YellowTradie against Powered Now

Powered Now is a UK trade app that has been around for years. It covers quotes and invoices and jobs and the diary, and it adds certificates and forms and staff tools that many trade firms rely on. That breadth is its strength, and this comparison starts there. If you want forms and team controls in one account today, Powered Now is the more set up choice.

Our verdict is that Powered Now is the better fit for a team that needs forms and routing, and YellowTradie is the better fit for a person on their own who wants the quote to write itself from speech and the records to stay on the phone. The table is for that one person.

Prices checked on 24 October 2026. YellowTradie checked on yellowtradie.com/pricing.html. Powered Now checked on powerednow.com/pricing on the same day.

When YellowTradie is the better fit

Choose YellowTradie if you want:

• to speak the job on site and have the quote fill itself into Materials and Labour and travel and charges
• a single price of £19.99 a month with no count of users, because there is only you
• your jobs and quotes and invoices kept on your phone, with no second login
• the customer's link to approve a quote without an account or a password
• tax figures worked from your records as an estimate, with the note that it is not advice

Side by side

| What you pay and what it gets checked on | YellowTradie | Powered Now | |---|---|---| | Price checked on 24 Oct 2026 | £19.99 a month. One plan, everything in the app, no per seat fee. 14 days free, card needed. App not in the shops yet, 14 days start when it opens. Checked on yellowtradie.com/pricing.html | Business £28 per user per month, Professional £32 per user per month, Premium £40 per user per month. All prices exclude VAT. Annual options are Business £280 and Professional £320 and Premium £400 per user per year. Checked on powerednow.com/pricing on 24 Oct 2026 | | How price grows with users | Flat. One person on one phone is the whole plan | Per user. Each extra login adds the same monthly charge for that plan | | Cost for one person at the lowest plan checked 24 Oct 2026 | £19.99 a month | £28 a month on Business, plus VAT | | Cost for two people at the lowest plan checked 24 Oct 2026 | Not a fit. One person on one phone only. No second login | £56 a month on Business at 2 times £28, plus VAT | | Quote written by speaking | Yes. Each sentence files into its place while you talk, and the total is worked out. You can still type in the same form | No. Quotes are written by picking items and typing. Product catalogue is included on Professional and above | | Quote to job to invoice chain | The quote becomes the job on approval, and the job becomes the bill in one press. The job keeps the quote and the invoice and the costs and the photos | The quote becomes the job, and the job becomes the invoice. Progress invoicing and deposits are included | | Jobs on the phone with no signal | Quotes and jobs and invoices are on the phone. A spoken phrase needs a signal to be turned into lines | Cloud app on phone and desktop. Diary and jobs need a signal to stay in sync | | Where your records live | On your phone in the app. A sheet export is made for the accountant when you need it | In Powered Now cloud. Phone and tablet and PC access from the same account | | Customer link to answer a quote | A link per quote and per bill at link.yellowtradie.com. The customer opens it and taps Approve or Decline | Customer portal on Premium, plus online payments. Quotes and invoices are sent by email and viewed online | | Chasing what is still owed | A card on Home when a sent invoice is past due. The message asks for the balance and carries the bank details and the reference | Invoice and quote chasing on Premium, with automated reminders | | Money paid and still owed | Payment log on the phone with date and method per payment, part payments kept, balance and ageing used by chasing and Home | Online payments and mobile card reader included, VAT returns and Making Tax Digital included | | Accounting link live today | Sheet export for the accountant. Connections to Xero and QuickBooks and FreeAgent are being built | Xero integration on Professional and above. Expense tracking is included there too | | Diary and assigning work | Diary with busy days and multi day jobs. It moves to In Progress on its start date. No way to give the job to someone else | Diary with job routing and time tracking. Drag and drop staff scheduling on Premium, team chat and HR tracking on Professional and above | | Trial and card | 14 days free, card needed to start. App not in the shops yet | 14 day trial, no card needed to start, as stated on powerednow.com/pricing |

What Powered Now does better

Powered Now has forms and certificates that you can fill on site and send as a PDF. We do not issue certificates, so a plumber or gas engineer who needs that sheet will find it there and not here. The same plan also adds job routing and What3Words and a sketch tool and AI text on Premium. Those are built for a crew that moves between jobs in one day.

It is also built for more than one person. You can add your team, track sickness and holiday, and add staff scheduling and staff tracking. YellowTradie is one login and has no way to pass a job to someone else. If you pay even one other person each week, that difference will be felt each morning.

The Xero link is live there today on Professional and above, and VAT returns are included. Our links are still being built and the site says so. That is not a small gap if your bookkeeper already works in Xero.

Questions

What does Powered Now cost for a solo trader today

On powerednow.com/pricing checked on 24 October 2026, Powered Now is £28 a month on Business and £32 on Professional and £40 on Premium, each per user per month and excluding VAT. Annual billing is Business £280 per year and Professional £320 per year and Premium £400 per year. A 14 day trial is offered. YellowTradie checked the same day is £19.99 a month, one plan, 14 days free with a card.

Can I keep using a laptop in the office

With Powered Now you can. It works on phone and tablet and PC and the same jobs show in each place. YellowTradie keeps jobs on the phone, with a sheet export for the accountant. The customer link is the only page a customer opens outside the phone.

Does YellowTradie have team features

No. One person on one phone is the whole product. There is no second login and no way to give a job to someone else. If you run a crew of two or more, choose a product that is built for a team.

How does each app handle a deposit

Both do. In YellowTradie you set the deposit on the quote and the bill for it is raised when the customer approves. In Powered Now you can take deposits and progress payments, with online payments and a mobile card reader on every plan.

What happens to my records if I cancel

In YellowTradie the records stay on your phone. Cancelling stops the payment and does not delete a quote or an invoice, because we never held a copy. In Powered Now the records are in the cloud, so you need an export if you leave. Check the terms on their site for how long trial data is kept.

Do I need accounting software with either one

Not to keep the tax figures. Both keep money in and money out. Powered Now moves items into Xero on Professional and above and handles VAT returns. YellowTradie exports a sheet for the accountant and the live links are being built. If a direct Xero feed is a must today, that will be the deciding point.

Related

• How we compare: what we check and how the price date works.
• Every part of the app: the full list, one line each.
• What it costs: one plan at £19.99 a month, what happens on day 15, and how to cancel.

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