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What's free in ProtoPM, and what costs extra

Every core module in ProtoPM is free: unlimited projects, company members and project collaborators, with 2 GB of storage per company. Optional add-ons start at $5 CAD a month, are bought by the company, and are never priced per user.

ProtoPM pricing page showing the optional add-ons: Documents & Branding, storage packs, Firm Showcase and Supporter, each priced per company in Canadian dollars

What you get for $0

  • Every core module: schedule, field logs, punch list, financials and invoices, change log, risks, lessons learned, files and photos.
  • Unlimited projects, unlimited company members and unlimited project collaborators such as subcontractors, clients and architects.
  • One company you own, with 2 GB of file storage. Joining other companies or collaborating on their projects is unlimited.
  • No credit card to sign up, no trial clock and no expiry date.

Monthly allowances on Free

Three things are metered per company and reset every month: 10 PDF exports, 10 saved project versions and 3 branded invoice PDFs. Project, look-ahead and status report PDFs share the same 10 exports. If a company needs more of these, it doesn't have to leave Free to keep working: the allowance simply renews next month.

Optional add-ons (prices in CAD)

  • Storage +25 GB: $5 a month, stackable.
  • Storage +100 GB: $12 a month, stackable.
  • Documents & Branding: $9 a month for unlimited project PDFs and saved versions, branded invoice PDFs, and your logo and colours on outputs.
  • Firm Showcase: $6 a month for a public portfolio page for your company.
  • Extra company: $5 a month to own one more company. Your first company is free.
  • Supporter: $5 a month. Removes ads and adds a badge next to your company name.
  • Paying yearly costs ten months instead of twelve.

Bought by the company, not by each person

An add-on belongs to the company, so adding crew members never raises the price. Add-ons are bought directly from Settings → Billing and can be cancelled at any time. There is no add-on trial, because the free core is the trial.

What happens if you stop paying

Projects and records are always kept. A lapsed add-on makes only its feature read-only: PDF exports go back to the monthly allowance and a showcase page is unpublished but not deleted. If a company ends up over its storage allowance, it has a 60-day grace period with emails on days 0, 30 and 53 before the largest files are removed to fit. Existing files can still be viewed and downloaded during that time.

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Ads help keep ProtoPM free. They appear on guides, templates and this blog, and any add-on removes them for the whole company. They never appear inside project screens or in anything a client sees. See the full price list.

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