Thorbis vs Successware · Controls & low voltage
Successware for controls and low-voltage contractors: a work-order office, or a board the truck reads.
Successware is a work-order system priced per user and sold on a call. For controls and low-voltage contractors, Thorbis is a board the office runs and the trucks read, one posted price for the company, and unlimited people.
Successware · their model
The office
- Shops report $80–$150 per user / month
- Per user. Sales-led. Not a public price.
- Plumbing and HVAC shops sold a work-order system.
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
Successware beside Thorbis, for controls and low-voltage contractors.
Row
Successware
Thorbis
Who this is for
Plumbing and HVAC shops sold a work-order system.
controls and low-voltage contractors: the phased install, the service call, and the retrofit.
The price
Shops report $80–$150 per user / month
$99 per company, posted. Unlimited people.
The model
Per user. Sales-led. Not a public price.
One posted price. Every usage rate posted beside it.
The board
It still talks like an office.
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 Successware?
Successware: Shops report $80–$150 per user / month. Thorbis: $99 per company per month, unlimited people, every module as it releases. Plus metered usage. $15 included each month.
Can we bring our Successware records?
Export or documents. What comes over: customers, work orders, the book. It still talks like an office. We load the board.
Is this comparison current?
The Successware side is read from its own pricing page or from what shops report, as of August 2026, and it says which. If Successware changes its model, this page is wrong until it is updated, and we would rather you check than trust a stale row.
The whole migration, step by step: switching from Successware →
Controls & low voltage against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs Successware 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 Successware? We’ll extract your records.
Rather talk first? Email the team.