UpKeep Review - why 4.7 stars?

• Asset Management: This feature provides powerful insights to help various teams manage their full asset lifecycle.
• Preventive Maintenance: This feature comes with the tools to help modern-day maintenance professionals prevent asset breakdowns beforehand.
• Facility Maintenance: With this feature, various agile maintenance teams can plan their day confidently and in subsequent days.
• Property Maintenance: Maintenance teams and managers can easily access and approve work orders on smartphones or tablets.
• Inventory Management: This feature provides maintenance teams and managers with consequential insights to control costs towards sufficient supply in stock better.

• UpKeep offers free features in its free plan
• The software is easy to use and simple to learn
• Users can conveniently access UpKeep right from a mobile phone or a computer.

• The software has a poor scheduling feature for recurring work orders

• Functionality: UpKeep offers features like Asset Management, Property Management, Facility Management, Inventory Management, Preventive Maintenance, and Equipment. When compared to its alternatives, most Fiix features are like UpKeep. However, Fiix offers the grab data from any production system not available in UpKeep. MaintainX offers a Communication and Chat feature not seen in Upkeep. Asset Panda offers Fixed Asset Tracking, IT Asset Tracking, Tool Tracking, Maintenance Tracking, Reservations, etc.
• Customers/Industries: Upkeep targets maintenance teams in manufacturing, facilities, farming/agriculture, building, etc. Customers like Pepsi bottling ventures, YAHAMA, and MacDonalds use Upkeep. Compared to its alternatives, Asset Panda targets maintenance teams in education, construction, healthcare, government, non-profits, etc. Customers like Yeti, The Boring Company, and BritisRedCross use Asset Panda. MaintainX targets maintenance teams in manufacturing, facility management, food and beverage, hospitality, education, and schools, etc. Customers like MacDonalds, Dominos, and UniverSolution use MaintainX.
• Cost: Industry experts cost-rated this maintenance software as 1 (where 1-2 is a low-cost and 4-5 is a high-cost), which means it is low-cost software amongst its alternatives. The license cost for Upkeep starts at $45/month per user. Compared to its alternatives, Fiix starts with a basic plan at $45 per user per month (annual billing). MaintainX starts with the Essential plan at $8.33/month per user, per month, when billed annually. Asset Panda (customizable pricing) starts at $83 per month (billed annually).
• Cloud-based/On-premise: UpKeep and all its alternatives are cloud-based.
• Popularity: UpKeep (2014) is a privately held company with 3000+ companies using its asset management solutions. Compared to its alternatives, Fiix (2008) is a privately held company managing over 6.2 million work orders and 3.5 million PMs every year. MaintainX (2018) is also privately held.
• Support: Upkeep and its alternatives share similar support channels like email/help desk, FAQs/forum, a knowledge base, phone support, and chat. UpKeep and MaintainX offer a 24/7 live rep support channel which is lacking in Fiix and Asset Panda.

What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 2 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for UpKeep. You can also find here pricing information from UpKeep's website.