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3 tiers priced on estimator seats and field vehicles, with 29 features compared line by line. Subscriptions start at $850 per month, plus a one-time implementation fee from $3,500 that every deployment pays. Canadian dollars, excluding tax.

Beyond what a tier includes, seats are $45 and vehicles are $25 per month. Move the sliders below to see your own number rather than ours.

SOC 2 Type II aligned · PIPEDA compliant · AWS ca-central-1 tenant isolation · SAML 2.0 single sign-on

  • $697K+

    ARR under management

    Annual recurring revenue across the commercial trade book.

  • 41

    Enterprise trade accounts

    Net-new commercial contractors and trade operators.

  • 95%+

    Forecast accuracy

    Committed pipeline against closed, measured quarterly.

  • 3 mo

    Average sales velocity

    First qualified conversation to executed contract.

Save 20% with annual commitments — the discount applies to seat and vehicle overage, not just the base fee.

Price it at your scale

Seats and vehicles beyond a plan’s allowance bill at $45 CAD and $25 CAD per month. Move these and every card below reprices.

seats

People who build or approve quotes. Not concurrent logins.

vehicles

Vans on the dispatch board. A two-person crew in one van is one vehicle.

Cheapest at your scale

Starter Operator

One branch, one quoting desk, real governance from day one.

$680CAD / month
Base platform fee
$680
Your scale fits inside the included allowance — no overage.

$8,160 CAD invoiced once — $2,040 CAD saved against monthly at this scale.

Implementation · required$3,500 CAD once

Best for: A single-location specialty trade contractor replacing spreadsheet quoting.

  • 3 estimator seats and 5 field vehicles included. Field technicians ride on the vehicle allowance and consume no seat.
  • Up to 2,000 configured quotes per month, priced by the full engine rather than a cut-down one.
  • Standard REST and GraphQL API access with a seeded sandbox tenant.
  • Margin floor, approval thresholds, and append-only audit lineage — the governance layer is not a paid tier.
Uptime SLA
99.9%
P0 response
Next business day
Talk to sales
Most adopted

Growth Contractor

Multi-branch quoting with live routing across the working day.

$1,416CAD / month
Base platform fee
$1,416
Your scale fits inside the included allowance — no overage.

$16,992 CAD invoiced once — $4,248 CAD saved against monthly at this scale.

Implementation · required$7,500 CAD once

Best for: A multi-branch commercial contractor running a quoting desk and a dispatch board on the same data.

  • 10 estimator seats and 15 field vehicles included, with real-time routing and live ETA re-sequencing.
  • Advanced CPQ labour-hour rules: crew size, access difficulty, and install method drive the hours, not a flat multiplier.
  • FSM route optimisation against traffic, service windows, and the overtime ceiling.
  • Unlimited CPQ calculations. Configuration volume stops being a budgeting question.
  • Custom ERP webhooks with bidirectional sync and a declared system of record per entity.
  • Priority support with a four-hour P0 response and a named implementation contact.
Uptime SLA
99.95%
P0 response
4 hours, business hours
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Enterprise Fleet

Dedicated deployment, contractual SLA, and an engineer who knows your catalogue.

Custom

Seats and vehicles are unlimited, so the calculator has nothing to add. Priced against deployment shape, residency requirements, and the entities in scope.

Implementation · requiredQuoted

Best for: Multi-branch or multi-entity fleets that need residency guarantees and their own cluster.

  • From $35,000 CAD a year, scoped to your branch count, entity structure, and integration surface.
  • Unlimited estimator seats and field vehicles — scale stops being a line item and becomes a term.
  • Multi-AZ active-active failover on a dedicated cluster inside Canadian residency, isolated from shared tenancy.
  • Custom SSO and SAML with SCIM provisioning, per-role API scope enforcement, and customer-controlled webhook signing secret rotation.
  • Dedicated account management: a named solutions engineer who models your price book and deduction tables with you.
Uptime SLA
99.99%
P0 response
15 minutes, 24/7
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Built for commercial trade operators

Electrical, mechanical, glazing, industrial, and everything a general contractor has to co-ordinate between them.

  • Apex Commercial

    Commercial Electrical

    24 field techs

  • Vanguard Mechanical

    Mechanical & HVAC

    35 field techs

  • Metro Trade

    Multi-Trade General

    48 field techs

  • Ontario Shading

    Architectural Shading & Glazing

    18 field techs

  • Trillium Industrial

    Industrial Services

    41 field techs

Benchmark metrics and deployment summaries are modelled from platform engine behaviour across representative North American commercial trade operations.

