Masterpiece, Comp-U-Floor and RollMaster are filing cabinets with flooring-shaped drawers. Jobber and Tradify are nicer, generic filing cabinets. BillyBot is the employee who opens the mail, writes the quote, and hands it to you to sign off. Here's the honest comparison.
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Both are systems of record — a place to store data after you've done the thinking and typing. They differ in how flooring-specific they are.
Deep, flooring-specific business systems built for retailers and dealers: roll & remnant inventory, dye-lots, mill catalogues, multi-branch POS and stock control. Genuinely powerful — but desktop-era, expensive, and heavy to implement and learn.
Best for: multi-branch flooring retailers running a warehouse.
Modern, mobile and easy to adopt: quoting, scheduling, dispatch, invoicing and payments. The catch — they're trade-generic. A flooring job looks the same to them as a plumbing job. No m² pricing, no roll/cut logic, no cutting plans.
Best for: general home-service trades that don't need flooring detail.
Flooring-native and it does the work itself. Billy reads your inbox, builds the quote from a voice note or forwarded email on your own supplier prices, works out materials, cuts and waste, and drafts the reply in your voice — you just approve.
Best for: flooring contractors & fitting teams drowning in quoting and admin.
The same flooring business, three very different days.
| Flooring ERP (Masterpiece / RollMaster) |
General trades (Jobber / Tradify) |
BillyBot | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flooring-native pricing (m², roll/cut, markups) | Yes, deep | No — generic | Yes — on your own prices |
| Cutting plans & waste | Some | No | Yes |
| Reads & triages your inbox | No | No | Yes — classifies & drafts |
| Builds the quote for you | No — you type it | No — you type it | Yes — from voice or email |
| Quotes from a photo / tender / floor plan | No | No | Yes — AI take-off |
| Chases leads & proposes bookings | No | No | Yes |
| Covering email in your voice | No | No | Yes |
| Modern, mobile, fast to adopt | Heavy / desktop-era | Yes | Yes |
| Time to get running | Weeks + training | Days | A shift |
| Multi-branch warehouse inventory | Yes — deep | Basic | Not the focus |
| Who actually does the work | You do, every step | You do, every step | Billy does — you approve |
We keep this honest — see “where the old tools still win” below.
Every incumbent competes on being a better place to store and enter data. A tidier database. A nicer form. But the quote is still only as fast as the person typing it, and the inbox still only moves when someone sits down to read it.
BillyBot competes on a different axis entirely: doing the operational work itself. It reads the enquiry, builds the priced quote on your rates, drafts the reply in your voice, and escalates it to you for one-tap approval. You stop being the data-entry clerk for your own business.
That's why the switch pitch isn't “our forms are nicer.” It's “you get an evening back.”
Especially the owner-plus-fitting-team contractor buried in quoting and email — not the 12-branch retailer running a warehouse.
Your bottleneck isn't “where do I record the job” — it's that quoting and email eat your evenings. Billy does that work, not just files it.
Real m² pricing, roll/cut awareness and cutting plans Jobber can't do — with no six-week implementation.
Point it at your inbox and your pricing and it starts working. No migration project, no training week.
Quotes on your real supplier costs and markups; covering emails that sound like you. Not made-up averages or generic templates.
Keep Xero, Sage or QuickBooks — Billy pushes quotes and invoices straight in. No rip-and-replace.
Billy learns your pricing, preferences and style and gets more autonomous over time. A filing cabinet never does.
We'd rather you trust us than oversell. If your core pain is multi-warehouse roll and remnant inventory, dye-lot tracking and mill-catalogue management across several branches, a mature flooring ERP like Masterpiece or RollMaster still does that more deeply than BillyBot does today — and we're not pretending otherwise.
Likewise, Jobber and Tradify have years of polish on scheduling, dispatch and payments breadth. BillyBot's edge isn't out-featuring them on generic CRM — it's being flooring-native and having AI do the quoting, email and admin no incumbent touches.
So the honest answer to “should I switch?” is: if you're a flooring contractor losing evenings to quoting and email, yes. If you're a big retailer whose life depends on warehouse stock control, keep your ERP — and talk to us about running Billy on top of it.
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Jobber and Tradify are general trades tools — brilliant, modern places to record jobs, schedule work and send invoices, but they treat a flooring job like any other trade. They have no m² flooring pricing, no roll or cut/drop awareness and no cutting plans, and every quote is only as fast as the human typing it. BillyBot is flooring-native and, more importantly, is an AI operator: it reads your inbox, drafts the quote from a voice note or a forwarded email on your own supplier prices, and hands it to you to approve. The incumbents store your work; Billy does it.
Flooring ERPs are deep systems of record built for retailers and dealers — roll and remnant inventory, mill catalogues, multi-branch POS and tight stock control. They are powerful but heavy, expensive and desktop-era, with implementations measured in weeks and a human doing all the reading, typing and chasing. BillyBot is built for flooring contractors and fitting teams who are drowning in quoting and email, not warehouse inventory. It's modern, mobile, live in a shift, and it does the operational work itself rather than being another database to fill in.
For a flooring contractor, yes. Jobber is excellent generic field-service software, but it doesn't understand flooring pricing, roll widths, cut/drops or cutting plans, and it can't build a quote for you — you still type every line. BillyBot quotes on your real supplier prices and markups, works out materials and waste, and drafts the covering email in your voice, so you reply first and win more of the work you quote for.
We're honest about this. If your core need is multi-warehouse roll and remnant inventory, dye-lot tracking and mill catalogue management across several branches, a mature flooring ERP still does that more deeply than BillyBot does today. And Jobber and Tradify have years of polish on scheduling and dispatch. BillyBot's edge is being flooring-native and having AI do the quoting, email and admin — which is why the firms that switch are contractors buried in office work, not big retailers running a warehouse.
No. BillyBot works alongside Xero, Sage and QuickBooks — it pushes quotes and invoices straight into them, or generates branded PDFs if you don't use accounting software. You keep your accounts where they are; Billy handles the quoting, email and admin on top.
BillyBot is £149 per office seat per month, with every fitter getting the mobile app free and a 14-day free trial to start. There are no feature tiers and no big implementation fee — unlike traditional flooring ERPs that often carry setup costs and per-user licences that add up quickly.
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