Quick Lead vs Tradify — the same certificates for
£10 flat, not £37 per user.
Tradify is a good, mature product built for teams. Quick Lead is a newer tool built for the one-person band. Different tools for different businesses — here's the honest breakdown, both ways.
Written by the founder — a UK Gas Safe registered & NICEIC engineer. This page concedes what Tradify genuinely does better, and shows exactly where a flat £10/month beats £37 per user for a sole trader.
No cherry-picked numbers. Sources linked under the table. Spot an error? [email protected]
Two good tools, two different businesses
If you only read one section, read this one. Neither answer is wrong — it depends on who's on the payroll.
Choose Tradify if…
- You run a team — it has subcontractor scheduling, timesheets and staff activity history
- You want native two-way accounting sync with Xero, Sage or QuickBooks Online
- You want automatic reminders sent to customers — appointments (Pro) and boiler-service reminders (Plus)
- You need oil certificates (CD/10–CD/14) as well as gas — 14 gas & oil templates in total
- You want a mature platform with years in the market and a large review base
Choose Quick Lead if…
- You're a one-person band and £37+ per user/month is money you'd rather keep
- You want every certificate type for £10/month flat — CP12 (with AI data-plate scan), EICR and more
- You want AI to parse your job emails — landlord, letting-agent and lead-platform emails become draft job cards
- You work in cellars, lofts and basements — works offline on your phone, syncs when signal returns
- A monthly Xero/QuickBooks-format CSV export to your accountant does the job
Quick Lead vs Tradify: the full table
Every Tradify cell below was checked against tradifyhq.com or the official Tradify Help Centre in July 2026 — sources under the table. Their pages may change; check tradifyhq.com for current details.
| Feature | Quick Lead | Tradify (as of July 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat: £5, £10 or £15 per month — not per user. No contract. | Per user: Lite £34, Pro £37, Plus £44 per user/month (Custom plan by request). |
| One person, certificates enabled | £10/month — Pro includes the full certificate suite, every type. | £37/month — Pro is the cheapest plan listing Compliance Certificates. Difference: about £324/year. |
| Digital certificates | ✓ 10 types incl. CP12 (with AI data-plate scan), EICR, Minor Works, EIC, Fire Detection, Gas Warning Notice. No oil certificates. | ✓ Strong: 14 gas & oil templates incl. Landlord Gas Safety Record and oil CD/10–CD/14 forms, plus electrical safety certificates. |
| Email-lead AI parsing | ✓ Dedicated [email protected] address; AI extracts contact, address, phone, urgency and dates into a draft job card you confirm. | Enquiry form + email inbox bring enquiries into Tradify to action into customers, quotes and jobs. No AI email parsing mentioned on tradifyhq.com. |
| AI features | Data-plate scan on CP12; AI reply drafts and AI payment-chase drafts (plan-dependent — see /pricing). | SmartRead for Bills and SmartWrite — on the Plus plan only (£44/user/month). |
| Offline mode | ✓ Works offline on your phone — fill a CP12 in the cellar, syncs when signal returns. | ✗ Tradify's Help Centre: the web console and mobile app need a live internet connection. |
| SMS costs | On-My-Way text included from Starter. Elite adds a bring-your-own-provider SMS gateway (you pay your SMS provider directly). | Add-on: text message quotes/invoices and reminders at £0.10 per message. |
| Accounting | Xero-format and QuickBooks-format CSV invoice export (one row per line item, VAT tax types, date-range filtered). No live sync. | ✓ Better here: native two-way sync with Xero, Sage & QuickBooks Online, from the Pro plan. |
| Card payments | Invoices with PDF download, overdue tracking and AI-drafted payment-chase emails you send. No in-app card payment yet — you can't collect the money through the app. | ✓ Better here: built-in card payments via Stripe on every plan, so customers can pay the invoice directly (Stripe fees apply). |
| Reminders | In-app reminders to you (CP12 12-month, EICR 5-year) with one-tap renewal-job creation. No automatic emails to customers. | ✓ Automatic appointment reminders to customers (Pro); automatic service reminders (Plus). |
| Gas Safe Register submission | ✗ Not offered — you notify the register the same way you do today. | Not mentioned on Tradify's gas certificates page — check with Tradify directly. |
| Team features | ✗ None — built for the one-person band on purpose. | ✓ Subcontractor scheduling, timesheets, staff activity history. |
| Free trial & contract | 14-day free trial of Pro features, no card. No contract, cancel any time. | 14-day free trial with all features. Check tradifyhq.com for current trial and contract terms. |
| Maturity & reviews | Newer product from a solo founder with a small user base — early days, honestly. | ✓ Mature platform, years in market, large review base across app stores and review sites. |
Sources, all checked July 2026: Tradify UK pricing, plan features, certificate & SmartTools plan placement and SMS add-on prices: tradifyhq.com/uk/pricing · certificate templates: tradifyhq.com/uk/features/gas-safety-certificates · enquiries: tradifyhq.com/uk/features/customer-enquiry-software-app · Xero sync & trial terms: tradifyhq.com/uk/xero-and-tradify-addon · offline: Tradify Help Centre, “Does Tradify Work Offline?”. Quick Lead facts: quicklead.app/pricing. Tradify's pricing and features may change — if anything here is out of date, tell us at [email protected] and we'll correct it.