Feature comparison

Every difference between the tiers

Governance is not a premium tier. The margin floor, approval thresholds, append-only audit lineage, and Canadian residency are on Starter Operator, because a control that only the largest customer can afford is not a control.

Starter Operator

Scale & commercial

Estimator seats included
3 seats
Field vehicles included
5 vehicles
Additional estimator seat
$45 CAD / month
Additional field vehicle
$25 CAD / month
Implementation — mandatory
$3,500 CAD one-time
Minimum term
12 months

CPQ engine

Configured quotes per month
2,000
Parametric configuration & cut lists
Included
Customer-specific price books
5 books
Multi-currency quote exports
Not included
Configured BOM generation
Not included

Field operations

Offline-first mobile app
Included
Real-time map routing
Static day plan
Van inventory & parts consumption
Included
Certification-aware assignment
Not included

Platform & integration

API rate limit
1,200 / min
Custom ERP webhooks
Standard events
Bidirectional ERP sync
Not included
Sandbox tenants
1
KNX / DALI commissioning exports
Not included

Security & governance

Append-only audit lineage
Included
Granular RBAC scopes
5 roles
SSO / SAML with SCIM
Not included
Canadian data residency
Included
Audit log retention
13 months

Support & assurance

P0 incident response
Next business day
Contractual uptime SLA
99.9%
Implementation support
Guided self-serve
Deployment model
Multi-tenant
Growth ContractorPopular

Scale & commercial

Estimator seats included
10 seats
Field vehicles included
15 vehicles
Additional estimator seat
$45 CAD / month
Additional field vehicle
$25 CAD / month
Implementation — mandatory
$7,500 CAD one-time
Minimum term
12 months

CPQ engine

Configured quotes per month
Unlimited
Parametric configuration & cut lists
Included
Customer-specific price books
Unlimited
Multi-currency quote exports
Included
Configured BOM generation
Included

Field operations

Offline-first mobile app
Included
Real-time map routing
Included
Van inventory & parts consumption
Included
Certification-aware assignment
Included

Platform & integration

API rate limit
4,000 / min
Custom ERP webhooks
Included
Bidirectional ERP sync
Included
Sandbox tenants
3
KNX / DALI commissioning exports
Not included

Security & governance

Append-only audit lineage
Included
Granular RBAC scopes
Unlimited
SSO / SAML with SCIM
SSO only
Canadian data residency
Included
Audit log retention
7 years

Support & assurance

P0 incident response
4 hours, business hours
Contractual uptime SLA
99.95%
Implementation support
Named contact
Deployment model
Multi-tenant
Enterprise Fleet

Scale & commercial

Estimator seats included
Unlimited
Field vehicles included
Unlimited
Additional estimator seat
Included
Additional field vehicle
Included
Implementation — mandatory
Quoted on scope
Minimum term
Negotiated

CPQ engine

Configured quotes per month
Unlimited
Parametric configuration & cut lists
Included
Customer-specific price books
Unlimited
Multi-currency quote exports
Included
Configured BOM generation
Included

Field operations

Offline-first mobile app
Included
Real-time map routing
Included
Van inventory & parts consumption
Included
Certification-aware assignment
Included

Platform & integration

API rate limit
10,000 / min
Custom ERP webhooks
Included
Bidirectional ERP sync
Included
Sandbox tenants
10
KNX / DALI commissioning exports
Included

Security & governance

Append-only audit lineage
Included
Granular RBAC scopes
Unlimited
SSO / SAML with SCIM
Included
Canadian data residency
Dedicated cluster
Audit log retention
Configurable

Support & assurance

P0 incident response
15 minutes, 24/7
Contractual uptime SLA
99.99%
Implementation support
Dedicated solutions engineer
Deployment model
Dedicated cluster
Commercial terms

The parts a procurement team asks about

  • All figures are in Canadian dollars and exclude applicable taxes. Ontario customers are billed 13% HST.
  • Implementation is mandatory and one-time: $3,500 CAD on Starter Operator, $7,500 CAD on Growth Contractor, quoted on scope for Enterprise Fleet. It is a fee, not a percentage of licence value.
  • Seats and vehicles beyond a plan's allowance bill at $45 CAD and $25 CAD per month respectively, in arrears, on what was actually provisioned. The rate is the same on Growth Contractor and Enterprise Fleet, so scale alone never makes the larger plan cheaper.
  • Annual billing is invoiced once, twelve months up front, at 20% below the monthly rate — including on seat and vehicle overage, not just the base fee.
  • Overage on Starter Operator's quote allowance is $600 CAD per additional 500 quotes, billed rather than forcing a mid-term tier change.
  • Enterprise Fleet contracts start at $35,000 CAD a year and are scoped to branch count, entity structure, and integration surface.
  • Contracts are twelve months minimum on Growth Contractor and Enterprise Fleet. Custom terms are negotiated.

