AroFlo is built to run a service company. Korda is built to get a tradie paid.

The setup cost nobody talks about

AroFlo’s capabilities are well documented. What’s discussed less is the cost of getting there — not just the subscription, but the configuration investment required before the platform delivers value.

Setting up AroFlo properly means configuring job templates, uploading price books, mapping inventory, establishing compliance workflows, and working through an onboarding process that assumes the business has someone dedicated to running it. For a company with an office manager and the bandwidth to invest in that setup, it pays off. For a sole trader or a two-person crew who needs to send an invoice today, it’s the wrong starting point.

Korda onboards with a dedicated WhatsApp Business number. The setup connects your Xero account, agrees on the follow-up language across your account, and confirms your payment terms. First invoice goes out the same day. There is no configuration project because there is no platform to configure — there is WhatsApp, which you already know, and a Korda number that handles the financial layer running inside it.

Mobile-first vs mobile-adapted

AroFlo’s mobile app is designed for field technicians — clocking on and off, recording hours, uploading site photos, and ticking off job details. For that use case, it works well. For anything that requires the depth of the platform — detailed quoting, inventory mapping, financial reporting — users describe the experience on a phone as tedious at best.

That distinction matters. AroFlo’s power lives on a desktop. The mobile experience is an extension of that, designed for field workers who need to interact with a system run by someone else.

Korda is the inverse. There is no desktop. There is no system someone else runs. The entire product lives in WhatsApp — a voice note to invoice, a Morning Brief at 7am, a Weekly Pulse on Friday afternoon. The phone isn’t an access point to a larger platform. It is the platform.

The Morning Brief — your financial position before the first job

AroFlo has reporting. The job costing data, the WIP dashboard, and the financial summaries — they exist, and for a business with someone checking them regularly, they deliver value. The barrier is that checking them requires logging in to a desktop platform and navigating to the correct screen.

Korda delivers the numbers that matter directly to your phone at 7am:

Good morning. Here’s your position for Tuesday, 17 June.

Collected this week: $14,200

Outstanding (within terms):$22,800

Overdue: $6,400 — 2 invoices

Follow-ups sent overnight:

— Invoice #1041, Brennan Constructions, $3,800 — 7-day reminder sent

— Invoice #1038, Sarah Chen, $2,600 — 14-day follow-up sent

Collected, outstanding, overdue. Which follow-ups fired while you were asleep? Ninety seconds before the van starts. No login, no navigation, no report to generate. Every Friday at 4pm, the Weekly Pulse delivers the same view across the week.

For a business owner, the difference between information that arrives and information you have to seek is the difference between knowing your position every day and knowing it when something goes wrong.

Where AroFlo genuinely leads

AroFlo earns its place in the market for businesses that have grown to the point where its capabilities pay for themselves:

• GPS fleet tracking via AroPoint — live vehicle locations across a working fleet
• Real-time job costing and profit tracking down to individual tasks, labour hours, and material costs
• Full inventory management across jobs and stock locations
• Compliance documentation — safety checklists, SWMS, and trade certificates built into the job workflow
• Clean Xero and MYOB integration with minimal double-handling for office staff
• Local Australian support team with phone and screen-share availability

If your business has a fleet to track, inventory to manage, compliance obligations that require integrated documentation, and the administrative structure to set the platform up properly, AroFlo is built for exactly that. The depth is not excessive for a business of that complexity. It’s appropriate for it.

Who Korda is built for

Korda is built for Australian trade businesses with one to ten people, where the owner is still on the tools and has not yet reached the point where GPS fleet tracking or multi-location inventory management are part of the daily operational picture.

The problem Korda solves is specific: invoices go out late because the invoicing step requires a context switch that doesn’t happen at the end of a long day. Follow-ups are inconsistent because there’s no system running them. The financial picture is approximate because nobody’s logging into software mid-week to generate a report.

Korda fixes those three things. The invoice goes out from the driveway via a WhatsApp voice note. The follow-up sequence runs automatically from your business email address on a defined schedule. The Morning Brief arrives at 7am with the three numbers that matter — collected, outstanding, overdue. Xero stays current as a byproduct of the work, not as a separate maintenance task.

No setup investment. No platform to learn. No per-user pricing for capabilities that sit three growth stages ahead of where the business is today