Byoxon vs. Scoro: Full P&L and Resourcing Without the Tier Ladder

This article compares Byoxon (BeOnBoard) and Scoro side by side for professional services teams that need project profit and loss, utilization and resourcing in one system. It covers current published pricing for both tools, explains how Scoro’s four-tier structure changes the real cost of financial depth, and shows which model fits a growing software or IT services team.

Scoro is a serious professional services automation platform. It handles quoting, project delivery, retainers, resourcing, cost management and invoicing, and it reports on profitability with real depth. Agencies and consultancies run their whole commercial operation on it.

Byoxon’s product, BeOnBoard (BoB), targets the same job for small and mid-sized tech teams. It also connects CRM, time, projects, HR and finance, and it reports profit and loss in real time.

The two products overlap heavily on capability. The interesting difference is packaging. Scoro sells four plans, and the financial reporting you probably came for sits near the top of that ladder. BeOnBoard sells one plan and lowers the seat rate as your team grows. This comparison works through what that difference costs in practice.

Byoxon vs Scoro at a glance

Capability	BoB (Byoxon)	Scoro
Plan structure	One plan; every feature included	Four plans: Core, Growth, Performance, Enterprise
Entry price	$34.95/user/month (1–10 users)	$19.90/user/month (Core, annual billing)
Comparable financial tier	Same single plan	$49.90/user/month (Performance, annual billing)
Largest published discount	$24.95/user/month (200+ users)	Enterprise pricing on request
Minimum seats	None	5 seats on every plan
Free plan	Up to 5 users, no feature limitations	None — 14-day free trial
Project profitability	Real-time P&L per project, client, employee and category	Included; cost and profit forecasting requires Performance
Project budgeting	Included — set project budgets and track spend against them	Requires Growth or above
Utilization reporting	Included	Requires Growth or above
Role-based labor cost	Included	Requires Growth or above
Resource planner & timesheet view	Included	Requires Performance or above
CRM / sales pipeline	Built-in CRM with deal stages and revenue forecast	Included; pipeline sits on Performance, sold as an add-on lower down
HR workflows	PTO approvals, recruitment, talent pool, vendor management	Time off from Growth; no recruitment or talent-pool module listed
Guided onboarding	Included	Free self-onboarding up to 15 people; larger teams need a paid package
Best fit	Software and IT teams that want full financial depth from day one	Agencies and consultancies wanting deep, configurable PSA at scale

Pricing above comes from each vendor’s own pricing page as of August 2026. Scoro rates are shown on annual billing; monthly billing is higher. Verify current numbers before you buy.

Where Scoro is the better choice

Start here, because Scoro genuinely wins on several dimensions and pretending otherwise would not help you decide.

• Scoro costs less per seat at the entry point. Core is $19.90 per user per month on annual billing against BeOnBoard’s $34.95. If your team needs projects, quotes and invoicing without deep financial reporting, Scoro is cheaper and that gap is real.
• Scoro goes deeper on enterprise finance. Revenue recognition, periodization of invoice lines, WIP reports, multi-account reporting and company-wide budgets are mature capabilities that BeOnBoard does not match.
• Scoro has stronger governance. Approval flows, time locking, single sign-on and user provisioning arrive on Enterprise. Regulated or audit-heavy organisations need those controls.
• Scoro is more configurable. Up to 60 permission sets, unlimited custom fields on the top plan and a broad integration catalogue including Xero, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks, Expensify and Jira.
• Scoro serves non-software industries well. It markets to architecture, engineering, construction and event management. BeOnBoard is built around software and IT services workflows.

If any of those points describes a hard requirement, choose Scoro. The rest of this article is for teams where they do not.

The tier ladder is the real pricing question

Most teams evaluating Scoro are not shopping for a task list. They want to know whether a project is making money, who is over-allocated, and what next quarter looks like. That is a specific set of capabilities, and on Scoro they are spread across three price points.

Scoro’s own plan comparison places role-based labor cost and the utilization report on Growth. It places the planner, the timesheet view, cost and profit forecasting, revenue recognition and the sales pipeline on Performance. Approval flows and company-wide budgets sit on Enterprise.

None of this is hidden and none of it is unfair. Tiered pricing is a normal way to sell software. The consequence is simply that the plan you shortlist on price is often not the plan you end up needing. A team that budgets against Core at $19.90 and later discovers it needs utilization and forecasting is really budgeting against Performance at $49.90.

Two further multipliers apply. Every Scoro plan carries a five-seat minimum, so a four-person consultancy still pays for five. And free self-onboarding covers teams up to 15 people; past that, Scoro’s own guidance is that you will need a paid onboarding package.

BeOnBoard removes the ladder rather than undercutting the rungs. There is one plan, and real-time P&L, monthly profit projection, per-person rates across projects, timesheets, budgets, CRM and HR workflows are all in it. The rate falls as headcount rises. There is no minimum, and teams up to five users pay nothing.

This matters most to a growing team. On a tiered model, growth triggers two costs at once: more seats, and a plan upgrade to reach the reporting that a larger operation needs. On a volume model, growth lowers the unit price and changes nothing else.

Pricing: what the same feature depth actually costs

Comparing headline rates compares different products. The fair comparison is like for like: BeOnBoard’s single plan against the Scoro tiers that carry comparable financial reporting.

