We killed the seat license
$500 a month per module. Every rep, tech and admin included. You pay $35 when a contract signs, and nothing when nothing closes. Per-seat pricing charges you for growing. We charge you for winning.
The argument
Per-seat pricing taxes the one thing a growing contractor has to do
Per-seat pricing takes hiring — the thing a scaling business cannot avoid — and puts a price on it. Owners respond the way anyone would: they ration logins. Then the pipeline only shows the part of the company that could justify a seat, and the work the rest of the crew is doing never makes it into a report.
Our version is two numbers you can repeat from memory. $500 a month per module with every rep, tech and admin included. $35 when a contract signs. Flat when it is slow. Nothing when nothing closes.
01
The hiring penalty
Add four reps in the spring and your software bill moves before those reps close anything. Ours does not move until a job does.
02
The rationing problem
Seats make you pick who gets in. The people you leave off are still doing work you cannot see. Put everybody in and the pipeline finally shows the whole company.
03
Aligned economics
When you win, we win. $35 on a signed contract is under a quarter of one percent on a $15,000 roof, and it is zero in a month where nothing closes.
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What are you paying to let people in?
Pick the shape of your current plan, say how many people should be in the system, and see the number your invoice does not break out.
Everyone — reps, techs, admin, subs. Not just who has a login now.
You are paying for seats
$12,000 / year
10 billable seats beyond the 5 included, at $100 each = $1,000/mo.
On our model those seats are $0. The same money is 343 signed contracts worth of our $35 performance fee.
At a $15,000 average job, $35 is 0.23% of the contract — and it is $0 in a month where nothing closes.
Seat maths uses published list rates surveyed Sept 9, 2026 and assumes monthly billing. Your contract may differ — bring it to the demo and we will run your real numbers. This estimate is free and there is nothing to sign up for.
The seat tax
What ten more users costs, by pricing model
Published list rates for four widely used trade platforms, surveyed September 9, 2026. We have left the vendors unnamed on purpose — the point is the pricing model, not any one company, and rate cards change without notice.
| Platform | Per extra user | 10 more users / mo | 10 more users / yr |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trade Software 1 — entry tier5 users included | $100 | $1,000 | $12,000 |
| Trade Software 1 — top tier8 users included | $75 | $750 | $9,000 |
| Trade Software 2 — base plan1 user, billed monthly | $159 | $1,590 | $19,080 |
| Trade Software 3 — core plan1 user included | $29 | $290 | $3,480 |
| Trade Software 4per-technician, quote only | Unpublished | Unpublished | Unpublished |
| SubcontractorHub$500 per module, unlimited users | $0 | $0 | $0 |
Figures are vendor list pricing as published September 9, 2026, on monthly billing, for seats beyond each tier's included allotment. One of the four platforms surveyed publishes no rates at all and requires a demo request to receive per-technician pricing — which is itself worth knowing before you ask.
Two ways to price software
Put the whole company in the system
When every seat costs money you start picking who gets one, and the people you leave off are still out there doing work you cannot see. Unlimited users means every rep quotes off the same numbers instead of whatever is saved on a laptop, every job is on one board, and every referral is tracked.
EasyQuote
AI-assisted proposals in minutes, with financing priced inside the quote instead of a separate lender hand-off.
See the quoting and sales stack →Sales Velocity
Automated follow-up and a pipeline you can actually see, because every rep is in it rather than the ones who earned a seat.
Sales Velocity CRM →Project Management
Every job on one board from signature to final inspection, with the crew and the subs looking at the same schedule.
Installation project management →Embedded financing
Lease, loan and cash options quoted in the same breath as the price, so the close does not stall waiting on a payment number.
Contractor financing →Where this stops making sense
If you are two people and staying that way, per-seat pricing is probably cheaper, and we will tell you so on the call rather than talk you into four modules you do not need. The maths turns somewhere around seven or more users on most plans.
This is built for contractors who are adding people, running crews across trades, and tired of deciding who is worth a login. Bring your real headcount to the demo and we will run it in front of you either way.
Pricing FAQ
Questions contractors actually ask
- What does SubcontractorHub cost if there are no per-user fees?
- $500 per month for each module you choose, with unlimited users on every module — every rep, technician and admin included, at no additional per-seat cost. On top of the module fee you pay $35 per signed contract (a closed-won project). There are no setup fees, no per-proposal or per-design charges, and no per-envelope e-signature fee. Adding people to your account never changes your bill.
- Is unlimited users actually unlimited?
- Yes. There are no user tiers, no seat counts and no read-only downgrade used to keep costs down. Every rep, technician, admin and subcontractor you want in the system gets a full login. This is the reason a parallel pilot alongside your current platform is even practical — putting your whole crew into a trial costs nothing extra.
- Four modules is $2,000 a month. How is that cheaper than per-seat software?
- It is not always, and the honest answer depends on your headcount. On a plan charging $100 per seat beyond five included users, a fifteen-person company is already paying $1,000 a month in seat fees before adding any capability. The break-even is usually somewhere around seven or more users. Below that, per-seat pricing may genuinely be cheaper — and most companies do not start with all four modules anyway. Run your own headcount through the calculator on this page rather than taking either claim on faith.
- Is the $35 per signed contract a fee on my success?
- It is under a quarter of one percent on a $15,000 job, and it is zero in a month where nothing closes. Per-seat pricing charges you the same amount in a slow month as in a busy one. The $35 only exists when a contract is signed, which is the point: our revenue moves when yours does, so we are built to help you close the next job rather than to sell you more logins.
- Who is per-seat pricing actually better for?
- A one- or two-person operation that intends to stay that size. If that is you, a low per-seat plan is probably cheaper and we will say so on the call rather than talk you into something. This model is built for contractors who are adding people, running crews across more than one trade, and tired of deciding which employees are worth a login.
- We are locked into a contract until renewal. Is it worth looking now?
- Renewal is exactly the right time to run the comparison, because you want the numbers in hand before procurement starts asking. Bring your renewal date and your real user count to a demo and you will leave with the figure for your own headcount. Nobody should rip out a platform mid-season — starting with one module alongside what you already have is the normal path, and unlimited users is what makes running the two side by side affordable.
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