Thorbis vs Successware · Fire & life safety
Successware for fire and life-safety 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 fire and life-safety 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 fire and life-safety contractors run, on either system.
01
The inspection cycle
Annuals, semi-annuals, and monthlies per property, scheduled from the record, with photos, findings, and signatures captured where the equipment hangs.
02
The deficiency
A failed head or a dead battery becomes a quote before the tech leaves the site, and a scheduled repair the moment the building approves it.
03
The service call
Trouble signals and damaged equipment between cycles, dispatched with the property’s full inspection history in the tech’s hand.
The difference
Successware beside Thorbis, for fire and life-safety contractors.
Row
Successware
Thorbis
Who this is for
Plumbing and HVAC shops sold a work-order system.
fire and life-safety contractors: the inspection cycle, the deficiency, and the service call.
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 fire and life-safety day on one board the office runs and the trucks read.
The old way
What the whiteboard costs fire and life-safety contractors.
The paper trail is the product
This trade sells documentation. When it lives in binders and truck cabs, the thing you sell is the thing you cannot find.
Deficiencies die in the truck
A finding that never becomes a quote is revenue left on the wall, and a hazard left with your company’s name on the tag.
The cycle slips
A missed annual is a lost contract and an exposed building. Due dates belong on a board, not in someone’s head.
Straight answers
What fire and life-safety contractors ask about the switch.
What does Thorbis cost for fire and life-safety 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 →
Fire & life safety against the rest of the field
Thorbis vs Successware for other trades
Start
One board for fire and life-safety 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.