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System Surveyor owns one stage brilliantly: the mobile, on-site survey. You walk a building on a tablet and drop devices on the plan as you go. But by its own account it is not a quoting tool, and the job continues long after the survey. Avitly carries the same plan through quote, signed offer, install and years of service.
Head to head
Every dimension, side by side
Mobile-first survey + cloud design tool
End-to-end web platform, survey to service
Core strength: tablet survey, photos on plan
Floor-plan design from the first site visit
Drag-drop diagram; cable length at paid tier
Scaled design, signal validation, rack elevations
Budget estimate only; not a quoting tool
Quotes off the plan with live margin
Static branded PDF/Excel report
Interactive offer, client-accepted with timestamp
Phone app + BOM handoff to field
Install tracking and crew planning
Not in published features
Credentials vault, config files, tickets, maintenance
Security/AV teams valuing the survey stage
Integrators running the whole job from 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 System Surveyor is strong
The difference
Where Avitly is different
Not a quoting tool
System Surveyor says so itself: it gives a budget estimate, not line-item quotes with live margin. Avitly generates the quote straight off the plan, with margin on every line.
The client gets a static PDF
Its deliverable is a PDF or Excel report. There is no interactive online offer the client accepts with a timestamp, which is how an Avitly offer closes.
Front of the funnel, not the whole job
It is strongest at survey, design and BOM handoff. There is no published multi-year service phase, no credentials vault, no config files, no maintenance plans. Avitly runs that phase for years.
No rack elevations, cable lengths gated
Rack elevations are not part of it, and cable-length calculation only appears on a paid tier. Avitly's engineering, from signal validation to rack elevations, is built in.
Choose System Surveyor if
your main need is a polished mobile tablet tool for walking sites and producing fast, collaborative as-builts and BOMs, especially for corporate or campus security teams.
Our take
If the survey is the start and not the deliverable, and you need the same plan to become a quote, a signed offer, an install and years of service, that is the whole span Avitly is built for.
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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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