The Simpro alternative for trade contractors who want depth without the implementation.

Simpro earned its reputation on the service-and-maintenance side of the MEP trades. If your business runs on recurring service agreements, parts inventory across multiple warehouses, and complex quote-to-invoice workflows, Simpro is genuinely deep — arguably deeper than Field PM in those specific areas. That depth is the point of the product.

The trade-off is weight. Most contractors we talk to describe a multi-week, consultant-led implementation, a quote-based price that only becomes clear after a sales call, and an onboarding fee on top of the subscription. For a shop that lives in recurring service, that investment can pay off. For a contractor whose work is mostly project-based — new construction, tenant improvement, industrial, or utility-scale — a lot of that inventory-and-service machinery goes unused while the project and field-reporting side stays comparatively thin.

That is the specific gap Field PM was built to fill: the day-to-day field and project-management layer that a project contractor actually touches every morning, without the enterprise rollout.

Field PM starts from the field. A foreman opens the app, files a five-minute daily report — crew, hours, quantities installed, equipment, weather, photos — and those hours flow straight into cost codes. From that single stream you get real productivity tracking (units per man-hour), an S-curve, and a running margin forecast that tells you whether the job is winning or bleeding while there is still time to react. That closed loop from field entry to cost-code productivity is where most service-first platforms stay shallow.

On top of that sit the things project and industrial contractors need but rarely find bundled: RFIs and change-order logs, submittals, QA/QC inspections with hold points and punch lists, safety reporting with an OSHA 300 log, and drawing-linked weld mapping for mechanical, piping, and structural scopes. Unlimited foremen, QA/QC, safety, and subcontractor seats are always free, so putting the whole crew on the platform never becomes a per-seat budgeting exercise.

If you do both install work and ongoing service, you have two reasonable options. The first: run Field PM for the project side and add its Service Dispatch module for service calls, dispatch boards, on-site tickets, and recurring maintenance — one platform, one login, published pricing. The second: if your service operation is heavy on multi-warehouse inventory and intricate agreement billing, keep Simpro for that side and use Field PM for the construction projects, where its field reporting and cost-code productivity are stronger.

Either way, getting started is fast. You import projects, employees, and cost codes from CSV and have foremen submitting real daily reports inside the 30-day trial — no implementation contract required to find out whether it fits.

Choose Simpro if your business is service-led — recurring maintenance agreements, deep parts inventory, and complex quoting are the core of how you make money, and you have the appetite for a formal implementation.

Choose Field PM if you are a project or industrial contractor who wants the field and project-management layer to be genuinely strong — daily reports that feed job costing, productivity and margin forecasting, RFIs and change orders, QA/QC, safety, and weld mapping — with pricing you can read on the website, unlimited free field seats, and a setup measured in hours instead of weeks. Confirm current Simpro pricing and feature details with their sales team before deciding; this page reflects publicly available information and our own product.