The Commusoft alternative that shows you the price

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.

What Commusoft is genuinely good at

Credit first. Commusoft is a deep, mature platform, strongest where a business runs recurring service contracts with a proper office team behind it. Gas and heating firms with planned maintenance portfolios have run on it for years, and the depth is real.

If that is your business, it belongs on your shortlist, and this page will not pretend otherwise. The honest question is whether you are the business it says it is built for.

Six or more staff, by their own description

Commusoft’s own site says it is specifically designed for businesses with 6 or more staff, Verified 14 September 2026. That is a useful piece of honesty, because it tells you the product assumes office capacity you may not have.

OptiTech Automation centres on the band around and below that line: the owner of a firm with any size up to 90 workers, who does not have a back office to feed a big system. The software does the admin, because there is nobody else to.

The price on a call against the price on a page

To learn what Commusoft costs, you schedule a call. That is a deliberate sales design, and plenty of good companies use it. It also means you cannot compare numbers on your own time. Verified 14 September 2026, no prices are published.

Ours is public: £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment on Standard for up to fifteen on the tools, £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment on Growth to thirty, on 30-day rolling terms with no exit fees. Hiring inside your band does not move the bill. We publish because the owner we serve buys in the evening, after the vans are back, not in a scheduled discovery call.

Booking-first against workflow-first

Commusoft is a workflow platform: the job exists, and the software manages it well. OptiTech Automation starts before the job exists. Your customer books a real slot online and pays a deposit at the moment of booking, by card, into your own Stripe account. The money never touches OptiTech Automation.

Then the job is offered to the best available worker by the auto-dispatch engine, the worker runs it from an app that stays readable when signal drops, and completion raises the invoice and sends it to the customer. The owner watches it happen rather than making it happen.

What £599 includes, so the call is not needed

Standard includes the booking page, the deposit engine that captures a card payment at the moment of booking into your own Stripe account, auto-dispatch with the owner keeping final say, the worker app that stays readable when signal drops, invoices raised and sent on completion, and a CSV export of all your data from your own settings page. The £249 Onboarding Investment covers the founder building it with you.

That list is the whole pitch. If it reads thinner than Commusoft’s feature tour, that is deliberate. We build for the owner who needs the diary, the deposits and the dispatch to run themselves, not for the office that wants a hundred configurable workflows.

The switch, honestly

Moving operations software is a real decision, and we will not pretend it is frictionless. Your customer and job history exports and imports, the build takes days rather than a programme, and the founder does it with you personally.

Your card is authorised when you confirm your setup but nothing is charged until you go live. And if you get into the detail and Commusoft fits your service-contract world better, we will tell you before you spend a pound.

What they have that we do not

Commusoft does not publish its pricing and says on its own site that it is designed for businesses with 6 or more staff (Verified 14 September 2026), so a cost comparison cannot be run from the outside. A platform that deep will carry a good deal that we do not, and this block is about the parts we can state without guessing.

We have not re-read their feature pages on a date we could stamp here, so nothing below is put in their mouth. 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 a platform that charges per seat costs a one or two person firm less a month than any Stage of ours, which is a real reason to choose one.