The Powered Now alternative where booking takes the deposit

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.

Two companies that both show the price

Most of this market gates its pricing behind a demo call. Powered Now does not, and neither do we. So this page can skip the pantomime and compare the models directly: per-user against per-plan, and quote-first against booking-first.

Per user or per plan: do the sum for your own team

At Powered Now’s published rates, a three-person crew on Professional is £96 a month plus VAT (Verified 14 September 2026). We are £599. For that crew, at those numbers, Powered Now is the cheaper tool, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise.

That stays true across most of Standard’s band: at ten on the tools, their published Premium rate is £400 a month plus VAT to our £599. Only near the top of the band does the sum turn, because fifteen on the tools at their published Premium rate is £600 a month plus VAT (both Verified 14 September 2026). On raw subscription price they win at the sizes most crews sit at, and we would rather say so. What the £599 is buying is the machine, and hiring within your band never moves the bill. The booking page takes the job, the deposit lands in your own Stripe account the moment the customer books, and auto-dispatch, the worker app that stays readable when signal drops and invoicing on completion are inside. Past fifteen on the tools the step is published too, £1,749 for up to thirty. The worth-it calculator does your exact numbers in two minutes.

A deposit that fires itself

Powered Now has deposit and staged payment tools of its own, and taking money up front is something both products care about. The structural difference is when and how the money moves.

On OptiTech Automation the deposit is not a step in a workflow that someone remembers to do. It is a property of the booking itself. The customer picks a slot on your page and the card deposit is taken automatically at that moment, into your own Stripe account. The money never touches OptiTech Automation. Nobody on your team asks for it, chases it or forgets it.

Quote-first against booking-first

The classic flow, enquiry, quote, job, invoice, assumes a human turns each stage. That works, but it costs evenings, and every handover is a place where a job quietly dies.

Booking-first removes the stages before the work. The customer self-books a genuinely free slot, pays the deposit, and the auto-dispatch engine offers the job to the right worker, with the owner keeping final say. The office work still happens. It just happens without the office.

What the £599 replaces

The plan fee buys back the parts of the week that quoting, chasing and scheduling currently take. The booking page fills the diary. The deposit engine takes the money at booking, into your own Stripe account. Auto-dispatch offers each job to the right worker with you keeping final say. The worker app stays readable when signal drops. The invoice goes out to the customer when the job completes.

Powered Now sells useful tools for running the same jobs by hand, and at a small crew’s size that can be all you need. We sell the version where the jobs mostly run themselves. That is what the difference between the two price tags is actually pricing.

Built for the owner with an employed team

Per-user pricing is at its best for the smallest teams, and Powered Now’s published rates reflect that. Our centre is the owner with an employed team of any size up to 90 workers, where the diary and the dispatch are the real cost.

Plan pricing means hiring inside your band never raises the software bill, and the step past fifteen on the tools is published, not negotiated. The company behind it is one accountable UK founder, UK GDPR compliant, ICO registered and EU-hosted, with every invoice raised on completion, VAT worked out.

What they have that we do not

Certificates first, because our own pricing page already names it: Powered Now generates certificates and we do not. 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. If you want the platform itself to produce the certificate, that is a reason to choose them.

Accounting. 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.

A free trial. We run none. 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. We have not re-read their trial terms on a date we could stamp here, so check their own page for what they offer today.

And the per-user sum the section above sets out: at their published rates a three-person crew on Professional is £96 a month plus VAT and ten on the tools on Premium is £400, against our Standard Stage at £599 (Verified 14 September 2026). At the sizes many crews sit at, theirs is the lower bill and we would rather say so twice than once.