Jetbuilt Alternatives in 2026: 6 Options for AV Integrators (D-Tools, XTEN-AV and More)

Jetbuilt is quoting, proposal and project software built specifically for AV systems integrators and the adjacent low-voltage trades. It's genuinely good at the thing it's known for: getting a professional, product-accurate proposal out the door quickly, without the on-premises baggage that has historically defined this category.

People search for a Jetbuilt alternative for three reasons that come up far more than any feature gap: the per-seat-plus-modules pricing structure, the drawing and engineering side being an add-on rather than a core strength, and shops that have outgrown proposal software and actually need an ERP.

This roundup is organised around what actually differentiates products in this category — the manufacturer product database, whether drawings connect to the bill of materials, and how far past the quote the software follows the job.

What Jetbuilt actually costs — the module math

Before comparing, understand the pricing model, because it's the number one reason shops shop around.

As of August 2026, Jetbuilt publishes its Project Platform in two tiers, priced per user per month: LITE at $69 for the first three team members and $59 for each additional, and ENTERPRISE at $137 for the first five and $127 thereafter. There's roughly a 10% discount for annual payment, no long-term contract requirement, and a two-week free trial. Enterprise adds multi-office support, customisable labour types, engineering and scrub workflows, and multi-currency quoting.

That's the headline. The real bill is modular. Drawings, Funnel, Stock, Install, Service and Portal are separately priced add-ons — some per user (Funnel, Install and Service each around $34/user/month), some tiered by company size (Drawings scales from tens of dollars to four figures monthly; Stock similarly), and Portal tiered by client count.

The shortlist at a glance

1. D-Tools — the incumbent, in two very different flavours

D-Tools is the long-standing name in this category and the most common Jetbuilt comparison. Critically, it's two products, and conflating them is the most common evaluation mistake.

D-Tools System Integrator (SI) is the heavyweight: an on-premises platform where engineering drawings built in Visio or AutoCAD are connected directly to the bill of materials, backed by a manufacturer product library covering thousands of products with specifications, images, I/O detail and dealer-specific pricing. That catalog-plus-drawing linkage is the genuine moat in this category, and nothing else here matches its depth. It's also the reason SI has a reputation for a steep learning curve — you're adopting an engineering methodology, not a quoting app.

D-Tools Cloud is the web-based, lighter product, with published paid plans reported to start around $99/month — verify current pricing directly, as we could not confirm a live figure on the vendor's own pricing page. It's aimed squarely at the shops that would otherwise pick Jetbuilt: faster to start, less engineering ceremony, still connected to the D-Tools product data ecosystem.

2. XTEN-AV — design and proposal in one environment

XTEN-AV is the most interesting recent entrant, and its pitch is architectural rather than featural: instead of quoting in one tool and drawing in another, X-DRAW aims to connect design, bill of materials, proposal and project workflow in a single environment, with an AI layer (XAVIA) doing schematic and documentation work that would otherwise be manual CAD time.

For a shop where the engineer and the salesperson are the same person — extremely common at ten staff and under — collapsing that handoff is the strongest argument on this list.

Pricing is published as per-user monthly tiers billed annually, with a 15-day free trial and no credit card required; reported entry rates cluster around the low-to-mid $100s per user per month depending on tier and channel, and it's also distributed through ADI. Confirm current numbers directly, since third-party listings disagree.

3. Solutions360 Q360 — when you've outgrown proposal software

Q360 is not a Jetbuilt competitor in the normal sense. It's a full PSA/ERP for technology integrators: sales, proposals, project management with work breakdown by site, building and room, real-time job costing, resource scheduling, procurement, inventory, service and dispatch — and full accounting. It integrates with D-Tools SI so design lives in D-Tools and everything downstream lives in Q360.

The reason it belongs here is that a lot of "we need a Jetbuilt alternative" searches are actually "our operations have outgrown quoting software". If you're reconciling job costs across three systems and a spreadsheet, no proposal tool fixes that.

Pricing is quote-only and enterprise-shaped, and implementation is a project measured in months. Realistically this makes sense above roughly twenty to thirty staff. Below that, the implementation cost dwarfs the benefit.

