Belo compared with Tradify
Tradify runs the job. Belo runs the office.
Both put your quoting, invoicing and diary on your phone, and Tradify does it well. The difference is where the work starts. Tradify starts when you sit down and type the enquiry in. Belo starts at the call you did not get to.
The short answer
Which one you want depends on who answers your phone
Choose Tradify if
Someone already picks up, and you want the job side organised today
You have an office, a partner at home taking calls, or you are happy ringing people back in the evening. Tradify is mature, it is in use now, and it covers purchase orders, timesheets, subcontractor scheduling and three accounting packages.
Choose Belo if
Nobody picks up, and the admin is waiting for you at the end of the day
You are on the tools all day and the office work happens after it. Belo takes the call, writes the job down, drafts the quote off your own prices and chases the money, and asks you before anything reaches a customer.
Tradify
Not covered
The phone rings while you are working
Not covered
You ring back that evening, if they are still looking
Tradify starts here
You type the job in
Quote, diary, invoice, payment
Reminders and chasing, on Pro and above
Belo
Belo starts here
The phone rings while you are working
Belo answers in your name and writes the job down
The quote drafts itself off your prices
You read it and send it
Diary, invoice, payment, chasing
The two boxes nobody else covers are where the work goes missing
Side by side
What each one does today
Only things both products do now. Tradify's column follows their own UK feature and pricing pages on 12 October 2026, at their Pro plan, which is the tier that matches what Belo includes.
Their Pro plan is the tier that matches what Belo includes, and their cheaper plan has no certificates, enquiry form or reminders.
What it costs
Per business against per person
Tradify charges for each person who uses it. Belo charges the business and includes people. Belo costs less at every size up to twelve, including the one case that comes closest: six of you, below.
On your own
Near enough the same. Belo includes a second person before you pay more.
A five person firm
Two people are in Belo's price and the next three are £12 each. Tradify charges a full £37 for every one of the five.
Six of you
Near enough level: three pounds a month apart. Above five the only Belo plan is Crew, and it carries the receptionist, the booking and the emergency handling whether you want them yet or not, so at this size the question is what each plan does, not what it costs.
Belo is cheaper, or near enough level, at every size up to twelve. Past twelve, Belo's Crew plan runs out of seats and the plan above it, Full PA, is a different product at a different price, so at that size work it out yourself rather than take our word for it.
Belo's prices are per business per month and exclude VAT. Tradify's are their published UK list prices per user per month on 12 October 2026, and their page does not state whether VAT is included. Text messages are counted inside Belo's plan allowance and charged by Tradify at 10p each. Neither set of figures includes the card fees you pay your own payment provider.
If you are already on Tradify
What moving actually involves
Your customers come with you
Belo reads your website and Companies House to set your business up, and your customer list comes across from a file you export.
Your invoice numbers carry on
Belo picks up from the highest number already in your Xero rather than starting at one, so your books do not get two sets of numbering.
Finish the jobs you have open
Nothing says you have to move mid-job. Most firms run the last few weeks of work out where it started and take new enquiries in Belo.
Only in Belo
Something answers the phone
This is the part no job management app does, Tradify included, because they are built to organise work you have already captured. Belo has a receptionist: missed and after-hours calls are answered in your business’s name, the caller is asked what has gone wrong, where and how soon, the address is read back to them, and it arrives as an enquiry with the quote already drafted.
Calls are listed with what was said and what came of them, and the work won from them is added up from your own records rather than estimated.
You missed a call. I took it.
Consumer unit keeps tripping, two sockets dead. She is in all day Thursday. Quote drafted, not sent.
The receptionist is part of Belo’s Receptionist plan and above. Call allowances are set per plan, and no plan has unlimited minutes.
Being straight with you
Where Tradify is the better buy
If one of these matters to you, buy theirs. We would rather tell you now than have you find out a month in.
It is in use today, and proven
Tradify has years of tradespeople behind it and a long public review record you can go and read. Belo is in early access with a small number of UK firms. If you need something settled this week, that is a real argument.
One system for the yard as well as the office
Purchase orders, kit bundles, cost and bill tracking and job service reports are all in Tradify. Belo is built around the office admin: the enquiry, the quote, the booking, the invoice and the money.
Still weighing it up?
Put your email in. We will tell you when early access opens, and you can judge it against what you are using now rather than against a sales page.