ServiceM8 is a field service app from Australia, priced by how many new jobs you take on a month, with unlimited users, texts it sends for you, timesheets, and route planning. Sendinvo is one price with no limit on jobs, issues credit notes, which ServiceM8’s help centre says it can’t, and works out CIS on the invoice.
Checked October 2026. Everything about ServiceM8 on this page is from ServiceM8’s UK pricing page, its feature pages and its help centre, each row links the page it came from so you can check it yourself, and where their pages say nothing, the row says so. Prices and plans change, so look at ServiceM8’s pricing page before you decide. ServiceM8 is a trade mark of its owner, and Sendinvo isn’t connected with it.
| Compared | Sendinvo | ServiceM8 |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | £24.99 a month including VAT, for the whole team, every feature included. | By new jobs a month: Free £0 for one user and 30 jobs; Starter £25 for 50; Growing £59 for 150; Premium £119 for 500; Premium Plus £269 for 1,500 or more. Extra texts are 5p each. Source |
| VAT | Included. £24.99 a month is the whole price, with nothing added for VAT or for the team. | Prices exclude VAT. ServiceM8 says it issues reverse charge invoices, so a VAT-registered business accounts for the VAT itself. Source |
| Users | Everyone you invite, in any role, is included in the one price. | Unlimited users on every paid plan; the free plan is for one. Source |
| Jobs | No limit. | Each plan includes a number of new jobs a month, and asks you to upgrade after 7 days over it. Source |
| Free trial | 30 days of everything, with no card. | 14 days, with no card. Source |
| Compared | Sendinvo | ServiceM8 |
|---|---|---|
| Quotes accepted online | Yes. The client accepts or declines from the quote’s own page, and follow-ups chase a quote that goes quiet. | Yes, with quote options and signatures. Source |
| Schedule | Visits by the day under a week strip, and a Day view by the hour. Book for the morning, the afternoon, all day, or a set time. | A drag-and-drop dispatch board and a dispatch map. Source |
| On my way and running late | On my way, Running late and the other messages are written by Sendinvo and sent from your own phone, as a text or on WhatsApp. Sendinvo doesn’t send texts itself. | Texts sent by ServiceM8, with the arrival time, booking reminders, and replies. Source |
| Repeating work | Recurring invoices go out on their date. Visits don’t repeat on their own: you book each one. | Recurring jobs, and recurring jobs charged to a stored card on Starter and above. Source |
| Compared | Sendinvo | ServiceM8 |
|---|---|---|
| Photos and files | Yes, sorted into before, during, and after. PDFs and pictures kept on the job, and sent with its invoice when you choose. | Before and after photos and videos, and PDFs and other files on a job. Source |
| Voice notes | Recorded in the Sendinvo app with a transcript, and played on the web. The Sendinvo app is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and there’s no Android app yet. | Voice notes aren’t described as a feature. Speech in a video is transcribed, and notes can be dictated. Source |
| Time on site | Each visit records when it started and finished, and Raise invoice can bill the time on site by the hour. No timesheets for payroll. | Automatic clock on and off, and timesheet exports, on every plan. Source |
| Job costing | No job costing or profit reports. An extra’s price can be worked out from what it cost plus a mark-up. | Job profitability and mark-up billing, on Premium and Premium Plus. Source |
| Purchase orders and suppliers | No purchase orders, stock, or expense tracking. | Supplier price imports. Its help centre says it can’t create purchase orders. Source |
| Forms and certificates | No. Keep a certificate another app made as a file on the job, and send it with the invoice. | Electronic forms, on Growing and above. Source |
| Compared | Sendinvo | ServiceM8 |
|---|---|---|
| Credit notes | Yes, issued against the invoice they correct. | Its help centre says ServiceM8 can’t create credit notes; they’re made in the accounting software. Source |
| Card payments | Through your own Stripe account. Sendinvo takes no cut, and Stripe’s processing fee applies. | ServiceM8 Pay, through Stripe, with tap to pay on the phone. Source |
| Pay by Bank | Yes, on sterling invoices up to £10,000 | Yes, PayByBank in the UK. Source |
| Payment reminders | Automatic, in your own words, from the due date until it’s paid. | Automatic follow-ups by email and text. Source |
| Accounting software | Xero and QuickBooks Online, as each invoice, payment and credit note happens. No Sage. | Xero and QuickBooks Online. Its help centre says there’s no Sage integration. Source |
| CIS | Yes, as a setting: the deduction taken off the labour lines, with the gross total and the net amount due on the invoice. | Not stated on its pages. |
| VAT reverse charge | Yes, with the reverse charge wording on the invoice. | Set up by hand, with 0% rates and a note added to the invoice template. Source |
| Compared | Sendinvo | ServiceM8 |
|---|---|---|
| A limited role for the tools | Field: their own visits and jobs, and no prices, in the Sendinvo app. The Sendinvo app is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and there’s no Android app yet. | Roles including Staff with no pricing, and a contractor role that sees only their own jobs. Source |
| Calendar | A private link that Apple Calendar, Google Calendar or Outlook subscribes to, one way. | One way into Google, Apple or Outlook. Source |
| Review requests | Once a client has paid: a message from your own phone, or an email from Sendinvo the day after they pay. | Feedback requests by email and text after a job, with Google or Facebook review links. Source |
| Online booking | No client portal or online booking. Each quote and invoice has its own page to accept or pay. | Online bookings and booking links by text. Source |
| Routes and tracking | No route planning or location tracking. | Automatic routing and staff location, on every plan. Source |
| Apps | The app has the schedule, jobs, photos, and voice notes, and works with no signal. The Sendinvo app is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and there’s no Android app yet. Everything also works in any web browser. | iPhone, iPad, Android, and an app for Mac and PC, with offline use. Source |
| After you stop paying | Nothing is deleted when a subscription ends. Everything stays to read, and Export everything gives you one zip of spreadsheets, PDFs, and photos. | Its help centre says cancelling deletes the account and all its data, with no read-only access. Source |
| Who it’s from | Unobtrusive Ltd, registered in England and Wales. | ServiceM8 Pty Ltd, Australia. Source |
ServiceM8 charges by the number of new jobs a month, from £25 a month for 50 jobs to £269 for 1,500 or more, plus VAT, with unlimited users on paid plans and a free plan for one person and 30 jobs. Sendinvo is £24.99 a month including VAT, for the whole team, however many jobs you book.
CIS isn’t stated on ServiceM8’s pages, and its help centre describes setting up the reverse charge by hand. Sendinvo works out the CIS deduction on the labour lines and prints the reverse charge wording on the invoice.
It sends texts for you, keeps automatic timesheets, plans routes, tracks staff location, takes online bookings, and has forms and job profitability on its higher plans. Sendinvo has none of those.
Yes, through your books. ServiceM8’s help centre describes no invoice export, but it sends each approved invoice to Xero or QuickBooks Online with its client, materials and payments. Connecting the same books to Sendinvo brings them in, paid and unpaid. Your client list exports as a CSV with the Advanced Reporting Pack add-on, and your materials from Settings › Materials as an Excel file, for Sendinvo’s Import. Sendinvo matches the columns and you check each one. Jobs, quotes, notes, photos and each payment’s own record stay in ServiceM8. Nothing is sent to your clients, and each import can be undone for 30 days.
The Sendinvo app is available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and there’s no Android app yet. ServiceM8 has apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.
With Sendinvo nothing is deleted: everything stays to read, and Export everything gives you one zip of spreadsheets, PDFs, and photos. ServiceM8’s help centre says cancelling deletes the account and its data.
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