The Joblogic alternative with the whole price on the page
OptiTech Automation vs Joblogic. Joblogic is a strong UK platform for commercial contract and compliance work. OptiTech Automation is the Joblogic alternative for domestic and small commercial teams: every price published, and customers book and pay a deposit online.
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 | Joblogic | OptiTech Automation |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Standard from £45 per user a month billed annually, Premium and Enterprise on request (Verified 14 September 2026) | Every tier published: Standard £599 a month up to fifteen on the tools, plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment |
| Pricing model | Per user, billed annually on the published plan | Per plan, monthly: the rate holds to fifteen on the tools, then one published step to £1,749 for up to thirty |
| How work arrives | Quote and job workflow | Customer self-books online, deposit taken automatically at booking |
| Best fit | Commercial contracts, SLAs and compliance-heavy work | Domestic and small commercial teams, any size up to 90 workers |
| Deposit at booking | Payment tools within the job workflow | Card deposit into your own Stripe account at the moment of booking |
The price, in the open
Joblogic
Joblogic publishes a genuine starting price, which most rivals do not: Standard from £45 per user a month, billed annually, with their own example pricing a five-user team at £225 a month. Premium and Enterprise are priced on request, in the call. Verified 14 September 2026.
OptiTech Automation
Every published tier is on the pricing page, and Empire is by application. Standard is £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment covering up to fifteen on the tools, on 30-day rolling terms rather than an annual bill. Hiring within your plan does not move the bill. Growth, £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment, takes you to thirty.
At Joblogic’s published Standard rate, ten users is £450 a month, billed annually (Verified 14 September 2026). Our Standard at ten users is £599, billed monthly. On the raw subscription they are cheaper at that size, and we say so plainly. The £599 buys a different machine: the booking page takes the job and the deposit before anyone lifts the phone, and every number on both our tiers is public.
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.
Where Joblogic genuinely earns its keep
Joblogic is a serious UK platform, and it is strongest where work is commercial: contracts, SLAs, planned maintenance and compliance-heavy jobs for clients who demand paperwork. If your revenue comes from commercial contracts with service-level commitments, it deserves its reputation there.
We would rather tell you that on page one than have you discover it in month three. This comparison is for the other business: the domestic and small commercial team deciding whether it needs an enterprise-leaning platform at all.
The whole price against the starting price
Joblogic publishes more than most: a real from-price for its Standard plan. Above that, Premium and Enterprise are priced in the sales conversation. Verified 14 September 2026, those numbers are not on the page.
We publish everything. Standard, £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment for up to fifteen on the tools, Growth at £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment for up to thirty, and every published tier above, all in pounds on the pricing page, with Empire by application. Per-user annual billing against plan-priced monthly is a real difference in how the cost behaves as you hire: their published rate rises with every user you add, ours holds inside the band and takes one published step at the top of it. No step on either of our tiers needs a phone call to discover.
Booking-first is the structural difference
Joblogic, like almost everyone in this market, runs a quote and job workflow. Work arrives, the office processes it, the job goes out. OptiTech Automation starts earlier: 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.
By the time you look up, the job is confirmed, part-paid and offered to the right worker by the auto-dispatch engine. For a domestic-facing team, that is the difference between an office and an evening.
Compliance records, stated carefully
Compliance is Joblogic’s home turf, and we will not pretend to out-gun it for commercial certificate workflows. What OptiTech Automation does is keep the operational records for compliance-led trades: Gas Safe job records, CP12 documents and Part P certificates held against the job, with the booking, dispatch and payment story wrapped around them.
If your core need is certificate production for commercial contract clients, weigh Joblogic seriously. If your core need is a diary that fills, deposits that arrive and a team that gets dispatched, that is ours.
The evening test
A simple way to choose between us: what happens at seven in the evening when a homeowner wants to book you? On a quote-and-job workflow, they fill a form or leave a voicemail and someone rings back tomorrow. On OptiTech Automation they book a real slot, pay the deposit, and the job is already offered to the right engineer before you have looked at your phone.
Commercial contract clients do not buy that way, which is why Joblogic is built as it is. Homeowners do, which is why we are built as we are. Pick the machine that matches your customer.
Sized for the team you actually run
Our centre is the UK trade business of any size up to 90 workers, run by an owner rather than an operations department. The price is a plan, so hiring inside your band never raises the software bill. The worker app stays readable when signal drops, completed jobs raise and send their own invoice, and the company is one accountable UK founder who is answerable for the answer you get.
UK GDPR, ICO registered, EU-hosted. And your card is authorised when you confirm your setup but not charged until you go live.
What they have that we do not
On price, Joblogic publishes Standard from £45 per user a month billed annually (Verified 14 September 2026). For a crew of three that is £135 a month against our Standard Stage at £599, so at the small end their bill is the lower one by a wide margin, and an annual commitment is what buys that rate.
On features, we have not re-read their 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, which matters more on this page than on any other, because compliance-heavy work is Joblogic’s ground. 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.
Who should stay where
Stay with Joblogic if
- Commercial contracts, SLAs and compliance reporting are your revenue. That is their strongest ground.
- You are scaling into facilities management and want an established vendor with a large feature surface.
- Per-user annual billing suits how you budget.
Move to OptiTech Automation if
- You serve homeowners and small commercial clients and want the diary to fill itself.
- You want the deposit taken automatically at booking, into your own Stripe account.
- You want every price public, including what the bill becomes when the team grows.
Questions owners ask about switching from Joblogic
Joblogic is strongest for commercial contract and compliance-heavy work, priced per user with its Standard plan billed annually. OptiTech Automation is booking-first for domestic and small commercial teams: £599 a month up to fifteen on the tools, customer self-booking, and the deposit taken automatically at booking into your own Stripe account.
Joblogic publishes a genuine starting price, from £45 per user a month billed annually on Standard, with Premium and Enterprise on request (Verified 14 September 2026). OptiTech Automation publishes every tier except Empire, which is by application: Standard is £599 a month plus a one-off £249 Onboarding Investment covering up to fifteen on the tools, billed monthly, and hiring within your plan does not move the bill. Growth at £1,749 plus a one-off £999 Onboarding Investment covers up to thirty.
Its published Standard plan is, from £45 per user a month billed annually, with their own example pricing a five-user team at £225 a month (Verified 14 September 2026). OptiTech Automation is plan-priced: £599 a month up to fifteen on the tools, whether you add a user or a van inside that band.
We are careful with this claim. OptiTech Automation keeps operational records for compliance-led trades, Gas Safe job records, CP12 documents and Part P certificates against the job. If your core need is certificate production for commercial contract clients, Joblogic is strong there and may fit you better. We would rather tell you that now.
The UK trade business of any size up to 90 workers, serving homeowners and small commercial clients, where the owner wants the diary to fill itself and the deposits to arrive without chasing.
Yes. Set up the booking page and watch it work first. Your card is authorised when you confirm your setup, but your subscription is not charged until you go live.
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.