Newer admin is easy to find.
New clients are the hard part.
17hats has run solo service businesses for a decade, and if you are shopping for its replacement the admin candidates are below, honestly compared. But read your own motivation first: if the itch is a dated interface, switch suites. If the itch is an emptying calendar, no admin suite old or new has ever fixed that, and this page covers what does.
17hats and Its Replacements, Priced
| Tool | Pricing | The honest one-liner |
|---|---|---|
| 17hats | $60 a month or $600 a year, one plan plus add-ons | The veteran: capable, proven, showing its age. Old tiers retired for a single plan |
| HoneyBook | $29 to $109 a month billed annually, plus processing fees | The polished mainstream choice, payments built in, US and Canada |
| Dubsado | $335 or $525 a year, 3 users included | The customisation deep end, steeper learning curve |
| Moxie | Low-cost plans, fast-moving product | The value newcomer freelancers rate |
| Nynch | $79 a month billed annually at $950 | Not an admin suite: the system that fills the calendar the suites administer |
Pricing per each vendor's published page, checked 15 August 2026. 17hats retired its Essentials, Standard and Premier tiers for the single plan.
Nynch reads your email, calendar and LinkedIn, holds both sides of every relationship, and briefs you each morning on who to contact, why today, and what to say. Keep whichever admin suite suits you. Add the half your revenue actually depends on.
Name the Itch First
- → Mainly want fresher workflows, contracts and invoicing.
- → Run a booking-shaped business with steady inbound enquiries.
- → Are outgrowing 17hats’ interface, not its category.
- → Are a consultant, adviser or expert whose work comes through relationships.
- → Feel the quiet weeks after every busy delivery stretch.
- → Want a morning briefing on who to contact, why, and what to say.
17hats Alternatives, Answered
For the same job, running a solo service business’s admin, the modern shortlist is HoneyBook (from $29 a month, smoothest experience), Dubsado ($335 a year, deepest customisation) and Moxie (the value newcomer). All three feel newer than 17hats because they are. But if you are leaving 17hats because business is not arriving, none of them fix that: they all administer clients you already won. The system for winning the next one is Nynch.
Per 17hats’ published pricing (checked August 2026), the old Essentials, Standard and Premier tiers are gone: it is one plan at $60 a month or $600 a year, with à-la-carte add-ons (extra users, scheduling, bank connect and similar at $5 to $10 a month each). A free plan exists with unlimited contacts and 4 invoices a quarter. The single plan is simpler, and at $600 a year it prices against newer rivals rather than under them.
If it already runs your business smoothly, switching costs likely outweigh the upgrade. The platform is a veteran: solid workflows, quotes, contracts and invoicing that thousands of photographers and service soloists still run daily. The fair criticism is pace and polish against HoneyBook and Moxie. The unfair expectation is that any of these tools grows your revenue: that was never their job.
The other half of the business. 17hats starts when a lead fills your form. Nynch works the months before that: it reads your email, calendar and LinkedIn, remembers what past clients and contacts said, notices job changes and budget mentions, and briefs you each morning on who to contact, why, and what to say. Admin software processes demand. Nynch generates it from the network you already have.
Yes, and that is the sensible stack for a relationship-led business: keep whichever admin suite you like for quotes, contracts and invoices, and add Nynch as the relationship layer that keeps the calendar full. They touch different ends of the client lifecycle, so there is nothing to migrate and nothing that conflicts.
The suites run the work.
Nynch brings the work.
See what your network has been holding: the owed referrals, the reopened budgets, the relationships one good message from warm.