If the website has to take the enquiry and sit with the quote and the invoice, compare Mortar with Powered Now, Tradify, ServiceM8 and Jobber. If you want to design every page yourself, and you already have somewhere else to quote and invoice, a website builder is the smaller monthly figure. The builders are cheaper for a brochure. They stop at the brochure.
We make Mortar. Here is how the trade platforms and the builders were compared, and where each one is the better buy.
People search for the best website for a trade, and for the best website builder for tradespeople. This page answers both, for a small UK business. Powered Now, Tradify, ServiceM8 and Jobber sell a website with the job system, either in the plan or as an add-on. Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy are builders: you put the site together. Mortar is not a builder. Morris drafts the site, you approve it, and the enquiry lands in the same place as the rest of the work. Every price was taken from that company's own site on 2 November 2026. Where a page did not state a fact, it is left out.
How we compared
Five things, and nothing else. No star ratings, and no review sites.
- Who writes the site. A builder hands you a template. A platform drafts the pages for the trade and the places you cover.
- The price of keeping it online. Monthly where the page shows it. Yearly where that is all the page shows. An add-on is named, not folded into the plan price.
- Your own domain. The site should be on your name, not only on the tool's address.
- Where the enquiry goes. A form on the page, or an inbox you already work from.
- The job after the enquiry. A quote and an invoice in the same login, or a site that ends when the visitor has your phone number.
The comparison
Prices as listed on each company's website on 2 November 2026. Powered Now's £23.33 is the yearly plan shown as a monthly figure, and the card still prints £28. Tradify's website is £10 on top of the per-user plan. ServiceM8's website fee is from its setup article, not the plan card. Jobber is in US dollars. Wix showed US dollars and said the currency varies by location. Squarespace showed two monthly figures for each plan and did not label which is the monthly term. GoDaddy's UK prices below are the annual-plan figures. The sums for one, three and five people are in the job management guide. That table uses monthly prices with no annual commitment, so Jobber is $49 there. This table does not repeat them.
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Who writes it | Your domain | Quote and invoice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mortar | The site and the work, on one price | £49 a month plus VAT | Morris drafts it. You approve it. | Yes | Yes, in the same login |
| Powered Now | A free website on the job plan | £28 a month, or £23.33 on the yearly plan, plus VAT, one user | You build it. Finished jobs can fill the site. | Custom domain £100 a year, included on Premium | Yes |
| Tradify | Jobs, plus a website add-on | £34 per user a month, plus £10 for the site | You edit it. Business details can be pulled in. | Free on a Tradify address. Your own domain is connected by their team. | Yes. The enquiry form is on Pro. |
| ServiceM8 | A team plan, website as an add-on | £25 a month Starter, ex VAT. Site free for 24 months, then £24 a year. | You write the description. Contact details come from the account. | A new domain only. An existing one cannot be transferred. | Yes |
| Jobber | Field service, with a website on Core | $29 a month for 1 user, billed annually, or $49 with no commitment | Jobber says you launch it there | Not stated on the pricing page | Yes. Extra users are $29 a month. |
| Wix | A site you design | From $17.77 a month, yearly, in USD | You | On a paid plan | No job file |
| Squarespace | A template you edit | From $19 a month, one of two listed prices | You | A new domain for a year on an annual plan | An invoice for a sale. No job file. |
| GoDaddy | A lower annual price | £7.99 a month on annual Basic | You, with Airo | Included on the plans checked | Not a job file. Payment links marked US and Canada only. |
Mortar
Best for: a small UK trade that wants the website, the enquiries and the invoices on one price, with no per-user fee.
What it does well. Core is £49 a month plus VAT for the business, not each login. Morris drafts the website. You approve what a customer sees. The site is on your own domain, with a page for the services and the areas you cover. An enquiry comes into the inbox. Quotes, jobs and invoices use the same record. The websites page is the longer account of what the site includes. Build it free. The first 14 days after it goes live are free. Pro is £79 a month plus VAT when Morris should answer the chat, the texts and the phone.
Grow is £29 a month plus VAT, on Core or Pro. It checks how the business shows up, keeps the Google listing in step, and can ask for a review after a job. It does not promise a mention.
Watch-outs. Mortar is newer than the other tools in this table. You are not buying a blank canvas to design. If you want to lay out every section yourself, a builder is the tool for that. Pro and Grow are separate prices.
Price. Core £49 a month plus VAT for the whole business. Pro £79. As listed on 2 November 2026.
Official page: mortar.site/pricing.
Powered Now
Best for: a UK sole trader who wants quotes, invoices, Making Tax Digital and a website on one plan.
What it does well. Business includes quotes, invoices, a diary and a free Here Is My Work website on every plan. The pricing page says you build that site yourself, and that finished jobs are turned into the website. It also says Powered Now can build and run it, with no price on that line. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax is described as built in. The trial is 14 days and does not ask for a card. Quotes and invoices are in the same product as the site.
