Software comparison

WorkGuru vs Fergus

Compare WorkGuru and Fergus across field jobs, workshop/project complexity, purchasing, stock, financial control and implementation.

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At a glance

The short version

Evaluation	WorkGuru	Fergus
Platform type	A mature industrial operations platform covering quoting, scheduling, purchasing, stock, timesheets and job costing. All your operational and communications data in one place, with the general ledger left to your accounting system.	Trade and field-service job-management software centred on enquiries, quoting, dispatch and scheduling, mobile job cards, recurring service work, supplier costs, invoicing and payments.
Best fit	Fabrication, engineering, manufacturing and project or workshop businesses, where the margin is won or lost on labour, materials and rework rather than on job volume.	Small and medium trade and field-service businesses, particularly teams managing technicians, recurring service work and jobs spread across customer sites.
Pricing model	Published per-user pricing in AUD and GBP, with modules you turn on as you need them, so you can price it before you talk to us.	Published Australian pricing. Essentials currently starts from AUD $53/month and Professional from AUD $77/month, with separate Timesheet-user pricing, an Enterprise 10+ option and additional charges for some add-ons and payment services.
Implementation	DIY, WorkGuru-assisted, or partner implementation.	Self-serve trial and onboarding model with a 14-day free trial, no setup fees or lock-in contract, plus a free one-hour onboarding session.
Strongest when	Industrial jobs need to connect sales, projects, workshop execution, purchasing, stock, labour, financial job control, compliance and automation.	The operating model is field-service led: dispatching technicians, working offline/mobile, managing repeat maintenance, pulling supplier costs into jobs and getting invoices paid quickly.

Platform purpose and scope

What each platform is for

WorkGuru

WorkGuru runs the work between winning a job and knowing what it made. Quote it, schedule it, buy for it, book time and materials against it, and see the real cost while the job is still open rather than after invoicing. It is deliberately not an accounting system, a payroll system or a dispatch board — those connect to it.

Fergus

Fergus is built primarily around trade and field-service jobs. It captures enquiries, converts them into jobs, quotes and schedules field teams, gives technicians mobile job cards, tracks labour and materials, manages recurring service work, imports supplier costs, invoices customers and collects payment. Fergus also supports larger jobs through phases, templates, variations and progress invoicing, but its operating model remains more field-service and trade focused than workshop-manufacturing focused.

Best-fit use cases

Electrical, plumbing, HVAC, building, roofing and other trade or field-service businesses coordinating technicians across customer sites
Small and medium teams wanting enquiries, quoting, job cards, scheduling, timesheets, supplier costs, invoicing and payments in one trade-focused workflow
Maintenance and service businesses running recurring jobs, scheduled servicing and automated customer service reminders
Businesses that value a strong mobile field app, GPS-aware scheduling, offline data capture and a large trade-supplier integration ecosystem

Industries and typical customers

Fergus explicitly targets trades and contractors including electricians, plumbers, HVAC, builders and service businesses.

Feature comparison

Every capability, side by side

Grouped the way the work actually runs. The framework is ours, so read the rows where WorkGuru is partial or not competing first — they will tell you more than the ones where we both say yes.

About this comparison. WorkGuru prepared it. Every verdict below is numbered to the source it came from, and we record only what a vendor publishes — “not found” means we could not find it in their public material on the date shown, not that the product cannot do it.

Software changes constantly. If we have got something wrong about Fergus, tell us and we will correct it.

Yes published or native
Partial a materially different workflow or scope
Integration available through an integration
Beta not shipped yet
No documented as not supported
Not found not in the vendor’s published product information at the date checked