Scoro’s published rates on annual billing are $19.90 for Core, $32.90 for Growth and $49.90 for Performance, per user per month. Enterprise is quoted individually. Monthly billing runs higher at $23.90, $38.90 and $59.90. BeOnBoard’s volume bands are $34.95, $32.95, $29.95 and $24.95.

Team size	BoB (Byoxon)	Scoro Growth	Scoro Performance
5 users	$0 (free plan)	$164.50	$249.50
10 users	$349.50	$329.00	$499.00
25 users	$823.75	$822.50	$1,247.50
60 users	$1,797.00	$1,974.00	$2,994.00

Monthly totals. Scoro on annual billing. Scoro Core is cheaper than every figure shown here, but excludes utilization reporting, the planner and profit forecasting.

Read the table honestly and three things stand out. Against Scoro Growth, BeOnBoard is close to a wash at ten and twenty-five users, and cheaper at sixty. Against Scoro Performance, the tier that actually matches BeOnBoard’s feature set, BeOnBoard is cheaper at every size, and the gap widens with headcount. And at five users BeOnBoard is free while Scoro’s minimum makes five seats its price floor.

If your requirement genuinely stops at Core, Scoro is the cheaper purchase. Model your own seat count against the plan that contains the reports you need, not the one on the left of the pricing page.

Resourcing and HR: where the scope differs

Both products treat people as a cost and a capacity constraint rather than as names on a task board. Scoro’s resourcing is strong: bookings at project and portfolio level, a planner, capacity forecasting and utilization reporting, with role-based and individual labor cost feeding margin calculations.

BeOnBoard covers the same commercial ground and extends further into people operations. It allocates one person across multiple projects at different rates, and its HR side carries an employee and subcontractor profile database, PTO and vacation approval workflows, recruitment with external resume submission, talent pool and skill tracking, and a vendor management system that lets external suppliers invoice from their own team’s time entries.

Scoro’s published feature set covers time off from the Growth plan. It does not list a recruitment or talent-pool module. If you want hiring, skills and PTO in the same system as project margin, that is a scope difference rather than a depth difference, and it is the clearest functional split between the two products.

The practical test is simple. Count the systems you would still be paying for after the migration. If Scoro leaves you running a separate HR tool, compare BeOnBoard’s seat price against that combined bill rather than against Scoro alone.

Which tool fits your team

Choose Scoro if

• You need revenue recognition, WIP reporting or periodization of invoice lines
• Approval flows, time locking and single sign-on are compliance requirements
• Your requirement stops at projects, quotes and invoicing, where Core is cheaper
• You work in architecture, engineering, construction or events rather than software
• You want extensive custom fields, permission sets and a large integration catalogue

Choose Byoxon if

• You want project margin, utilization and forecasting from day one without a plan upgrade
• You run a software, IT services or product engineering team
• You want CRM, delivery, finance and HR in a single subscription
• You are under five people, or growing fast and want the unit price to fall as you do
• You want to evaluate on live projects before paying anything

If you are still mapping the market, our Byoxon vs Kantata and Byoxon vs Harvest comparisons cover the enterprise and lightweight ends of the same spectrum. You can model your own numbers with the free time tracking calculator, or read how Byoxon handles project cost management.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Scoro cost in 2026?

Scoro publishes four plans. On annual billing, Core is $19.90, Growth is $32.90 and Performance is $49.90 per user per month. Monthly billing is $23.90, $38.90 and $59.90. Enterprise is quoted individually. Every plan requires a minimum of five seats, and there is no free plan, only a 14-day trial.

Is Byoxon cheaper than Scoro?

It depends which Scoro plan you compare against. Scoro Core is cheaper than BeOnBoard per seat. Against Scoro Performance, the plan that carries comparable utilization, planner and profit forecasting, BeOnBoard is cheaper at every team size, and the difference grows with headcount. Compare against the plan that holds the reports you need.

Does Scoro include profitability reporting?

Yes. Scoro reports profitability well and it is a core strength of the product. The distinction is where each piece sits. Detailed financial reports and the utilization report arrive on Growth, while cost and profit forecasting, revenue recognition and the timesheet view arrive on Performance. BeOnBoard includes its P&L reporting and monthly profit projection in its single plan.

Can Byoxon replace Scoro for a software team?

For most small and mid-sized software and IT services teams, yes. BeOnBoard covers CRM, time tracking, project analytics, budgets, invoicing, real-time P&L and HR workflows in one platform. Teams that depend on revenue recognition, WIP reporting, approval flows or single sign-on should stay with Scoro, because BeOnBoard does not match that enterprise finance and governance depth.

What does Scoro cost for a team of five?

Five seats is Scoro’s minimum on every plan. On annual billing that is $99.50 per month on Core, $164.50 on Growth and $249.50 on Performance. A four-person team still pays for five seats. BeOnBoard is free for up to five users with no feature limitations, which makes a five-person evaluation cost nothing.

The bottom line

Scoro is a capable, mature PSA platform, and for enterprise finance, governance and configurability it is the stronger product. If your requirement stops at projects and invoicing, its entry plan is also the cheaper purchase.

Byoxon answers a narrower question for a narrower audience: can a growing software team see project margin, utilization and forecast profit without buying its way up a plan ladder first? BeOnBoard puts those in one plan, drops the seat rate as the team grows, and asks for no minimum commitment.

Run both numbers against your real headcount and the plan that holds the reports you actually need. That single calculation usually settles the decision.

Start free with up to 5 users — no feature limits and no seat minimum. Run one live project through BeOnBoard and compare its margin figure against the plan you were about to buy.