Maintenance management software you own
Maintenance management software you own: usage-based triggers, a parts store and work orders, instead of a per-user monthly CMMS.
upkeep alternative is one of the few category searches this store already appears for on Google, and the search behind it is not really about one vendor. It is about a maintenance system priced per user per month for a team whose maintenance work is a fixed amount of paperwork that does not grow with the head count.
This page is about what a maintenance system has to do, and about the two features that separate a real one from an asset list with a due-date column.
The two features that decide it
Usage-based triggers. A vehicle service is due at a distance, a compressor service at running hours, and a calendar service at a date -- whichever arrives first. A tool that only schedules by date will either service too early for months or miss the trigger entirely on a machine that ran double shifts. Fixora triggers preventive maintenance on engine hours, distance or the calendar, with whichever comes first winning.
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A parts store attached to the work order. Maintenance without spares tracking produces work orders that stop halfway. Fixora holds a spare-parts inventory and lets a work order consume from it.
Nearly every inexpensive one-time script in this category leaves both of these out, which is why the category word CMMS is worth insisting on. An asset register with dates is a useful thing and it is not a maintenance system.
What owning the copy changes
The meter goes away. Maintenance software is almost always sold per user per month, and the people who need access to a maintenance system are the people who do the work -- so the pricing is a tax on letting technicians see their own jobs. Fixora is licensed by the site you run it on: one installation, your whole team, roles to keep them in their lanes.
The history stays yours too. A maintenance record is an asset's biography, and it is the document that settles a warranty argument or a resale price years later. In your own database it is a query away; in a cancelled subscription it is an export request.
What to look for
A work-order state machine that is enforced. Statuses that the application refuses to skip, rather than a dropdown anybody can set to closed.
Meter readings as first-class data. Hours and distance recorded over time, so the trigger arithmetic has something to work from and a reading that looks wrong is visible.
A maintenance calendar the team can subscribe to. Fixora publishes a preventive-maintenance calendar as a feed, so what is due appears in the calendars people already look at.
Photographs and documents on the work order. The manual page, the before picture, the serial plate. Maintenance is a visual trade and a text-only record loses most of the evidence.
Cost and downtime reporting. The two numbers that turn maintenance from a cost centre into an argument: what it cost, and how long the machine was out.
An honest answer about mobile. Fixora has no native application in an app store; it is responsive web, installable to a home screen as a full-screen app served from your own server. That is a trade, and the compensating side is that there is no store build to keep alive and no review queue between you and a fix.
The limits, stated plainly
One site per installation, with the team sharing it through roles. Meter readings are entered by hand -- there is no telematics or sensor ingest, so a fleet with vehicle trackers will be typing numbers a machine already knows. There is no purchasing or purchase-order module: stock is adjusted by hand or consumed by a work order, and raising an order to a supplier happens elsewhere. If purchase orders are the point, Supplia is the register that watches vendors and renewal dates, and it is a different product.
Questions people ask
Does it schedule on hours and distance, or only on dates? On engine hours, on distance, or on the calendar, with whichever comes first triggering the job. That is the feature the category is named for.
Does the price rise as more technicians use it? No. The licence covers the installation, not the people in it, so giving every technician their own login costs nothing.
Is there a mobile app? Not in an app store. It installs to a phone home screen from the browser as a full-screen app served from your own server, and business data is never cached offline, so what is on screen is live.
Where to look next
The product page is Fixora, with the whole feature record and its limits in the product's own words. The alternatives page covers the hosted system this search usually names, another and a third cover the other two people compare against, and the side-by-side sets them next to each other. For what any of them charges per user per month, read the observatory: each figure is quoted verbatim beside the date it was read and a link to the vendor page it came from. Prices are on the observatory; read them on the date shown there.