Switching from Fergus
Every feature. One price. No add-ons.
Fergus splits its best features across a $77 Professional plan and a menu of paid add-ons. Teamsmith is one flat plan: every feature, unlimited jobs, $30 per user per month.
Teamsmith vs Fergus, side by side
How the two stack up on the things that matter when you're running jobs, crews and invoices every day.
| Feature | Teamsmith | Fergus |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | One plan: $30 per user, per month. Every feature included | Essentials from $53 and Professional from $77 per user, plus paid add-ons on top |
| Forms, checklists & safety | Drag-and-drop form builder with checklists, SWMS-style forms and certificates, included | Checklists, forms and health & safety locked to the $77 Professional plan; certificates are a paid add-on |
| Reporting | Full reports catalogue plus a custom report builder, included for everyone | Advanced reporting reserved for the Professional plan |
| Changing a sent quote | Revise and re-send freely. Every version is kept, nothing gets lost | Published quotes and approved invoices can’t be edited; users report starting over |
| Client portal | Real client portal: quotes, invoices and job info in one place, payable online | Email links for quotes and invoices; no client log-in portal |
| Support | Aussie-based support included for every account | Email and chat on Essentials; phone support reserved for Professional |
| Add-on fees | No add-ons, one number on the bill | Timesheet-only seats, contractor seats, SMS bundles and certificates all priced separately |
| Supplier price books | Supplier directory and work orders with emailed PDFs; no live wholesaler price feeds yet | Live price books and automatic supplier-invoice import from major wholesalers. Genuinely strong |
| Back-costing | Job profitability reporting from quotes, time and invoices | Dedicated back-costing workflow reconciling supplier invoices per job |
| Accounting sync | Two-way Xero and MYOB Business sync | Two-way Xero and MYOB sync, equally mature |
Pricing
Forms, checklists & safety
Reporting
Changing a sent quote
Client portal
Support
Add-on fees
Supplier price books
Back-costing
Accounting sync
Based on publicly available Fergus AU pricing and documentation, August 2026. Plans and prices in AUD and may change. Fergus is a trademark of Fergus Software Ltd, which is not affiliated with Teamsmith.
Fair's fair
But… their supplier integrations are the real deal
Fergus was built by a working plumber, and it shows in two places: live wholesaler price books with automatic supplier-invoice import, and a dedicated back-costing workflow that reconciles every supplier docket against the job. If your business lives and dies by merchant pricing, that's a genuine advantage Teamsmith doesn't match today.
If that's the deal-breaker for you, Fergus might be the right fit. If not, read on.
Forms
Compliance without the Professional plan
On Fergus, checklists, forms and health & safety need the $77 plan, and certificates cost extra again. Teamsmith's form builder is included, so you build exactly what your trade needs.
- Drag-and-drop builder: photos, signatures, checkboxes and required fields
- Site inspections, safety checklists and compliance certificates attached to jobs
- Completed forms stored against the client forever and emailed as branded PDFs
Quoting
Quotes you can actually change
Sent the quote and the client wants the heat pump moved? Revise and re-send in a minute. Every version is kept, the client always sees the latest, and acceptance is one tap online.
- Full version history on every quote, so you revise without starting over
- Clients accept online, and you’re notified the second they do
- Accepted quote becomes the invoice, work order or task list without re-typing
Reporting
Know your margins without upgrading
Job profitability, invoice aging, staff utilisation and quote win rates: the reports Fergus keeps for Professional are standard issue here, along with a builder for your own.
- A full catalogue of job, invoice, time and schedule reports out of the box
- Filter by client, team member, job type or period, then drill into the detail
- Build and save custom reports from curated job and invoice data sources
Outgrowing Fergus?
The complaints Fergus users post most often, and what Teamsmith does about them.
Switching from Fergus is a one-arvo job
No lock-in contract on their side, none on ours. Here's the whole move.
Export your data
Grab a CSV export of your clients and job history from your current tool. Every platform has one, and we can point you to it.
We help you map it
Send it to our Aussie support team and we’ll help you map and import it for free during your trial. Clients, sites and contacts land ready to use.
Run a real job
Quote it, schedule it, do it, invoice it. You’ve got 14 days with your whole crew, every feature, no credit card.
Do the maths on your crew
A five-person crew on Fergus Professional is $385 a month before add-ons. On Teamsmith it's $150, everything included. 14 days free to check we're right.
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