Field service managementSchedulingDispatch & routingInvoicing & billingEstimating & quotingPaymentsGPS & fleet trackingMarketing & email
Service Autopilot review
Route-and-automation-heavy field-service software aimed at lawn care and cleaning.
What it costsas of August 2026
- Startup
- $49/mo
- Pro
- $199/mo
- Pro Plus
- $499/mo
- Elite
- Quote only
A one-time setup and onboarding fee is charged on top of the tier price. Billing is monthly with some annual options, and there is no standard self-serve trial; you get a sales demo first.
What Service Autopilot does
Pricing & terms
Starts atThe real monthly cost to get in the door, before add-ons.
Startup $49/mo, Pro $199, Pro Plus $499, plus a one-time setup fee
How pricing worksFlat tiers, per user, or per job. This decides how fast the bill grows as you add people.
Flat per tier, with a setup fee on top; Elite is quote-only
ContractMonth-to-month vs a year-plus commitment you can't easily leave.
Monthly, some annual, plus a setup/onboarding fee
Free trial or planCan you try it with your own jobs before paying?
No standard self-serve trial; sales demo first, trial on request
Fit & support
Best crew sizeThe shop size this tool is really built for.
Lawn and cleaning crews with big recurring route books
Ease of useHow hard it is to get a non-technical crew actually using it.
Powerful but a steeper learning curve; onboarding help included
SupportWhat owners say about reaching a human when something breaks.
Phone, email, chat, knowledge base, plus a launch advisor
Out in the field
Tech mobile appWhether your crew can actually run their day from a phone without fighting it.
Team App for iOS and Android for crews in the field
Scheduling & dispatchDrag-and-drop the day, see who's free, send the right tech to the right job.
Scheduling and dispatch; route optimization on Pro and up
GPS / fleet trackingSee where trucks are and prove arrival times to customers.
GPS employee tracking through the mobile app
Works with no signalBasements and rural jobs: does the app keep working when the phone drops signal?
App reported to work offline; not spelled out in vendor docs
Getting paid
InvoicingSend a clean invoice from the driveway before you pull away.
One-click invoicing from the office or the field
Take card & bank paymentsCard-on-file and ACH so you get paid on the spot, plus the processing rate.
SA Payments via Xplor Pay; processing rates not published
Estimates / good-better-bestGive options on site so customers pick up instead of shopping around.
Auto-priced estimates you can build and send in minutes
QuickBooks syncSo you (or your bookkeeper) aren't retyping every invoice at tax time.
Two-way QuickBooks sync, on the top (Elite) tier
Winning & keeping customers
Reminders & two-way textAutomatic appointment texts and 'on my way' cut no-shows and phone tag.
Automated reminders; two-way texting on the top tier
Online bookingLet customers book themselves from your site or Google instead of calling.
Client Portal on top tier for accounts; no clear self-booking
Review requestsAuto-ask happy customers for a Google review, the cheapest marketing there is.
Automated review requests via Automations (Pro Plus and up)
Service / maintenance plansRecurring memberships that turn one-time jobs into steady monthly revenue.
Strong recurring jobs and auto-billing; no membership module
Marketing toolsEmail/postcard campaigns and lead tracking to fill a slow week.
Email and text campaigns via Automations (Pro Plus and up)
How Service Autopilot compares
Alternatives to Service Autopilot
Other tools that do the same job for a trade business. Prices are what each vendor publishes, dated when we checked.
Housecall Pro
Service Fusion
Synchroteam
FieldEdge
FieldPulse
GorillaDesk
WorkizHow we research this
Pricing comes from Service Autopilot'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.