Plumbers, electricians, heating engineers and small building firms outgrow spreadsheets — and off-the-shelf tools charge per user forever and force their workflow on you. Meridianstacks builds custom job management software around your workflow: quote → job → completion photos → invoice in one flow, owned outright, no per-user fees. Your matched hub is Lagos (UTC+1) — a 0–1 hour offset, so our engineers share your full working day.
Off-the-shelf job management software such as Jobber, ServiceM8 or Tradify is genuinely good — but you rent it forever on plans that typically grow with every engineer you hire, and you bend your business to fit its workflow. Meridianstacks builds job management software shaped to how your trade actually runs a job: our Focused pipeline tool runs £7,000–£13,000 and our Standard team platform £13,000–£24,000, fixed price in pounds with milestone billing — you pay for delivered, accepted work — and you own the software outright, with no per-user fees, ever.
Boiler installs, servicing rounds, emergency call-outs and landlord work — with certificates, job photos and service history attached to every property, not lost in a van-seat folder.
Quotes with materials and labour lines, test results and certificates stored against the job, and remedial work tracked from first inspection to sign-off — your niche, your forms, your flow.
Multi-day jobs, staged payments, variations and several trades on one site. Track each job from quote to snag list to final invoice, with everyone seeing the same live picture.
If your day runs on jobs, vans and paperwork — and the spreadsheet is creaking — this is for you.
Generic tools make you work their way. We map how a job actually moves through your business — who quotes it, who books it, who does it, who chases the money — and build exactly that. These are the building blocks we tailor to your trade.
| Need | Per-seat SaaS | Your custom system |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | Grows with every hire | Fixed build, you own it |
| Fits your workflow | You adapt to it | It fits you |
| Your forms & certificates | Generic templates | Yours, exactly |
| Own the code & data | No | Yes, outright |
To be fair: Jobber, ServiceM8 and Tradify are excellent generalist tools. If a standard flow fits you, use them. Custom is for when it doesn't.
A 30-minute call to map how a job runs today, from enquiry to payment. You get a fixed price in pounds, a timeline and the senior engineers building it. Days 1–5.
We design the quote builder, job screens, engineer day view and invoice flow around your trade — reviewed with the people who will use them. Weeks 1–2.
Scheduling, notifications, photo capture and payments (Stripe/GoCardless) built and wired up, with progress you can see weekly. Weeks 2–8.
Your office and one or two engineers run live jobs through it alongside the old system, and we fix what the field finds. Weeks 7–9.
We import customers, job history and price lists from spreadsheets or your current tool, deploy to your domain and hand over the full codebase. Weeks 9–10.
Optional retainer for changes, new certificate types and busy-season tweaks — same engineers, same timezone. Ongoing.
Realistic timeline: a Focused pipeline tool in 5–8 weeks; a Standard team platform in 8–12 weeks; a Full build with a mobile engineer app in 10–15 weeks.
| Build | Per-seat SaaS | Typical UK agency | Meridianstacks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Focused pipeline tool — quotes, jobs, simple schedule (5–8 wks) | Monthly plan, forever | £18,000–£30,000 | £7,000–£13,000 |
| Standard team platform — scheduling, notifications, invoicing, reporting (8–12 wks) | Grows with every engineer you hire | £30,000–£55,000 | £13,000–£24,000 |
| Full build — plus mobile engineer app & deep integrations (10–15 wks) | Higher tiers plus add-ons | £40,000–£80,000 | £18,000–£36,000 |
| Ongoing support (monthly) | Included, but you never own it | £1,500–£4,000 | £600–£1,800 |
Prices published from our Open Price Book (v1.0 · July 2026 · next review October 2026). All prices exclude VAT.
Indicative ranges in pounds (GBP); agency and SaaS figures reflect typical publicly available pricing. Every Meridianstacks engagement is one fixed quote with milestone billing — you pay for delivered, accepted work.
A UK agency will build this well but at London-office rates. Per-seat SaaS is quick to start but you pay every month, for every user, forever — and you still work its way. Meridianstacks gives you a custom system, built by senior engineers on your working day, that you own outright.
| Factor | Meridianstacks | UK agency | Per-seat SaaS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up-front cost | Low fixed | High | Lowest |
| Cost as team grows | Unchanged | Unchanged | Rises per seat |
| You own the code | Yes | Usually | No |
| Fits your trade's workflow | Fully | Fully | Partly |
| UK-hours collaboration | Yes | Yes | Self-serve |
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