NextMinute - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

NextMinute is job management software for building, landscaping and trade businesses in New Zealand and Australia. It suits project work rather than same-day call-outs: jobs that run for weeks or months, one substantial build or ten going at once, run by crews of 3 to 30 who are on the tools themselves. Ask most trade business owners which of their last ten jobs made the most money and you get a pause, then a guess. Not because they are careless, but because the information is scattered. Hours are in a notebook in someone's ute, materials are in a pile of supplier invoices, the variation the client agreed to on Tuesday was never written down, and the only number anyone is certain of is what was invoiced. NextMinute pulls all of it onto the one job record, so the answer stops being a guess. Quoting and estimating starts the job rather than sitting beside it. You build the estimate, win the work, and that same estimate becomes the yardstick the live job is measured against. Nothing gets rebuilt in a spreadsheet, and there is only one version of the numbers. Job costing and back-costing is the heart of the product. Every job, and every stage within a job, tracks estimated against actual labour, materials and variations, and it updates while the work is happening. That means you can spot a job drifting over budget with weeks left to correct it, instead of finding out at handover. Across the business you can see which kinds of work, which clients and which crews are actually worth having, and price the next job on evidence instead of instinct. Scheduling follows a build sequence, not a dispatch queue. Plan who is on which job in which week across everything you have in flight, then shift it when rain, a late delivery or a sick day forces a change, with the crew seeing the update rather than waiting for a phone call. The mobile app is the piece your team touches every day, so it stays simple enough that they will use it without being nagged. Timesheets, photos, site notes, job details, tasks and plans, all captured on site by people in boots. Nothing gets re-entered in the office at 7pm, and office and site are looking at the same job at the same time. Variations get logged and signed off, so the extra work you take on becomes revenue rather than goodwill. Keeping a clear record of quote acceptance, variations and job progress also means that if a client questions something months later, you have the history to settle it quickly. Two-way sync with Xero, MYOB and QuickBooks moves quotes, invoices, bills and hours between NextMinute and your accounting system, so nobody keys the same information twice and your accountant is not chasing you for the detail. Reporting gives you the view across the whole operation, not just a single job: where labour is going, which stages consistently blow out, and what your margin looks like now rather than at the end of the financial year. NextMinute works best for builders doing new builds, renovators and alteration specialists, roofers, landscapers doing design and build, concreters, tilers, decking and fencing crews, and light commercial fit-out teams. The common thread is not the trade on the ute, it is the shape of the work: jobs long enough to accumulate cost over time, several people to coordinate between office and site, and a real need to know what each one delivered. Getting started is straightforward. Pricing is month to month with no lock-in contract and no minimum term, based on the size of your crew, and every plan includes unlimited jobs and the full feature set. There is a 10-day free trial so you can run a live job through it before committing, and support is included for every customer from day one.

NextMinute supports the following devices:
iPhone, iPad, Android