Trade CRMs can't see your fleet. Hire software can't run your jobs. ControlRoom does both — quoting, job pipelines, hire calendar, off-hire billing, Xero-native GST invoicing, and a lead engine that finds outage work before the phone rings.
If you both do electrical work and hire out equipment, you're currently running two systems and a spreadsheet. That's the gap we live in.
ServiceM8, Tradify, simPRO — great at jobs and quotes.
✗ No fleet register. No availability calendar. No off-hire billing. No utilisation.
inspHire, Point of Rental — great at fleet.
✗ No trade quoting. No job workflow. No electrical compliance. No CRM.
Dual sales / hire / service pipelines, quoting, branded proposals with open tracking, job workflow, email centre, DocuSign, client links.
Fleet register, availability & booking calendar, off-hire billing, recurring hire invoicing, utilisation reporting — synced to the CRM.
Product catalogue, generator sales workflow, supplier margin and GST handling for the retail side of the business.
Draft invoices, GST, P&L and cash position — invoices raised from the deal, not re-keyed into Xero at 9pm.
Versioned revisions, open-tracking (you'll know the minute they read it), PDF snapshots, spec sheets attached from a searchable library.
Email centre, campaign sends, and document templates — the follow-up machine that stops quotes going cold.
Every week, the networks publish planned outages. Every one of them is a business, farm or site that needs temporary power — if you get there first.
ControlRoom monitors outage feeds, matches them against your service area on a map, and creates qualified leads automatically — with the suburb, the window, and the sites affected.
No other trade or hire platform does this. It's why we built the system.
ControlRoom ships with a native AI interface (an MCP server, for the technically minded). Check availability, move deals, raise Xero invoices, capture proposals — by asking, from your phone, at the depot or on site.
Incumbent platforms bolt AI onto reports. Ours can actually drive the system.
No self-serve maze, no implementation consultants. You deal with the people who built it.
Show us how you run jobs and fleet today. We'll show you ControlRoom running a real operation — ours — and scope your setup on the spot.
We migrate your customers and quotes, import the fleet, connect Xero, and load your document templates. Setup is $500 for design partners.
Your team quotes, books and invoices from one system. Anything that doesn't fit how you work — you tell the founder, not a ticket queue.
All prices AUD ex GST. Indicative during the design-partner program.
Published pricing, July 2026.
| Price | Trade jobs | Hire / fleet | Finds you work | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ServiceM8 | $29–$349/mo flat | Yes | No | No |
| Tradify | $48–$62 /user/mo | Yes | No | No |
| simPRO | ~$70+ /user/mo + $3k+ setup | Yes | No | No |
| Hire software | Quote-on-request | No | Yes | No |
| ControlRoom | $129/mo + modules | Yes | Yes | Yes |
In Australia. ControlRoom runs on infrastructure in the Sydney region, encrypted in transit and at rest, with automated backups. Your data is exportable at any time — it's yours.
Yes — migration is what the setup fee covers. We import customers, contacts, open quotes and your fleet register from CSV exports, and we do it with you, not to you.
No. ControlRoom is Xero-native: invoices are raised from the deal or the hire booking and land in Xero as drafts with correct GST. Your bookkeeper's workflow doesn't change.
You're one of the first five businesses on the platform. You get 40% off for 12 months, $500 setup, the AI layer included, and a direct line to the founder — and you get real influence over what we build next. In return we ask for honest feedback.
Month-to-month during the design-partner program. No lock-in, cancel any time, and you can take a full export of your data with you.
Nexus Energy, a Melbourne generator hire and electrical contracting business. We built ControlRoom to run our own operation because nothing on the market handled both sides. We run it live, every day, on our own fleet and crews.
We run generators and electrical crews every day on this exact system. If you run a business like ours, we'd like you as one of the first five design partners.
Talk to Justin — 20 minutes