Watch-outs. The Business card leads with £23.33 a month and also prints £28. It says one user is £280 billed yearly, plus VAT, and that the yearly plan saves £56. £23.33 times twelve is £280. £28 times twelve, minus £56, is also £280, so £23.33 is the yearly plan as a monthly figure and £28 is the monthly price that saving is worked from. Business is one user. A second login is Professional, shown as £32 and as £26.67 a month on the same yearly pattern. Your own custom domain is Here Is My Work Premium, £100 a year on Business and Professional, and included on Premium. The free card also says "your own web address", which is a different line from the custom domain.
Price. Business £23.33 a month on the yearly plan, or £28 as the monthly figure printed beside it, plus VAT, for one user. The website is included. The custom domain is £100 a year unless you are on Premium. As listed on 2 November 2026.
Official page: powerednow.com/pricing.
Tradify
Best for: a team that already wants Tradify for jobs, and will pay £10 a month more for the site.
What it does well. Instant Website is an optional add-on. The feature page says it turns the business details into a site, and that you can edit the title, description, photos, logo, services and testimonials. It says leads from the site land in Tradify. Lite, at £34 per user a month, already includes quotes and invoices. You need a Tradify subscription to publish the site. The trial is 14 days and does not ask for a card.
Watch-outs. The website is £10 a month on top, on Lite, Pro and the pricing page's higher plans. A free address is hosted on tradehq.com. A domain you already own is registered somewhere else, then connected by Tradify's team. The UK pricing page does not say whether the figures include VAT. The enquiry form is listed on Pro, at £37 per user a month, not on Lite. Five people on Lite is five times £34, before the £10.
Price. Lite £34 per user a month, plus £10 a month for Instant Website. As listed on 2 November 2026.
Official page: tradifyhq.com/uk Instant Website.
ServiceM8
Best for: a team that wants every person logged in without a per-user fee, and can accept a new domain for the site.
What it does well. Starter is £25 a month, with unlimited users and 50 new jobs a month. The pricing page says every plan includes quotes and invoices, and that UK prices are in pounds and do not include VAT. Website and Email is listed as an add-on, with the note that fees apply. The setup article says a subscriber gets the first 24 months free, then 24 a year in the billing currency, and gives £24 a year as the pound example. You write a short description and choose a colour. The contact details and logo come from the account.
Watch-outs. The add-on needs a ServiceM8 subscription. The domain has to be new and unregistered. The setup article says an existing domain cannot be transferred. The pricing FAQ says ServiceM8 issues reverse-charge invoices and tells you to confirm the VAT position with an accountant. Past the job cap, the page describes an upgrade. The £24 website figure is in the setup article, not on the plan card.
Price. Starter £25 a month excluding VAT, plus a website that the setup article prices at nothing for 24 months and then £24 a year. As listed on 2 November 2026.
Official page: servicem8.com/uk/pricing.
Jobber
Best for: a field-service platform that names a website on the plan, if you are happy to pay in US dollars and to price each login.
What it does well. The pricing page recommends Core and lists "Create a professional website" on it, with booking, quotes, invoices and online payments. Another line says you launch a professional website in minutes, show services, reviews and completed work, and let customers book. Core is shown for one user. A user is anyone at the office or in the field who views or manages the schedule. The trial does not ask for a card.
Watch-outs. Prices are in US dollars and exclude sales tax where it applies. Core is shown as $49 a month with no commitment, $39 a month on a one-year commitment, and $29 a month billed annually. The recommended card says starting at $29, and the page says annual options are billed annually. The one-user line says extra users are $29 a month. A custom domain is not stated on the pricing page. Connect starts at $99 a month, Grow at $149 and Plus at $399, on the same starting-price wording. The job management guide prices a team on the monthly price with no commitment, so Jobber is $49 there. The $29 figure is the same Core plan, billed annually.
Price. Core $29 a month for one user, billed annually, or $49 a month with no commitment. As listed on 2 November 2026.
Official page: getjobber.com/pricing.
Wix
Best for: designing the site yourself, from a template or a prompt, and connecting a domain once you pay.
What it does well. The free plan needs no card. Paid plans add a custom domain, hosting, and AI tools for creating the site. Light is the first paid plan. Core adds accepting payments, basic ecommerce, and scheduling. You can start from a prompt or from one of the templates, then edit with drag and drop. A new Premium plan can be cancelled within 14 days for a refund.
Watch-outs. On 2 November 2026, wix.com/plans showed prices in US dollars and said they vary by location and are for a yearly subscription paid in full. Light was $17.77 a month, Core $29.77, Business $39.77, Business Elite $159.77. A UK checkout can show a different figure in pounds. The free plan does not include connecting your own domain or removing Wix branding. The free-domain offer on a yearly plan is a voucher for a new domain for the first year. It does not renew a domain you already own. There is no quote that becomes a job, and no crew schedule, on the plans page.
