Cohiva Control vs Fiix: an honest comparison
Fiix and Cohiva Control are both serious maintenance systems aimed at asset-intensive operations. Fiix comes from a reliability and analytics tradition and is backed by a large vendor; Cohiva Control comes from the angle of joining maintenance to fixed-asset finance. This comparison keeps to factual differences and credits Fiix fairly.
At a glance
| Capability | Cohiva Control | Fiix |
|---|---|---|
| Asset register and work orders | Yes | Yes |
| Preventive maintenance and meters | Yes | Yes |
| Reliability and maintenance analytics | Yes | Yes, a heritage strength |
| Inspections and parts | Yes | Yes |
| Fixed-asset depreciation in the same system | Yes, six methods including AASB 16 | Not the product’s focus |
| Posts depreciation journals to your ledger | Yes | Not the product’s focus |
| Contractor gate with no override | Yes, a hard 422 | As the product allows |
| Data isolation | Database per tenant | As the vendor provides |
The Fiix column is category framing. Confirm current capability and pricing on their site.
Where Fiix is strong
Fiix has a long history in maintenance and asset reliability, and a strong analytics heritage to match. With the backing of a large industrial-software vendor, it suits asset-intensive operations that want a mature platform with reliability programs and maintenance analytics at the centre. If your priority is a deep, established reliability and analytics toolset and a large vendor behind it, Fiix is a credible and well-supported choice, and choosing it for that profile is the honest recommendation.
Where Cohiva Control is strong
Cohiva Control’s wedge is the finance layer. The asset you maintain is the asset you depreciate, and Cohiva Control keeps both on one record. The depreciation engine runs six methods, straight-line, diminishing value, double declining balance, units of production, sum of years digits and AASB 16 leases. Each monthly run is idempotent, writes to an append-only ledger and can post journals to Xero, QuickBooks, NetSuite or Cohiva Crunch. Posting state is tracked separately from the immutable ledger row, so a failed post can be retried without corrupting the ledger. Money is a fixed-precision decimal rounded half up, and depreciation never drops book value below residual.
The units of production method ties neatly to meters, so an asset whose wear tracks usage depreciates in proportion to the hours or units it actually records. On the operations side, the contractor-compliance gate is a hard 422 with no override, the asset register issues stable QR-codeable IDs that are never reused, and Cohiva Control is database per tenant.
Choose Cohiva Control if
- You want maintenance and fixed-asset depreciation in one system, with journals posted to your ledger.
- You need a hard, non-overridable contractor-compliance gate.
- You value an append-only audit and depreciation ledger and per-tenant isolation.
- You are an AU or NZ operator needing AASB 16 lease treatment.
Choose Fiix if
- Your priority is a mature reliability and analytics platform with a large vendor behind it.
- Your finance function depreciates assets separately from maintenance.
Part of the Cohiva platform
Cohiva Control is part of the Cohiva platform. Leisure operators often run it with Cohiva Complex, and finance teams connect it to Cohiva Crunch for the general ledger. Explore the platform at www.cohiva.app.