Only with Quandron
Included as standard — what you will not find with paper and spreadsheets, or not as a core feature:
The comparison at a glance
| Feature | QuandronRECOMMENDED | paper and spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | A subscription | Free |
| Works with no signal | ✓Yes | ✓Yes |
| Two people looking at the same week | ✓Yes | ✗No |
| The record when somebody leaves | Still there | In their head |
| Hours | On a timer, on the job | Rounded, from memory |
| Finding a job sheet from two years ago | A search box | A box in the office |
| Variations | Signed on site | Argued on the final invoice |
| What it costs to try | A month | ✗Nothing, and you already have it |
See Quandron working
Click through a real, running setup — the office side and the field app. No credit card.
Open the live demo → Start 14 days freeMeasure your own gap first
Before comparing anything, take ten finished jobs and write down two dates: when the work ended, and when the invoice went out. The average is your number. In most firms running on paper it sits between ten days and a month, and that is before anyone on the customer side has done anything.
Our own UK pricing is not set yet.
| Case | Quandron | paper and spreadsheets |
|---|---|---|
| Subscription | £45–£139 a month | Nothing |
| Typing up, 3 engineers | None | About an hour a day |
| Days from job to invoice | Same day if you want | Ten to thirty |
Where Quandron is strong
- One version of the week that the van can see
- Records made where the work happened
- Same-day invoicing without reconstruction
- Records findable years later, by address
- Priced against actual, per job — which paper can never tell you
Where paper and spreadsheets is strong
- Free, and you already have it
- Never goes down and needs no signal
- Everyone can already use it
- Genuinely enough for a sole trader
Who is each one for?
Quandron — Firms of about three people and up, where the person doing the work is not the person invoicing it.
paper and spreadsheets — Sole traders and two-person firms where one head holds the whole business and the paperwork is an evening a week.
Common questions
Is this worth it for a one-person business?
Honestly, sometimes not. What decides it is whether the evenings are costing you, and whether you intend to take somebody on — that first hire is the moment paper stops working.
Do I have to move my old jobs across?
No, and mostly you should not. Bring customers and price lists, keep the old records readable, and start the new system with live work.
What if my engineers hate it?
Then it is slower than the pad and it will not get used. Try it with one engineer on a real job before you roll it out.
Moving over is straightforward
Customers and price lists come across from Excel or CSV, and you can start today.
Start your free trial →This comparison describes a kind of solution rather than a named supplier (as at August 2026). What an individual product in the paper and spreadsheets category does will differ; check it against the one you are actually looking at. Nothing here about paper and spreadsheets is a statement about a particular vendor.
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