Deployr vs Uptick

Fire, or everything?

This one isn't really a feature fight — it's a question of what your business does. Uptick calls itself “the all-in-one platform purpose-built for fire protection businesses,” and its own site lists who it is not ideal for, including: “You're looking for generic job management software.” That focus is a genuine strength, and a genuine limit.

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What Each Company Publishes

Uptick's pricing is by quote request. The pricing page reads “Request a quote… We'll be in touch within one business day with your custom quote,” starting with a team-size band. No figure, no currency, no GST treatment, and no implementation fee is published.
What Uptick does state: “Simple per user pricing. Based on the total number of office and field colleagues using the system,” and “No lock-in contracts… invoiced monthly… cancel any time.”
Deployr publishes everything: three tiers, both user rates, the minimum, the trial, and all three onboarding fees — before you speak to anyone.

Choose Uptick If

Fire protection compliance is essentially all of your work.
Your revenue comes from routine inspection and testing cycles run against standard schedules, at high volume.
Turning defects into quotes is your main commercial lever, and you want a tool shaped entirely around that loop.
You're happy to request a quote and hear back within a business day.

A specialist doing one job properly beats a generalist doing it adequately. If that describes you, Uptick is the better buy — and we would rather tell you so now.

Choose Deployr If

Service calls, maintenance contracts, projects and installs all run side by side in the one business.
You work in HVAC & Refrigeration, electrical, or plumbing & gas — or more than one of them, with the licences and registers each demands.
Subcontractors and customers need to be in the system without another login to pay for.
You want the price before the phone call, and a trial you can start this afternoon.

Compliance inspection is one of the things Deployr does, not the only thing — alongside quoting, purchasing, van stock, projects and invoicing.

What Each Costs

Uptick

Request a quote

Per user, office and field counted alike. Figure not published.

Deployr Commercial

$119 office · $55 field

AUD ex GST. Field users cost less than half an office seat.

Uptick quotations from uptickhq.com and its help centre, checked 20 Sep 2026. This is a positioning comparison rather than a capability matrix — Uptick is strong at what it is built for, and this page is about whether that is the shape of your business. Deployr prices are AUD ex GST, per user per month. How to read these pages

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