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Flat price vs per user — the sole-trader maths
Tradify prices per user — Lite £34, Pro £37, Plus £44 per user/month (as of July 2026). That's a fair model for teams: a firm with four engineers gets four schedules, four timesheets, four logins, and pays for four seats.
But if you're a one-person band, "per user" is just your price. To get digital certificates on Tradify you need the Pro plan at £37/month. Quick Lead Pro is £10/month flat and includes every certificate type — current and future. That's £27 a month, about £324 a year, staying in your pocket for doing the same paperwork. (Those are Tradify's monthly rates; it discounts roughly 15% on annual, committed billing — Quick Lead's £10 is monthly, no contract.)
Both trials run 14 days — so the cheapest way to settle it is to run both for a fortnight on real jobs.
Certificates: both do them well — the differences are price, oil and the scan
Credit where it's due: Tradify's certificate library is genuinely comprehensive — 14 gas and oil templates including the Landlord Gas Safety Record, Gas Warning Notice and the oil CD/10–CD/14 forms, plus electrical safety certificates (as of July 2026). If you do oil work, Tradify has forms Quick Lead doesn't.
Quick Lead has 10 certificate types: CP12, EICR, Minor Works, EIC, Visual Inspection, Danger Notice, Fire Detection, FADS, Gas Warning Notice and a generic Work Completion Certificate. Two things are different. First, price: the full suite is on the £10/month flat Pro plan, while Tradify's certificates start at £37 per user/month. Second, the CP12 has an AI data-plate scan — photograph the boiler data plate and the AI fills make, model, GC number, serial and type into the appliance row, so you're not retyping a smudged label by torchlight.
One more honest note on reminders: Tradify's Plus plan sends automatic service reminders to your customers. Quick Lead deliberately reminds you instead — an in-app banner before each CP12 (12-month) or EICR (5-year) is due, with one tap to create the renewal job — so you decide when the customer hears from you. If you want fully unattended customer emails, that's a point to Tradify.
Where your leads actually arrive: your inbox
Most sole-trader work arrives as an email — a landlord, a letting agent, a Checkatrade or MyBuilder lead notification. Tradify handles this with an enquiry form and an email inbox: enquiries land in Tradify and you action each one into a customer, quote or job yourself. It works, and it's included from their entry plans.
Quick Lead goes a step further: your dedicated [email protected] address is read by AI, which extracts the contact name, address, phone number, urgency and dates and drafts the job card for you — you confirm with one tap. As of July 2026 we found no AI email parsing mentioned anywhere on tradifyhq.com; if they add it, we'll update this page.
Getting leads from the platforms? See how the parsing works with Checkatrade leads, MyBuilder leads and letting-agent emails.
What Tradify does better — said plainly
A comparison you can trust has to cut both ways. Here's where Tradify wins.
Accounting. Tradify's native two-way sync with Xero, Sage and QuickBooks Online — invoices, payments and contacts flowing automatically — is better than Quick Lead's CSV export. If your bookkeeping runs through Xero daily, this alone might decide it.
Getting paid. Tradify has built-in card payments through Stripe on every plan, so a customer can pay your invoice on the spot (Stripe's fees apply). Quick Lead lets you invoice, track overdue bills and fire off an AI-drafted chaser — but you can't yet collect the money inside the app. If taking card payment matters to you today, that's a point to Tradify.
Teams. Subcontractor scheduling, timesheets, staff activity history, purchase orders and kit bundles on higher plans. Quick Lead has none of this, deliberately. The moment you hire, Tradify's per-user model starts earning its price.
Maturity. Tradify has been in the market for years and has a large review base across the app stores and review sites. Quick Lead is newer, founder-run, with a small user base. We think that's a feature (you email [email protected], the person who built it replies) — but it's only fair to say it out loud.
Automatic customer messaging. Automatic appointment reminders (Pro) and automatic service reminders (Plus), plus text quotes and invoices at £0.10 per message. Quick Lead keeps you in the loop by design — reminders come to you, not straight to the customer.
Quick Lead vs Tradify, asked straight
The questions tradespeople actually ask when comparing the two.