Capability	WorkGuru	Fergus
Sales & CRM
Client Management	Yes¹	Yes²
Contact Management	Yes¹	Yes²
Webforms (website lead capture)	Yes¹	Yes³
Lead Management	Yes¹	Yes³
Sales Pipeline	Yes¹	Integration⁴
Quoting & Estimating	Yes¹	Yes⁵
Quote Templates	Yes¹	Yes⁵⁵⁵
Quote Management	Yes¹	Yes⁵⁵⁶
Client Follow-Up	Yes¹	Yes³⁷
AI Client, Lead & Quote Follow-Up	Yes¹	Integration⁴
AI Takeoffs	Beta¹	Integration⁴⁹⁵⁰
Projects & Jobs
Project Management	Yes⁶	Yes⁷⁹
Project Templates	Yes³⁸	Yes⁸
Project Kanban Boards	Yes⁶	Partial⁷¹⁰
Task Management	Yes⁶	Yes³⁴⁸
Task Kanban Boards	Yes⁶	Not found³⁴⁷
Gantt Chart	Yes⁶	Not found¹³¹⁴
Project Chat	Yes⁶	Partial⁵⁸⁹
Project Documents	Yes⁶	Yes⁹
Variations	Yes⁶	Yes¹⁰⁷
Timesheets	Yes⁶	Yes³⁴
Recurring / repeat scheduled jobs	Yes³⁸	Yes¹¹
Scheduling & Work Planning
Work Areas (bays, machines, departments etc.)	Yes¹²	Partial¹⁴
Resource Scheduling	Yes¹²	Yes¹³¹⁴
Task Scheduling	Yes¹²	Partial³⁴¹⁴
ToDo List Scheduling & Management	Yes¹²	Partial³⁴
Schedule Changes	Yes¹²	Yes¹³¹⁴
Mobile App	Yes	Yes¹⁶
Kiosk App	Yes	Not found
Purchasing & Procurement
Purchase Orders	Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁹
Supplier Management	Yes¹⁸	Yes²⁰⁵⁷
Purchasing Against Projects	Yes¹⁸	Yes¹⁹²⁰
RFQs / Supplier Quotes	Beta¹⁸	Partial¹⁹
Supplier Quote Comparison	Beta¹⁸	Not found¹⁹
Inventory & Stock Control
Stock Control	Yes²¹	Integration²²²³
Product Management	Yes²¹	Partial²⁰²⁴
Stock Purchasing	Yes²¹	Integration²³
Stock on Projects	Yes²¹	Partial²²
Production Jobs / Internal Assembly	Yes²¹	Not found²²⁵²
Counter Sales / Stock Sales	Yes²¹	Not found²²
Stock Shortages & Par Levels	Yes²¹	Integration²³⁵⁴
Serial Tracking	Yes²¹	Not found²²²³
Batch Tracking	Yes²¹	Not found²²²³
FIFO Tracking	Yes²¹	Not found²²²³
Stock Locations	Yes²¹	Integration²³⁵⁴
Multiple Warehouses	Yes²¹	Integration⁵⁴
Stocktakes	Yes²¹	Not found²³⁵⁴
Bills of Materials (BOM)	Yes⁴¹	Partial²⁴
Ecommerce channel management	Integration⁴²	Not found⁵²
Point of Sale	Yes⁴⁴	Partial⁵⁹
Financial
Job Costing	Yes²⁵	Yes²⁶⁵³
Invoicing	Yes²⁵	Yes²⁷
Progress Invoicing	Yes²⁵	Yes²⁷
Reporting	Yes²⁵	Yes⁵³
Payments	Yes²⁵	Yes²⁸
Online / Embedded Payment Collection	Integration²⁵	Yes²⁸⁵⁹
General ledger & statutory reporting	Integration⁴⁵	Integration⁶⁰
Multi-currency transactions	Yes	Not found⁶⁰
Compliance
Forms	Yes²⁹	Yes³⁰
Qualifications	Yes²⁹	Partial³¹³³
Documentation	Yes²⁹	Yes⁹³⁰
Asset Register	Yes²⁹	Not found¹⁷
Team, Security & Permissions
Team Management	Yes³²	Yes³⁴
Roles & Permissions	Yes³²	Yes³³
Payroll processing	Integration⁴⁶	Partial³⁴³⁵
Award interpretation	Integration⁴⁶	Not found³⁵⁵²
Employee records	Yes⁴⁷	Partial³³³¹
HR onboarding & performance	Integration⁴⁸	Partial³⁴⁵³
Automations & AI
Workflows	Yes³⁶	Partial⁷³⁷
Workflow Templates	Yes³⁶	Partial⁸
Workflow Builder	Yes³⁶	Not found⁸³⁷
User-customisable Automations in System	Yes³⁶	Partial³⁷¹⁷
Workflow Notifications & Updates	Yes³⁶	Yes³⁷

Every verdict above is numbered to the source it came from. Sources are listed at the <a href=”#sources”>foot of this page</a>.

Commercials

Pricing, rollout and what it really costs

WorkGuru pricing, implementation and ownership

WorkGuru publishes modular pricing. The current commercial model is a platform fee including the first 10 users, additional per-user pricing, and optional modules such as Inventory, Workflow Automations and Advanced Forms. Use the live pricing page for current figures rather than duplicating numbers that can go stale. Buyers can start DIY, use WorkGuru-assisted onboarding, or use an implementation partner. Total ownership cost should be assessed across subscription, onboarding, migration, training, integrations and ongoing administration – not subscription price alone.

