The short version: Fergus prices in three pieces, as at August 2026: a Basic plan from about $53 a month, Professional from $75, and timesheet-only seats from $26 each for field staff, with custom pricing once you pass ten people. The trick to reading it is that the headline number is an entry point, and the timesheet seat is the lever that keeps a real crew's bill down.
The plan structure, decoded
| Plan | Price, per month | Built for |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | From $53 | The core: quoting, job cards, timesheets, calendar, mobile app, accounting sync. |
| Professional | From $75 | Site operations: purchase orders, job phases, checklists, GPS, files and photos, tiered pricing, hazards and SWMS, deeper reporting. |
| Timesheet user | From $26 each | Field staff who log hours and job details without the office feature set. |
| Enterprise | Custom, 10+ staff | Quoted per business. |
Every plan carries a 14-day trial with no credit card, monthly billing with no lock-in, and a free hour of onboarding with a product specialist. That last one is worth taking; most crews configure the job pipeline wrong on day one and never revisit it.
The timesheet seat is the real pricing story
Per-user tools charge everyone the same rate whether they build quotes all day or just log hours from the ute. Fergus splits those roles. Three field staff on timesheet-only seats add about $78 a month; the same three people on a flat per-user tool at $48 a seat add $144. For crews that are mostly on the tools, that difference compounds every single month.
The flip side: the "from" in every Fergus price is doing work. The advertised figure is the plan's entry point, and your actual bill depends on the seat mix. Budget on the structure above, then confirm your exact configuration on their pricing page before you commit, because published prices move and the seat mix is yours.
Basic or Professional
Basic is enough when your jobs are single-phase and your paperwork is quotes, job cards and invoices. The core includes the accounting sync, so the retyping problem is covered at the bottom tier.
Professional is priced for builders and materials-heavy trades running staged work. Job phases, purchase orders and tiered pricing are project-shaped features, and the health and safety pack, hazards and SWMS, is the piece NZ builders increasingly can't skip. If your site paperwork lives in a folder in the ute, that pack alone can justify the difference.
Fergus's other structural strength sits in the quoting workflow: supplier price books that keep material costs current instead of quoted from memory. How that plays against the other three majors is covered in the quoting software roundup, and the wider head-to-head lives in Tradify vs Fergus.
Where the bill surprises people
Two places. The first is growth: the Enterprise cliff at ten staff means a hiring run can move you from published pricing to a negotiated quote. The second is connection work: the built-in Xero sync covers the standard flow, and anything custom you want wired beyond it, a bespoke report, a second system, a workflow that spans tools, is integration work priced separately, whoever does it.
Sanity-check the whole stack before you decide: the stack cost checker runs Fergus beside Tradify, ServiceM8 and NextMinute over your crew size, and the price index holds every verified figure in one place. The per-user alternative is worked through in the Tradify pricing post. If you're weighing up leaving Fergus altogether, the alternatives are priced side by side in Fergus alternatives for NZ trades.
Common questions about Fergus pricing
How much does Fergus cost in New Zealand?
As at the August 2026 check of Fergus's pricing page: the Basic plan starts around $53 a month, Professional from $75 a month, and timesheet-only users from $26 a month each. Businesses over ten staff move to custom Enterprise pricing. The 'from' matters: budget on the structure, then confirm your exact seat mix on their pricing page.
What is a Fergus timesheet-only user?
A cheaper seat, from about $26 a month, for field staff who record hours and job info but don't need the full office feature set. For a crew that's mostly on the tools, this is the lever that keeps a Fergus bill down.
What does Fergus Professional add over Basic?
Site-operations depth: purchase orders, job phases, tasks and checklists, GPS tracking, files and photos, tiered pricing, advanced reporting, and the health and safety tools, hazards and SWMS. Both plans carry the core: quoting, job cards, timesheets, calendar, the mobile app and accounting sync.
Get a number for your own crew
If you're stuck between plans, or between Fergus and building something around what you already own, book a free 30-minute call. Bring your crew size and how your jobs flow; the right plan usually falls out of that in minutes.