The honest maths · why the price is what it isIs this expensive?
Stages run from £199 to £3,599 a month. Compare what OptiTech Automation replaces versus buying the pieces separately, then decide.
Job management app (Tradify, Powered Now)from about £25 per user per monthOnline booking engine (Calendly, SimplyBook)from about £15 per user per monthDeposit and payment handlingManual, unbillable hoursWorker dispatch and job assignmentWhatsApp and phone callsXero invoicing automationfrom about £20 per month plus accountant timeNo-show protectionabout £80 to £150 lost per incidentOptiTech Automation Standard, all of the above£599 / mo
Competitor figures are their own published per-user rates. Verified August 2026. Standard is £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment, £848 to start.
One honest gap: Tradify and Powered Now generate certificates; we do not yet. Here is what you get instead: the customer books a real slot themselves, the deposit lands in your own Stripe account before a van moves, the job is offered to the right worker automatically, and the invoice reaches your Xero on completion. Your engineer issues the certificate, and we keep the dates and the records so the renewal never creeps up on you.
That table answers what it replaces. It doesn't answer what it's worth to your firm — that depends on numbers only you know: how many people are on your payroll, how full their days run, how many calls ring out while everyone's on the tools. So we built a page that does that arithmetic honestly, in your numbers — including the case against buying.
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