Fergus pricing

Published Australian plans currently start around AUD $53/month for Essentials and AUD $77/month for Professional, with separate timesheet-user pricing and enterprise/custom options for larger teams. Certain extras such as certificates, SMS and payments have separate fees.

Implementation and time to value

Fergus publishes a 14-day free trial, no lock-in and free onboarding/setup resources, including a one-hour onboarding session.

Total cost and complexity of ownership

Straightforward trade-software pricing, but user type, certificates, SMS, payment fees and enterprise requirements can add cost.

Switching

Moving from Fergus to WorkGuru

Already using Fergus? WorkGuru can scope a migration rather than assuming a greenfield setup. The migration plan should identify the records you need to bring across, what can be imported, what should remain as historical reference, integration cutover, training and go-live. Exact scope, timing and cost depend on the quality and structure of the source data and the implementation path selected. Do not promise that every historical record or configuration will migrate until the source data has been assessed.

The verdict

The matrix is evidence. This is the buying advice.

Where Fergus is stronger

Field-service dispatch is a core Fergus operating model: technician calendars, drag-and-drop reassignment, GPS visibility, mobile job cards and field scheduling are much more central to the product
Offline mobile capability is stronger for field teams: Fergus Go now supports offline time entries, photos and job notes that sync when the device reconnects
Recurring field-service work is particularly mature, with true recurring jobs plus service templates, automated service reminders, services-due visibility and customer acceptance workflows
Fergus has a very large trade-supplier ecosystem, including 100+ supplier connections, automated price books and supplier invoice ingestion that can match material costs back to jobs
Trade-specific mobile close-out is strong, including field forms, certificates, signatures, progress invoicing, Fergus Pay, Scan to Pay and Tap to Pay from a technician’s phone
Lower-complexity trade businesses may prefer Fergus’s focused deployment model, published entry pricing, 14-day self-serve trial and trade-first workflow over a broader industrial operations platform

Where WorkGuru is stronger

WorkGuru is the stronger fit when the operation is workshop or project led rather than primarily field-service led, especially where bays, machines, departments, Gantt planning and industrial job execution matter
Native inventory control is a major difference: WorkGuru manages stock inside the operating platform, while Fergus explicitly says it does not natively provide inventory or stock control and relies on FieldStockPro when full inventory management is required
WorkGuru is stronger where inventory needs serial, batch and FIFO tracking, stock locations, multiple warehouses, stocktakes, production jobs and counter / stock sales in the same system as the jobs
WorkGuru has broader native operational CRM depth: enquiries and quoting sit alongside dedicated client, contact, lead and sales-pipeline capability rather than relying on an external integration for a full pipeline view
WorkGuru is the stronger fit for industrial asset and compliance requirements such as qualifications management, asset records and preventative maintenance tied to managed assets rather than primarily service reminders against completed trade jobs
WorkGuru’s automation layer is broader where users need reusable workflow templates, a workflow builder and general user-configurable operational automations rather than Fergus’s more focused reminders, service automation and predefined job workflow
WorkGuru is designed for a wider industrial operating model spanning fabrication, engineering, custom manufacturing, workshop, project and mixed field/workshop businesses, while Fergus is deliberately optimised around trades and field service

Choose Fergus if…

Choose Fergus if you are primarily a trade or field-service business and want a simple system for enquiries, scheduling, job cards, supplier costs, invoicing and mobile crews.

Choose WorkGuru if…

Choose WorkGuru if the work is project/workshop led and you need to manage jobs across labour, purchasing, stock, workshop capacity, compliance and profitability rather than mainly dispatching field crews.

The bottom line

Fergus can be the better choice when its core operating model matches the business. WorkGuru should win when the buyer needs a connected operational system around projects and workshop execution with a purpose-built industrial operations platform that can scale from SMB implementation through more structured assisted or partner-led rollouts.

FAQs

Fergus questions

Is WorkGuru a replacement for Fergus?

It can be when the business wants WorkGuru’s operating model and capability set. The right answer depends on which Fergus workflows are actually used today, integrations, data migration and any specialist requirements that must remain elsewhere.

Can we migrate from Fergus to WorkGuru?

Yes, migration can be scoped as part of implementation. What comes across, what remains as historical reference, timing and cost depend on the source data and agreed implementation plan.

Do we have to implement WorkGuru ourselves?

