Tradify and Cabneo can both help you get jobs under control—but they're aimed at different kinds of work.

• Tradify is a job management app for service tradies—electricians, plumbers, HVAC, property maintenance and similar.
• Cabneo is designed specifically for cabinet shops—kitchens, laundries, wardrobes and joinery jobs that move through design, quoting, workshop and install.

If you're running a cabinet business and wondering whether to stick with a tradie app like Tradify or look at something cabinet‑specific like Cabneo, this guide is for you.

Choose Tradify if:

• Most of your work looks like service calls:
  • Many small jobs.
  • Lots of site visits and quick invoices.
  • Strong need for field scheduling and timesheets.
• Your main problems are:
  • Getting quotes and invoices out quickly.
  • Keeping track of who is going where and when.

Choose Cabneo if:

• You mainly do cabinet projects (kitchens, laundries, built‑ins) that run through:
  • Design & quoting.
  • Production in your workshop.
  • Installation.
• Your main problems are:
  • Free design and quoting taking over your week.
  • No clear view of which jobs are healthy or profitable.
  • Workshop planning and install coordination.

Tradify – job management for service trades

• Built for tradies who:
  • Receive enquiries.
  • Schedule site visits.
  • Log time and materials.
  • Send invoices and get paid.
• Strong features:
  • Job scheduling and dispatch.
  • Timesheets and time tracking.
  • Quotes and invoices that sync nicely with Xero/MYOB/QuickBooks.

If you run a plumbing or electrical business, Tradify is aimed squarely at you.

Cabneo – operational layer for cabinet shops

• Built for shops that:
  • Take leads and run in‑person consults.
  • Spend serious time on design and quoting.
  • Run a workshop and coordinate installs.
• Strong features:
  • Cabinet‑style quoting with margin visibility.
  • Quote and job health dashboards.
  • Workshop task lists, timelines and calendars.
  • Job‑level Actual vs Budget (MVP).

If most of your work is built‑in furniture, Cabneo works the way your jobs actually run.

Tradify

• Fast quotes built from price lists and line items.
• Great for:
  • Small, repeatable jobs.
  • "Supply & install" style service work.
• Quotes turn quickly into invoices and get pushed to accounting.

What it doesn't try to do:

• Be a full cabinet quoting and design system.
• Handle sectioned kitchen layouts or complex product/catalogue setups out of the box.

Cabneo

• Quoting is designed for cabinet work:
  • Products/configurable items (cabinets, drawers, accessories).
  • Internal cost and margin visible as you build the quote.
  • Quote Health metrics to highlight stalled or at‑risk quotes.
• Client‑facing quote approvals:
  • Email a secure link to a clean client page.
  • Clients approve or decline online; Cabneo updates status and notifies you.

If your quotes typically bundle multiple rooms/sections and involve real design work, Cabneo maps better to that workflow than a generic tradie quoting tool.

Tradify

• Job flow is optimised around the field:
  • Schedule a job.
  • Assign techs.
  • Track time and materials.
  • Invoice and get paid.
• Workshop dimension is minimal—fine for businesses that don't have a big factory component.

Cabneo

• Job flow is built around the workshop:
  • Turn accepted quotes into jobs with all the linked details.
  • Create tasks for production and install stages: cutting, assembly, finishing, install prep, site work, etc.
  • Use step templates for repeatable workflows.
• Workshop views:
  • Today/Week lists that can be printed or put on screens.
  • Worker timelines and calendar scheduling.

If you're constantly juggling "what's on in the shop this week" and "which jobs are ready for install", Cabneo's views and job health model are far more cabinet‑specific than Tradify's field‑service focus.

Tradify

• Good at:
  • Making sure time and materials are billed.
  • Getting invoices into your accounting system.
• Less focused on:
  • Rich job health scoring.
  • Actual vs budget analysis per job in the cabinet sense (materials, labour, phases of production).

Cabneo

• Job and quote health are core concepts:
  • Attention levels (Critical, At Risk, Healthy/On Track).
  • Health scores driven by timeline, budget, progress, materials.
• Job profitability:
  • Job‑level Actual vs Budget view (MVP).
  • Designed to give you "did this job make money and why?" without turning into an accounting package.

If you feel like you're flying blind on which cabinet jobs are profitable, Cabneo is explicitly built to answer that, while Tradify is more about getting the billing done.

Tradify

• Tight integrations with:
  • Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks.
• Very good at:
  • Keeping quotes, jobs and invoices in sync with your accounts.
  • Acting as the front end for small trade businesses' billing.

Cabneo

• Designed to sit alongside your accounting system, not replace it:
  • Xero (and similar) remain the source of financial truth.
  • Cabneo focuses on operational truth: quotes, jobs, tasks, job health and P&L.
• Integration philosophy:
  • Start with simple flows (e.g., "accepted quote → draft invoice").
  • Avoid making heavy accounting integration a prerequisite for getting value.

If Tradify already handles invoicing well for you but struggles with cabinet quoting and workshop planning, Cabneo can fill that cabinet‑specific gap without uprooting your existing accounting setup.

Tradify

• Ideal for:
  • Small trade businesses that need a quick, all‑in‑one job + invoice + scheduling app.
  • Teams that live on the road and on their phones.
• Onboarding:
  • Relatively fast; many shops can get value in days or weeks.

Cabneo

• Ideal for:
  • Cabinet shops that already have Xero (or similar) and CAD/CAM tools for drawings.
  • And want a better way to: price jobs, keep jobs moving in the workshop, see which jobs are actually profitable.
• Onboarding:
  • More focused on setting up your product catalogue, quote patterns, and workshop task templates than on field dispatch.

If you feel like you're forcing cabinet work into a service‑call mould with Tradify, that's a sign Cabneo—or another cabinet‑specific tool—is worth a look.

Ask yourself:

1. What does a typical month of work look like?

• Mostly small service jobs: fixes, adjustments, site visits → Tradify is probably enough.
• Mostly kitchen/wardrobe/joinery projects with design and factory work → Cabneo is built around that.

2. Where do you feel the most pain?

• Slow quoting/invoicing, messy timesheets, poor field scheduling → Tradify.
• Too much free design, no clear job P&L, workshop chaos → Cabneo.

3. Do you want one generic tool or something cabinet‑specific?

• If you prefer a general tradie tool that does "a bit of everything" and your cabinet work is a minority, Tradify is a good default.
• If cabinets are your whole business, a cabinet‑specific tool like Cabneo is more likely to match how you actually work.