4. iPoint — residential and QuickBooks-centric shops

iPoint launched in 2013 and is built around end-to-end AV business management: proposals, service agreements, retail sales and inventory, with QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Online integration as a first-class feature rather than an afterthought.

That accounting integration is the differentiator. A large number of custom-install and residential AV businesses run their books in QuickBooks and their operations in a tool that barely talks to it — reconciliation becomes someone's part-time job. iPoint is built for exactly that shop.

It's less oriented toward large commercial AV engineering than D-Tools, and it's a smaller vendor than the others here. Pick it for operational fit, not for design depth.

5. Simpro — for service-heavy, multi-trade operations

Simpro is trade contractor management software rather than AV software: quoting, job management, scheduling, inventory, invoicing and recurring maintenance across trades. It's genuinely strong on the service and maintenance side — the part of the business Jetbuilt only addresses through paid add-on modules.

The tradeoff is unambiguous and disqualifying for some shops: there is no AV manufacturer product catalog and no AV drawing capability. If a meaningful share of your revenue is recurring service and your installs are relatively repeatable, that may not matter. If your quotes are 200-line bills of materials against dealer pricing, it does.

6. Generic proposal tools — the honest budget answer

PandaDoc, Proposify and Quotient produce polished, signable, trackable documents. They have no product database, no bill of materials, no dealer pricing, and no connection between what you quoted and what you order.

This is only the right answer in one situation: your quoting already lives in a spreadsheet and the pain is producing and chasing the document. In that case a generic tool is a real upgrade at a fraction of the cost. For everyone else it's a downgrade dressed as a saving — and if document workflow is the actual bottleneck, our Typeform vs Jotform vs Fillout comparison covers the intake side of the same problem.

What actually separates these tools

Strip away the marketing and three questions decide this category.

Does it carry a manufacturer product database with dealer pricing? D-Tools, Jetbuilt, XTEN-AV and iPoint do. Simpro and generic proposal tools don't. This is the single biggest determinant of whether quoting is fast and accurate or slow and error-prone, because without it every line item is manual data entry against a distributor PDF.

Do drawings connect to the bill of materials? D-Tools SI (via Visio/AutoCAD) and XTEN-AV are the two that treat this as core. Jetbuilt handles drawings as a paid add-on module. If your proposals need to be engineering-accurate and the drawing has to match the BOM, this is where the money is.

How far past the quote does it follow the job? Jetbuilt covers install, service and stock through separate modules; Q360 covers everything including accounting; Simpro covers service properly but not design; iPoint covers service agreements and inventory with QuickBooks underneath. Decide which end of the workflow is actually bleeding money before you shop.

If the gap you're feeling is really project coordination rather than quoting — task ownership, deadlines, who's on site Thursday — a dedicated PM tool alongside your quoting software is often cheaper than a platform migration. Our Asana vs Monday vs ClickUp for small teams comparison covers that path, and Zapier vs Make covers connecting it back to whatever holds your quotes.

When Jetbuilt is the right call anyway

Stay on Jetbuilt if your business is sales-led and speed-to-quote is the constraint. That is its genuine advantage: it is faster to learn and faster to produce a credible proposal than D-Tools SI, and it's cloud-native in a category where the deepest competitor still leans on an on-premises Windows deployment. For a growing commercial AV shop where the bottleneck is proposal throughput rather than engineering precision, that matters more than catalog depth.

The signals that it's time to move are specific, not vague dissatisfaction. Your module stack has quietly grown to cost more than a monolithic competitor. Your engineers are redrawing in AutoCAD what the salesperson already built in the quote. Or you're doing job costing in a spreadsheet because the software stops at the proposal. Any one of those is a real reason. "The interface annoys me" is not worth a migration in this category — moving product catalogs, templates and historical projects between these systems is a genuinely painful exercise.

The verdict

One caution that applies across every option here: the demo will show you a beautiful proposal generated from a pre-loaded catalog. Ask instead how your product data gets in, how dealer pricing updates are maintained, and what happens to your historical projects. That's where these migrations actually succeed or fail — not in the quoting screen.