The short version: SimPRO publishes no prices. Every figure is a quote scoped to your business, and quotes typically bundle the subscription with implementation and training. NZ reviewers report numbers around $200 a user a month, but those are user reports, not a price list. This post covers what a quote is built from, and the five questions to take into the demo.
Why you can't find the price
It's deliberate, and it tells you what kind of product this is. SimPRO is sold as a scoped rollout: someone works out your user count, which modules you need, how your data gets in, and how much training the crew takes, then prices the package. That's a different transaction to Tradify's tick-a-tier $48 a user or NextMinute's crew band, where the whole deal is on a public page.
Unpublished pricing is not automatically a red flag. Heavier products do need scoping. What it does mean is the burden of comparison shifts to you, because you can't check the number against a pricing page later, and neither can I, which is why this post has no price table and the price index lists SimPRO as quote-only rather than pretending at a figure.
What the quote is built from
Four ingredients, and it pays to see them separately before they arrive as one number.
- Per-user subscription. The recurring core. NZ reviewers on Capterra's SimPRO page mention figures around $200 a user a month, with mobile app access reported as an extra on top. User reports, not a published rate; quotes vary, and that's the point of quotes.
- Implementation. Setup, configuration and data migration, typically priced as a project at the front. This is the piece a $48-a-user tool simply doesn't have.
- Training. Heavier product, real training budget. Ask whether it's bundled hours or billed as consumed.
- Modules and add-ons. The quote reflects which parts of the platform you take. Scope creep starts here.
The questions that keep a quote honest
Take these into the demo, because the answers are the price list you can't download. What's the all-in first-year cost, subscription plus implementation plus training, as one figure? What does year two cost when the one-offs fall away? What does adding a user cost, and removing one? Which modules in the quote are load-bearing for your workflow, and which are nice-to-have padding? And what does leaving look like, what exports, in what format?
That last one is not paranoia. The job software category is consolidating, and NZ crews on GeoOp just found out what winding down feels like from the inside. Any tool you can't cheaply leave is a tool you should price as if you'll one day have to.
Whether SimPRO's weight is worth carrying
SimPRO earns its scoping call when jobs behave like projects: staged commercial work, maintenance contracts across sites, stock and purchasing that need real inventory discipline. That's the market it's built for, and at that complexity the published-price tools run out of road. The full shape of that decision, complexity, not crew size, is worked through in SimPRO or Tradify.
Below that complexity, the arithmetic is blunt. A five-person crew is covered by the published-price tools for somewhere between $53 and $349 a month all-in, figures you can check today on the index. If your jobs are jobs, buy a tool priced like one.
Get a second pair of eyes on the quote
If you've got a SimPRO quote sitting in your inbox and you're not sure whether the complexity case applies to you, book a free 30-minute call. I don't sell SimPRO or any of its competitors, so the read you'll get is the one the quote can't give you: whether your business has the shape the price assumes.
Questions I get asked about SimPRO pricing
How much does SimPRO cost in New Zealand?
SimPRO does not publish pricing anywhere; every price is a quote built for your business. NZ reviewers on Capterra report figures around NZ$200 a user a month with the mobile app extra, but those are user reports, not published prices, and quotes also typically bundle implementation and training. Treat any number you have not been quoted directly as a rumour.
Why doesn't SimPRO publish prices?
Because the product is sold as a scoped implementation, not an off-the-shelf subscription. The quote depends on user count, which modules you take, and how much setup, data migration and training the rollout needs. Unpublished pricing is normal for products sold as scoped implementations, and it moves the burden of comparison onto you.
Is SimPRO worth it for a small NZ crew?
Usually not at the small end. The published-price tools cover a five-person crew for somewhere between $53 and $349 a month depending on the tool, and SimPRO's value only shows up when jobs behave like projects: staged commercial work, maintenance contracts, stock to track. Below that complexity you would be paying for weight you don't use.