MPULSE ALTERNATIVE · FASTMAINT CMMS, CLOUD OR ON-PREMISES
FastMaint: try the whole CMMS yourself before anyone sells you anything
FastMaint lets you load your own equipment and put your own team in front of the complete product for 30 days, before you’ve spoken to a salesperson. If you’re searching for an MPulse alternative, you probably know what you want to test. Custom reports that fight you. Searches that stall on a long list. Scheduling that can’t follow your shifts. Customization that needs more know-how than you have time for. A demo can’t show you any of that. A trial on your own data can.
The short version. If it’s the reports, the searching or the shift scheduling, 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”, and you can prove it to yourself in a 30-day trial of the complete product before speaking to anyone.
A demo shows you their plant. A trial shows you yours.
Every CMMS demos well, because the salesperson knows where to click. What a demo can’t tell you is whether your technicians, with their own job lists, will still be using it after week three.
So FastMaint’s trial is the whole product for 30 days, with no credit card. Build your equipment list and PM schedules, hand it to your team, and watch. If it works, enter a license key and keep everything. Bob at Grange Quarry started from nothing: “Easy to use. Easy to set up. Will become more valuable the longer we use it.”
It literally took me minutes to show my maintenance staff and management staff how to interact with the software.
— Mathew Thompson, Chief of Operations, One Penn Management (read the case study)
His team saves around 7 hours a week on maintenance management now.
Start your own trial today
No demo to book and no one to speak to first. Your equipment, your team, the complete product.
No credit card. Keep everything you set up.
Scheduling that follows your shifts
Maintenance doesn’t happen on a clean calendar. There’s a night shift, a holiday shutdown, a technician on leave, and a job that can only start once another one is finished.
FastMaint schedules around real life, in every edition. Separate day and night shift calendars. Work orders moved off holidays to the next working day. A warning when the person assigned isn’t working those hours. Chained work orders, so the follow-up inspection is scheduled when the overhaul is closed. PMs by meter readings too, entered or estimated from hours of use per day.
David Cook at M-I Swaco: “I have been able to see a downward trend in equipment break downs and spare parts usage.”
Reports and searches that don’t fight you
FastMaint’s Find searches work orders, equipment, parts and locations, with wildcards and an option to search descriptions, in every edition.
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.”
The whole maintenance core, from the first edition
Spare parts, time and cost tracking, meter-based PM and import and export are what make a CMMS worth setting up. In FastMaint they’re core in every edition, alongside custom fields, task templates, purchasing and reports. MPulse lists inventory records with cost, time and cost tracking, asset meters and data import and export on its Advanced plan, with purchasing approvals as an Enterprise add-on.
When you call, the people who built it answer
We’re a small company on purpose. Email us and you reach the people who wrote the software, problems get looked at quickly, and what customers tell us is genuinely listened to.
I had an issue with the program after the update and Sanjay listened and worked hard to understand the issue and help get it resolved!
— Jennifer Oakley, Maintenance Planner, Demkota Ranch Beef
Mick Hobbs at Siddall & Hilton Products: “it has made a definite impact on the day to day running of my department.” Four of our five published case-study customers have used FastMaint for more than ten years. Same product, same company, since 2002.
Your network or our cloud, both first-class
MPulse offers cloud and on-premises options too, so here the question is how much of your time the software asks for. 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 an MPulse alternative should give you
| What you’re really asking | FastMaint | MPulse |
|---|---|---|
| Can I try it properly first? | 30 days with the complete product. No credit card, and you keep what you build. | Book a demo. |
| Are parts and cost tracking in my plan? | Parts, time and cost tracking in every edition. | Inventory records with cost, and time and cost tracking, on Advanced. |
| Can I import and export my data? | Yes, in every edition, from spreadsheets or CSV files. | Import and export on Advanced. |
| Is purchasing included? | Purchasing and vendors in every edition. | Purchasing with approvals as an Enterprise add-on. |
| Where can it run? | Your choice: FastMaint Cloud hosted by us, your own server, or Windows computers on your network. | Cloud or on-premises. |
MPulse details read from mpulsesoftware.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 to see the software working with their own equipment and their own shifts before signing anything. 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. You can try the complete product for 30 days without a demo, shift-aware scheduling, parts, cost tracking and import and export are in every edition, teams learn it in days, and support comes from the people who wrote the software.
As of September 2026, MPulse’s pricing page lists inventory records with cost, time and cost tracking, unlimited asset meters, and data import and export on its Advanced plan, with inventory purchasing with approvals as an Enterprise add-on. In FastMaint, parts, time and cost tracking, meter-based PM, import and export and purchasing are core in every edition.
Yes, in every edition. You can keep separate day and night shift calendars, move work orders off holidays to the next working day, get a warning when the person assigned is not working those hours, and chain work orders so one is scheduled a set time after another is closed. The Planning Report checks that both parts and people are available before work orders go out.
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. MPulse offers cloud and on-premises options too.
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 MPulse lists Professional at $29 and Advanced at $79 per user per month, billed annually with a three-user minimum, and Enterprise by quote.