construction induction cards. The core platform is region-neutral; each market gets a proper compliance pack rather than a find-and-replace.
Never. However many clients, trades and suppliers you invite, they cost you nothing, and your own team is unlimited on every plan. The client portal is on every plan; the subcontractor portal is part of Business. The platform works because everyone is on it.
Only if you allow it. Permissions are role-based and enforced on every request: a PM can prepare claims but not certify them, trades never see each other's bids, and clients see only what you release. Every permission refusal is logged.
You open the Safety page: method statements with crew sign-on records, induction acknowledgments, live and historical site attendance, credentials and insurance with expiry status, and the incident register with investigations and corrective actions. Timestamped, complete, exportable.
No. Your projects, financial records, documents and audit history are yours and exportable. We'd rather keep you with the product than with an exit fee.
One platform, one login, every job under control, with the safety record and the paper trail handled.
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