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Door Ops vs BigChange
for door contractors.
BigChange still calls its entry tier and engineer app JobWatch, and sells vehicle trackers, rugged tablets and scheduling as one package after a demo. Door Ops is web software for door contractors alone, with its rates on the pricing page and a trial you can start tonight. Below: what each costs and where each falls short.
Short version
- The BigChange pricing page is a demo form. Its August 2025 blog puts JobWatch at £79.95 per office or mobile user a month; Door Ops lists £45 per engineer and £22 per office user (£39 / £19 for eligible founders).
- BigChange’s industrial door page sells maintenance schedules by door type and CE and force-test paperwork. Door firms on it told us the scheduling is strong but they quote in Xero. Door Ops quotes from the door record.
- If you want trackers in the vans and tablets in the cab from one supplier, BigChange does that and Door Ops does not. BigChange also counts 2,000+ customers; Door Ops is new.
BigChange facts checked 10 September 2026 from the pages linked below. Their prices and plans are theirs to change.
Pricing and terms
What you pay, and for how long.
Door Ops prices are the live rates on our pricing page. BigChange figures are quoted from their public pages, checked 10 September 2026.
| Door Ops | BigChange | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Eligible founders pay £39 per engineer and £19 per office user monthly (£390 / £190 annually). Standard rates are £45 / £22 monthly. Plus adds £29 a month, Scale £79. See pricing for founder eligibility; prices exclude VAT. | Not published on bigchange.com/pricing, which is a demo form. BigChange’s own blog (August 2025) quotes JobWatch from £79.95 per office or mobile user a month and Job Management Plus from £99.95 per mobile user, often with managed rugged tablets. |
| Who counts as a user | Engineers and office users have different rates. Someone who does both counts once as an engineer. External subcontractors use job credits, not seats. | Each office login and each mobile user is a paid licence; a vehicle tracker comes with every mobile user. |
| Minimum | One engineer seat. | No minimum on the public pages; BigChange quotes per company. |
| Contract | Monthly, billed monthly, cancel before the next bill. Annual is optional and paid up front. | Term length is not on the website. It is set in the quote that follows the demo. |
| Free trial | free trial of the full product. No card needed to start. | No self-serve trial or free version, per the Software Advice UK listing. You see the product in a demo. |
| Onboarding | None. Guided setup checklist and UK-based support are included. | Structured onboarding is a selling point. BigChange’s own blog lists "a longer onboarding and setup period" and a "higher price point" as cons. |
| Feature gating | Lite covers paperwork; Core adds full job management; Plus adds stock, purchasing approvals, detailed reporting and integrations. Compare current feature packages and team totals on our pricing page. | Two named tiers, JobWatch and Job Management Plus. The split of features between them is not on the site. |
For door work
The features a door company actually uses.
Not a 200-row feature grid. The twelve things that decide whether the office chases the job sheet or reads it.
| Door Ops | BigChange | |
|---|---|---|
| One record per door job | One record per job and per customer: quote, drawings, RAMS, photos, worksheet, notes and the PDF you sent. That is the product. | CRM with a 360-degree customer view, service history and a compliance documentation hub for CE marks and force-test certificates. |
| Quoting | Quote builder with price lists on the job record. Send, accept, convert to a job, invoice from the same screen. | On-site digital quoting is advertised. Door firms in a trade Facebook group described the quoting and invoicing as "too clunky" and use Xero instead, attaching the BigChange job-sheet PDF. |
| Worksheets and forms | Door Ops door presets, worksheets on the phone, photos and signatures on every tier; the custom form builder is on Core. | JobWatch app with digital forms, certificates, signatures and mandatory safety checks before work starts. |
| AI review | AI action summaries, wording checks and a compliance guardian, included as monthly credits on Core and Plus. | No AI review of job sheets on the industrial door page or the pricing page. |
| Assets and PPM | Asset register with QR labels, PPM planner and contracts on Core. | Maintenance schedules generated per door type, with contract visibility across multiple sites. |
| RAMS | On-job risk assessments on every tier; the RAMS builder, library and packs on Core. | Mandatory risk assessment and workflow documents in the app; timesheets are blocked until they are done. |
| Subcontractors | Send a job to a subcontractor by secure link. They complete the worksheet without a seat. | The industrial door page says nothing about sending work to subcontractors. |
| Engineer and vehicle tracking | Live engineer location and customer tracking links. Vehicle tracking accepts a telematics feed; Door Ops does not supply hardware. | Vehicle tracking hardware, live engineer location and route optimisation are core to the product and included with mobile users. |
| Customer portal | Customer portal on Core. | Online booking portal, tracking links and automated customer updates. |
| Quotes, invoices, accounts | Quotes, invoices, purchase orders, stock and job costs built in. Native Xero, Sage and QuickBooks invoice push is in build; today invoices leave by API and webhooks. | Invoicing, online payments, Sage, Xero and QuickBooks integrations. |
| Mobile app | Web app, installable on the phone home screen. Worksheet progress survives lost signal, but it is not an offline-first native app. | Native JobWatch app; the Plus tier can include managed rugged tablets. |
| API and automation | REST API, webhooks, Zapier and an MCP server for AI agents (API and MCP are separately scoped access). | A REST API exists (Door Ops imports through it); access terms and cost are not on the public pages. |
| Track record | No published reviews, case studies or named customers yet. Door Ops launched in 2026 and says so. | "More than 2,000" UK service businesses by its own count, 270 reviews on Software Advice, 24/7 UK support, named door case studies. |
See the Door Ops side
Judge it on the screens, not the table.
