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Housecall Pro review
Field-service management for home-service trades, strong on dispatching, service agreements, and customer marketing.
What it costsas of August 2026
- Basic
- $59/moBilled annually
- Essentials
- $149/moBilled annually
- MAX
- $299/moBilled annually
Add-ons are billed on top. Card payments run from 2.59% and ACH 1%, with Instapay payouts adding another 1%.
What Housecall Pro does
Pricing & terms
Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.
$59/mo (Basic, billed annually)
How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.
Flat tiers: Basic, Essentials, MAX
ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.
Month to month, cancel anytime
Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?
14-day free trial, no credit card needed
Fit & support
Best crew sizeThe shop size this tool is really built for.
Solo operators up to small and midsize crews
Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.
Known as easy to learn for a non-technical crew
SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.
Phone and chat; MAX adds a dedicated onboarding specialist
Out in the field
Tech mobile appWhether your crew can actually run their day from a phone without fighting it.
Real iOS and Android app for techs in 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 dispatch board
GPS / fleet trackingSee where trucks are and prove arrival times to customers.
Tech GPS from Essentials; vehicle fleet GPS also offered
Works with no signalBasements and rural jobs: does the app keep working when the phone drops signal?
View jobs and schedule offline, but editing needs a signal
Getting paid
InvoicingSend a clean invoice from the driveway before you pull away.
Send invoices from the field with auto-reminders
Take card & bank paymentsCard-on-file and ACH so you get paid on the spot, plus the processing rate.
Cards from 2.59%, ACH 1%; Instapay payouts add 1%
Estimates / good-better-bestGive options on site so customers pick up instead of shopping around.
Good-better-best options customers approve and e-sign
QuickBooks syncSo you (or your bookkeeper) aren't retyping every invoice at tax time.
Syncs to QuickBooks Online, included from Essentials tier
Winning & keeping customers
Reminders & two-way textAutomatic appointment texts and 'on my way' cut no-shows and phone tag.
Appointment reminders and On My Way texts with ETA
Online bookingLet customers book themselves from your site or Google instead of calling.
Customers self-book from your site or Google
Review requestsAuto-ask happy customers for a Google review, the cheapest marketing there is.
Automated review requests to Google and other sites
Service / maintenance plansRecurring memberships that turn one-time jobs into steady monthly revenue.
Recurring service and maintenance plans, MAX tier only
Marketing toolsEmail/postcard campaigns and lead tracking to fill a slow week.
Email and postcard campaigns from Essentials; postcards billed per piece
How Housecall Pro compares
Alternatives to Housecall Pro
Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.
FieldPulse
Jobber
GorillaDesk
Service Autopilot
Workiz
FieldEdge
KickservHow we research this
Pricing comes from Housecall Pro, Inc.'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.