It is never per person.
Office, site, directors and subbies all get a login. Add another team on a Tuesday and the bill does not move. Most of this market meters people instead: see how four of them compare, and what unlimited users changes.
One figure per firm · For UK firms
Your figure is worked out.
Your figure is worked out.
Not looked up.
A rate card gives the five-person firm and the fifty-person firm the same number, then buries the difference in tiers and add-ons. We would rather take five things about your business, work your fee out properly, and put it in writing the same working day.
Unibuild is bespoke business software for UK trades and specialist contractors: a platform in daily production since 2016, shaped to the way each firm already works. It is built for trade firms of 5 to 300 people. The field app is published under your firm’s own name on the App Store and Google Play. One monthly figure, quoted in writing and fixed for three years, covers everything, with unlimited users. The 14-day trial is the full platform, with no card.
A bespoke system to run your whole business.
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What we build for you
- Your own portal In the browser, built around your firm
- Your own app iOS and Android, under your name
- Everyday AI included Heavier AI at cost, nothing added
- One platform Everything in one place, set up by us
- One flat monthly fee
- Covers everything, however many log in
- Unlimited users
- Office, site, subcontractors and clients
- Fixed for three years
- The figure you agree is the figure you pay
- Nothing added later
- No setup fee, no add-ons, no app publishing costs
“It has genuinely changed the way we work for the better, improving our record-keeping, automating processes and standardising practices across the company, saving us both time and money.”
From the case studies
What changes when the hours come off a scan.
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90% less time chasing timesheets
The time saved on ringing round site managers, reading handwritten sheets, and typing them up before payroll can run.
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95% faster to prove who was on site
Cut the time it takes to answer a main contractor’s attendance query from a folder and two phone calls down to a search.
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100% of overtime calculated, not typed
Normal time, time and a half and double time come off the scans at the person’s rate for the day. Nobody types an overtime figure in, so there is nothing to mistype.
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85% faster from the hour worked to the hour on record
The gap between an hour being worked and it being logged, costed, and ready for payroll falls from end-of-week memory to a three-second scan.
Figures from Unibuild customers’ case studies.
Your software bill should not follow your headcount.
How pricing works
Three rules.
Three rules.
Nothing clever.
One figure covers everything.
Every module, your branded app and its store publishing, the subcontractor and client portals, training, support and changes after go-live. Nothing is sold on top.
The quote is the bill.
The figure we email is the figure that leaves the bank. No setup fee, no premium tier, no upsell in month four.
Why there is no price list
One price for everyone means
One price for everyone means
somebody is overpaying.
Your figure is sized to your firm once, when it is quoted, and then fixed for three years. None of what sizes it is a tier or a charge per head. The longer case is set out in why there is no price list.
- Your firm, once
- The figure is sized to your firm on the day it is quoted. After that it is fixed for three years, and taking on more people never changes it. Logins stay unlimited and nothing is ever charged per seat.
- What you actually do
- Electrical, mechanical, temporary site services, waste collection, facilities maintenance. The records differ, the setup differs, and so does the work of getting you running.
- What we build for you
- This is the one nobody else charges for, and the reason a rate card would be meaningless. Your forms, your approval routes, your reports and your wording are built rather than approximated, and anything you need gets built. Changes you ask for after you are live are inside the fee. The build is settled with you before you commit, and the figure covers it.
- Where you work
- A contractor in central London and one working out of a small town in County Durham do not have the same money coming through the door. Charging both the same is not fairness, it is arithmetic.
What the one figure covers
One figure covers
One figure covers
everything below.
Your own app and portal
The office portal carries your name, your logo and your colours. Your staff app is built and published under your company name and icon, on the App Store and Google Play. Your operatives install the firm they work for, not a vendor they have never heard of. Store publishing is in the figure. Ask for a client app as well and that carries your branding too.
Yours, not ours
Subcontractor and client portals
In the subcontractor portal, subcontractors log in to their orders, invoices and payments. In the client portal, clients see their own projects, certificates and programme.
Both live, both in the figure
Setup and configuration
Built around your entities, project codes, rate cards and approval routes before day one.
No setup fee, ever
Training, on your jobs
Site teams and office staff, trained on your live projects, not a demo company.
