InspectSync and Inspect Point are not the same kind of product. Inspect Point describes itself as fire protection inspection, service and invoicing software. InspectSync is the system a fire protection company runs the whole business on: the sales pipeline and every customer, building, system and asset; the agreements that generate the inspection jobs; scheduling, dispatch and routing; the inspection itself, its report, its deficiencies and the repair quote; installation projects; invoicing, payments and collections; inventory by van, extinguisher stock, fleet, timesheets and PTO; and the month-end, forecast and technician numbers, all on one set of records with every module included.
The table below compares the part the two products share. The section after it covers what InspectSync runs that an inspection tool does not. Everything stated here about Inspect Point comes from Inspect Point's own site or a named review site, accessed on 22 October 2026; where Inspect Point's material is silent on a capability, nothing is claimed either way.
Who each tool is for
InspectSync is for the fire and life safety contractor that wants one system for the whole company, from a six-technician shop to a multi-branch operation. The office works in one web application; technicians work in the mobile app or the browser field app; customers see their reports, deficiencies, quotes and invoices in a portal. A finding in the field becomes a deficiency on the building, a quote in the queue, a service job on the dispatch board and an invoice in the billing queue without anything being re-keyed, and the same records feed the contracts, the projects, the inventory, the fleet, the timesheets and the forecast. Every module is included in one per-user price.
Inspect Point describes itself as fire protection inspection, service and invoicing software for fire protection contractors, with a native iOS field app and a web back office. It covers sprinkler, fire alarm and security, extinguisher, suppression, special hazards, backflow, and fire doors and life safety trades in the United States and Canada. Plans start at three technicians (or one or two technicians running more than 400 inspections a year), enterprise plans start at fifteen, and the company says its largest single deployment has more than a thousand technicians.
Feature comparison: InspectSync vs Inspect Point
This table covers the ground the two products share: the inspection, the deficiency, the proposal, the schedule and the invoice.
| Capability | InspectSync | Inspect Point |
|---|---|---|
| Field app and devices | Mobile app for iPhone, iPad and Android, or the web field app in any browser; same account either way | Native iOS app for iPad, iPhone and Apple-silicon Macs; no Android app; inspections run offline and sync when signal returns |
| Guided inspections and reports | Included (Jobs module): forms generated per visit and per system from the building's own systems and assets, questions chosen by code year and municipality, required questions enforced at sign-off, every answer stored as a snapshot, one report PDF per system type on your own branding | Included on every plan; forms for NFPA 72, 25, 10, 17/17A, 2001, 101, 80 and 12, CAN/ULC S536, S537 and S561, Joint Commission, DNV and California Title 19; NFPA 25 question sets selectable by code year |
| Deficiency tracking that becomes a repair quote | Included: deficiencies raised from failed answers against the asset, observed on every later visit until verified corrected, scored on the Liability Map, held in the Quote Queue until priced, and quoted from the field with the catalog and your margin rules | Deficiencies auto-created from failed answers with photos, notes and code reference; proposals built from deficiencies on the Gold plan and above |
| Scheduling, dispatch and routing | Included: Dispatch, Team Scheduling, Monthly Schedule, a Routing Workbench that plans several days from drive distances and technician capabilities, a Scheduling Assistant, and an Emergency map of the closest qualified technician | Calendar, map and dispatch views, an inspection series engine, and GPS fleet tracking through Inspect Point Fleet |
| Recurring inspection schedules | Included (Contracts module): a priced agreement per customer or national account, signed online, that generates the jobs it owes, invoices its subscription fee and flags its own renewal | Inspection series set the frequency per system; recurring inspections schedule themselves |
| Service work orders | Included (Jobs module): service jobs with parts, labor and catalog lines, field-created, with the job clock and inventory drawn from the van | Emergency dispatch, time and materials, field-created jobs and crew management on the Platinum plan |
| CRM with buildings, assets and national accounts | Included (CRM module): customers, buildings, systems, assets, complexes, national accounts above their sites, companies, deals, activities and next actions, and a coverage map | Systems and assets tracked per building; CRM through Salesforce or Zoho via Zapier |
| Invoicing and payments | Included (Billing module): a billing queue that catches every completed job, invoices on your own template, card payments through your Stripe account, a payment ledger, AR aging, credit hold and QuickBooks Online | Invoicing from a proposal, inspection or work order with reminders; card, debit and ACH payments through Inspect Point Payments; QuickBooks Desktop and Online, Sage 100 Contractor and ComputerEase |
| AHJ report submission | Yes | The Compliance Engine, IROL, LivSafe and FDNY |
| Public API | Yes | API access on the Platinum plan |
| Customer portal | Included: reports, deficiencies with photos and the liability map, compliance status, jobs, quotes to approve, invoices to pay, contracts, documents and service requests, with per-customer publishing rules | Customers see reports, proposals to approve (Gold), invoices to pay and service history |
| Pricing model | Per user per month, every module included, 30 days risk-free | No public price list; set by team size and trades; Silver, Gold and Platinum plans; plans start at three technicians, enterprise at fifteen |
What InspectSync runs beyond inspections
None of the following is part of how Inspect Point describes its own product. In InspectSync it is all included, on the same records as the inspections.
- Contracts. Agreements with line pricing, fee tiers, exclusions and clauses, frozen at acceptance, that generate the inspection and service jobs they owe, raise subscription invoices on their cadence, and renew or raise a reminder before they expire.
- Projects. Installation and construction work quoted from catalogs, assemblies and a labor rate card with the margin visible, reviewed and approved, then run as phases and punch lists with approved hours measured against the estimate.
- CRM and National Accounts. The sales pipeline of companies, deals and activities ahead of the customer record, and the management company above its buildings with its own agreement, service catalog, bill-to and portal.
- Billing. Not just the invoice: the queue that guarantees nothing finished goes unbilled, the ledger, aging, collection notes, credit hold, customer credits, Square mirroring and two-way QuickBooks payments.
- Operations. Inventory by store and by van with transfers and deduction on job completion, serialised extinguisher stock across shop, vans and loaners, fleet maintenance schedules and costs, timesheets allocated to jobs and projects, PTO balances and internal support tickets.
- Analytics. Month In Review, a six-month trend, revenue, cash, capacity and obligations forecasts computed from the contracts and quotes you already hold, quoting performance, a technician scorecard, a Monday digest and a plain-English AI analysis that returns a chart.
- Home and Resource. Each person's day, week, work and approvals, team chat with the field, a library published to the technician's phone, vendors, subcontractors, tech tools and a map of where the team is.
When to choose which
Choose Inspect Point when inspections are the part of the business you want software for and the rest runs elsewhere; your field runs on iPads and needs to inspect without a signal; you need the Canadian ULC, Joint Commission or DNV form sets; you are large enough to want territories and an enterprise plan; or your accounting runs on QuickBooks Desktop, Sage 100 Contractor or ComputerEase.
Choose InspectSync when you want to run the business, not just the inspections, in one system: the agreements that owe the visits, the projects, the billing, the inventory, the fleet, the timesheets and the forecast on the same records as the findings; your technicians carry Android phones or iPhones and you do not want to buy iPads; you want proposals, work orders and every other module in one plan rather than gated by tier; or you want to see what you will pay before the demo.