Growth Contractor is not the cheaper plan. It is the larger one.

On seats and vehicles there is no crossover, and we would rather write that down than imply one. Both plans bill overage at the same published rate, so the gap between them closes to $355 a month at Growth Contractor’s own allowance and then stops closing — past that point each plan is charging the identical rate on the identical excess. Starter Operator plus overage stays cheaper at every scale the calculator covers.

So the question is not when Growth Contractor gets cheaper. It is whether unlimited quotes, the higher API ceiling, bidirectional ERP sync, and a four-hour P0 response are worth a known premium. Quote volume is the one axis that does cross: above 2,500 quotes a month, the next overage block costs more than the whole Growth Contractor tier.

Invoices are issued by Novel Blinds Inc. under GST/HST No. 8XXXXXXXXRT0001. Annual commitments are billed at 20% below the monthly rate, and that discount applies to overage as well as the base fee.

What counts as a configured quote?

One quote document, regardless of how many revisions it goes through or how many lines it carries. Revising a quote eleven times during a negotiation counts once, because charging per revision would penalise exactly the behaviour that produces an accurate document.

What's the difference between a seat and a vehicle?

An estimator seat is a named office person who builds, prices, or approves a quote — an estimator, a project manager, a branch manager, whoever signs off on a discount. A field vehicle is a van on the dispatch board. Field technicians consume no seat: they are covered by the vehicle their crew rides in, on as many devices as that crew carries, so a fifteen-van operation with forty technicians pays for fifteen. Subcontractors consume none either — they get scoped portal access against the work order assigned to them. We price the field side per vehicle rather than per technician because a two-person crew in one van consumes one route, one set of van stock, and one slot in the day plan, so charging twice for it would be charging for nothing.

Is the mobile app an add-on?

No. Every field vehicle includes the offline-first technician app on iOS and Android, on as many devices as that crew carries. Splitting it out would mean pricing the part of the product that works without a network as a premium, which is the wrong incentive.

When does adding seats stop being cheaper than moving up a tier?

On seats and vehicles, it doesn't. Both plans bill overage at the same published rate, so Starter Operator plus overage stays cheaper than Growth Contractor at every scale this calculator covers — the gap narrows to $355 CAD per month at Growth Contractor's own allowance and then stops narrowing, because from there both plans are charging the identical rate on the identical excess. We know because the figure is searched for with the same function that prices the cards, and it comes back empty. Move to Growth Contractor for unlimited quotes, the higher API ceiling, the four-hour P0 response, and bidirectional ERP sync — not to save money on seats. Anyone who tells you the larger plan pays for itself on headcount is describing a different price list.

What happens if we exceed the Starter Operator quote limit?

Overage is $600 CAD per additional 500 quotes, billed in arrears rather than triggering an automatic tier change mid-term. This is the one axis where moving up genuinely gets cheaper: Growth Contractor is unlimited, so above 2,500 quotes a month the next block of overage costs more than the entire Growth Contractor tier. If you sit above that line for three consecutive months we will tell you, because billing you for a worse deal we can see on our own dashboard is not a business we want.

Can we move between monthly and annual mid-term?

You can switch to annual at any point and the remaining monthly term is credited against the annual invoice. Moving from annual back to monthly happens at renewal.

Is implementation optional?

No, and we would rather say that on the pricing page than in week three. It is a mandatory one-time fee — $3,500 CAD on Starter Operator, $7,500 CAD on Growth Contractor, quoted on scope for Enterprise Fleet — covering catalogue modelling, deduction tables, ERP entity mapping, and go-live. It is a flat fee rather than a percentage of licence value, because a bigger licence does not make the same catalogue harder to model. Enterprise Fleet is quoted because a dedicated cluster and a residency review are real additional work, not a bigger number for the same work.

Model the payback before you pick a tier

The ROI calculator runs your own quote volume, margin leakage, and drive time against the engine. If the arithmetic does not clear the licence cost, we would rather you found that out on this page.