No. WorkGuru supports DIY implementation, WorkGuru-assisted onboarding and partner implementation. Choose the level of help that matches the complexity of the rollout.

How should we compare total cost?

Compare subscription, onboarding, migration, training, integrations and ongoing administration. Avoid comparing a single licence price where the platforms package scope differently.

Is WorkGuru cheaper than Fergus?

That depends on user count, modules, implementation scope and the systems each option replaces or still requires. Use current published pricing and a like-for-like implementation scenario rather than a blanket savings claim.

Method

How this comparison was prepared

This page was prepared by WorkGuru and compares WorkGuru with Fergus. Competitor product information should be based on publicly available sources and reviewed on the date shown above. Features, pricing and product capabilities can change. If information is disputed, review the underlying source and correct the page where required. Link this section to the permanent “How we compare software” methodology page.

Checked 3 Sep 2026. WorkGuru matrix verdicts were preserved from the supplied comparison page. Fergus was re-audited against current Fergus Australia product pages, Fergus Help Centre documentation, current release notes and specifically documented partner integrations.

Scope notes: Fergus feature availability varies by plan and add-on. Current Australian pricing publishes Essentials from AUD $53/month, Professional from AUD $77/month, separate Timesheet-user pricing and Enterprise 10+ custom plans; certificates, SMS and card-payment processing can carry additional charges. Full stock / inventory management in this comparison is integration-delivered through FieldStockPro rather than native Fergus. Groundplan is an external takeoff integration. Fergus’s named Smartly payroll integration is specifically positioned for New Zealand businesses, so the Australian payroll verdict is Partial rather than Integration.

WorkGuru — CRM
Fergus — Creating & Managing Customers
Fergus — Getting Started with Enquiries
Fergus — Unbox AI Integration
Fergus — Quoting Software
WorkGuru — Project Management
Fergus — Track & Manage Jobs
Fergus — Job Templates
Fergus — The Job Card
Fergus — Job Phases vs. Variations
Fergus — Creating Recurring Jobs
WorkGuru — Scheduling
Fergus — Scheduling
Fergus — How to Assign & Schedule Jobs
Fergus — Release Notes 2026 — includes the full rollout of Fergus Go Offline Mode
Fergus — Field Service Management Software
Fergus — Service Reminders
WorkGuru — Purchasing
Fergus — Creating Purchase Orders — includes purchasing against jobs and the Price order type
Fergus — Supplier Integrations
WorkGuru — Inventory & Stock Control
Fergus — Managing Stock on Hand — Fergus explicitly states that it does not currently offer native inventory or stock control
Fergus — Field Stock Pro Integration
Fergus — Creating Favourites — reusable groups / kitset-like collections of labour and material items
WorkGuru — Financial
Fergus — The Financial Summary
Fergus — Invoicing Progress Payments
Fergus — Fergus Pay powered by Stripe
WorkGuru — Compliance
Fergus — Creating and Managing Forms
Fergus — Managing On the Job — certificates and permissions for licensed users
WorkGuru — Team, Security & Permissions
Fergus — User Permissions
Fergus — Team Management & Timesheet Tracking
Fergus — Smartly Payroll Integration — explicitly positioned for New Zealand businesses
WorkGuru — Automations
Fergus — Setting Up Automatic Reminders
WorkGuru — Project Templates
WorkGuru — Resource Scheduling
WorkGuru — Asset Management
WorkGuru — Production Jobs
WorkGuru — Shopify Integration
WorkGuru — Stock Locations
WorkGuru — Counter Sales
WorkGuru — Xero Integration
WorkGuru — Tanda Integration
WorkGuru — Team Management
WorkGuru — Employment Hero Integration
Fergus — Groundplan Integration
Groundplan — Takeoff Software / Count Assist — Groundplan documents AI-assisted symbol recognition and confirms Fergus integration
Fergus — Australian Pricing
Fergus — Fergus Integration Centre
Fergus — Reporting
FieldStockPro — Inventory Management — multiple warehouses / stock points, replenishment, purchasing and transfers; used only to validate the specifically documented Fergus integration
Fergus — Templated Line Items
Fergus — Enquiries, Quote / Estimate and Invoice List View
Fergus — Standard Supplier Integrations
Fergus — Notes in Fergus Go — includes offline job and job-phase notes
Fergus — Tap to Pay — on-site invoice payment collection from Fergus Go
Fergus — Xero Integration — Fergus handles jobs and operational invoicing while Xero handles bank reconciliation, payroll, tax and statutory accounting

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