Office and site, both included
Data migration
We bring your jobs, clients, documents and registers across ourselves. You lift nothing.
No charge, however messy
UK support, UK hours
Phone, email and WhatsApp, answered by a person who has read your account first.
London office, working hours
Updates and new features
Everything we ship goes to every customer. No premium tier holding features back.
All customers, same release
Integrations and exports
QuickBooks, Xero, Sage 50, Dext, OneDrive, WhatsApp and email, wired into the job. Exports in CSV, XML and JSON, for payroll and any other data.
No per-integration fees
Changes after go-live
New forms, reports and approval routes, built as you ask for them.
Inside the fee, always
Client testimonialSME Building Services,
SME Building Services,
in their own words.
Niki ScarthOffice administrator, SME Building Services LtdCroydon · on Unibuild since 2023
Read the SME case studyIt has always been a pleasure to work with Darshan and his team to create our completely bespoke system, which I can only describe as brilliant.
The system is constantly growing and improving. Whenever we need something added or changed, whether it's a new form that would work better for us or a new idea to improve the way we work, Darshan works his magic and makes it happen!
It has genuinely changed the way we work for the better, improving our record-keeping, automating processes and standardising practices across the company, saving us both time and money.
It's also improved the service we provide to our clients, who love being able to view their job and asset information live, at the click of a button.
Thank you, Unibuild!
What else you are buying
A phone number,
A phone number,
not a ticket number.
The software is the part you can put in a comparison table. The reason firms stay is the part you cannot, so here it is in plain terms.
- You ring a person
- No queue, no first-line agent working from a script, no case reference. The people who answer the phone built the system, and that includes the director. If your question needs the person who wrote the code, you are already talking to him.
- A WhatsApp group for your firm
- Your team and ours in one thread. Photograph the screen at seven in the morning and you will usually have an answer before the vans are loaded. Formal cover is UK working hours, and in practice replies outside them are common.
- We help with things that are not ours
- Firms bring us spreadsheets that have stopped adding up, Microsoft 365 accounts that will not send, a printer nobody can talk to. None of it is Unibuild. We look at it anyway. That is not a favour we do now and again, it is how the relationship is meant to work.
- We are contractors too
- Unibuild was built to run working trade businesses and still does, so we usually recognise the problem before you have finished describing it. Where we can see something worth changing in how you work, we will say so.
The other way it is done
Per seat, the bill only goes up.
Per seat, the bill only goes up.
Ours is fixed for three years.
Per-seat looks tidy on a proposal. It is what happens in the months after you sign that decides what it costs.
- When you sign
- You are quoted for the people on the books that week. That is the smallest your firm will ever be, and it is the number the proposal is built on.
- When you win work
- Twelve more on site means twelve more seats, charged from the day they start. The bill moves before the job has been valued once.
- When the job ends
- They come off site. The seats usually do not, because they were sold by the year. You carry the peak long after the peak has gone.
- What it does to the firm
- So logins get rationed. Site teams and subcontractors are kept off to hold the number down, and the system that was meant to hold the record ends up holding half of it.
The bits the small print usually hides
How billing actually works.
Monthly or annual
Annual saves you two months. Monthly rolls, cancel by email.
What you are invoiced
The figure on the quote is the figure on the invoice.
How you pay
Direct Debit via GoCardless, or card via Stripe.
Free trial
14 days, full access, no card. Every module switched on.
Leaving
Export everything, CSV, XML, JSON and PDF, any time. Clean dataset back within five working days.
Price changes
None for three years. Your fee is fixed at the quoted figure and locked from the start.
