A SimPRO alternative for teams of one to ten

They are not the same kind of product

SimPRO is a business-management platform. It handles scheduling, dispatch, stock, CRM and accounting, and it is built to run an operation with a controller assigning work to a board of engineers. If that is your business, it is a reasonable thing to buy.

Maintivo is an inspection and reporting app. It does one job: capture the inspection on site and get the branded report sent before the engineer leaves. That is the entire product.

So the honest question is not which is better. It is which problem do you actually have.

You probably want SimPRO if

• You need scheduling and dispatch, with someone assigning jobs each morning.
• You need van stock, purchase orders and supplier integration.
• You are running twenty or more engineers and need the operational spine.
• You want one system for the whole business, including accounts.

You probably want Maintivo if

• You are a team of one to ten, and the thing eating your evenings is the write-up.
• You want the report captured on site and emailed before you leave the drive.
• Your engineers work in plant rooms and basements with no signal.
• You do not want your engineers seeing invoices, pricing or margins.
• You want to be running it today, not after an onboarding process.

The thing SimPRO does not do at all

Set the seats and the scheduling aside for a moment, because this is the real split. SimPRO will give you a form and put your logo on it. What it will not do is tell you that the system you are standing in front of is in the wrong leak-check band.

On Maintivo's F-Gas forms you pick the refrigerant and enter the charge. It applies that gas's GWP, converts the kilos into tonnes of CO₂e, works out which statutory leak-check interval the system falls into, and writes the next-check date against the unit in your asset register. Then it nudges you at ninety days, thirty days, and again if it slips. That sum decides whether you are compliant for the next twelve months, and on every other platform you are doing it in your head, in a plant room.

Two more things it does that a form builder cannot. Fields that do not apply are hidden, so if the system holds no F-gas there is no leak-check section, and if no leak was found it will not ask you where it was — you cannot sign a record that contradicts itself. And your engineer's name is set by the admin and cannot be edited on site, so the person who signed is the person who did the work.

Talk instead of typing, without letting a machine near your numbers

Hold the button and say what you found. It runs on Apple's on-device recogniser, so your voice never leaves the phone and it keeps working in a basement. The optional AI then tidies your wording into a sentence a customer can read — and that is all it is permitted to do. Every number is swapped for a placeholder before the text is sent, so the model never sees a figure and cannot change one. It writes prose; it never writes data, and it never asserts a verdict.

Maintivo produces and keeps the record. You are the registered engineer, you sign it, and you remain the competent person. There is no electrical form, so no EICRs.

What you give up

We would rather say this plainly than have you find out after you have paid. Maintivo has no scheduling board, no dispatch, no stock control, no CRM and no accounting. If you need those, it is the wrong tool and you should look at SimPRO or one of the other platforms.

What you get instead

A 3-day free trial, charged through the App Store only if you keep it. No onboarding fee, no long contract, no minimum seat count and no exit fee. Maintivo Pro is £39.99 a month, engineer seats start at £8.99 a month, and invoicing is an optional £9.99 add-on when you are ready to bill. Set it up yourself in an afternoon and run a real job through it.

Your engineers capture the job offline, the customer signs on the glass, and a PDF with your logo lands in their inbox before the van leaves the drive.

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