CREW25
A full job management system with an AI office manager, a crew timeline months ahead and forms, SWMS and purchase orders included.
Choose CREW25 when you schedule crews across multi-week jobs.
- Crew timeline
- Forms included
- AI built in
CREW25 vs Fergus:
Job cards or a crew timeline
Fergus is a job management app popular with plumbers and electricians, built around job cards. CREW25 is built around crews on a timeline, with margin after overheads and an AI office manager. Both handle service work; they differ on projects and crews.
Last updated: October 2026
CREW25 and Fergus, in a sentence each.
Fergus
A job management app from New Zealand with job cards, price books and supplier integrations, used widely by plumbers and electricians.
Choose Fergus when you want job cards and MYOB or QuickBooks integration today.
- Job cards
- Supplier integrations
- MYOB and QuickBooks
Already paying for Fergus?
- Fergus is from A$53 (Essentials) or A$77 (Professional) a month, as of October 2026.
- Checklists, forms, SWMS, job phases and purchase orders need Professional, and timesheet users are an add-on from A$26.
- CREW25 has one plan with all of it, and crew without a login are free.
Side by side
CREW25 vs Fergus, feature by feature.
Last updated: October 2026, from Fergus’s own pages. Parts of CREW25 that are not built yet say so.
| Feature | CREW25 | Fergus |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Job management with an AI office manager, for projects and service calls. | Job management built around job cards. |
| Pricing | One plan with the whole platform, given in a demo. Only people who sign in are billed; crew without a login are free. 14-day free trial. | From A$53 (Essentials) or A$77 (Professional) a month; timesheet users from A$26; custom for 10+ staff. |
| Forms and SWMS | Checklists, SWMS sign-ons and the site diary, included. | On Professional. |
| Scheduling | A crew timeline months ahead, moving a whole job at once. | Calendar and job phases (phases on Professional). |
| Job costing | Margin after overheads and on-costs on every job. | Financial and business reports on Professional. |
| AI | Sets you up from your files, answers from your records and drafts quotes. | Not a focus of the plans as listed. |
| Accounting | Xero two-way. MYOB and QuickBooks planned. | Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB. |
Everything on one plan.
On Fergus, forms, SWMS, job phases and purchase orders are on the dearer plan, and timesheet users cost extra.
CREW25 has one plan with the whole platform, and the crew who only clock on are free.
YouAdd a pre-start checklist for roofing with a SWMS sign-on.
CREW25 AIAdded “Roofing pre-start” to your forms with eight questions and a SWMS sign-on. It’s ready to attach to roofing jobs.
See the margin, not just the job card.
A job card tells you what was done. Margin after overheads tells you whether it was worth doing.
CREW25 applies overheads once, so every job’s margin means the same thing.
YouWhich jobs are losing money this month?
CREW25 AIHarbour St hot water is at 4% after overheads: two return visits with no extra charge. Everything else is above 15%.
Honest trade-offs
Where Fergus is stronger.
MYOB and QuickBooks
Fergus integrates with Xero, QuickBooks and MYOB today. CREW25 is Xero only for now.
Supplier integrations
Fergus brings supplier prices in automatically on Professional.
Live apps and onboarding
Its apps are in the stores and it includes a free hour of onboarding. CREW25’s apps are still in testing.
Choosing
When to choose CREW25 vs Fergus.
Choose CREW25 if
- You schedule crews across multi-week jobs
- You want forms, SWMS and purchase orders without a dearer plan
- You want crew who only clock on to be free
- You want margin after overheads on every job
- You want AI doing the office work
Choose Fergus if
- You run mostly service jobs on job cards
- You use MYOB or QuickBooks
- You want supplier price integrations today
Moving across
Moving from Fergus to CREW25.
Drop in what you have
Staff lists, rate cards and customer spreadsheets. CREW25 AI reads them into your team, customers and price book, and you check everything before it is created.
Or import a CSV
Customers and price lists import from a CSV, with columns matched from Tradify, ServiceM8 and Xero exports. Importing the same file twice changes nothing.
Start with one crew
Run one crew or one job alongside your current system, then move the rest. Job and quote history is not imported.
Sources: Fergus pricing. Prices and features change; check them before you decide.
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