Comparison
17hats alternative: Scopivo without the add-on hell.
17hats starts at $60/mo, then nickel-and-dimes you for time tracking, recurring billing, scheduling, and extra brands. Scopivo Pro includes all of those for $19/mo flat. Here's the math.
Free for your first year. No credit card to start. Time tracking, recurring billing, and scheduling included.
The add-on stack
17hats prices its base subscription competitively and then charges separately for the features most freelancers consider non-negotiable. Below is what a typical solo setup actually costs per month.
| Component | 17hats | Scopivo |
|---|---|---|
| Base subscription | $50/mo | $19/mo |
| Time tracking | +$5/mo | included |
| Recurring billing | +$10/mo | included |
| Online scheduling (basic) | +$5/mo | included |
| Solo monthly total | $70/mo | $19/mo |
| Annual cost (year 2+) | $840 | $228 |
17hats add-on prices verified at 17hats.com/pricing on 2026-05-10. Year-one Scopivo cost is $0 (free year).
Side-by-side
| Capability | Scopivo | 17hats |
|---|---|---|
| Base monthly price | $19/mo flat (after free first year) | $60/mo (or $50/mo on annual) |
| Time tracking | Included on Pro | $5/mo add-on |
| Recurring billing | Included on Pro | $10/mo add-on |
| Online scheduling | Included on Pro | $5-10/mo add-on (basic vs advanced) |
| Bank connection | Not available (use your own accounting tool) | $5/mo add-on |
| Additional brands | Single brand by design | $10/mo each (2 included on Premier) |
| Multi-user support | Single user today; multi-user on roadmap | Yes; $5/mo per additional user |
| Free plan | Free for a full year, then $19/mo | Free plan exists but capped at 4 invoices per quarter |
| Free trial (paid plan) | Not needed, Free tier covers full first year | 7 days |
| Payment processor | Stripe Connect | Stripe or Square |
Where Scopivo wins
One price, no add-on math
Scopivo Pro is $19/mo flat. Time tracking, recurring billing, scheduling, and the client portal are all included. 17hats stacks each of those as a separate $5-10/mo line item on top of the $50-60/mo base, which means most active freelancers pay $70-90/mo for what Scopivo gives you for $19.
Full free year instead of a 7-day trial
17hats has a 7-day trial of the paid plan plus a heavily capped Free CRM plan. Scopivo's Free plan runs for 365 days from signup. You can run real client work on it for a year before you decide whether to upgrade.
Modern, document-centric design
Scopivo's proposals, contracts, and invoices use a lean, editorial visual language that holds up at higher rates. 17hats' templates lean photography-and-wedding, which works for that audience but feels off when you're sending a proposal to a B2B buyer in a different industry.
Where 17hats wins
Honest comparison means naming the cases where 17hats is the better fit.
Built-in bank connection
17hats offers a bank-account connection add-on ($5/mo) for reconciling deposits against invoices. Scopivo doesn't have this. If you rely on automatic bookkeeping inside the same tool, 17hats has the feature today and Scopivo doesn't.
Bigger photography / wedding template library
17hats has years of photographer-and-wedding template infrastructure. If your business is in that vertical and the prebuilt templates save you setup time, 17hats has the deeper library.
Multi-brand support is built into Premier
17hats Premier includes 2 brands; additional brands are $10/mo each. Scopivo is single-brand by design. If you genuinely run two distinct businesses out of the same account (some photographers do, studio + workshops), 17hats handles that better today.
Migration playbook (two weeks)
- 1
Export your data from 17hats
From 17hats account settings, export your contacts, projects, and invoices as CSV. Pull copies of any document templates you want to recreate, contracts, proposals, quotes.
- 2
Cancel the add-ons you won't need
Before switching, audit which add-ons you're currently paying for in 17hats: time tracking, recurring billing, scheduling, bank connection, extra brands, extra users. Anything that Scopivo Pro includes by default becomes a line-item cost you stop paying once you migrate.
- 3
Set up Scopivo in parallel
Sign up for the free year. Connect your own Stripe account. Recreate the document templates from the copies you exported (most freelancers find Scopivo's template editor faster to work in).
- 4
Run two weeks of overlap, then cancel
Finish in-flight projects in 17hats. Send new proposals through Scopivo. Once your last 17hats invoice clears, cancel. Don't try to switch mid-project, your client experience would suffer.
FAQ
- Is 17hats actually $60/mo or is it cheaper with add-ons?
- 17hats' base subscription is $60/mo monthly or $50/mo on annual billing. The add-ons stack on top: $5/mo for time tracking, $10/mo for recurring billing, $5-10/mo for scheduling, $5/mo for bank connection, $10/mo per additional brand, $5/mo per additional user. A solo freelancer using time tracking, recurring billing, and scheduling lands around $75-80/mo. Scopivo Pro includes time tracking, recurring billing, and scheduling for $19/mo flat.
- What about 17hats' Free plan? Doesn't that match Scopivo's free year?
- Not really. 17hats' Free CRM plan is unlimited contacts and projects but caps you at 4 invoices per quarter. That's enough to run a hobby practice but not enough to actually bill clients regularly. Scopivo's Free plan also has caps (1 active client, 1 project, 3 invoices a month), so the two free tiers are comparable for testing the product but Scopivo's runs for a full 365 days from signup rather than indefinitely with permanent caps.
- I rely on 17hats' bank connection feature. Does Scopivo have that?
- No. Scopivo focuses on the client-work workflow (proposals, contracts, invoicing, time tracking) and leaves accounting to a dedicated tool. If automatic bank reconciliation matters to you, Scopivo isn't the right fit yet. Many freelancers use Wave, QuickBooks Self-Employed, or Xero alongside Scopivo for that side.
- Can I bring my 17hats templates with me?
- Yes, the content. Copy-paste from 17hats works for proposal text, contract clauses, and invoice line items. Heavily-formatted PDFs may need to be rebuilt in Scopivo's template editor. Email hello@scopivo.com if you need help converting.
- What does the cost look like for a solo freelancer over a year?
- 17hats annual is $600/year base. Add time tracking ($60), recurring billing ($120), scheduling ($60 basic), and you're at $840/year. Scopivo is $0 in year one ($228 in year two), so year-one savings over 17hats are roughly $840. Year two onward you save roughly $612 annually.
- Will my clients notice the switch?
- Only if you tell them. Proposals, contracts, and invoices come from your domain in their inbox. The portal lives at your Scopivo subdomain. The user-visible behavior is the same; the cost structure is the only thing that changed.
- Does Scopivo support multiple users on one account?
- Not today. Scopivo is currently single-user per account. Multi-user with shared logins is on our roadmap but not shipped yet. If you currently use 17hats with additional users on the account, you'd need to wait for our multi-user release or use separate Scopivo accounts in the interim.
Ready to try Scopivo?
Free for your first year. Time tracking, recurring billing, and scheduling included. No credit card to start.