The BigChange alternative for a team of vans, not a fleet
OptiTech Automation vs BigChange. BigChange is an enterprise platform built around fleets and facilities management, with pricing behind a demo request. OptiTech Automation is the BigChange alternative for UK trade teams of any size up to 90 workers, with published plan pricing.
The three things that make this different
Standard is £599 a month, covering up to fifteen on the tools.
- The deposit goes into your own Stripe account at the moment of booking. We never hold your money. (Terms 2.3)
- One flat monthly price for your Stage, and hiring inside your Stage does not move the bill. No per-lead fee, and no commission on your customers' payments. (Terms Schedule 2)
- Leave on 30 days' notice with no exit fee, and take a full export of your data as CSV files from your own settings page, any time. (Terms 11.1 and 11.3)
One named founder is answerable for the answer you get.
| Feature | BigChange | OptiTech Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Not published, the pricing page routes to a demo request (Verified 14 September 2026) | Published: £599 a month up to fifteen on the tools, £1,749 to thirty |
| Built for | Fleets, facilities management and enterprise field service | UK trade teams, any size up to 90 workers |
| Sales process | Demo-led | Self-serve: pricing page, worth-it calculator, or a 15 minute call |
| How work arrives | Quote and job workflow | Customer self-books online, deposit taken at booking |
| Deposit at booking | Payment tools within the platform | Automatic card deposit into your own Stripe account at booking |
The price, in the open
BigChange
BigChange does not publish its pricing. The pricing page offers a Request pricing button that routes to a demo booking, with no rate card shown. Verified 14 September 2026.
That is normal at enterprise scale, where deals are bespoke. It also means a smaller trade business cannot price the decision from the outside.
OptiTech Automation
Standard is £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment and covers up to fifteen on the tools, with Growth at £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment covering up to thirty. Both published. Every published tier is on the pricing page, and Empire is by application.
If your operation is genuinely enterprise-sized, our price list will look small to you, and that is the honest signal it should send.
The price, in three lines
Standard is £599 a month, covering up to fifteen on the tools.
The one-off Onboarding Investment on Standard is £249. The first ten firms pay no Onboarding Investment, on any Stage.
Your card is authorised when you confirm your setup. Nothing is charged until you are live, after our review.
Different weight classes, honestly
BigChange is an enterprise platform built around fleets, facilities management and large field-service operations. It sells to businesses with procurement processes, operations managers and vehicle policies. That is a real market, and BigChange is a serious player in it.
OptiTech Automation is not trying to be that. We are built for the UK trade business of any size up to 90 workers, where the owner is the operations department and the buying decision happens at the kitchen table, not in a tender. If this page reads like it was written for a smaller business than yours, trust that instinct and take the BigChange demo instead.
The demo wall
To learn what BigChange costs, you request pricing and take a demo. Verified 14 September 2026, no numbers are published. For an enterprise buyer that is expected. For an owner with three vans it is a fortnight of emails to answer a question we answer on one page.
Our approach is simpler: £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment covers up to fifteen on the tools, £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment covers up to thirty, both published, and you can check either number right now without giving anyone your phone number.
What booking-first means at our size
Enterprise field service revolves around jobs pushed out from an office: planned work, contracts, routes. OptiTech Automation revolves around customers pulling work in. They open your booking page, pick a genuinely free slot, and pay a deposit by card at that exact moment, into your own Stripe account. The money never touches OptiTech Automation.
The auto-dispatch engine then offers the job to the right worker, with the owner keeping final say. For a domestic and small commercial trade team, that is the whole admin burden of a booking gone.
No, we do not do vehicle tracking
Telematics, vehicle tracking and fleet management are core BigChange territory, and we do not compete there. If tracking a fleet is a hard requirement, you need them or a dedicated telematics provider, and this is us telling you that on our own comparison page.
What we run instead: the booking page, deposits at booking, auto-dispatch, the worker app that stays readable when signal drops, and invoices raised on completion, from a company that is one accountable UK founder, UK GDPR compliant, ICO registered and EU-hosted.
