Inspection software
Spectora alternatives for New Zealand inspectors
Spectora is built for the US market: USD billing, US report conventions, no NZS 4306 or healthy homes awareness. Here are the options for an NZ inspection business, including ours.
Spectora is the biggest name in home inspection software, and it is built for the United States. For a New Zealand inspector that shows up three ways: it bills in US dollars at USD $109 a month plus USD $99 for each extra inspector, its report conventions and integrations are American, and it has no concept of the things an NZ report leans on, like NZS 4306 scope language or healthy homes assessment work. The NZ-market alternatives are InspectPro and ducksoup, which we make, so read this knowing who wrote it.
Why do NZ inspectors look for a Spectora alternative?
Spectora is good software for the market it was built for. The friction for an NZ business is not quality, it is fit:
- Currency. USD billing means your monthly cost moves with the exchange rate and picks up foreign transaction fees, and the advertised price has no GST in it because a US company does not charge you one.
- Report shape. US home inspection reports are structured around US practice and terminology. An NZ pre-purchase report written to NZS 4306 states a defined visual, non-invasive scope, and buyers' lawyers here expect that framing.
- NZ work types. Healthy homes assessments, meth screening reports and BWOF-adjacent work do not exist in a US product's vocabulary, so you end up bending a US template rather than starting from your own.
What should an NZ alternative actually have?
Judge any candidate against the work you actually sell, not the feature grid:
| Requirement | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| NZD pricing with GST stated | The price on the page is the price you pay |
| Your own template, not theirs | Your report structure is your product; retyping it into a US shape is days of unpaid work |
| NZ report conventions | Scope statements and limitations that read correctly to NZ lawyers and buyers |
| Phone-first capture | The work happens on site, not at a desk |
| A report your client can actually read | The report is the deliverable; everything else is workflow |
What are the options?
InspectPro is NZ-built, priced at $69.99 a month GST inclusive for one inspector, and works from structured area-by-area templates with preset comments. It is the established NZ-native choice.
ducksoup is ours, so we are not going to review it in our own blog post. The short factual version: it works from the template your business already uses rather than shipping its own, and capture happens on your phone. The home page says the rest.
Staying on Spectora is also an answer. If your workflow is already built around it and the currency and template costs are sunk, switching has a real cost too. The case for moving is strongest when you are re-typing NZ-specific work into US shapes, or when the exchange rate turns a USD subscription into a number you would not have agreed to in NZD.