Pangea as an alternative
The Pangea alternative to Craftnote.
Craftnote is a strong site app: photos, documentation, chat. Quotes, invoices, warehouse and bookkeeping run alongside it. Pangea joins site and office in one process.
When switching pays off
When the site should reach the office.
Site diary, time-and-materials report and work schedule hang on the same process as the quote and the invoice.
Clock in with project reference, job costing, time-and-materials billing without re-entry.
Technicians and office work on the same data.
If all you want is documentation, Craftnote serves you well. Pangea pays off when documentation should turn into billing.
Compared
Fifteen sentences from everyday work. And who solves them.
| What businesses say | Pangea | Craftnote |
|---|---|---|
| “Does the customer even know the quote has arrived?” Pangea reports the opening with customer name and subject; every opening is counted. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “Quote, order, delivery note, invoice — typed four times.” Every follow-on document is created from its predecessor with one click; 12 document types with their own number ranges. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ◐ |
| “Where's the project at? I'll just ring the site.” The control centre shows every phase with mandatory tasks; the people responsible get a push notification. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ✓ |
| “We maintain wholesale prices by hand.” DATANORM import of up to 500,000 items, price feed from the wholesaler three times a day, incoming documents via the UGL wholesale interface. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “E-invoicing? I've got a separate tool for that.” XRechnung and ZUGFeRD to EN 16931 from the same invoice, including reverse-charge cases. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ◐ |
| “The hours end up somewhere, just not on the project.” Clock in with project and service reference, time monitor for the office, reminders when hours are missing. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ✓ |
| “The tax adviser gets a box full of receipts.” DATEV export and DATEV Online (the German tax-adviser standard) straight from the system. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “Enquiries fizzle out in the inbox.” Leads from your website, lead portals and ads come in automatically, are assigned and reported. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “Registering the PV system with the grid operator is a paper war.” Registration workflow per grid operator with deadlines, Marktstammdatenregister (the German master data register for energy systems), wiring-diagram export for the registration pack. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “The site app and the office software don't know each other.” Site diary, photos, time-and-materials report and work schedule hang on the same process as the quote and the invoice. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ✓ |
| “Six programs, six invoices, six logins.” One system, one price per user, no base fee, modules only when needed. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “The AI doesn't know my business.” The assistant answers from your own business data, with a source cited and only with what the person asking is allowed to see. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| “Maintenance and service run in Excel.” Maintenance contracts with automatic invoicing, service jobs with signature on the phone, system monitoring. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ◐ |
| “Who has which tool, which vehicle right now?” Issue kiosk with history, fleet with HU and UVV deadlines (German vehicle and safety inspections), workwear per employee. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote ✓ |
| “Every program has its own status vocabulary.” Five status words, the same everywhere: In progress · Finalised · With the customer · Accepted · Paid. | Pangea ✓ | Craftnote — |
| Total | Pangea 15 of 15 | Craftnote 4 full · 3 partial |
✓ covered · ◐ partial / only with an add-on module, add-on plan or partner · — not mentioned on the provider's pages. Third-party columns follow the provider's public feature and pricing pages, checked on 10 Sept 2026 against the German-language provider sites; sources and findings per row below. Third-party brand names are used for description only; no affiliation with or endorsement by their owners.
Sources (checked on 10.09.2026): craftnote.de/buero-plus · craftnote.de/bautagebuch · craftnote.de/zeiterfassung · craftnote.de/schnittstelle · craftnote.de/funktionen · craftnote.de/baudokumentation · craftnote.de/rapport · craftnote.de/fahrzeuge
Show findings per row for Craftnote
- — Opening tracking not mentioned. craftnote.de/buero-plus (10.09.2026)
- ◐ Add-on package “Büro Plus”: quotes into invoices in a few clicks; order confirmation/delivery note not mentioned. craftnote.de/buero-plus (10.09.2026)
- ✓ Task management per project, planning board, site diary. craftnote.de/bautagebuch (10.09.2026)
- — DATANORM/wholesale prices not mentioned. craftnote.de/buero-plus (10.09.2026)
- ◐ “E-invoice capable” (Büro Plus); XRechnung/ZUGFeRD not named. craftnote.de/buero-plus (10.09.2026)
- ✓ Travel and working hours per project and employee. craftnote.de/zeiterfassung (10.09.2026)
- — DATEV not mentioned; interfaces to partner systems and an open API. craftnote.de/schnittstelle (10.09.2026)
- — Lead/enquiry capture not mentioned. craftnote.de/funktionen (10.09.2026)
- — PV grid registration not mentioned. craftnote.de/funktionen (10.09.2026)
- ✓ Site documentation with photos; quotes/invoices with Büro Plus in the same system. craftnote.de/baudokumentation (10.09.2026)
- — Site app plus the Büro Plus add-on package; bookkeeping, warehouse and HR are outside. craftnote.de/buero-plus (10.09.2026)
- — AI assistant not mentioned. craftnote.de/funktionen (10.09.2026)
- ◐ Reports/service reports; maintenance contracts and system monitoring not mentioned. craftnote.de/rapport (10.09.2026)
- ✓ Vehicles, tools and workstations on the planning board. craftnote.de/fahrzeuge (10.09.2026)
- — Uniform status vocabulary not mentioned. craftnote.de/funktionen (10.09.2026)
How switching works
Four steps, with support.
Contacts, items and open documents via CSV, DATANORM and DATEV import.
Phases, templates and number ranges from the industry template, adapted to your business.
Two sessions, office and field staff separately. Then one week in parallel.
Cut-over date; the old access stays read-only. Your tax adviser keeps getting DATEV.
Frequently asked questions
What switchers ask us.
How long does the switch take?
What happens to my old documents?
Can I run both in parallel?
Will my tax adviser still get DATEV?
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Next step
A demo with someone who has issued progress invoices themselves.
30 minutes on your own example: one project from quote to payment, with your numbers.
Data migration via DATANORM, Excel and DATEV.