Real Door Ops screens from a sample door company. This is the office view your team would work in every day.
Honest answer
When BigChange is the better fit
- Your vans need trackers and your engineers need rugged tablets, and you want one supplier and one bill for hardware and software.
- Your morning plan covers dozens of engineers and needs automatic routing by skill, traffic and vehicle.
- Industrial doors sit alongside other service lines, such as HVAC or facilities work, in the same business.
- You expect a round-the-clock helpdesk and a named success manager.
Where Door Ops wins
When Door Ops is the better fit
- You want a price before anyone books you onto a demo, and a trial before a contract.
- You run between one and ten vans, where £79.95 per user per month eats into every callout.
- Your quotes go out from Xero today because the job system makes quoting awkward. In Door Ops the quote sits on the job next to its drawings, RAMS and notes.
- You want the returned worksheet, with its AI summary, to tell the office the next step instead of a call from the van.
Still on a calendar and the notes app?
Most door firms are not switching from software at all.
Ask a door engineers group what they run jobs on and the honest answers are a phone calendar, the Notes app and a WhatsApp group for quotes and measures. That works until the third engineer, or the customer who asks what you found last time. Door Ops keeps your calendar and Xero, and gives every job one record: customer, quote, drawings, RAMS, photos, worksheet and the PDF you sent.
Migration
Leaving BigChange in stages
Keep BigChange running while you try Door Ops. Nothing here asks you to cut over on day one.
- 1In Settings, add your BigChange REST API credentials. Door Ops pulls contacts and persons before anything else, so the first forms you send already carry the right customer.
- 2On Core and Plus the historical import follows: jobs, finance and field history land in an encrypted archive and map onto live Door Ops records only where a safe match exists. Pick a date range for timesheets.
- 3Files stored in JobWatch stay behind until BigChange confirms the separately licensed attachment service on your account, so save the PDFs you need first.
- 4During the overlap, a reviewed Door Ops worksheet PDF can be posted back to its JobWatch job once that link is set up.
Common questions
How much does BigChange cost?
The pricing page carries no figures, only a demo request. A BigChange blog post from August 2025 gives JobWatch from £79.95 per office or mobile user a month and Job Management Plus from £99.95 per mobile user, often with managed rugged tablets. Term and minimum come in the quote after the demo.
Is BigChange built for door companies?
BigChange has an industrial door page that covers maintenance schedules per door type, CE mark and force-test documents, and safety checks the engineer must finish before work starts. The platform underneath is the same one it sells to other service trades, with vehicle tracking at its centre.
Can BigChange and Door Ops run side by side?
Yes. The Door Ops BigChange connector brings contacts across first and can post reviewed worksheet PDFs back to JobWatch jobs. If automatic route planning for a large fleet is the reason you bought BigChange, trial the Door Ops scheduler on a real week before you cancel anything.
Does Door Ops replace BigChange vehicle tracking?
Partly. Door Ops shows where each engineer is from their phone and accepts a telematics feed from trackers you already own. It sells no trackers or tablets, so a fleet that wants hardware from its software supplier is better served by BigChange.
What did we check, and when?
The BigChange pricing page, its August 2025 blog post and its industrial door page, plus the Software Advice UK listing, checked 10 September 2026. All four links are listed under Sources.
Other comparisons
Weighing more than one?
Door Ops vs Joblogic
Joblogic gates PPM, engineer tracking, custom forms and the customer portal behind Premium and Enterprise. Door Ops includes all of them on Core.
Door Ops vs Clik
Clik sells certificates (Clik Compliance) and job management (Joblogic FSM) as two products that sync. Door Ops keeps the worksheet, the job and the customer PDF in one record.
Door Ops vs Klipboard
Klipboard puts custom forms, asset management, PPM, GPS and the client portal on its Professional plan, minimum five users, 12 or 24 month term. Door Ops includes them on Core from one seat.
Door Ops vs ServiceM8
ServiceM8 charges by job volume, £25 to £269 a month with unlimited users on paid plans. Door Ops charges per engineer and office seat, so a small door team usually pays ServiceM8 less.
Door Ops vs Tradify
Tradify costs £34, £37 or £44 per user a month and every user pays the same. Door Ops charges £45 per engineer and £22 per office user, so the sums depend on your office headcount.
Door Ops vs Jobber
Jobber prices in US dollars: $49 a month for one user on Core with no commitment, rising to $199 for one user on Grow. Door Ops prices in pounds per engineer and office seat.
Door Ops vs Commusoft
Commusoft publishes no prices and signs licences for 12 months that renew annually. Door Ops shows its rates and bills monthly from one engineer seat.
Door Ops pricing
Work out your monthly cost by engineers and office users. No demo call needed.
Sources, checked 10 September 2026
- BigChange pricing page (no figures, demo form)
- BigChange blog: best job management software for tradesmen, 22 August 2025
- BigChange industrial door software page
- Software Advice UK BigChange listing
- Door Ops BigChange integration docs
- Door Ops pricing
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