FIIX ALTERNATIVE · FASTMAINT CMMS, CLOUD OR ON-PREMISES
FastMaint: simple for your technicians, complete for you
FastMaint is built for the small team that needs a CMMS to be quick on the shop floor and complete in the office. If you’re searching for a Fiix alternative, one of those has probably slipped. Long lists that take their time to load. Analytics you have to learn a query language to build. Purchasing and multi-asset work orders on a higher plan. FastMaint keeps the whole maintenance program in every edition, with the reports built in, in our cloud or on your own servers.
The short version. Fiix is a Rockwell Automation product, built to tie into plant-floor automation, with AI forecasting and multi-site management on its higher plans. For one site, a lot of that is weight rather than help, so if it’s the reporting, the waiting or the plan you’re on, you’re not being fussy. FastMaint answers them, for one plant, one hotel, one facility, with two to eight people and nobody whose job title contains “IT”: the whole maintenance core in every edition, reports you can run yourself, and the people who built it on the other end of the phone.
Reports shouldn’t need a specialist
A CMMS earns its keep in the report you hand your boss: what broke, what it cost, what the PM program prevented. If that report depends on someone who can write a query, the numbers stop getting looked at.
FastMaint’s reports are built for the questions you actually get asked, in every edition. Work order cost and duration against the estimate. Downtime compared across three successive periods, with drill-down to the records behind the total. Costs that roll up through your equipment and location hierarchy, so a whole line or a whole building has a number. On FastMaint Cloud, reports can also run on a schedule and arrive in your inbox. Maher Kloub at National Chlorine Industries: “Very easy to learn, easy to start, easy to plan & easy to report.”
Run your first report this week
Thirty days with the complete product and your own equipment in it. See your first cost report before you’ve paid anything.
No credit card. Keep everything you set up.
One work order for the whole job
Real jobs rarely touch one asset. A line shutdown covers a conveyor, two motors and the room they sit in. In FastMaint one work order can carry several pieces of equipment and locations together, in every edition, and purchasing and vendors come with it. Fiix lists multi-asset work orders and purchasing on its Professional plan.
Set it up the way your plant runs
FastMaint gives you custom fields, task templates and equipment and location hierarchies in every edition. A location can carry its own work orders like any machine, and one work order can cover several pieces of equipment and locations together. Mick Hobbs at Siddall & Hilton Products: “it’s very flexible and can be moulded to suit specific requirements.” Trent Le Clair at Key Technology, on the side most people forget to ask about: “On the admin side, it’s a dream to update and maintain.”
Ten years later, they’re still using it
Software bought this year is easy. Software still running the PM schedule after two rounds of staff changes is the real test. Four of our five published case-study customers are past the ten-year mark.
We have been using this CMMS for 10 years at Columbus, Ohio location and are also using it at our Marrero, Louisiana location. Biggest selling point is EASE OF USE.
— Frank Seipel, Process Engineer, Vertex Refining Ohio
We’re a small company on purpose. Email us and you reach the people who wrote the software, and problems get looked at quickly. Dan Dell at the Alfred Mann Foundation found support “very responsive, helpful, and quick to work out any issues”. Same product, same company, since 2002.
Cloud or on your own servers. Your choice, and you can change it.
Fiix runs in one place: its cloud. That’s fine until IT asks where the maintenance data lives, the plant network gets locked down, or a weak connection leaves the app waiting to sync. FastMaint gives you a menu, with the same maintenance core in every option:
- FastMaint Cloud. Hosted by us, used in a browser on a computer, tablet or phone. Nothing to install, no server to look after, updates and support in the subscription. Starts at a single user.
- FastMaint Web on your own server. The same browser access for your team, with the data on your own network, run by your IT.
- FastMaint Professional or Standard on Windows computers. Built for sites with little IT support, and keeps working when the internet doesn’t. Professional is multi-user; Standard is for a single user.
