stub is a great fit if
- You want your invoices, books and bank feeds together in one simple app.
- You want VAT and income tax returns prepared in the same place.
- You sell products and want inventory, SKUs and purchase orders alongside your invoices.
An honest comparison
stub vs Quotelyfy
stub is a good product. Here is when it is the right choice, and when Quotelyfy fits better.
Quotelyfy is a great fit if
- You run jobs, a team and customers, and want the whole day in one place.
- You send quotes, invoices and proposals that customers can accept, sign and pay online.
- You want workflows to handle the follow-ups, and to know the moment a document is read.
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Their strengths
What stub does well
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
Our strengths
Where Quotelyfy fits
More than quotes and invoices: the whole working day, connected.
Quick, simple and a pleasure to use
We care about the same things stub does: quick to learn, quick to send, and nice to use on a phone between jobs.
Built around the work
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.
Teams and timesheets
Invite your team with the right permissions, run projects, and log time against them with timesheets.
Workflows that do the follow-up
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.
Proposals clients sign and pay
Send a proposal your client can read, pick a plan in, sign and pay, with forms and attachments they fill in on the page.
Get paid your way
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.
WhatsApp, built in
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.
A living document, not a dead PDF
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.
Read receipts
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.
Documents that speak their language
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.
AI-friendly
Connect Quotelyfy to Claude and ask it to raise a quote, chase overdue invoices, move a job or plan your week, in plain language.
Connected
Two-way sync with Xero and a Zoho Books connection on the Pro plan, card payments through Paystack, and sending on WhatsApp and email.
The same care for ease
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
Questions, answered
Is Quotelyfy as easy to use as stub?
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.
Does Quotelyfy do my tax returns like stub?
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.
Is it easy to turn a quote into an invoice?
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.
Can I quote in my customer's language?
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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