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D-Tools is the incumbent, and a serious one. But it is really two products: System Integrator, a Windows desktop application for deep engineering drawings, and D-Tools Cloud, a separate web app for quoting. You start in one and hand off to the other. Avitly is a single web-native record instead, from the first site visit to the year-three service call.
Head to head
Every dimension, side by side
Cloud is web; SI is Windows desktop + SQL server
Fully web-based, modern, EU-hosted
SI via AutoCAD/Visio; Cloud only basic
Floor-plan-native, to scale, in-app
Deep, but needs AutoCAD/Visio licences
Built in: cable runs, real lengths, rack elevations
Cloud e-sign portal, image/visual quoting
Interactive offer off the plan, timestamped accept
Cloud $99–$1,199/mo per company; SI from $1,800/user/yr, 5 seats min
~€19/seat/mo per module + optional €19/mo Platform Pro
SI enterprise setup, steep learning curve
Lean setup, one platform
Service mgmt + mobile install app
Credentials vault, config files, tickets, plans
Mid-market to enterprise, complex engineered jobs
SMB to mid AV/security integrators wanting one record
Competitor details as of July 2026. We check them, but vendors change. Tell us if something is off.
Credit where it is due
Where D-Tools is strong
The difference
Where Avitly is different
Two products, one hand-off
The engineering power lives in System Integrator (desktop); the modern web experience lives in Cloud. Accepted quotes are pushed from Cloud into SI. That is a hand-off between systems, where Avitly keeps one unbroken record for the whole job.
Desktop and server, not a browser
System Integrator runs on Windows with SQL Server, and its best drawings ride on AutoCAD or Visio licences. Avitly runs in the browser, with floor-plan design, real cable lengths, and rack elevations built in.
Onboarding is an enterprise project
D-Tools describes SI itself as a structured enterprise implementation, and reviewers cite a steep learning curve. Avitly is built to be running in a day, one platform, no server to stand up.
SI starts at a five-seat commitment
System Integrator is published at $1,800 per user annually with a five-user minimum, so the floor is $9,000 a year before the $250–$2,500 setup fee and $200/hour professional services. Avitly is per seat, per module, with no minimum.
Choose D-Tools if
you run large, complex engineered projects and need the deepest AutoCAD- and Visio-linked drawings and enterprise multi-office documentation. SI's engineering depth is still the category benchmark.
Our take
For most integrators, the win is one continuous web-native record from first visit to year-three service, with transparent per-seat pricing, and no desktop-plus-server to run or two-product hand-off to manage.
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Design it once. Sell it, install it, service it.
Avitly runs the whole install off one floor plan: quote, client-signed offer, bill of materials, rack layout, then device credentials and tickets after handover. Presales to maintenance, no re-entry.
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