Thorbis vs FieldEdge · Plumbing
FieldEdge for plumbing shops: 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 plumbing shops, 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 plumbing shops run, on either system.
01
Emergency call-outs
Any hour. The call becomes a job with the address, the history, and whoever is on call, not a voicemail to decode at 6 a.m.
02
Service routes
Drains, fixtures, repairs. The day’s route lives on the board, not on a whiteboard photographed at 7 a.m.
03
Install jobs
Water heaters and repipes, quoted from the book, scheduled around the service day instead of against it.
The difference
FieldEdge beside Thorbis, for plumbing shops.
Row
FieldEdge
Thorbis
Who this is for
Trades shops that have run the same desktop system for years.
plumbing shops: emergency call-outs, service routes, and install jobs.
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 plumbing day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs plumbing shops.
The 2 a.m. call goes to a competitor
An emergency without a clear answer and an ETA calls the next name in the search results.
The quote takes the evening
Techs rebuild the same water-heater quote by hand instead of pulling it from a book.
The invoice waits for the office
Work finished Tuesday gets billed Friday and paid whenever. Collect in the driveway instead.
Straight answers
What plumbing shops ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for plumbing shops, 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.
Plumbing against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs FieldEdge for other trades
Start
One board for plumbing shops. 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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