Field service managementSchedulingDispatch & routingInvoicing & billingEstimating & quotingPaymentsOnline booking
GorillaDesk review
Field-service software popular with pest-control and lawn-care operators.
What it costsas of August 2026
- Basic
- From about $49/moPriced per route or schedule, not per user
GorillaDesk lists Pro and Growth tiers above Basic, but we have no confirmed figure for either. Billing is month to month with a 14-day free trial and no card needed to start.
What GorillaDesk does
Pricing & terms
Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.
From about $49/mo (Basic), priced per route
How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.
Per-tier, priced per route or schedule, not per user
ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.
Month to month, 14-day free trial
Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?
14-day free trial, no credit card needed to start
Fit & support
Best crew sizeThe shop size this tool is really built for.
Solo to mid-size pest, lawn, and pool crews
Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.
Built by pest control owners; simple for non-technical crews
SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.
Phone, chat, and help center included on every plan
Out in the field
Tech mobile appWhether your crew can actually run their day from a phone without fighting it.
Full iOS and Android app to run the day from the field
Scheduling & dispatchDrag-and-drop the day, see who's free, send the right tech to the right job.
Drag-and-drop calendar and route-based dispatch on every plan
GPS / fleet trackingSee where trucks are and prove arrival times to customers.
Standard live team GPS on Basic; replay and vicinity on Pro
Works with no signalBasements and rural jobs: does the app keep working when the phone drops signal?
View jobs and invoices offline, current week only, read-only
Getting paid
InvoicingSend a clean invoice from the driveway before you pull away.
Create and send invoices and work orders from the field
Take card & bank paymentsCard-on-file and ACH so you get paid on the spot, plus the processing rate.
Take cards online via Stripe or Square; they set their own rates
Estimates / good-better-bestGive options on site so customers pick up instead of shopping around.
Quotes and work orders on Basic; dynamic packages on Growth
QuickBooks syncSo you (or your bookkeeper) aren't retyping every invoice at tax time.
QuickBooks Online sync on Pro plan and up
Winning & keeping customers
Reminders & two-way textAutomatic appointment texts and 'on my way' cut no-shows and phone tag.
Automated email and text reminders plus on-my-way texts
Online bookingLet customers book themselves from your site or Google instead of calling.
Customer portal and online booking on Pro plan and up
Review requestsAuto-ask happy customers for a Google review, the cheapest marketing there is.
Automated review generation on Pro plan and up
Service / maintenance plansRecurring memberships that turn one-time jobs into steady monthly revenue.
Built for recurring service; subscription auto-billing on Pro
Marketing toolsEmail/postcard campaigns and lead tracking to fill a slow week.
Lead follow-up and sales pipeline on Growth; no campaign tool
How GorillaDesk compares
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Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.
FieldPulse
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Workiz
FieldEdge
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Service Autopilot
Service Fusion
ServiceM8How we research this
Pricing comes from GorillaDesk's own pricing pages and is dated at the time we checked it. Features are taken from the vendor's documentation, not from a sales call. We are independent and rank on fit, never on what a tool pays us. See how we review.