Gas App is brilliant for fault-finding and boiler manuals — but your diary, quotes, invoices, certificates and service reminders deserve software built around them. TradePlanr does all of that for a flat £9.99/month, free to start, and moves your customer list over in minutes — even from screenshots if you can't get an export.
An honest, side-by-side look. Where they're the specialist, we say so.
| TradePlanr | Gas App | |
|---|---|---|
| Job diary & scheduling | ||
| Quotes & estimates | ||
| Invoicing with card payments (branded pay page) | Invoicing | |
| Certificates (CP12 + 79 more UK cert types) | Gas forms | |
| Automatic yearly service reminders + customer texts | ||
| Import customers from your old app (even screenshots) | ||
| Web dashboard for the office | ||
| Works offline on site | ||
| All trades, not just gas | ||
| Fault-finding community forum | 80,000+ members | |
| Boiler manual library & gas calculators | Specialist |
Comparison based on Gas App's publicly published pricing and positioning at the time of writing. Prices may change — check their site for the latest.
Free to start · No card · No download needed — works in your browser
Import your customer list from a CSV or Excel export, a PDF — or just screenshots of your old app if you can't get an export at all. TradePlanr reads them, you review every row, and your customers (and their service due dates) are in.
Every annual service sits in your diary as a repeating yearly job, and TradePlanr can text your customer ahead of the due date with your booking link. The CP12 renewals you'd otherwise lose to a forgotten spreadsheet come back on their own.
A community app with forms bolted on isn't a job-management system. TradePlanr joins up the diary, quotes, invoices, certificates, sign-offs, expenses and payments — so a job flows from booking to paid without retyping anything.
No card to try it, a genuinely free plan, and Pro at a flat £9.99/month (or £99.99/year) when you're ready. A crew adds team seats at £4.99/month each, every engineer on full Pro.
For running the business, yes. Gas App's strength is its community — fault-finding help, boiler manuals and calculators from 80,000+ engineers — and plenty of engineers keep it for exactly that. TradePlanr's job is everything around the work: the diary, quotes, invoices, CP12s and other certificates, service reminders and getting paid. They solve different problems; you don't have to give one up to use the other.
Yes. Export whatever you can — a CSV or Excel file, or a PDF — and TradePlanr matches the columns for you. If you can't get an export at all, take screenshots of your customer or reminder list and TradePlanr reads those instead. You review every row before anything is saved, and duplicates are skipped automatically.
If your export or screenshots include next-service dates, TradePlanr turns each one into a repeating yearly job in your diary with a reminder before it's due — and can text the customer your booking link ahead of the visit, so the work rebooks itself.
Yes — Landlord Gas Safety Records (CP12s), service and maintenance records, warning notices and LPG variants, among 80+ certificate types across the trades. Certificates are signed on screen, generated as branded PDFs and sent from the app, with the next service date feeding your reminders.
Yes — you can try TradePlanr free with no card and no countdown. Get your diary, quotes and invoices going and see how it fits your work. Pro is £9.99/month or £99.99/year with a 7-day free trial when you're ready.
See everything TradePlanr does on the product page, or explore certificates and online payments.
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