Thorbis vs FieldEdge · Controls & low voltage
FieldEdge for controls and low-voltage contractors: a price after the demo, or one posted price.
FieldEdge has real history in the trades, a desktop-era interface, and a price you learn on a call. For controls and low-voltage contractors, Thorbis is one posted price for the company, the board in the browser and on the truck, and unlimited people.
FieldEdge · their model
The desktop era
- Quoted after a demo. No public price.
- Sales-led. Marketing and telephony can be separate products.
- Trades shops that have run the same desktop system for years.
Thorbis · posted
$99
- Per company, per month.
- Unlimited people. Jobs are never metered.
- Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
The work
The days controls and low-voltage contractors run, on either system.
01
The phased install
Rough-in, trim, commission: days and crews tracked on the job today, with photos and notes accumulating where the walls will close. Phase tracking arrives with Projects (Next).
02
The service call
A reader offline or a camera dark, dispatched with the site’s install history: what was run, where it lands, who commissioned it.
03
The retrofit
Small works and upgrades quoted from the book and scheduled between project days, not lost behind them.
The difference
FieldEdge beside Thorbis, for controls and low-voltage contractors.
Row
FieldEdge
Thorbis
Who this is for
Trades shops that have run the same desktop system for years.
controls and low-voltage contractors: the phased install, the service call, and the retrofit.
The price
Quoted after a demo. No public price.
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Sales-led. Marketing and telephony can be separate products.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
Stable, dated, and quoted after a demo.
The controls and low-voltage day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs controls and low-voltage contractors.
The punch list lives in a text thread
Items agreed on a walkthrough vanish into phones. A punch item that is not on a record is a callback with your margin attached.
The change order never gets billed
Extra drops added in a hallway conversation are real cost. Unwritten, they are a donation to the GC.
The closeout binder eats a week
Photos, test results, and as-built notes captured on the job as it runs mean closeout is an export, not an archaeology dig.
Straight answers
What controls and low-voltage contractors ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for controls and low-voltage contractors, next to FieldEdge?
FieldEdge: Quoted after a demo. No public price. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our FieldEdge records?
CSV and Excel, Documents, The API: we map the columns and read what we can, with a dry run you inspect before anything is live. What we cannot take stays a limit you can see.
Is this comparison current?
The FieldEdge side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If FieldEdge changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
Controls & low voltage against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs FieldEdge for other trades
Start
One board for controls and low-voltage contractors. One posted price.
$99 per company, unlimited people, and every usage rate posted beside it. No second conversation.
Coming from FieldEdge? We’ll extract your records.
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