Choosing a plan

Karven has three paid plans and a 21-day free trial. Starter is the full quoting and invoicing toolkit for a one-person shop. Business is for a small crew, up to 5 users (1 user for now, team invites coming soon). Pro adds unlimited users (1 user for now, team invites coming soon) and the Australian compliance paperwork. That's the whole ladder.

Free trial

21 days, no card. Send as many quotes as you like.

During the trial every plan feature is open, Pro included, so you can try the whole thing before you choose. A few extra tools (Compliance, Reports and others) are add-ons you switch on yourself in Settings → Add-ons; they start off so the app stays simple. The 21 days start when you finish setting up your trade. After that you can still open, edit and send the quotes you have; new quotes need a plan. Everything you made stays put. Starter is shown as selected, with the date your first payment would be, and you can change it any time. Karven only charges you once you add a card, and adding one early doesn't cut your trial short (the first payment waits for the trial to end, unless there are under 2 days left).

Prices

All prices are in AUD and include GST.

Pay annually and you pay for 10 months, not 12: 2 months free. See subscription billing for how billing, upgrades and refunds work.

Starter ($29 inc GST)

For: one-person operators. Most tradies start here and plenty never leave.

Starter is deliberately generous. It includes everything you need to quote, win and get paid:

• Unlimited quotes, in the simple editor or the full calculator.
• Start a quote from an enquiry (decking, concreting and fencing). In the full calculator, paste the customer's text or email, record a voice note or snap a photo, and Karven fills in the job details for you to check.
• Interactive customer quotes: optional extras, customer-picked quantities and pick-one choices. See optional extras.
• Take a deposit when they accept. The customer accepts, signs and pays the deposit on the quote page, straight into your Stripe account.
• Branded PDFs and the customer quote page, where the customer accepts and signs online.
• Invoicing, GST-correct, plus a manual push to Xero or ServiceM8. See Xero.
• Quote follow-ups. Karven reminds you to follow up quotes your customer hasn't answered (ask me first by default, or sent for you if you switch that on). See Automatic messages.
• Jobs, Money, Inbox and Auto messages. Jobs (a board and an install calendar) appears once a customer accepts. Money shows what you're owed (deposits to come and unpaid invoices) and your expenses. Optional add-ons (reports, compliance, your website) switch on in Settings → Add-ons.

Business ($49 inc GST)

For: a small crew quoting under one business name.

Everything in Starter, plus:

• Up to 5 users on the one account, instead of 1 (1 user for now, team invites coming soon).
• Team alerts in Slack or Discord. The crew's channel gets a message when a quote is sent or accepted, a deposit lands, a job is booked and more. You pick which events.
• Suburb pages. A landing page per trade and suburb you cover, branded to you. See suburb pages.

Pro ($99 inc GST)

For: crews using subbies, and anyone who wants the paperwork done for them.

Everything in Business, plus unlimited users (1 user for now, team invites coming soon) and the Australian compliance paperwork:

• SWMS. Safe work method statements built from the quoted job. See SWMS.
• BAS. A draft BAS from your invoices and expenses. See BAS workflow.
• TPAR. The yearly taxable payments report for subbie payments.
• RCTI. Recipient-created tax invoices for your subbies. See RCTI.
• Compliance vault. Licences, insurance and certificates in one place with expiry reminders. See the vault.
• Subbie management. Your regular subbies, their details and their paperwork.

How to actually decide

• Solo, want to quote fast, get paid and get chased jobs over the line? Starter.
• Two to five of you quoting, and want the crew told when a job's won? Business.
• Paying subbies, doing SWMS, or BAS eating a day every quarter? Pro.

You can change plan any time. If you drop a plan, Karven keeps your data. Pages for features you no longer have show an upgrade panel instead of letting you create new ones, but nothing you've already made is deleted. Your old SWMS are still there; you just can't generate a new one until you move back up.

What it doesn't change

The plan doesn't change the quality of your quotes. The pricing maths, the PDF branding, the customer quote page and the follow-ups are the same on Starter as on Pro.