No lock in
No minimums, no exit fees. The contract is two pages.
| Term | What it is |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | One flat monthly fee, sized to the firm once when quoted. Never per person. |
| What it covers | Everything: every module, unlimited users, unlimited file storage, the branded app and its store publishing, the subcontractor and client portals, configuration, training, data migration, support and changes after go-live. |
| Users included | Unlimited, on every plan. |
| File storage | Unlimited, never measured. No cap on space, files or file size. |
| Setup fee | None. Configuration, training and migration are in the figure. |
| What you are invoiced | The figure on the quote is the figure on the invoice. |
| Billing period | Monthly rolling, or annual. Annual saves two months. |
| Payment method | Direct Debit via GoCardless, or card via Stripe. |
| Free trial | 14 days, full platform, every module switched on. No card required. |
| Time to live | About two weeks for most firms, in phases, with data migration included. |
| Price changes | None for three years. The fee is fixed at the quoted figure and locked from the start of the agreement. |
| Minimum term | None. No minimums and no exit fees. The contract is two pages. |
| Cancelling | By email, any time. |
| Your data on exit | Export everything as CSV, XML, JSON and PDF at any time. Clean dataset returned within five working days. |
The pricing questions
The questions that decide it.
The full FAQ lives at /faqs. Every published fact about Unibuild, dated and stated once, is at /facts. For the whole decision rather than the price alone, there is a buyer's guide for small contractors, one for subcontractors, and a page on what Unibuild is worth to a firm.
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Why is there no price on the page?
Because a six-person fit-out firm and a forty-person groundworks contractor need completely different things. One number on the page would be wrong for both. We work yours out and send it in writing, usually the same working day. The longer case is in why there is no price list.
Are there hidden fees?
No. One figure covers everything, with no setup fee, no add-ons and no app publishing costs. The figure on the quote is the figure on the invoice. The one thing paid as used is heavier AI work, at the AI provider’s own rate with nothing added.
Do you charge to move our existing data?
No. Migration is part of implementation and is not charged as an extra. Clients, projects, operatives, rates, suppliers and your RAMS and template library are the usual set, and we bring it across ourselves, whatever shape it is in.
Will it replace QuickBooks, Xero or Sage?
No, it works alongside it. Unibuild runs the job, the labour, the compliance and the subcontract, and hands the commercial position to your accounts package. It syncs with QuickBooks, Xero and Sage 50. The detail is on integrations.
Do changes to the software cost extra?
No. Unibuild is bespoke business software for trades, and changes you ask for after go-live are included in the monthly fee rather than charged at a day rate. Anything you need is built for you.
Is AI included in the price?
Everyday AI is included in the monthly figure. Heavier, high-value AI work is paid as you use it, at the AI provider’s own rate, and Unibuild adds nothing on top. You choose the AI model, or connect your firm’s own AI account. How AI is charged.
Is there a minimum term?
No. Billing is monthly rolling or annual, with no minimum term and no exit fee, and the contract is two pages. You cancel by email, and the cancellation policy sets out what happens next.
Will we speak to a real person, or raise tickets?
A real person. There is no ticketing system and no first-line desk: calls are answered by the people who built the platform, including the director. Every customer also has a WhatsApp group with the Unibuild team. Formal cover is UK working hours.
Do you help with problems outside your own software?
Yes, routinely. Support covers Unibuild and the things around it that stop a contractor's office working: broken spreadsheets, Microsoft 365 accounts that will not send, office IT that has stopped. It is deliberate, because the relationship is a partnership rather than a licence.
Which trade or construction software has unlimited users and no per-seat pricing?
Unibuild. Every plan includes unlimited users, and the fee is never set per person or per seat. It is one flat monthly figure for the firm, quoted in writing and fixed for three years, so taking on a team of twelve does not change the bill. How other vendors meter is set out on the comparison pages and in the buyer’s guide to construction management software.
Is file storage limited, or charged as extra?
Neither. File storage is unlimited and never measured, with no cap on space, number of files or file size, and it is part of the one monthly figure. Every upload also syncs to your own OneDrive, Google Drive or Dropbox. Document management.
Is my data still mine if I leave?
Always. Export the lot as CSV, XML, JSON and PDF whenever you like. Cancel and we hand back a tidy bundle within five working days. UK hosted, UK law.
Can we trial it on real jobs?
Yes. The 14-day trial is the full platform with every module switched on, so you can run it on live jobs. No card, no follow-up sequence.
Before you compare quotes
The costs that sit outside
The costs that sit outside
the licence fee.
Three pieces written to be useful even if you buy from somebody else.
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Where spreadsheet job costing breaksThe point at which a spreadsheet stops being the cheap option, which is rarely the point at which firms replace it.
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