Price. From $17.77 a month for Light, as the yearly USD reference price on 2 November 2026. Confirm the pound figure at checkout.
Official page: wix.com/plans.
Squarespace
Best for: a template you edit yourself, with a contact form and a simple invoice, if you are happy to design the pages.
What it does well. There is no free plan. A site starts with a 14-day trial and no card. Every paid plan includes hosting, templates, a drag-and-drop editor, SEO tools and a contact form. All paid plans can sell products or services, and every plan lists sending an invoice. An annual plan includes one year of domain registration on a new domain at Squarespace's cheapest tier. You can also connect a domain you already own.
Watch-outs. The comparison table lists two monthly prices for each plan and does not label them. Basic is $25 and $19, Core is $39 and $29, Plus is $65 and $49, Advanced is $139 and $99. Squarespace says an annual plan costs less than paying monthly, so the lower figure is the one to read as the yearly rate, and the page itself does not print that label on the numbers. Basic charges a 2% fee on online store sales. The invoice is for taking a payment. It is not a quote that turns into a job. Prices are in US dollars.
Price. Basic listed at $19 a month and $25 a month. As published on 2 November 2026.
Official page: squarespace.com/pricing.
GoDaddy
Best for: a simple site at a lower annual price, once you have read what the plan will not take payment for in the UK.
What it does well. The UK plan page offers a free start, then paid plans with templates, Airo to generate the site from a description, a custom domain and a professional email. You can connect a domain you already own. The page lists online booking on the higher plans.
Watch-outs. On 2 November 2026 the UK page showed Basic at £7.99 a month, marked as 52% less on an annual plan, with £11.99 also printed beside it. Commerce was £13.99 a month, marked as 60% less on an annual plan. The page does not say whether those figures include VAT, and it does not show the price after the discounted term. Accepting payments by link or QR code is marked US and Canada only. Free invoicing is marked US only. The sales-tax line is marked US only. A UK trade should not count those as included.
Price. £7.99 a month for annual Basic, as listed on the UK plan page on 2 November 2026. Check the renewal before you treat that as the lasting price.
Official page: godaddy.com/en-uk website builder plans.
Where Mortar is not the fit
Mortar is the wrong first choice if you already have a site you are happy with and you only want a cheaper place to host it. It is the wrong choice if you want a full online shop, with stock, shipping and a catalogue. Squarespace and Wix are built for that, and Mortar is not. It is also the wrong choice if you want to design every section yourself. The builders exist for that, and their yearly prices are lower than £49 before you have added the time to write the pages. A one-page brochure, with the phone number on it and the quoting done in another app, does not need Mortar. If Making Tax Digital inside the job app is the requirement, Powered Now says it is built in. If every person needs a login and the bill must not rise per person, ServiceM8 does not charge per user on paid plans, inside a monthly job cap. Those are job-system questions. The team prices are in the job management guide.
How to choose
Three questions decide it.
- Who is going to write the town pages? If the answer is you, on a Sunday, a builder is honest about that. If the answer is that they will not get written, look at what a trade website needs and at a tool that drafts them.
- Where does Monday's enquiry go? A form that lands in a separate inbox is a second place to check. The Monday list only works if the unreplied enquiries are in one place. Powered Now, Tradify, ServiceM8 and Jobber keep the enquiry with the quote. A builder does not.
- What is the price for the whole job, not the page? £7.99 is the site. £49 is the site plus the enquiries, the quotes and the invoices, for the whole business. Powered Now includes the site on a one-user plan. Tradify adds £10, then multiplies the plan by each login. Compare those products, not the smallest number on its own.
Questions
Is Mortar a website builder?
No. Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy are website builders. You design the pages. Powered Now, Tradify, ServiceM8 and Jobber are job systems that also sell a website. Mortar is the platform the business runs on. The website is included, and so are the enquiries, quotes, jobs and invoices.
Which is cheaper for a site on its own?
On the pages checked on 2 November 2026, GoDaddy's UK annual Basic plan was £7.99 a month, and Wix and Squarespace published lower yearly figures than Mortar's £49. Those prices are for the site. Powered Now includes a website on the plan. Tradify's website is £10 a month on top of a per-user plan. ServiceM8's website is free for 24 months, then £24 a year, on top of the plan. Jobber includes one on Core, in US dollars.
Can I use a domain I already own?
Yes on Mortar. Wix, Squarespace and GoDaddy also let you connect a domain. Powered Now prices a custom domain at £100 a year, included on Premium. Tradify hosts a free address and can connect a domain you register elsewhere. ServiceM8 registers a new domain and says an existing one cannot be transferred. Jobber's pricing page does not state a custom domain.
Where are the prices for a team?
The price for one, three and five people is in the job management guide. That table uses each tool's monthly price, with no annual commitment. Jobber's $49 there is that monthly price. The $29 on this page is the same Core plan, billed annually.