The two-minute evaluation
Evaluating enterprise software is a project: demos, stakeholder calls, a pricing proposal, references. Some businesses need that rigour, and BigChange serves them properly.
Evaluating OptiTech Automation is deliberately smaller. Read the pricing page: £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment to fifteen on the tools, £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment to thirty. Run your headcount through the worth-it calculator. If it still looks right, book a 15 minute call with the founder, who is also the person who built the platform and the person who will set yours up. The whole evaluation costs you one evening.
Priced for adding a van, not a fleet
Plan pricing decides what a hire costs you. When you put a second or a fifth van on the road, your software bill should not be part of the decision. Within Standard, ours does not move: £599 a month whether you are four on the tools or fourteen. Past fifteen, the step is a published number, £1,749 for up to thirty, not a renegotiation.
Terms are 30-day rolling with no exit fees. Your card is authorised when you confirm your setup and nothing is charged until you go live. If you outgrow us into fleet territory, we will say so, and this page tells you exactly where that line is.
What they have that we do not
Vehicle tracking and telematics, which the section above already concedes: that is BigChange ground and we do not compete on it. BigChange also does not publish its pricing (Verified 14 September 2026), so the cost half of this page cannot be compared from the outside by anyone.
On the rest, we have not re-read their feature pages on a date we could stamp here, so this block will not describe their product for them. Where their site shows an accounting integration, a certificate generator or a free trial, treat each as a real gap on our side, because all three are missing from ours.
We have no accounting integration. Nothing of ours syncs to Xero, QuickBooks or Sage, and nothing here should be read as a hint that one is coming. Invoices are raised and emailed when a job completes and your records export as CSV, so the figures reach your books by hand or by import.
We do not generate compliance certificates. Your Gas Safe registered engineer or your qualified electrician issues the CP12, the EICR or the minor works certificate exactly as they do now, and what we keep is the document, the job record and the renewal date.
We run no free trial. You get a demo with the founder and a subscription that is not charged until you go live, with the card authorised when you confirm your setup. And for a one or two person firm, a platform that charges per seat costs less a month than any Stage of ours.
Who should stay where
Stay with BigChange if
- You run a fleet of 30 plus vehicles, or facilities management contracts with corporate clients.
- You need vehicle tracking and telematics as part of the platform.
- You have procurement, implementation resource and an operations team to run an enterprise system.
Move to OptiTech Automation if
- You run any size up to 90 workers and want the price before the conversation.
- You want customers booking online with the deposit taken automatically at booking.
- You want to be live on your Build Day on rolling terms, not through an enterprise onboarding.
Questions owners ask about switching from BigChange
BigChange is an enterprise platform for fleets, facilities management and large field-service operations, with pricing behind a demo request. OptiTech Automation is for UK trade teams of any size up to 90 workers: plan pricing from £199 a month, published, with customers booking online and the deposit taken at booking.
Yes. OptiTech Automation publishes every tier except Empire, which is by application: Standard is £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment for up to fifteen on the tools, and Growth at £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment covers up to thirty. BigChange does not publish pricing; its pricing page routes to a demo request (Verified 14 September 2026).
BigChange positions for fleets, facilities management and enterprise field service, and it does not publish pricing (Verified 14 September 2026). If you run a couple of vans, an enterprise demo cycle is a lot of process to answer a question a pricing page can answer in two minutes.
No, and we will not pretend it does. Telematics is BigChange territory. If fleet tracking is a hard requirement, choose them or a dedicated telematics provider. We run bookings, deposits at booking, auto-dispatch, the worker app and invoicing on completion.
Your card is authorised when you confirm your setup, but your subscription is not charged until you go live and your systems are running. Terms are 30-day rolling with no exit fees, and there is no implementation fee beyond the £249 Onboarding Investment.
See the numbers for yourself
Our pricing is public, the worth-it calculator does your own sums in about two minutes, and the call is 15 minutes with the founder, not a sales team.