Move between them as you grow. Start installed and step up to Cloud later, or leave Cloud at any time with your whole database backed up to a file the installed editions open. Your data is never held hostage.
What a Fiix alternative should give you
| What you’re really asking | FastMaint | Fiix |
|---|---|---|
| Can I get reports without a specialist? | Cost against estimate, downtime trends and roll-ups by equipment and location, built in to every edition. | Reports from Basic. Custom analytics and reports on Professional. |
| One work order for several assets? | Yes, equipment and locations together, in every edition. | Multi-asset work orders on Professional. |
| Is purchasing included? | Parts, purchasing and vendors in every edition. | Parts on every plan. Purchasing and RFQs on Professional. |
| Can I shape it around my plant? | Custom fields, task templates, and equipment and location hierarchies in every edition. | Customizable interface and workflows on Enterprise. |
| Where can it run? | Your choice: FastMaint Cloud hosted by us, your own server, or Windows computers on your network. Switch later. | Cloud. |
| Will it still be here in ten years? | Same product, same company, since 2002. Customers past ten years. | Owned by Rockwell Automation. |
Fiix details read from fiixsoftware.com/pricing, September 2026. Check their current pages before deciding. FastMaint details: features and editions.
Who FastMaint is for
One site. A few people who already have day jobs. A manager who wants the whole maintenance program and its reports in every edition, running next week. If that’s the CMMS you went looking for, this is it.
FastMaint is rated 4.1 out of 5 on Capterra across 28 reviews, as of September 2026, and 23 customers have reviewed it on our own site. Pepsico’s pilot plant uses it. So do Westin Hotels, JB Weld, Katoen Natie, Alberta Electric System Operator and the City of Boulder water treatment plant.
Not sure we’re the right fit? Ask us.
Tell us your team size, how many sites, and how your people like to work. If FastMaint isn’t right for you, we’ll say so.
Free guide: Essential Maintenance Metrics
The 8 metrics small maintenance teams actually track, including work order backlog, PM versus breakdown time, and equipment downtime in hours. Useful whichever CMMS you choose.
Questions buyers ask
For one site with roughly two to eight maintenance people, yes. Purchasing, multi-asset work orders and built-in reports are in every FastMaint edition, you can run it in our cloud or on your own servers, teams learn it in days, and support comes from the people who wrote the software.
As of September 2026, Fiix’s pricing page lists purchasing and RFQs, multi-asset work orders, nested PMs and multi-site management on its Professional plan, and caps its Free plan at 25 active PMs. In FastMaint, purchasing, multi-asset work orders and PM scheduling are core in every edition.
No. The reports come built in, in every edition: work order cost and duration against the estimate, equipment downtime compared across three successive periods with drill-down to the records, and costs rolled up through your equipment and location hierarchy. FastMaint Web and Cloud can also run reports on a schedule and email them.
Both, and you choose. FastMaint Cloud is the Web edition hosted by us, used in a browser on a computer, tablet or phone, with updates and support in the subscription, starting at a single user. FastMaint Web installs on your own server with the same browser access. Professional and Standard install on Windows computers, keep working without an internet connection, and are built for sites with little IT support. You can move between them later, and Cloud data can be backed up at any time to a database file the installed editions open. Fiix is cloud software, as of September 2026.
Four of our five published case-study customers have used FastMaint for more than ten years, and several reviewers on our customers page say the same. Vertex Refining has run it at two sites for a decade. That matters more than a feature list, because the usual way a CMMS fails is that the maintenance team stops opening it.
Yes. The 30-day trial is the complete product, with no credit card needed. The equipment list, PM schedules and task templates you build during it carry straight over when you enter a license key, so the trial is also your setup.
FastMaint publishes its prices: Standard $2,500 one-time for a single user, Professional and Web from $6,000 one-time, and FastMaint Cloud hosted by us from $100 a month. As of September 2026 Fiix lists Basic at $45 and Professional at $75 per user per month, with a Free plan capped at 25 active PMs and Enterprise quoted.