AlarmBiller vs FieldHub

AlarmBiller brings recurring billing, accounting, work orders, and proposals together for small- to mid-sized security dealers. FieldHub is built for the scale that comes next — financial statements, job costing, and deferred revenue recognition on one native general ledger.

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Financial Statements at Scale

As a dealership grows, the month-end close gets harder. Ask how your balance sheet and income statement are produced today and whether that work happens in your billing system or in QuickBooks. FieldHub produces AR, AP, and financial statements from its own double-entry ledger, with nightly integrity validation.

Job Costing Against Every Install

Larger installs put margin in the detail — parts, labor, and purchase orders against the job. FieldHub rolls material and labor into job costing on the same record the invoice comes from. Ask any vendor to show you a finished install’s job cost.

Deferred Revenue on a Schedule

Prepaid monitoring creates deferred revenue that has to be recognized period by period. FieldHub generates the schedule automatically and posts recognition to the GL each period, so nobody rebuilds it in a spreadsheet at month end.

Built to Scale

What You Gain by Moving to FieldHub

Keep the recurring-billing automation you rely on, and add the accounting depth and job-level visibility a growing dealership needs.

Automated RMR Billing

Full lifecycle recurring billing automation — auto-create from work orders, prorate, escalate rates, and recognize deferred revenue on a schedule that posts to the GL each period.

Native General Ledger

Double-entry accounting is part of the platform — AR, AP, and financial statements included — with nightly automated GL integrity validation.

Scheduling and Dispatch

Run installs, service, and inspections from one board with scheduling and dispatch, then bill the resulting work order without re-entering it.

Offline Field App

Native iOS and Android mobile app with full offline capability — your techs work in basements and server rooms where signal does not reach.

Inventory and Job Costing

Track parts from PO to truck to site with warehouse management, reserve material to a job (how reservations work, customer login required), and see true job costing against every install.

Central Station Flexibility

FieldHub connects to Affiliated Monitoring, Becklar/AvantGuard, and Rapid Response — choose or change your monitoring partner without changing software.

Side by Side

AlarmBiller vs FieldHub at a Glance

Both cover recurring billing, work orders, and inventory. Where the public record is clear, it is stated. Where it is not, the row says what to ask — bring these questions to both demos.

Capability	AlarmBiller	FieldHub
What the product is built to do	Recurring billing, accounting, work orders, proposals, and inventory for small- to mid-sized security dealers	One platform for CRM, proposals, scheduling, field service, inventory, job costing, and billing
Recurring (RMR) billing	Core strength — automated recurring invoices, with customer autopay	Automated full lifecycle — auto-create from work orders, proration, rate escalations
General ledger accounting	Built-in chart of accounts and journal entries; QuickBooks export available	Native double-entry GL with AR, AP, and financial statements, plus nightly integrity validation
Deferred revenue	Ask how deferred revenue is scheduled and recognized	Schedules generated automatically; recognition posts to the GL each period
Work orders, scheduling, dispatch	Work orders, scheduling, and proposals included	Included — scheduling and dispatch feeding straight into billing
Field technician mobile app	Sedona-X Mobile app	Native iOS & Android app with full offline capability
Inventory and job costing	Inventory included; ask how job costing rolls up against installs	Warehouse management and job costing on the same records
Central station integrations	Ask which central stations are supported	Affiliated Monitoring, Becklar/AvantGuard, Rapid Response
API and integrations	Ask the vendor for current API documentation	Documented REST API, webhooks, Zapier and n8n support
Migration path to FieldHub	—	Scripted Standard or Enhanced legacy migration is available for AlarmBiller

Comparison reflects publicly available product information as of September 2026. AlarmBiller is a product of Bold Group. Rows that say “ask” are ones where the public record is not specific enough for us to state a fact about someone else’s product. If any detail here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.

Dealers Who Consolidated on FieldHub

Security companies that moved onto one platform as they grew.

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FieldHub did everything that we were looking for. It is the most well-rounded platform for an independent alarm company to operate their day-to-day business.

John Cioffi
Vice President at Bergen Protective Systems, Inc.

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We chose FieldHub because it offered smarter, more streamlined ways to work—clearly built with our industry in mind. While I initially had concerns about the complexity of migrating from our previous platform, FieldHub absolutely wowed us. The migration was seamless, the support was exceptional, and the end result is a modern platform that positions us for scalable, efficient growth.

John Smythe
President at Habitec Security

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FieldHub has been instrumental in helping us have more streamlined processes…so we can effectively have a smaller back office staff who can do more by leveraging FieldHub. The RMR model is the foundation of everything. As a 20-year veteran in the RMR industry, I appreciate how it’s more automated than other platforms we’ve used. FieldHub’s report generation is strong and improves monthly.

Jonathan Frase
ArcEye

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We had a very smooth migration, and your team has been great to work with. We just had our first financial meeting with real FieldHub reports, and it was awesome to actually TRUST the numbers that we saw without having to do additional side calculations. It’s great to have a business partner that listens to our concerns, and includes our suggestions in their future updates.

Adam Jacobs
President @ American Alarms

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It automatically goes to the Warehouse Manager or Inventory Manager. He creates the PO with a click of a button, the inventory shows up, he checks it in with a click of a button, and then creates the bill. Night and day difference. Now that’s not all on my shoulders. You could probably train somebody in a month now on FieldHub. And if they don’t have knowledge of our industry, maybe a month and a half to two months, and they’re already in there taking phone calls, looking at billing. That was a huge change for us.

John Luks
Controller Security Systems

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I would definitely recommend FieldHub to other security alarm companies. In fact, I already have.

Donnetta Byrd
VP of Administration Services @ Security One

Common Questions

Moving from AlarmBiller FAQs

Is FieldHub an AlarmBiller alternative? +

Yes. Both handle recurring billing, work orders, and inventory for security dealers. FieldHub automates the full recurring-billing lifecycle — proration, rate escalations, and deferred revenue recognition — and adds job costing against every install and a native double-entry general ledger with AR, AP, financial statements, and nightly integrity validation, all on the same customer and site records.

What does migrating from AlarmBiller to FieldHub involve? +

AlarmBiller is one of the select legacy systems FieldHub migrates with a scripted migration, so you are not exporting spreadsheets by hand. Standard covers BillTos, sites, contacts, active recurring revenue, recurring and labor service configuration, material catalog, notes, tax jurisdictions, stored credit card tokens (Forte), vendors, and manufacturers. Enhanced adds systems, jobs, service tickets, and their notes, plus up to three test migrations instead of one. See enhanced vs. standard data migrations for the full breakdown, and the sandbox pilot for testing FieldHub with your own data before committing.

Do we keep our recurring billing automation? +

Yes. Recurring lines migrate with their service configuration, and FieldHub generates invoices on their own cycles with automatic proration and rate escalations. Recurring revenue can also be created directly from a completed work order, so a new system starts billing without anyone re-keying it.

Do we still need QuickBooks? +

For most dealers, no. AlarmBiller includes a chart of accounts and can export transactions to QuickBooks. FieldHub’s native general ledger produces AR, AP, and financial statements itself, so invoices, payments, deferred revenue, and job costs post directly with no export step. See full general ledger accounting and can FieldHub work with QuickBooks.

Which central stations does FieldHub integrate with? +

FieldHub connects to Affiliated Monitoring, Becklar/AvantGuard, and Rapid Response, so you can choose or change monitoring partners without changing software.

See It on Your Own Data

One Platform Built to Grow With Your Dealership

Walk through FieldHub with someone who knows alarm billing, and see what a scripted AlarmBiller migration would move.

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