Fergus price increase: worth staying?
Fergus wins genuine praise for streamlining trade businesses, and long-term users describe a pattern worth knowing about before renewal: pricing that changes every 6–12 months, and features quietly moving up-tier after you've built your workflow around them.
If Fergus's job management earns its keep for you, that's the trade-off of a maturing SaaS product. If you're mostly invoicing, the maths looks different.
In their words
What Fergus users are saying
★“We've noticed a consistent pattern: the pricing changes every 6 to 12 months, usually increasing without clear added value… features we were actively using have now been locked, features that were part of our plan.”
Excerpts are public reviews, quoted with their sources. Fergus’s pricing and plans may have changed, so check their site for current terms. Last reviewed August 2026.
The honest take
We’re not a Fergus alternative. Read this first
Keep Fergus if: Fergus is running your quoting, scheduling and back-office and 'it saves us many times what it costs' (a real 5-star review says exactly that). Job management is its job.
Consider switching your invoicing if: The feature you actually rely on is the invoice button. Dinkum Invoice: unlimited ATO-correct invoices free, $9/mo for BAS-ready GST summaries, and clause 7 of our covenant says features never move up-tier. That clause exists because of stories like the one above.
Fair questions
FAQ
Does Fergus lock features behind higher plans?
A long-term user on Trustpilot reports features they actively used being moved out of their plan. Review your plan's inclusions at each renewal; pricing pages change.
Is Dinkum Invoice a Fergus alternative?
No. Fergus is job-management software; Dinkum Invoice is invoicing plus Australian tax compliance only. It suits sole traders who found they only used the invoicing side.
What does Dinkum's 'no up-tier' promise actually say?
Clause 7 of our public covenant: no feature you rely on gets removed or moved to a higher tier. The covenant has a public changelog, so any edit to that promise would be visible.
Only using Fergus to invoice?
Create your Dinkum Invoice account: unlimited ATO-correct Tax Invoices free, $9/mo BAS layer locked for life, and a free ATO-correct invoice template today.