An honest comparison
Both are quick and a pleasure to use. stub leans to the books, Quotelyfy to the jobs.
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Our strengths
More than quotes and invoices: the whole working day, connected.
We care about the same things stub does: quick to learn, quick to send, and nice to use on a phone between jobs.
A quote becomes a job on your board, with your own stages, and the planner keeps the week in view. Everything about a customer stays on one record.
Invite your team with the right permissions, run projects, and log time against them with timesheets.
When a job, quote, proposal, project or timesheet changes, a workflow can email the customer, notify your team, send a payment link, create the next document or ask for a rating. Set it once and it runs, on any paid plan.
Send a proposal your client can read, pick a plan in, sign and pay, with forms and attachments they fill in on the page.
Ask for a deposit, split a quote into instalments, log part payments with a running balance, and invoice a big job in linked parts: the deposit, each stage, the balance. Customers pay online by card or bank through Paystack.
Send quotes and invoices on WhatsApp. On Pro, get a WhatsApp alert when a customer views, accepts or pays. On Pro+, run the business by chatting or sending a voice note to your WhatsApp assistant.
Your customer opens a page made for them, greeted by name, not an attachment. They accept, take off optional items, leave you a note and pay, right there. Pick one of 18 themes and add your logo and colours, so everything you send represents you well.
See when a document was delivered, opened and clicked. On paid plans you get an email or WhatsApp alert the first time your customer opens it.
Quote and invoice in some of South Africa's most widely spoken languages, like Afrikaans and isiZulu, with more coming. A customer who reads your quote in their own language feels it was written for them.
Connect Quotelyfy to Claude and ask it to raise a quote, chase overdue invoices, move a job or plan your week, in plain language.
Two-way sync with Xero and a Zoho Books connection on the Pro plan, card payments through Paystack, and sending on WhatsApp and email.
Their strengths
stub is an app for everyday South African entrepreneurs: simple invoices, quotes and statements, with accounting, bank feeds and tax returns.
Simple and friendlyBuilt for people who would rather build a business than balance the books, with a warm, local tone. stub says more than 10,000 businesses use it.Source
Books and tax handledBank feeds from the major South African banks, dashboards, and VAT and income tax returns ready before they are due.Source
Payments and stockCard payments and payment links, plus inventory with products, SKUs and purchase orders.Source
Quotelyfy does not connect to stub. Both are built for South African businesses that want admin to be quick and pleasant, and both work with AI assistants. Pick the one that matches your day: the books with stub, or the jobs with Quotelyfy.
We like their work, and they're good at what they do. If you're looking for amazing accounting software, sign up on stub, like now!
Quick answers
That is the goal. Like stub, Quotelyfy is built to be quick to learn and quick to send, on a phone or a laptop. Try both and keep the one that feels right.
No. Quotelyfy works out your VAT figures and tracks expenses, but it does not submit returns to SARS. If you want returns handled in the same app, stub does that.
Yes. Once your customer says yes, convert the quote into an invoice in one step. The customer, line items and totals carry over, so nothing is typed twice.
Yes. Alongside English, Quotelyfy quotes and invoices speak some of South Africa's widely spoken languages, like Afrikaans and isiZulu, with more on the way. Your customer can also switch language on the document itself.
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