Unibuild compared
with Joblogic.
Joblogic counts the people who log in. Unibuild does not count them at all. That is the difference that matters: taking on more people never changes Unibuild's fee.
Joblogic facts read from their pricing page on
What each one charges for.
Joblogic publishes its model plainly, which is more than most of this market does. The table below states it in their words, not ours.
| Joblogic | Unibuild | |
|---|---|---|
| The meter | Per named user, per month | Per firm. Never per person or per seat |
| Who counts as a user | Anyone who logs in. Their pricing page lists office staff, field engineers on the mobile app, and managers | Nobody is counted. Unlimited users on every plan |
| Published rate | Yes, on the Standard plan. Premium and Enterprise are quoted on request | One figure per firm, quoted in writing, usually the same working day. It covers everything |
| Typical term | Most customers commit to 24 or 36 months, with 12 available | Monthly rolling or annual. No minimum term, no exit fee, cancel by email |
| Onboarding | Tailored. Self-serve at the small end, fees structured individually where integrations are involved | No setup fee. Configuration, training and data migration included |
| Price changes after signing | Not published | Fee fixed and locked for three years |
| The app your staff install | Joblogic, published under the Joblogic name on the App Store and Google Play | Published on the App Store and Google Play under your company's own name and icon |
| Changes to fit your process | A custom form builder and 70+ apps, modules and integrations. Enterprise is scoped individually, including bespoke configuration | Built around your process. Changes requested after go-live are inside the monthly fee |
Joblogic's current figures are on their own pricing page, which is where they should be read.
The last two rows were read on 23 September 2026 from Joblogic's pricing page and its App Store and Google Play listings.
The March problem.
You win a job in March that needs six extra operatives for eleven weeks. On a per-user meter, six logins is six more lines on the bill from the month they start. Taking them off again is a conversation at renewal rather than a switch. So the honest reaction, the one every office makes eventually, is to not give them logins. The hours come back on paper, somebody types them in, and the system you bought stops holding the thing you bought it for.
That is the real cost of a per-seat meter in construction, and it is not the money. It is that the meter argues with the work. Labour here is seasonal, subcontracted and lumpy, and a system priced per head quietly encourages you to keep people out of it.
Unibuild's fee is attached to the firm, so the six operatives get logins because there is no reason not to. Same for the foreman who only ever approves a timesheet, the client who wants read-only access to their own job, and the subcontractor filing their own certificates. Clock-in, the client portal and the subcontractor portal are all in the same flat fee.
None of this makes Joblogic expensive. At a settled headcount a per-user rate is simple and predictable. It is a different shape, and the shape matters more than the rate.
Where Joblogic fits.
Three cases where Joblogic's focus is the strength.
| If this is you | Why |
|---|---|
| You run reactive maintenance and service contracts, billing by job and by SLA | That is the problem Joblogic is built around, and it is a field service product first |
| You have a small, stable office team and few field logins | A per-user rate at a settled headcount is easy to budget |
| You want a published number before you talk to anyone | Joblogic publishes a rate for its Standard plan |
Built inside two contracting firms.
Unibuild was not designed as a product and then sold into construction. The platform was written in 2016 for a UK temporary power, water and welfare provider and has run that business every working day since. A second contractor, an M&E and air conditioning firm in Croydon, has run its field app and client portal since 2023. That is why the awkward UK-specific parts exist at all.
CIS works to HMRC tax months, 6th to 5th, calculating deductions on the labour element only, and closes into a CIS300 return pack. The domestic reverse charge is a treatment on the invoices and applications Unibuild raises, not a note somebody adds afterwards. Applications for payment, retention and the subcontract ledger are first-class, because the business that commissioned the software lived or died on them.
Unibuild is bespoke construction management software for UK contractors: a platform in daily production since 2016, shaped to the way each firm already works. Anything a firm needs, Unibuild builds for it. Changes asked for after go-live are included in the monthly fee rather than charged at a day rate. That is how bespoke construction software works at Unibuild.
The app on your engineers' phones is yours. Your staff app is published on the App Store and Google Play under your company's own name and icon. Your operatives download your app, not ours. See the staff app under your own name.
Joblogic and Unibuild, asked plainly.
Is Joblogic priced per user?
What is the difference between Unibuild and Joblogic?
Is there a construction system where extra site staff do not cost more?
Can we move from Joblogic to Unibuild, and what happens to the data?
Compared with the rest.
Same axis, same standard of evidence, one page each.
| System | What the bill scales with | Who it suits |
|---|---|---|
| Procore | Annual construction volume | Large main contractors running many projects at scale |
| BigChange | Licences | Mobile workforces where vehicle tracking is the point |
| Eque2 | Not published | Firms whose centre of gravity is Sage and the ledger |
| Causeway | Not published | Large contractors, highways, infrastructure and local authorities |
| COINS | Per user licence | Contractors and homebuilders wanting one ERP with the ledger inside |
| Autodesk Construction Cloud | User, project or account, by product | Model-led projects needing a common data environment |
| Commusoft | A licence per office user, manager and engineer | Heating, plumbing and electrical service firms |
| PlanRadar | Named users, with subcontractors and watchers free | Firms whose work is defects, inspections and handover records |
| Fieldwire | Named users, with unlimited-user options on custom contracts | Teams coordinating field tasks against drawings |
| Every system, side by side | The hub table | Anyone still drawing up a shortlist |